• Taylor Swift has been named Time's 2023 Person of the Year. (yahoo.com)
  • Post-doctoral researcher Tofunmi Omiye looks over chatbots in his office at the Stanford School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Since the Registry's launch, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) have been able to provide information about the incidence, prevalence, and demographic characteristics of persons living with ALS in the U.S. The Registry's seventh report was published in August 2023 and includes findings from 2018. (cdc.gov)
  • Amaro, with a team of researchers from UC San Diego and Maynooth University in Ireland, used the Frontera supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to learn about the atomic makeup of the coronavirus' sugary cloak. (delmartimes.net)
  • Researchers in the Netherlands, Cuba, and Italy have made important discoveries about the carbohydrate-mediated binding of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein to host cell lectin receptors and host lung microbiota. (news-medical.net)
  • Isolate Surveillance Project, SSuN helps clinicians and researchers monitor and combat emerging antibiotic resistance. (cdc.gov)
  • Following a 2015 report from IOM, stakeholders began to work together to give clinicians and researchers guidance for diagnosis and tools to fully characterize the many facets of the illness. (cdc.gov)
  • This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. (kron4.com)
  • The research suggests that interest and recognition are key factors that can help students become "math persons. (phys.org)
  • Their research, published recently in the journal Child Development , suggests that interest and recognition are key factors that can help students become "math persons," while confidence in one's abilities is not enough. (phys.org)
  • The Hill ) - New research has found an increase in early-onset cancer rates among younger people between 2010 and 2019. (kxan.com)
  • Bill Warburton, whose health ministry contract was cancelled in 2012 amid a spate of firings, says his research that used data from British Columbia patients shows that about 60,000 people now taking anti-psychotic drugs will die prematurely. (thetyee.ca)
  • In a phone interview, he noted that his research shows there is a two per cent increase in mortality for people who use second generation anti-psychotic medication to treat depression, a "huge increase," he said. (thetyee.ca)
  • In his drug research, Warburton's research looked at the health of people who had been taking an anti-depressant drug before switching to either a different anti-depressant or to an atypical anti-psychotic. (thetyee.ca)
  • That contract was cancelled in 2012 as part of a botched investigation that led to the firing of at least seven people, a freeze on drug research and the suicide of co-op student Roderick MacIsaac. (thetyee.ca)
  • An advanced manufacturing research facility based in University College Dublin (UCD) has designed a face shield for medical staff working on the Covid-19 frontline in the space of a week, and is already scaling up production. (irishtimes.com)
  • Prof Denis Dowling, the director of I-Form, a Science Foundation Ireland research centre, said additive manufacturing was a highly adaptable technology that can be quickly harnessed to meet an immediate need. (irishtimes.com)
  • John Philip Chalmers AC FAA FAHMS (born 12 January 1937) is an Australian medical researcher, best known for his work in the field of cardiovascular physiology, specifically for his research into hypertension. (wikipedia.org)
  • At this time, the research is being peer-reviewed, but the goal is to one day make our commutes more fuel-efficient and safer. (kdvr.com)
  • Researchers made the connection by analyzing blood samples taken from 40 participants enrolled in the diaBEAT-it program , a long-term study run by multiple researchers in the Fralin Translational Obesity Research Center and funded by a grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). (augustafreepress.com)
  • If an architecture dean came to you and said: create a research program for students, what would that look like? (archdaily.com)
  • There was little mention of CTE during the presentations and panels on Wednesday, and no researchers from the Boston University CTE Center - the brain bank that has led the research into the disease that can cause depression and other cognitive difficulties - were invited to address the conference. (wreg.com)
  • A lot of Ariely's research is focused on how we can get people to be more honest. (wqln.org)
  • The School of Sociology and Social Policy often invites visiting researchers and research fellows to work on specific projects or to provide specialist insight to facilitate quality research. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • A team of researchers from York University's Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research and Lassonde School of Engineering have revamped their Safe Water Optimization Tool (SWOT) with multiple innovations that will help aid workers unlock potentially life-saving information from water-quality data regularly collected in humanitarian settings. (yorku.ca)
  • SWOT version 2, to be unveiled at a virtual event on Tuesday, Nov. 8 , builds on earlier research with advancements in the tool's machine-learning and numerical-modelling engines. (yorku.ca)
