In the world of computing, there’s a groundswell of excitement for what is perceived as the impending revolution in artificial intelligence. Like the industrial revolution in the 19th century and the digital revolution in the 20th, the AI revolution is expected to change the way we live and work. Now, Cristiano Fanelli aims to bring the AI revolution to nuclear physics.
Combinations of radiation and chemotherapy drugs have been shown to cure HPV-related head and neck cancer with a high success rate. A new phase III trial has now determined that cisplatin chemotherapy, combined with radiation therapy, produces the best results and should be considered the standard of care. Findings will be presented in a news briefing Tuesday at 3pm ET from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
Treatment of renal cell carcinoma with stereotactic radiation therapy is as safe and effective for patients with one kidney as it is for those who have two, according to an analysis of the largest-ever, international dataset of solitary kidney patients to receive this emerging treatment. Findings will be presented in a news briefing today at noon ET from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a safe and effective treatment for men with low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer, according to a long-term, multi-institutional study. The study clears the way for patients who may wish to shorten their course of treatment without fear of increasing their risk for severe, adverse side effects. Findings will be presented in a news briefing today at noon ET from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
While popular beliefs and population data suggest that African-American men are at higher risk of dying from prostate cancer than Caucasian men, a new analysis of genetic data from a large prospective registry and clinical data from several randomized trials indicates that African-American patients may have comparatively higher cure rates when treated with radiation therapy. Findings will be presented in a news briefing today at noon ET from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
The first report of a large international clinical trial shows that, for men who show signs of prostate cancer after surgical removal of their prostates, extending radiation therapy to the pelvic lymph nodes combined with adding short-term hormone therapy to standard treatment can extend the amount of time before their cancer spreads. Findings will be presented in a news briefing today at noon ET from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
After several changes to its business model related to its service and fees (some more transparent than others), and a recent decision to automatically restore the subscriptions of customers who had previously opted out of the service, MoviePass has been under fire.
Nearly a half-million cancer patients are treated with radiation therapy every year in the United States. Now, technologies developed in partnership with the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) are helping to ensure that patients are receiving just what the doctor ordered. The technologies are featured in RadiaDyne’s OARtrac® system, which was cited as a Medical Device Engineering Breakthrough Award and as a 2018 R&D 100 award finalist by R&D Magazine.
Women and men don’t differ in intelligence or business acumen, yet women continue to fly under the radar when it comes to advancement into executive positions. Christina R.’s story provides insight into why: Sometimes it’s not just what you know or who you know, but who knows you.
The most effective antidote to challenges in leadership communication driven by rapid transformation and disruption is to lean on organizational values, a deep sense of purpose and authenticity, according to members of the Darden School of Business Leadership Communication Council.
Launching 15 October, “Continuous Learning and DevOps” will provide learners with the interdisciplinary tools they need to cultivate a continuous deployment capability in their organization, a skill relevant to software development and a variety of other digital disciplines.
The University of Virginia and the Darden School of Business have announced a dramatic expansion of behavioral research capabilities available to University faculty.
A briefing featuring key data presented at the 6th International Symposium on Focused Ultrasound. Researchers and clinicians will highlight breakthrough advances in the use of focused ultrasound in cancer immunotherapy and for opening the blood-brain barrier (BBB).
In the first randomized, phase II clinical trial of its kind, researchers have shown that an aggressive form of high-precision radiation therapy can greatly increase how long oligometastatic patients live and doubles how long they live without cancer. The findings will be presented in a news briefing and the plenary session at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) next week.
On September 21, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), led by Christine M. Peat, Ph.D., with a grant for $3.75 million over five years to develop a training center for eating disorder-related education in the community. Dr. Peat is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
Researchers from Beijing have developed a new technique of external ventricular drain (EVD) insertion that involves the use of a mixed-reality holographic computer headset. Wearing this headset, the neurosurgeon can visualize holographic images of individual patients’ brain structures while performing the procedure. This makes EVD insertion more accurate than the usual freehand technique, which relies only on referral to external anatomical landmarks.
