Geospatial assessment to improve time to treatment (GAITT) - McDonough MM, Benoit PJ, Jarman MP, Remick KN.
Introduction
Geographic information systems (GIS) can optimize trauma systems by identifying ways to reduce time to treatment. Using GIS, this study analyzed a system in Maryland served by Johns Hopkins Suburban Hospital and the University of Maryland Cap... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 18, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Experts say EVs are close to a tipping point. But are they?
But even as the nation’s EV market appears to be teetering on the edge of an electric takeover, a hesitant American public — and a still-subpar charging infrastructure — could still hold the country back. A Washington Post-University of Maryland poll shows the current limits of U.S. enthusiasm for…#coreycantor #bloombergnef #volkswagen #ford #bmw #generalmotors #republicans #democrats #coxautomotive #tesla (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Climate Change Likely Contributed To Libya ’ s Devastating Flooding
The Mediterranean storm that dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast, setting off flooding that’s believed to have killed thousands of people, is the latest extreme weather event to carry some of the hallmarks of climate change, scientists say.
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Daniel — dubbed a “medicane” for its hurricane-like characteristics – drew enormous energy from extremely warm sea water. And a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor that can fall as rain, experts said.
It’s difficult to attribute a single weather event to climate change, “but we know...
Source: TIME: Science - September 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: TAMMY WEBBER and ISABELLA O'MALLEY / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
University of Maryland leasing office space in Rockville for new health care, AI initiative
The university signed a 134-month lease for its Institute for Health Computing. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 11, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Matt Hooke Source Type: news
UMB-led institute blending health care, AI to take office space in Rockville
The University of Maryland believes the institute could help create new ways to diagnose patients and make telehealth treatments more effective. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 11, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Matt Hooke Source Type: news
A Pig ’ s Kidney Has Been Working in a Human Body for a Month, a Medical Milestone
(NEW YORK) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal.
The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one — and it’s not over. Researchers are set to track the ki...
Source: TIME: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Neergard / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized medicine Source Type: news
There ’s Now An Oral Treatment for Postpartum Depression
Treating depression is complex and time-consuming, since matching patients to the right drug treatment is a matter of trial and error that can take weeks or even months. And post partum depression, which affects up to 20% of new mothers in the first six weeks after giving birth, is no different.
On August 4, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved zuranolone, or Zurzuvae, for treating postpartum depression. The drug, developed by Massachusetts-based biotechs Sage Therapeutics and Biogen, is a pill that women take once a day for 14 days and is the first oral treatment for the major depressive condition.
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Source: TIME: Health - August 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Women of Excellence 2023: Elizabeth Wise, University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health
The CEO is in her second year on the job, overseeing $250 million worth of construction projects — including the hospital's new campus. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 4, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Joanna Sullivan Source Type: news
Urologist reveals seven things that keep sex after 50 hotter than ever
Aging can lead to natural decreases in testosterone and estrogen, leading to less sexual desire. However, Dr Rena Malik, a urologist at the University of Maryland, shared tips on sex after 50. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study finds forest protection successfully leads to reduced emissions at global scale
A study published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Maryland, Northern Arizona University, the University of Arizona and other institutions has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric … (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - July 6, 2023 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
Half-billion-year-old sea squirt could push back origins of vertebrates, including humans
In 2019, a finger-size fossil landed on the desk of Karma Nanglu, a paleontologist at Harvard University who specializes in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods, when many of today’s animal forms made their entrance. The specimen had sat for years in the drawer of a Salt Lake City museum; its finders, who had pulled it from a fossil-rich layer of Cambrian limestone in western Utah, thought it might be a sea squirt or tunicate—a marine invertebrate that shares a distant ancestor with all vertebrates. Nanglu was excited but cautious at the prospect of a very ancient tunicate: “That’s a group for which there is essenti...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 6, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
University of Maryland Medical System CFO departs, search launched for replacement
Joseph E. “Joe” Hoffman III, a finance executive who retired from UMMS last year, will serve as CFO of the hospital system on an interim basis. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 30, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Joanna Sullivan Source Type: news
Beekeepers Working Harder Than Ever As Nearly Half of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Died Last Year
America’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies, an annual bee survey found.
But using costly and Herculean measures to create new colonies, beekeepers are somehow keeping afloat. Thursday’s University of Maryland and Auburn University survey found that even though 48% of colonies were lost in the year that ended April 1, the number of United States honeybee colonies “remained relatively stable.”
Honeybees are crucial to the food supply, pollinating more than 100 of the crops we eat, including nuts,...
Source: TIME: Science - June 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized animals healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Astek Diagnostics raises $2M to commercialize urinary tract infection diagnostic tool
Astek Diagnostics is planning to move from the University of Maryland Baltimore, BioPark into a space in the Baltimore Peninsula in the wake of a $2 million funding round. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - June 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Matt Hooke Source Type: news
University of Maryland Capital Region Health prepares to open Prince George ’s County medical center
The new outpatient center will anchor what the health system says will eventually be a health and wellness campus. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - June 2, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sara Gilgore Source Type: news
