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ALEXANDRIA, VA-The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) today announced the new officers of its Board of Directors, to begin their tenure in January 2016. The Board of Directors represents the leadership of some of AMGA’s most prominent member medical groups. Leaders from Aurora Health Care, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Mercy, Mount Kisco Medical Group, Ochsner Health System, Prevea Health, and Sutter Health will comprise the Executive Committee.

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Trial to confirm safety and efficacy of new drug for rare disease.

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A long-acting enzyme that rapidly and safely metabolizes cocaine in the blood stream is currently being investigated in animal models as a possible treatment for cocaine overdose. This research is being presented Oct. 29 at the 2015 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition, the world’s largest pharmaceutical sciences meeting in Orlando, Fla. Oct. 25–29.

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In findings presented last week at the Meetings of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology in Texas, scientists identified the fossil remains of rats the size of small dogs found on the Indonesian island of Timor. According to archeological evidence from the area, humans (who were present in Timor starting at least 46,000 years ago) regularly hunted and butchered these megafauna.

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The National Congress of American Indians of the United States (NCAI), the nation’s largest and oldest native advocacy organization, recently passed a resolution supporting the inclusion of doctors of chiropractic (DCs) in the Indian Health Service (IHS) and tribal health care facilities.

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New and updated American College of Radiology (ACR) Appropriateness Criteria™ help health care providers choose the most appropriate medical imaging exam, radiologic interventional procedure or radiation therapy for more than 1,050 clinical indications.

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The blood-brain barrier has been non-invasively opened in a patient for the first time. A team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto used focused ultrasound to enable temporary and targeted opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), allowing the more effective delivery of chemotherapy into a patient’s malignant brain tumor.

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NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today.

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In a deal linking the old and the new, NASA is officially partnering with the Houston Airport System to develop the commercial spaceport at Ellington Airport.

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Gilda Cardenosa, M.D., is the director of breast imaging at Massey This month, the American Cancer Society (ACS) issued new recommendations regarding breast cancer screening.

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Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology successfully fabricate a metamaterial using a lotus leaf as a template.

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Using computer models, researchers from the University of Bristol found that the feeding style and dietary preferences of dinosaurs was closely linked to how wide they could open their jaws. In the case of the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex, they could open their jaws wide, up to 90 degrees.

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Darden School Business announces the Kathryne Carr Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence which will recognize and reward the i.Lab Incubator founder or founders who best represent the values, strength and determination embodied in Kathy’s incomparable approach to creating and growing new ventures.

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Exhibitor booth sales are underway for ACR 2016 — The Crossroads of Radiology® — a one-of-a-kind opportunity to showcase the best of the radiology industry.

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The National Council on Teacher Quality today released "State of the States 2015: Evaluating Teaching, Leading and Learning,” which provides a lay of the land on state teacher and principal evaluation policy in 2015.

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The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed and yield new information about its surface features.

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According to a surprising new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday, a decades-long decline in the death rate of middle-aged white Americans (age 45 to 54) has reversed in recent years. The causes are not the big killers such as heart disease and diabetes but an epidemic of suicides and substance abuse. The study was done by Nobel-winning researchers Angus Deaton and Anne Case of Princeton University.

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On Sunday, Nov. 8, more than 100 medical societies around the world will join the American College of Radiology (ACR), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), and European Society of Radiology (ESR), along with patients and their advocates, in recognizing the International Day of Radiology (IDoR).

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An archeological site in Jersey, UK has yielded a stash of artifacts from the end of the last Ice Age. The fragments include stone pieces engraved with criss-crossed lines, possibly made over 14,000 years ago. Initial reports determine that these were made by the Magdalenians, a hunter-gatherer culture which gradually re-colonised Europe at the end of the Ice Age, 16,000 to 13,000 years ago.

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Possibly due to excessive wet weather, a fissure in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains has grown to the size of nearly seven acres. Estimate to its size runs approximately 750 metres long and 50 metres wide.

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In a research lab in Germany, researchers are preparing to switch on a 52-foot wide fusion device called a stellarator, that could change the game in fusion energy.

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he November Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR®) examines practice management issues, ranging from the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) to quality and safety in a radiation oncology department to a look at the impact of Imaging 3.0.

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Video from NBC News. Newly Discovered Dinosaur Weighed More Than a 737 airplane? 0:33

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According to research led by University of Toronto and published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a close encounter with Jupiter approximately 4 billion years ago may have resulted in another giant planet’s ejection from the Solar System.

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Seeking to improve the reliability of medical testing, an international team of experts has released new guidelines for doctors and scientists on how to best report their assessments of diagnostic tests.

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Strong rain caused by El Nino in Chile's Atacama desert treated us to a beautiful flower show.

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The study has implications for cancer research, as scientists try to understand how cells avoid errors that promote cancer development. It could also be useful in synthetic biology, where scientists work to make robust mechanisms for synthetic life.

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The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) has launched a national grassroots effort to eliminate a blatantly anti-competitive provision of Medicare law that arbitrarily limits reimbursement for medically necessary services delivered by doctors of chiropractic (DCs).

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According to a study led by MIT, Volkswagen's emissions cheat on their diesel vehicles will cause 60 people in the U.S. To die 10 to 20 years prematurely.

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Although U.S. airlines are extraordinarily safe, they are missing an important opportunity to acquire even more safety-related information because some incidents involving close calls are not probed as evidence of potentially dangerous behavior but instead are seen as proof the system works well, according to a new in-depth risk study.

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Much to their surprise, Scientists from the Rosetta mission say they have detected significant amounts of molecular oxygen coming out of a comet. This unexpected find may have implications for understanding how the solar system formed.

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Dementia specialists and PET imaging providers can now register to participate in the Imaging Dementia – Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study at Ideas-Study.org.

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Three radiology professionals will be recognized for their outstanding achievements, receiving 2016 Gold Medals from the American College of Radiology (ACR). The medals will be conferred May 15, 2016, during ACR 2016 —The Crossroads of Radiology®, the college’s annual meeting open to all of radiology.

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Engineers in Bristol have developed a system that manipulate small objects without touching them, using "holograms" made of sound waves. The technology could be used to one day deliver medicine.

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In a study published in the journal Obesity, researchers from Touro University prove that just by replacing processed sugar, a group of obese children's health improved in 9 days.

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Proteins called cytokines are known to influence immune cell fate, but the process is complex. Researchers examined how a specific cytokine, interleukin-15, influences gene expression patterns in T helper cells.

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According to a study published the journal Nature Climate Change, by 2100, parts of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could be life threatening.

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Men living in highly gender equal societies have better quality of life than men in less gender equal societies, according to new research from Øystein Gullvåg Holter.

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According to a University of British Columbia study, only four percent of the ocean lies within marine protected areas. Their research was published in the journal Oryx.

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Scientists at the University of Bonn and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have decoded a central signal cascade associated with epileptic seizures. If the researchers blocked a central switch in epileptic mice, the frequency and severity of the seizures decreased. Using a novel technology, it was possible to observe the processes prior to the occurrence of epileptic seizures in living animals. The results are now being published in the journal "Nature Communications."

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The new Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) Blog serves as a conduit to encourage reader feedback on critical issues in the specialty.

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Researchers found that the webs of sun-soaked spiders were far more resistant to UVB rays than the webs of those that hunt in the dark or shade, perhaps indicating an important adaptive trait.

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A $750,000 National Science Foundation award will aid researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech to study circadian rhythms' effects on processes that affect numerous diseases and disorders, including cancer.

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Joy Milne, a woman from Perth, Scotland with a very sensitive nose, can recognize the odor of the onset of Parkinson's Disease before symptoms are observed.

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According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 11 cases have been reported in the United States since April 1st, 2015.

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After scientists led by NASA publish a study in the journal Earth and Space Science, the U.S. Geological Survey issues statement that raises doubts on the studies earthquake forecasts for the greater Los Angeles area.

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The 2015 AMGF Acclaim Award was presented to Cornerstone Health Care, PA, and New West Physicians. Ochsner Health System and WESTMED Medical Group were named Acclaim Award Honorees.

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"God does not play dice," Albert Einstein once quipped. A study published in Nature gives the strongest refutation to date of Albert Einstein's principle of "local realism," which says that the universe obeys laws, not chance, and that there is no communication faster than light.

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The American Cancer Society has issued new recommendations on when women should get mammograms and how frequently they should get them. This is in contrast to the previous guidelines which stated that women should get them at age 40.

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The new peer-reviewed self-assessment CPI Breast Imaging Module 2015 contains ACR BI-RADS® newest quality and safety content for breast imagers as well as information on new American Cancer Society breast cancer screening guidelines.