Filters close
Released: 16-Jun-2017 1:05 PM EDT
New Guideline Aims to Reduce Infections in Total Hip & Knee Replacement Patients
American College of Rheumatology (ACR)

The joint guideline between ACR and AAHKS provides eight recommendations on preoperative management of total hip and knee replacements.

Released: 16-Jun-2017 12:15 PM EDT
Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion Will Transform Care for Children, Adolescents with Mental Illness
Nationwide Children's Hospital

Nationwide Children’s Hospital celebrated the groundbreaking today of the Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion, a freestanding facility fully dedicated to children and adolescents with behavioral health conditions. Thanks to a transformational $50 million gift from Big Lots and Big Lots Foundation, it will be the largest behavioral health treatment and research center dedicated to children and adolescents on a pediatric medical campus in the U.S.

   
Released: 16-Jun-2017 12:05 PM EDT
Risky Bingeing: Women in Appalachian Ohio Report Higher Rates of Alcohol Misuse
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

How much alcohol women drink may depend on where they live. A new study finds one-fifth of women in Appalachian Ohio imbibe at alarming levels.

Released: 16-Jun-2017 11:45 AM EDT
Stem Cell Therapy for Glaucoma - Are We There Yet?
Glaucoma Research Foundation

At present, the only FDA approved method of treating glaucoma is to lower eye pressure; this slows the progression of glaucomatous optic nerve damage but does not completely halt it, and certainly does not regenerate damaged nerve tissue.

Released: 16-Jun-2017 11:05 AM EDT
State Medical Licensing Boards’ Practices May Hurt Physician Mental Health
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

A new study found state medical boards ask physicians much more extensive and intrusive questions about mental health conditions than for physical health conditions — without improving patient safety.

Released: 16-Jun-2017 11:05 AM EDT
I Can Hear You Now: Clinic Provides Free Hearing AIDS for Low-Income Adults
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

An intervention at a free clinic that included comprehensive care for hearing was able to provide recycled, donated hearing aids to low-income adults, according to a study published by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

Released: 16-Jun-2017 10:05 AM EDT
UVA Darden, HWZ Tackle Global Leadership in the Face of New Technology
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

The Leadership in the Face of New Technology conference in Zurich, Switzerland, the second co-hosted by HWZ University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich and University of Virginia Darden School of Business, featured experts discussing new technology and its impact on culture, teams, corporate strategy, and other topics.

   
Released: 16-Jun-2017 9:05 AM EDT
Kate Walsh Named Dean of School of Hotel Administration at Cornell
Cornell University

Kate Walsh, MPS ’90, has been named the seventh dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Provost Michael Kotlikoff announced June 16. She is the first female dean of the Hotel School and the second alumnus to lead it.

Released: 16-Jun-2017 8:50 AM EDT
Researchers Use Light to Manipulate Mosquitoes
University of Notre Dame

Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes of light at night suppresses biting and manipulates flight behavior in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, the major vector for transmission of malaria in Africa, according to new research.

   
13-Jun-2017 9:05 AM EDT
Researchers Send DNA on Sequential, and Consequential, Building Mission
New York University

A team of scientists has developed a method to create structures whose building blocks are a millionth of a meter in size by encoding DNA with assembly instructions.

Released: 15-Jun-2017 7:05 PM EDT
Shaking Schrödinger's cat
Washington University in St. Louis

Frequent measurement of a quantum system's state can either speed or delay its collapse, effects called the quantum Zeno and quantum anti-Zeno effect. But so too can "quasimeasurements" that only poke the system and garner no information about its state.

Released: 15-Jun-2017 6:05 PM EDT
Meet the Summer Startups-in-Residence at Lassonde Studios
University of Utah

While most startup companies are lucky to work in a dirty garage, 17 student startups at the University of Utah have dedicated space this summer at the new Lassonde Studios building. The teams are startups-in-residence in the Company Launch program provided by the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, a nationally ranked division of the David Eccles School of Business.

Released: 15-Jun-2017 5:10 PM EDT
WVU Emissions Researchers Help Address Automotive Industry and Regulatory Challenges on Clean-Diesel Issues
West Virginia University

The most recent study from WVU’s Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines and Emissions measured oxides of nitrogen emissions, or NOx, from five Fiat Chrysler vehicles in real-world and laboratory tests.

Released: 15-Jun-2017 5:05 PM EDT
Dryland Cropping Systems Research Addresses Future Drought and Hunger Issues
New Mexico State University (NMSU)

The projected world population by 2056 is 10 billion. If researchers succeed in improving the yield potential of 40 percent of global land area under arid and semi-arid conditions, it will lead to a significant contribution to future food security.



close
5.59878