The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) is pleased to announce the elevation of six recipients to AAPS Fellow (FAAPS), one of the highest honors given to members of the association. Each year
University of Virginia Health System is partnering with more than 20 other health systems in the AVIA network’s Medicaid Transformation Project to develop financially sustainable solutions to improving the health of the nearly 75 million Americans who receive Medicaid.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2018 Van Meter Award has been presented to Dr. Carmelo Nucera, currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and at the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Harvard Medical School. He is also an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Faculty member at the Center for Vascular Biology Research (CVBR) at BIDMC, which is dedicated to “improve human health by using genomics to advance our understanding of the biology and treatment of human disease, and to help lay the groundwork for a new generation of therapies.”
Three prominent medical societies today issued a new clinical guideline for physicians treating men with early-stage prostate cancer using external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). Adoption of the guideline could make treatment shorter and more convenient for many patients with prostate cancer. Developed by a panel of experts from ASTRO, ASCO and AUA, the new guideline recommends offering patients a treatment option known as hypofractionated radiation therapy as an alternative to longer, conventional courses of radiation.
With its struggle over the last 12 months, General Electric ousted CEO John Flannery after only a year on the job. In his place, the company looked to Lawrence Culp, who as Danaher CEO from 2001 to 2014 quintupled the company’s revenues and delivered total shareholder return of more than 450 percent.
Virginia Tech has a team of coastal and policy experts available to talk with reporters as Hurricane Michael moves onshore along the Florida coast.
The American College of Radiology’s Commission on Patient- and Family-Centered Care (CPFCC) announced the formation recently of a new Population Health Management (PHM) Committee. Syed F. Zaidi, MD, is the chair of the new committee. McKinley Glover, MD, will serve as vice chair.
TMA is pleased to announce they have awarded three new myositis research grants.
A new study, “How should autonomous cars drive? A preference for defaults in moral judgments under risk and uncertainty,” published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal addressed this challenge by asking the public what they believed would be the most morally and ethically sound behavior for an autonomous vehicle (AV) faced with an oncoming collision. Even a perfectly functioning AV will not be able to avoid every collision and in some situations, every option will result in some type of crash.
Description: Papers on carcinogenesis; organophosphate flame retardants and zebrafish behavior; AHR gene targeting and hepatotoxicity; nontoxic substructures; and genistein and type 1 diabetes featured in latest issue of Toxicological Sciences.
Using ALMA, an international team of astronomers found evidence that a white dwarf and a brown dwarf collided in a short-lived blaze of glory that was witnessed on Earth in 1670 as Nova sub Capite Cygni (a New Star below the Head of the Swan), which is now known as CK Vulpeculae.
Congress has approved legislation that will protect chiropractors and other health professionals who travel with sports teams by ensuring that their license and liability insurance remains in effect even when they cross state lines.
The EPIC boot camp offers a counterpoint to the hype of entrepreneurship in Bangalore. It exposes participants to the way expert entrepreneurs think and act, which will benefit them should they take the plunge. As Sridhar put it, “Knowing effectuation at step zero can make a world of difference.”
Two UVA Darden School of Business alumni with similar career trajectories, including formative years spent in Silicon Valley before returning to India, are playing key roles in the country’s growth and maturation, offering a front-row perspective on the changes sweeping the country.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) will hold its 88th Annual Meeting on October 3‒7, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. In addition to the major speeches and awards, a variety of smaller presentations will be accessible to attendees in the form of posters and oral abstracts. One group of these concerns disorders of thyroid function.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) will hold its 88th Annual Meeting on October 3‒7, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. In addition to the major speeches and awards, a variety of smaller presentations will be accessible to attendees in the form of posters and oral abstracts. One group of these regards thyroid cancer.
The American College of Radiology (ACR) today released an update to the ACR Appropriateness Criteria®, which includes 179 diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology topics with 898 clinical variants covering more than 1,560 clinical scenarios. This update includes three new and nine revised topics.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) will hold its 88th Annual Meeting on October 3‒7, 2018, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC. In addition to the major speeches and awards, a variety of smaller presentations will be accessible to attendees in the form of posters and oral abstracts. One group of these regards thyroid nodules and goiters.
ACA Senior Scientific Advisor Christine Goertz, DC, PhD, has been appointed by the Comptroller of the United States to a three-year term as vice chair of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Board of Governors.
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced today the 10 top-rated studies that will be highlighted in the press program for the 2018 ASTRO Annual Meeting. Researchers will present their findings in three news briefings held October 21 through 23 in room 225-D of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio and via live webcast.
The Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) and the nonprofits, Are You Dense, Inc. and Are You Dense Advocacy, Inc. today announced study results showing that dense breast reporting laws in the United States significantly increase breast density awareness as well as prompt conversations between women and their healthcare providers about supplemental screening.
The Braverman Distinguished Award is presented annually to an individual who: demonstrates excellence and passion for mentoring fellows, students, and junior faculty; has a long history of productive thyroid research; and is devoted to the ATA. The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2018 Lewis E. Braverman Distinguished Award recipient will be Dr. R. Michael Tuttle, currently Clinical Director of the Endocrinology Service and Attending Physician at Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York City.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 Paul Starr Award recipient and lecturer will be Dr. Scott A. Rivkees, Professor and Chair, as well as Nemours Eminent Scholar, at the University of Florida Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Rivkees is also Physician-in-Chief at Shands Children’s Hospital in Gainesville, Academic Chair of Pediatrics at Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, and University of Florida Chair of Pediatrics at Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart in Pensacola. The Starr Award is presented to an outstanding contributor to clinical thyroidology. At the ATA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, Dr. Rivkees will deliver the Paul Starr Award Lecture at 1:00 pm on October 4, 2018, on “Unmasking the Problems With Antithyroid Medication Safety.”
.The 88th Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) is to be held October 3-7, 2018 at the Marriott Marquis Washington DC. This year the program committee, comprised of experts of all thyroid disciplines, has developed a program featuring the latest advances in basic/ translational and clinical thyroidology (www.thyroid.org). Meeting registration is on track to generate the highest attendance we have ever had for an ATA meeting. Washington, DC is a world-class destination with many stellar cultural, musical and museum attractions (within walking distance of the headquarters’ hotel) available to attendees and their families.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) announces with pleasure that the 2018 John B. Stanbury Thyroid Pathophysiology Medal will be awarded to Dr. Marvin C. Gershengorn at the ATA Annual Meeting this week. Dr. Gershengorn is Chief of the Clinical Endocrinology Branch (formerly the Laboratory of Endocrinology and Receptor Biology) at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 Sidney H. Ingbar Distinguished Lectureship Award recipient will be Dr. Anthony N. Hollenberg, currently the Sanford I. Weill Chair, Weill Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Physician-in Chief, NewYork-Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Hollenberg is former Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. The Ingbar Award recognizes an established investigator who has made outstanding contributions to thyroid-related research over many years. The award honors the memory of Dr. Sidney H. Ingbar, a brilliant innovator who was once Chief of the Beth Israel Thyroid Unit, a position Dr. Hollenberg recently held. The award is conferred at the ATA Annual Meeting, held this year from October 3 to 7 in Washington, DC. On Friday, October 5, at 1 pm, Dr. Hollenberg will deliver the Sidney H. Ingbar Disti
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) is pleased to announce that the 2018 Distinguished Service Award recipient will be Dr. David H. Sarne, currently Clinical Associate in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago.
Led by the Darden Center for Global Initiatives, the Darden School of Business announced it is expanding offerings of Worldwide courses for the 2018–19 academic year to an all-time high of 19 faculty-led courses, rising to meet increasing demand from students for global learning opportunities.
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