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UAB treated the first patient in the nation in an experimental lung reduction procedure for emphysema.

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Resveratrol, a substance found in red grapes and red wine, may have the potential to protect against hearing and cognitive decline, according to a published laboratory study from Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

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As a kick-off to the Business in Society conference at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, Kip Tindell, chairman and CEO of The Container Store, revealed what makes his company successful. Tindell's speech was part of the Darden Leadership Speaker Series and was sponsored by the Darden research center of excellence, the Initiative for Business in Society.

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Armed with new tools, University of Chicago astronomers search for worlds like Earth

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Younger parents are more likely to say online scores for physicians are very important, according to the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health.

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Thanks to wheat breeding programs like the one at Kansas State University, producers have ever-improving options of wheat varieties to plant. Whether it’s improved resistance or increased yields, wheat breeders are creating varieties that meet producers’ changing needs. Wheat breeding is partially responsible for yields more than doubling since the first Kansas wheat crop was planted in Johnson County in 1839. Kansas State University has released 42 wheat varieties, each a step forward in some capacity over previous varieties. The newest variety, ‘1863’ honors the founding of the university.

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Adults can learn how to choose snacks that offer more cancer-fighting nutrients by using the new healthy snack combo infographic, created by experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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A new article in JoVE demonstrates the fabrication and folding of self assembling, origami inspired particles.

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National expert on family caregiving Sherri Snelling, author of a new book, A Cast of Caregivers – Celebrity Stories to Help You Prepare to Care (Balboa Press), says even those with famous names and faces struggle with the demands of caring for loved ones. Her book offers three distinct sections – the first features the author’s interviews with celebrities. The second section gives expert advice to help readers see the big picture of the caregiving role they face. The final section is dedicated to self-care and how to have the difficult caregiving conversation with a loved one. Snelling also discusses how to conquer the caregiving traps of increased stress, burn-out, guilt and depression through the Me Time Monday℠ weekly videos, in support of the non-profit Caregiver Monday initiative.

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A study by researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery has shown that platelet-rich plasma (PRP) holds great promise for treating patients with knee osteoarthritis. The treatment improved pain and function, and in up to 73% of patients, appeared to delay the progression of osteoarthritis.

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Using underwater video cameras to record fish feeding on South Pacific coral reefs, scientists have found that herbivorous fish can be picky eaters – a trait that could spell trouble for endangered reef systems.

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Launching today, Bettyvision, www.bettyvision.com, is a free online vision board community providing women of all ages the tools and resources needed to identify, explore and, most important, be supported in the pursuit their dreams.

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Gene Wilhoit, former Kentucky Education commissioner who most recently served as director of the national Council on Chief State School Officers, will direct the new Center for Innovation in Education. The center, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will be housed in the UK College of Education.

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Columbia University School of Nursing Menopause expert Nancy Reame, PhD, provides tips for enjoying a great sex life during this stage.

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A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital examined dance-related injuries among children and adolescents 3 to 19 years of age from 1991 to 2007.

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Matrix Medical Network, the nation’s leading provider of prospective health assessments for Medicare Advantage (MA) plan members, has launched a new interactive website—www.MatrixForMe.com—focused on MA healthcare information and health assessment scheduling services. The new site includes a short video describing the value of Matrix’s approach to conducting one-on-one in-home health assessments in the words of Matrix’s clinical team and MA plan members.

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NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light.

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People who grew up in states where it was legal to drink alcohol before the age of 21 are more likely to be binge drinkers later in life. Washington University researchers found that people who lived in states with lower minimum drinking ages weren’t more likely to consume more alcohol overall, but when they did drink, they were more likely to drink heavily.

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Internationally renowned breast cancer researcher and clinician Massimo Cristofanilli, M.D., FACP, has been appointed Director of the Jefferson Breast Care Center at the Kimmel Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University and Hospitals.

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Working with astronomical image processors at STScI, renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble telescope archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.

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UT Southwestern research examines role of certain fat cells in tumorigenesis.

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On Monday, February 4, 2013, JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) will launch the first scholarly scientific video publication for chemistry. Following its successful introduction of video publications for the biological and physical sciences, JoVE received numerous requests for a chemistry counterpart. In response, the journal is launching a new section, JoVE Chemistry dedicated to visualized publication of experiments across different areas of chemistry research including organic chemistry, chemical biology, electrochemistry, and polymer chemistry, among others.

