Guns on Campus: Overview
This article was orignally posted on the National Conference of State Legislatures’ blog on May 31, 2016.
In the wake of several campus shootings, the most deadly being the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech University, states are considering legislation about whether or not to permit guns on college campuses. For some, these events point to a need to ease existing firearm regulations and allow concealed weapons on campuses. Others see the solution in tightening restrictions to keep guns off campuses.
In 2013, at least 19 states introduced legislation to allow concealed carry on campus in some regard and in the 2014 legi...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Gun Violence Source Type: blogs
Higher Education: Mental Health as Elective
We all know him. He breezed to highest honors in computer science. For fun, he devoured English classics and starred in extracurricular activities.
Teachers fawned over him; the hometown newspaper lauded his academic triumphs. You admired and envied him.
He was destined to change the world. Now, sadly, he is changing your tires at a local car maintenance shop.
Home for the holidays, you retrace your high school haunts. Grabbing a sandwich at your favorite hangout, you spot him. Averting eye contact, he mumbles out a halfhearted greeting. You can hear the fatigue in his voice.
He pulls you aside. “Hey, do you mind if we g...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Loeb Tags: College Depression Disorders General Personal Academia Achievement anxiety Career Goals college health student Success Universities And Colleges university Source Type: blogs
TWiV 395: The cancer thief
Vincent, Rich and Kathy speak with Stephen Russell about his career and his work on oncolytic virotherapy – using viruses to treat cancers. Recorded before an audience at ASV 2016 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Source: virology blog - June 26, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology cancer measles virus multiple myeloma oncolytic virotherapy tumor vector vesicular stomatitis virus viral viruses Source Type: blogs
Academic Freedom Under Assault—By the Academy
It’s increasingly clear that attacks on academic freedom from within the academy are only growing. I was recently invited to give two major speeches on the subject, one on academic freedom as such, the other more broadly on tolerance in a free society. And just a week ago I blogged here on the breaking news about the uproar at George Mason University over the GMU administration’s decision to rename its law school after the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
Just yesterday the Manhattan Institute and Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley recounted in the Journal his recent “disinvitation” to speak at Virginia Tech. It seems...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 5, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Roger Pilon Source Type: blogs
Enduring Effects of Trauma in Newtown and Beyond
By JOAN COOK and MARJORIE S. ROSENTHAL
This month’s Sundance Film Festival, a 10-day salute to movies that are often hailed as tapping into the national zeitgeist, have two films this year on gun violence: Katie Couric’s “Under the Gun” and Kim Snyder’s “Newtown.” Both will be screened by influential audiences this week with a plan for larger distribution over the year. And both will no doubt question what we as Americans should do to prevent mass shootings and to heal afterward.
The ripple effects of mass shootings are immense. Earlier this month school leaders in Newtown testified to Connecticut’s stat...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Joan Cook Marjorie Rosenthal Source Type: blogs
How Cells Manage Chance
This article is the second in an occasional series that explores these questions and explains how pursuing the answers could advance understanding of important biological processes.
The number of copies of mRNA molecules (bright green) observed here in yeast cells (dark blue) fluctuates randomly. Credit: David Ball, Virginia Tech.
For some health conditions, the cause is clear: A single altered gene is responsible. But for many others, the path to disease is more complex. Scientists are working to understand how factors like genetics, lifestyle and environmental exposures all contribute to disease. Another important, bu...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 14, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Cell Biology Computers in Biology Big Questions Cells Computational Biology RNA Source Type: blogs
Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
More than 70 percent of new drugs approved within the past 30 years originated from trees, sea creatures and other organisms that produce substances they need to survive. Since ancient times, people have been searching the Earth for natural products to use—from poison dart frog venom for hunting to herbs for healing wounds. Today, scientists are modifying them in the laboratory for our medicinal use. Here’s a peek at some of the products in nature’s medicine cabinet.
A protein called draculin found in the saliva of vampire bats is in the last phases of clinical testing as a clot-buster for stroke patients. Vampire b...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 14, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Chemistry and Biochemistry Pharmacology Cool Creatures Diseases Medicines Natural Products Source Type: blogs
The American Society for Virology
was founded in 1981 to promote the exchange of information and stimulate discussion and collaboration among scientists active in all aspects of virology. These goals are achieved in part by organizing an annual meeting that brings together virologists from diverse fields to discuss their work.
As the current President of the American Society for Virology it is my honor to select the speakers for the morning symposia at the annual meeting. Below are the sessions that I have organized and the speakers that I have selected. Note the titles of the different sessions: Listeners of the science show This Week in Virology should...
Source: virology blog - December 16, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information american society for virology conference meeting speakers viral virus Source Type: blogs
Forecasting Infectious Disease Spread with Web Data
Just as you might turn to Twitter or Facebook for a pulse on what’s happening around you, researchers involved in an infectious disease computational modeling project are turning to anonymized social media and other publicly available Web data to improve their ability to forecast emerging outbreaks and develop tools that can help health officials as they respond.
Mining Wikipedia Data
Incorporating real-time, anonymized data from Wikipedia and other novel sources of information is aiding efforts to forecast and respond to emerging outbreaks. Credit: Stock image.
“When it comes to infectious disease forecasting, gett...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - December 12, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Emily Carlson Tags: Computers in Biology Source Type: blogs
Why Public Health Needs a New Gun Doctrine
VIK KHANNA I am a public health professional, educated at the vaunted Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. I like guns, and I believe the Second Amendment clearly secures the rights of individuals to own firearms. You read that correctly. I am a public health professional. And I like guns. This […] (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: THCB Gun Control Institute of Medicine Newton public health Vik Khanna Virginia Tech Wellness Source Type: blogs
Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma Read more: Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma
A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe trauma.In preclinical tests led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher, the artificial platelets, called "hemostatic nanoparticles," when injected after blast trauma dramatically increased survival rates and showed no signs of interfering with healing or causing other complications weeks afterward."The nanoparticles have a huge impact on survival—not just in the short term, but in the long term," said Erin Lavik, an ass...
Source: Medical Hemostat - June 30, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
Let's Have a Task Force!
I'm going to do a little problem solving here. In the Washington Post yesterday in Virginia Doesn't Need Another Mental Health Task Force, Pete Earley writes:Virginians should be embarrassed and angry that a newly appointed state mental health task force convened Tuesday in Richmond. It is the 16th task force asked to investigate the state’s mental health system. If you click through to hit the link, you'll note that this 16th task force on mental health has 36 members. Politicians love task forces, it's a way to look like something is "being done" without actually doing anything. So now 36 people,...
Source: Shrink Rap - January 11, 2014 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Study Drop: New Driver? Read This!
Novice drivers may start out focused, but as the first few months of driving pass they become more comfortable multitasking behind the wheel (using their phones, eating, etc.) and increase their risk for accidents, according to a Virginia Tech study released yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. That may be part of the reason why drivers aged between 15 and 20 represent 6.4 percent of all motorists, but account for 11.4 percent of deaths and 14 percent of police-reported crashes resulting in injuries. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - January 2, 2014 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Health driving health news study travel Source Type: blogs
Improved Mental Health Treatment Won’t Impact Mass Shootings or School Killings
Some well-meaning folks believe that all we need is “better mental health treatment,” and suddenly we will no longer see school shootings or mass murders. While better access to mental health treatment will help society in the long-run for numerous reasons, it will make little difference for these rare mass shooting events.
Contrary to popular belief (and media hype), mass shootings are not on the rise. And on the face of it, it is fairly ridiculous to focus so much “preventative attention” on something that accounts for less than one percent of murders in the U.S. in any given year.
We’re dr...
Source: World of Psychology - December 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Disorders General Minding the Media Policy and Advocacy Research Violence and Aggression Adolescence America columbine Gun Hastings Law Journal Jacob Sullum lanza Mass murder Media Hype Mental Health Sandy Hook School Sho Source Type: blogs
