While the oil spill in the Gulf may have a profound impact on those who make their living in the region, children in the area may also feel the stress, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) child psychologist Vivian Friedman, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky Libraries and Keeneland have teamed up in the race to save the Daily Racing Form archives.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center remains the leading hospital in the nation for cancer care for the fourth year straight, according to the annual "Best Hospitals" survey published by U.S. News & World Report.
A landmark study by Florida State University biologists, in collaboration with scientists in Britain, is the first to identify a life-or-death “cell competition” process in mammalian tissue that suppresses cancer by causing cancerous cells to kill themselves.
According to a study performed in the North Carolina Children’s Hospital, researchers confirmed previous reports that parents of overweight or obese children do not recognize their child’s weight problem. But this time, by arming pediatricians with a “toolkit,” an easily used chart and a series of questions and suggestions, the researchers addressed several problems.
Two Maryland faculty members and three graduate students are taking part in a hands-on research school program at the University of Buea in Cameroon this August. Along with faculty and students from many nations, they'll work with some 50 young faculty and students from Cameroon and other nations to show that high level research can be done inexpensively.
The McGovern Institute is delighted to announce that its feature video, Welcome to the McGovern Institute, has won a 2010 CINE Golden Eagle Award.
It is a time most families look forward to every year – summertime. For parents, the warm summer months are often filled with family vacations and cookouts. For kids, it is a chance to play outdoors and enjoy a few months without homework. However, doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have recently noticed a trend in injuries that occur in children during the summer months that are both predictable and preventable.
Nick Van Erp’s high school sports career ended prematurely when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee during a spring lacrosse game his freshman year of high school, leading him to two failed repair surgeries before coming to the University of Michigan for his third. His story is not unique-18,000 to 35,000 ACL repairs will fail a year, requiring additional surgery which is more complicated, less successful and requires a longer rehabilitation period. Physicians at the University of Michigan say multiple factors attribute to a failed repair and they caution patients to inquire about their surgeons’ previous experience with the procedure.
Time-lapse video of the Western Illinois University Titan Arum #3.
A newly created and first-of-its-kind graduate-level track of study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering will educate engineers and safety, health and environmental professionals across industries in the best practices to prevent expansive disasters like the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and Upper Big Branch Mine explosion in West Virginia.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins report using a laser beam to activate a protein that makes a cluster of fruit fly cells act like a school of fish turning in social unison, following the lead of the one stimulated with light.
States in which defense spending is high are better equipped to withstand the effects of an economic downturn than others, according to a new study led by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Assistant Professor of Sociology Casey Borch, Ph.D.
On Sunday, many fathers will settle in for a BBQ, go fishing with the kids or play with a new electronic gadget. For one dad, having his whole family home is the best gift he could hope for. Nich and his wife Jennie Pollak, 25, of Albion, Mich., had tried for a year to give their 4-year-old daughter a sibling. The young family was stunned, however, when one month on a low-dose fertility drug led to Jennie becoming pregnant with quadruplets. Read more below about this family's heartwarming story.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health have established the first link between air pollution and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), a known cause of cardiovascular diseases.
“What if by killing cancer cells with chemotherapy we inadvertently induce DNA structures that make surviving cancers cells more invasive . . Fundamentally this question must be answered," says Katri Selander, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She and colleagues have won a U.S. Department of Defense grant to study whether dead cancer cells left over after treatment encourage cancer’s spread.
NIST has been designated by Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra to accelerate the federal government's secure adoption of cloud computing by leading efforts to develop standards and guidelines in close consultation and collaboration with standards bodies, the private sector, and other stakeholders.
A new study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) confirms the relationship between depression and abdominal obesity, which has been linked to an increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease.
Developed expressly to assist passengers with special needs, the Mobile Transit Companion, a North American made mobile application, uses context-aware self-adaptive computing to deliver live, customized data to Paris Metro passengers en route. The inclusive application, complete with useful information for all passengers, was created through a partnership between Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) and Sweden’s Appear Networks.
Using sophisticated genetic analysis, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and New York University School of Medicine have published a study indicating that Jews are a widely dispersed people with a common ancestry. Jews from different regions of the world were found to share many genetic traits that are distinct from other groups and that date back to ancient times.
Recently, doctors at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have seen an increase in the incidence of skin cancer cases among children ages 5-16-years-old, and particularly among teenagers. In fact, melanoma – cancer of the skin’s pigment elements – is now responsible for approximately one out of 10 cancer cases in adolescents ages 15-19-years-old.
A new study shows that travelers to the upcoming World Cup soccer matches in South Africa should focus less on avoiding tropical diseases such as malaria and concentrate more on protecting themselves from more common illnesses – acute diarrhea, sexually transmitted diseases, insect and tick bites, and vaccine-preventable infections, especially influenza and measles. The report is based a 13-year period of GeoSentinel monitoring among travelers to South Africa.
Students at the University of New Hampshire will investigate how people can come to believe something that does not exist in the class, “Scientific Perspectives on Belief in the Paranormal Phenomena.”
New model reveals the molecular basis of multiple hereditary exostoses and provides a tool to screen new treatments.
The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in a nine-state region.
With a funky beat and catchy lyrics, a hip-hop public service announcement video created by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) senior film student Anna Lloyd, 22, of Fairhope, is hitting the Internet with a message to kids: Eating healthy is cool.
If you’re headed to a freshwater stream this summer and a friend dares you to eat a raw crayfish – don’t do it. You could end up in the hospital with a severe parasitic infection.
Signed by the governor May 18, the new measure gives statutory authority for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening programs to the Alabama Department of Public Health. Experts say the life-saving practice of expanding proven cancer screening programs benefits everyone, especially the medically under-served and the uninsured.
Evaluating its change over time, CA-125, the protein long-recognized for predicting ovarian cancer recurrence, now shows promise as a screening tool for early-stage disease, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
A study by a pediatric surgical oncologist from The University of Texas MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital shows that an adult surgery adapted for use in young patients increased the survival of children with rare tumors in the abdomen.
Political endorsements are often ineffective, says University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) political communications expert Larry Powell, Ph.D., co-author of the book Political Campaign Communication: Inside and Out.
Research by a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) professor shows an association between hearing loss and the use of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. Findings published May 18 in Archives of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery indicate a potential for long-term hearing loss following use of Viagra, and possibly following use of other phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (PDE-5i) drugs such as Cialis and Levitra, although results on those drugs are inconclusive.
As thousands of Generation Y college graduates flood the workforce this spring, the nation’s employers may want to brace themselves for a new crop of entitlement-minded workers.
A landmark study coordinated by NIST is the first to put numbers to the effect of changing the size of fire-fighting crews responding to residential fires.
NIST has released the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) and its printed companion, the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, the much-anticipated successors to the agency's most widely cited publication of all time.
As men and women age into their 60s, 70s, AND 80s, their bodies gradually lose bone. This decrease in bone density puts both at risk for wrist, spine and hip fractures. While there are current bone density screening guidelines for women, guidelines do not exist for men. University of North Carolina School of Medicine bone researchers are working to change that.
Cancer uses devious means to evade treatment and survive. One prime example is the way tumors express anti-cell death (anti-apoptotic) proteins to resist chemotherapy and radiation. However, the Pellecchia laboratory at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute has made two recent discoveries that may help curb these anti-apoptotic proteins and make current treatments more effective.
Margie Beth Labadie, an artist, adjunct assistant professor and coordinator of the Digital Academy at UNC-Pembroke, lost her speaking voice for several months because of a rare fungal infection but regained it after receiving treatment at the UNC Voice Center from Dr. Robert Buckmire and speech pathologist Ellen Markus.
Lung researchers at Johns Hopkins have identified a possible protein trigger responsible for sarcoidosis, a potentially fatal inflammatory disease marked by tiny clumps of inflammatory cells that each year leave deep, grainy scars on the lungs, lymph nodes, skin and almost all major organs in hundreds of thousands of Americans.
In collaboration among the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), the National Alopecia Areata Foundation (NAAF), and the Detroit Pistons, three new video PSAs will be premiered today featuring NAAF National Spokesperson, Detroit Piston, Charlie Villanueva and teammate Austin Daye. Two videos released by AARDA spotlight autoimmune diseases, while one released by NAAF highlights the autoimmune disease alopecia areata.
“There is evidence that when there are savings and assets in the household – particularly savings in a child’s name – that children have greater educational attainment, are more likely to do well in high school, attend college and graduate from college,” says Michael Sherraden, PhD, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. Sherraden, who recently was named to TIME Magazine’s Time 100, directs the Center for Social Development, which focuses much of its research on asset building.
Recognized for his 20-year commitment to the science of cancer vaccines, specifically a personalized therapy for follicular lymphoma, Larry Kwak, M.D., Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has been named to the 2010 TIME 100.
While most headaches in children can be treated with over-the-counter pain medications or lifestyle changes, it is important to pay attention to their symptoms in case they herald something more serious.
Using neutron beams and atomic-force microscopes, a team of university researchers working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may have resolved a 10-year-old question about an exotic class of "artificial muscles"—how do they work? Their results could influence the design of future specialized robotic tools.
The growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico could void years of conservation work to save a species of turtle that calls the Alabama Gulf Coast home, say the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) biologists who are behind the effort.
Through a unique interdisciplinary project, a new University of Kentucky Theatre documentary drama gives voice to student war veterans.
Researchers have developed and tested a modified enzyme that can break down cocaine into inactive products nearly 1,000 times faster than the human body does regularly. The engineered enzyme, called CocE, may be an excellent candidate for clinical use.
Tiny, melanin-covered nanoparticles may protect bone marrow from the harmful effects of radiation therapy, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University who successfully tested the strategy in mouse models. Infusing these particles into human patients may hold promise in the future. The research is described in the current issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics.
Levels of a key type of immune cell are higher in head and neck cancer patients whose tumors are linked to the human papillomavirus, or HPV, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Scientists at the University of Michigan Health System are teasing out clues to the effect of grapes in reducing risk factors related to cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. The effect is thought to be due to phytochemicals -- naturally occurring antioxidants – that grapes contain.
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