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The MammaPrint breast cancer test can dramatically reduce the number of women who need to undergo chemotherapy to treat the disease, according to a newly published study.

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It's time for the Mars/Venus theories about the sexes to come back to Earth, a new study shows. From empathy and sexuality to science inclination and extroversion, statistical analysis of 122 different characteristics involving 13,301 individuals finds that men and women, by and large, do not fall into different groups.

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National study could prove to be a breakthrough for peanut allergy sufferers.

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If you exercise, eat right and don’t smoke, a history of heart disease in your family can still put you at risk – even if you are a female.

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The Republic of Congo has declared a new national park that protects a core population of the 125,000 western lowland gorillas discovered by WCS in 2008.

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Consequences of believing in obesity myths: poor policy, misguided public health advice and wasted health-care dollars.

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The University of Virginia Darden School of Business announces today that Jeanne Liedtka, United Technologies Corporation Professor of Business Administration, has received an honorary Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the General Division for “her service to the development of leaders in the museum profession through the Museum Leadership Program.”

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Ever since discovering a decade ago that a gene altered in lung cancer regulated an enzyme used in therapies against diabetes, Reuben Shaw has wondered if drugs originally designed to treat metabolic diseases could also work against cancer.

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Snoring may be more than a common bedtime nuisance, say researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. According to their new study, snoring, even without sleep apnea, causes thickening and abnormalities the carotid artery - a potential precursor to atherosclerosis.

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Warmer temperatures due to climate change could cause soils to release additional carbon into the atmosphere, thereby enhancing climate change – but that effect diminishes over the long term, finds a study that could improve predictions of how climate warming will affect the carbon dioxide flux from soils.

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There’s no debating that smartphones have sped up communication. But two professors at the University of Rochester are looking to do the opposite by using mobile technology to slow people down. Their new “Indeterminate Hikes” (IH+) app encourages participants to focus attention on the environment and experience nature in unexpected urban spaces.

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Melting Arctic sea ice is no longer just evidence of a rapidly warming planet— it’s also part of the problem.

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Only 1 in 5 parents say they are very concerned about children, teens misusing narcotics, according to U-M’s National Poll on Children’s Health.

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Clinical Chemistry, the journal of AACC, has published a special issue devoted to the subject of cancer. With cancer surpassing cardiovascular disease as the number one killer in the Western world, the issue provides a cutting edge update on the state of cancer research in laboratory medicine today. The issue includes nearly 50 articles covering a wide range of topics, including companion diagnostics, the modeling of cancer initiation and progression, novel cancer therapies such as chemoprevention and targeting the tumor microenvironment, and the potential of genomics and metabolomics to improve personalized cancer management.

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According to a recent study published in the January print issue of the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, bariatric surgery in extremely obese adolescents also was shown to be beneficial in helping to reverse previously undiagnosed cardiovascular abnormalities believed to be linked to severe obesity.

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Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes – and a new study by a duo at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) demonstrates how having two attending surgeons in the operating room during spinal surgeries can benefit patients in multiple ways.

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Engineers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) are developing an airborne testing capability for sensors, communications devices and other payloads. Their aerial test bed is known as the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS).

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Loyola Occupational health expert helps businesses battle the flu season.

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New courtship rituals are changing the experiences partners bring to a romantic relationship, which may influence what happens in that relationship, says Katherine (KC) Haydon, assistant professor of psychology and education at Mount Holyoke College.

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South Bronx's Kids-Helping-Kids, an unique mentoring program where teens help younger kids with ill or missing parents, celebrates National Mentoring Month with iconic singer Lesley Gore producing their video and song, "Pull Your Pants Up."

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From a single cell gone bad, cancer evolves into an increasingly complex tumor built of a variety of normal cells and diverse malignant cells, some of which escape to create dangerous colonies in other organs, further jumbling the treatment picture.

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Partners each bring a suitcase of prior experiences to a relationship, which may influence what happens in their current relationship, says Katherine (KC) Haydon, assistant professor of psychology and education.

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Sending drug abusers to community-based treatment programs rather than prison could help reduce crime and save the criminal justice system billions of dollars, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International and Temple University.

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Using cervical fluid obtained during routine Pap tests, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a test to detect ovarian and endometrial cancers. In a pilot study, the “PapGene” test, which relies on genomic sequencing of cancer-specific mutations, accurately detected all 24 (100 percent) endometrial cancers and nine of 22 (41 percent) ovarian cancers. Results of the experiments are published in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine.