Mice are not people: Fighting spin in medical science
When it comes to health and science research, spin exaggerates the benefit of a treatment and plays down the risks. And spin can affect how people judge the benefit of treatments they read about in the news, according to the first randomized controlled trial to test the effect of spin on readers. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
David Geffen School of Medicine names 2019 winner of Switzer Prize
Dr. Zhijian (James) Chen of the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas will be the 2019 recipient of the Switzer Prize, awarded by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Chen has performed groundbreaking work on the mechanisms underlying the cellular response to infection.Chen ’s group has been instrumental in the identification of immune response pathways that have significantly added to scientists’ understanding of how these pathways work in microbial infections and autoimmune diseases.Most significantly, his team at UT Southwestern discovered the DNA-sensing enzyme cGAS, which helps launch the immune defen...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - June 17, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Breaking down the walls of scientific secrecy
A Canadian research team is pushing the boundaries of transparency in biomedical science by publishing their research notes in real time and refusing to patent their discoveries. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - June 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Pew funds biomedical research for 10 Latin American scientists
(Pew Charitable Trusts) The Pew Charitable Trusts today announced the 2019 class members of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences. The 10 postdoctoral fellows from six Latin American countries -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico -- will receive two years of funding to conduct research in laboratories in the United States, where they will work under the mentorship of prominent biomedical scientists, including members of the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - June 14, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Curbing your enthusiasm for overeating
(University of California - Riverside) Signals between our gut and brain control how and when we eat food. But how the molecular mechanisms involved in this signaling are affected when we eat a high-energy diet and how they contribute to obesity are not well understood. Using a mouse model, a research team led by a biomedical scientist at UC Riverside has found that overactive endocannabinoid signaling in the gut drives overeating in diet-induced obesity by blocking gut-brain satiation signaling. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Superweed resists another class of herbicides, study finds
(University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) We've all heard about bacteria that are becoming resistant to multiple types of antibiotics. These are the so-called superbugs perplexing and panicking medical science. The plant analogue may just be waterhemp, a broadleaf weed common to corn and soybean fields across the Midwest. With resistance to multiple common herbicides, waterhemp is getting much harder to kill. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 11, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
UC Riverside receives its first cannabis grant
(University of California - Riverside) Researchers do not have a clear picture of the long-term impact cannabis use has on metabolic health. A biomedical scientist at UC Riverside has received a grant to investigate the impact of long-term cannabis exposure on metabolic diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes. The three-year grant is the first cannabis grant UC Riverside has received. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 10, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Better science, better lives for women and men: Q & A with Carolyn Mazure
For two decades, the Women ’s Health Research at Yale director has prompted change in how investigators focus on the “who” and “what” of medical science. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - June 6, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Congratulations to Graham Williams and Julia Buckingham on being elected as Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
Congratulations are in order for our President Professor Graham Williams and former President Professor Julia Buckingham, who have beenelected as Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
The Academy of Medical Sciences is an independent body dedicated to advancing biomedical and health research to the benefit of society. Fellows are elected for their outstanding contributions to medicine and society and showcase the diversity of medical science in the UK.
Professor Graham Williams is Head of the Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory and Director of Research in the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London and has b...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - May 15, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news
Leading nurse researcher given prestigious scientific fellowship
A leading nursing academic is among 50 of the UK ’s leading figures within health and biomedical science to have been made fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - May 10, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
When a parent's short-term rehab stay becomes long-term care
For some seniors, short-term rehab can end up becoming a transition stage to long-term care. Medical science can't always predict how the human body will heal. There are times when a person just doesn't respond as expected to treatment, or when there is simply more deterioration than the body can overcome.
Sometimes a return home isn't possible. As a result, family members and caregivers may find themselves suddenly facing something for which they are unprepared. It can be stressful — for you… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 6, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Judi Dean Source Type: news
Terror and Religion
By Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM / ROME, Apr 29 2019 (IPS) Just before nine o´clock in the morning of April 21st, Christians in Sri Lanka were in their churches peacefully celebrating Easter Sunday, while tourists were waking up in their hotel rooms. Suddenly explosions blasted three churches and three hotels. Among the ruins lay hundreds of wounded people, as well as 253 corpses of men, women and children. They had been killed and maimed because some fellow human beings believed they acted in God´s name and out of promises of an unproven, heavenly bliss if they killed themselves after obliterating people they did not know; sowin...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 29, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Asia-Pacific Crime & Justice Global Headlines Health Human Rights Religion TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Scientists 'print' 3D heart using patient's tissue
Researchers have created an anatomically correct heart replete with blood vessels and cells. Medical science inches closer to creating a human organ. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiovascular / Cardiology Source Type: news
Cross Section: David Spiegelhalter – Science Weekly podcast
Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter has a passion for statistics but some argue this type of number crunching is losing its influence and its ability to objectively depict reality.Nicola Davis andIan Sample investigate how significant statistics are in today ’s ‘post-truth’ worldProf Sir David Spiegelhalter has a love of statistics and has done ever since he was inspired by a teacher at university. Today, though, some are arguing that this type of number crunching islosing its power and its ability to depict reality. This, they say, has in part led to increasing levels of distrust in statistics.Nicola Davis andIan Sample in...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 5, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Nicola Davis and Ian Sample and produced by Graihagh Jackson Tags: Science Mathematics University of Cambridge Source Type: news
Deep Medicine: Restoring the Doctor-Patient Relationship Deep Medicine: Restoring the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Siddhartha Mukherjee talks with Eric Topol about Topol ' s new book and how AI can prevent burnout, improve efficiency, and renew our faith in medical science.Medscape (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - March 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine Expert Interview Source Type: news