  • What we've done in the past two years with user feedback and field learning is build a state-of-the-art web product," says team lead Syed Imran Ali , who is a research fellow at the Dahdaleh Institute and an adjunct professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering. (yorku.ca)
  • Through field research looking at how water quality behaves in refugee camps, Ali and his team discovered the chlorination guidelines used widely in the humanitarian sector were built on faulty assumptions. (yorku.ca)
  • Building on the work initiated in South Sudan, the research team studied chlorination levels at distribution and in households in refugee camps around the world, and realized they could use this data - which is routinely collected for monitoring purposes - to model post-distribution chlorine decay and generate site-specific and evidence-based water-chlorination targets. (yorku.ca)
  • Working in partnership with community-based researchers and advocates in Toronto and Vancouver, the Bordering Practices research team - with co-investigators Bryn King, an assistant professor in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, and Rhonda Hackett, of the University of Victoria, are taking a multifaceted approach to establish a baseline understanding of how federal and provincial policies shape risk assessment for child abuse and neglect among racialized immigrants. (utoronto.ca)
  • An avid and curious researcher, Schatt's active research interests include studying the practice routines of instrumental musicians, examining the motivational interests of pre-adolescent musicians and exploring student-centered models for secondary instruction. (uc.edu)
  • In a July research letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Beth Israel researchers cautioned that the model is a "black box" and said future research "should investigate potential biases and diagnostic blind spots" of such models. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Despite remaining knowledge gaps in ALS research, the Registry is extremely grateful for the participation from all the people living with ALS around the country. (cdc.gov)
  • Research is critical to helping scientists and persons living with ALS better understand the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Since the notification mechanism became available, over 90% of Registry-enrolled persons with ALS have chosen to receive email notifications about research opportunities for which they are eligible. (cdc.gov)
  • Self-archiving is a way of making publications that are published or accepted for publication freely available, and means that a full text version of the publication is uploaded to an institutional repository, a research database such as LUCRIS or another open archive. (lu.se)
  • more people can find your research results. (lu.se)
  • Increasingly, research funders are starting to require that publications be made freely available, often through self-archiving. (lu.se)
  • In 2010, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) established the National ALS Registry to allow persons living with ALS in the U.S. to voluntarily provide their data for research purposes. (cdc.gov)
  • The Registry's ALS research will make an important difference, and I know it will ultimately improve outcomes for persons living with ALS. (cdc.gov)
  • It works with researchers from many top institutions, and through the Registry we are able to share key findings that will benefit other research projects. (cdc.gov)
  • It was organized in 7 sessions distributed around four themes, namely the review of key research priorities in the context of COVID-19 and identification of those relevant to the region, building COVID-19 research capacity in the Africa region, report of the sub committees of the AACHRD, and partner reflection on research in the context of COVID-19. (who.int)
  • A new guide and accompanying film to working with older people as co-researchers has been launched by the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing (MICRA). (who.int)
  • A further aim was to involve older people, not only as the research target group, but also as experts and actors in the planning, design, development and implementation of the study. (who.int)
  • The purpose of the training sessions was to ensure that every co-researcher had a thorough understanding of the different phases involved in conducting a participatory research project. (who.int)
  • An account of meetings with people and research groups associated with SWEGENE is given. (lu.se)
  • Researchers at NIOSH's Office of Mine Safety and Health Research developed an easy-to-use mine visualization application using the Unity game engine to provide features not available in other software solutions. (cdc.gov)
  • Ann McKee "may have saved my life," former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland writes in TIME magazine's annual list of the world's 100 most influential people . (bu.edu)
  • One type that makes up 55% of the world's plastic is called polyolefins, which can be especially problematic. (katc.com)
  • Two BU affiliates, MED's Ann McKee, a CTE researcher, and San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (CAS'84), made TIME's list of 100 most influential people. (bu.edu)
  • Looking to build on the findings of the sixth International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Amsterdam in October 2022, the summit featured presentations and discussion on the latest developments in concussion prevention, diagnosis and care. (wreg.com)
  • There are 60,000 people who are going to die needlessly because they haven't been warned of the side effects of these drugs," said Warburton, a health economist, who in late February presented his findings to a seminar at the University of Victoria. (thetyee.ca)
  • Looking further into the virus' complexities, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco launched a study focusing on why some people are asymptomatic. (kron4.com)
  • Researchers at the University of Waterloo have created the first map showing how our universe's elusive dark matter interacts with galaxies. (yahoo.com)
  • University of New Mexico researchers are working on making rock slide areas safer for inspectors. (krqe.com)
  • Vanderbilt University researchers tested that in the middle of rush hour on Interstate 24 in Nashville, Tennessee. (kdvr.com)
  • Researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa now say their preliminary findings point instead to a bacteria as the cause of the shocking pink color, not algae. (wspa.com)
  • By studying how people build interpersonal trust, George Mason University researchers are finding out how to create a similar bond between humans and machines. (scifi-lab.com)
  • According to Mark Hutchinson, director of the Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics (CNBP) at The University of Adelaide in South Australia, the best way to build connections with industry is to put yourself out there and be open with your ideas. (nature.com)
  • There have been many examples where the university has been helpful and brought people to me, but those people have already been around and are seeing who's out there, and either I haven't either pitched well enough to them or haven't been what they're looking for. (nature.com)
  • Other arthropods have tarsomeres," said researcher Prashant Sharma , a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, "but only harvestmen use them in such a broad range of behaviors - sensing, climbing, fighting, courtship. (npr.org)
  • According to study co-author Jeremy Guggenheim, professor in the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences at Cardiff University, the researchers were able to determine that it was education that caused myopia, and not the other way around - that people with myopia were more drawn to books. (globalnews.ca)
  • In a recent study published in Cell Reports Journal, University of Michigan researchers identified a new class of neuron in the area of the brain most involved in spatial orientation. (michigandaily.com)
  • The latest estimates, compiled by researchers at Harvard University, came back far higher -- at 4,645 deaths from the day of the storm, September 20, until December 31, 2017. (cbsnews.com)
  • Martin is interested in how public sociology can make a difference in the academic realm and in the transformation that the university as an institution is undergoing. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) - Researchers from the University of Oklahoma say they are working on a project that will help improve computer models for weather forecasting in the future. (kfor.com)
  • Researchers from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Colorado at Boulder are taking part in a study using drones to study how storms form in coastal urban areas. (kfor.com)
  • The University of Calgary, located in the heart of Southern Alberta, both acknowledges and pays tribute to the traditional territories of the peoples of Treaty 7, which include the Blackfoot Confederacy (comprised of the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai First Nations), the Tsuut'ina First Nation, and the Stoney Nakoda (including Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney First Nations). (ucalgary.ca)
  • Simon Fraser University is now home to new Smart Manufacturing Hub that will help revolutionize. (sfu.ca)
  • A new type of test that uses complex sugars to detect prostate cancer earlier and with greater accuracy is being developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. (news-medical.net)
  • Two University of Georgia researchers, Rob Woods and Parastoo Azadi, are investigating the proteins and sugars on the surface of the virus with the goal of finding information that could lead to vaccines and therapeutics. (news-medical.net)
  • Changes in a specific type of sugarlike molecule, or glycan, on the surface of cancer cells help them to spread into other tissues, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. (news-medical.net)
  • University of Cincinnati Cancer Center researchers will present abstracts at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, held Oct. 1-4 in San Diego. (uc.edu)
  • A new test developed by researchers at George Mason University appears to detect COVID via a person's breath. (kjrh.com)
  • If you have any questions regarding self-archiving, or if you would like to make your publications freely accessible, please do not hesitate to contact your subject library or the Publicera group at the University Library. (lu.se)
  • The University of Pittsburgh is examining known occupational and environmental pollution exposures in persons living with ALS. (cdc.gov)
  • The University of Miami is looking at the relationship between environmental factors and genes in persons living with ALS. (cdc.gov)
  • To build institutional, national and regional capacities and competencies in disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, and resilience through human and infrastructural development at Makerere University and Gulu University, Uganda. (lu.se)
  • The work laid the foundation for the current studies elaborating the possible molecular bases for cocaine addiction in people, including other recently published findings in the current online issue of Current Biology, ( http://www.biomednet.com/library/abstract/JCUB.bb9p35 ) that implicate tyramine, one of the body's naturally occurring molecules, as the likely perpetrator of cocaine sensitization in fruit flies. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Researchers from all around the world are able to share their findings. (cdc.gov)
  • We can share our unique findings with other researchers across the world. (cdc.gov)
  • COVID-positive patients who never felt even a sniffle shared a common gene mutation, HLA B 1501, researchers discovered. (kron4.com)
  • The sugar coating on cancer cells helps them thrive, and a new study indicates patients with cervical cancer who make antibodies to those sugars appear to do better when they also receive internal radiation therapy. (news-medical.net)
  • As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctors' notes and analyze health records, a new study led by Stanford School of Medicine researchers cautions that popular chatbots are perpetuating racist, debunked medical ideas, prompting concerns that the tools could worsen health disparities for Black patients. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Powered by AI models trained on troves of text pulled from the internet, chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google's Bard responded to the researchers' questions with a range of misconceptions and falsehoods about Black patients, sometimes including fabricated, race-based equations, according to the study published Friday in the academic journal Digital Medicine and obtained exclusively by The Associated Press. (ctvnews.ca)
  • If hospitals are full (of COVID-19 patients) what will happened to people with other illnesses who can't get into those hospitals? (fox4kc.com)
  • Scientists have now come up with a new technology that involves cancer diagnosis through a simple urine test using a strip of paper, making diagnosis simple and affordable for people. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Scientists are beginning to find out why people with Parkinson's disease often feel socially awkward. (sciencedaily.com)
  • On average, every person in this region lives within roughly six miles of a glacial lake, scientists noted. (cnn.com)
  • To make the blood, RESTORE scientists obtain a standard pint-sized blood donation from a human donor. (extremetech.com)
  • McKee and her team made news again this year with a study suggesting that the disease may not be caused by concussions, as had been suspected, but by repeated head injuries. (bu.edu)
  • According to a UC San Diego news release, the simulation and modeling by Amaro and her team show that glycans, which are molecules that make up the sugary coating of the virus cells, also help induce infection by changing the shape of its spike protein. (delmartimes.net)
  • Catch up on all the news from the Made by Google event here. (engadget.com)
  • Blood samples revealed participants had lower amounts of mitochondrial DNA with a higher amount of methylation - a process that can change the expression of genes and mitochondrial copy numbers in cells - than healthy people. (augustafreepress.com)
  • To discover how the arachnid developed this ability, González, Gainett and their fellow researchers sequenced the daddy longlegs' genome - and eventually, they succeeded in creating a daddy shortlegs, by manipulating its genes. (npr.org)
  • The researchers found that the daddy longlegs, also known as harvestmen, evolved their special legs not through a genetic secret ingredient but by reusing parts of the same genetic recipe found in other arthropods, such as genes that affect tarsomeres - subsegments of the leg. (npr.org)
  • When the researchers turned down the expression of two specific genes, the daddy longlegs developed much shorter legs than usual. (npr.org)
  • Genetics researchers have long been able to manipulate genes in fruit flies for investigations of nervous system pathways. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We may come to see drug addicts more in terms of their genes, than as people who are not in control of their behavior. (sciencedaily.com)
  • In my work in drug discovery, I needed industry to give me their compound libraries for free to actually make something worthwhile. (nature.com)
  • The researchers conducted their work in the lab of Omar Ahmed, an assistant professor of psychology, neuroscience and biomedical engineering. (michigandaily.com)
  • The motivation for all the work we've been doing to release the SWOT v2 is to help people make the best decisions and provide confidence that quality standards are being maintained - both for the aid workers and those relying on the water supply. (yorku.ca)
  • However, researchers say more work needs to be done in order to scale up what is happening in this lab. (katc.com)
  • It can be treacherous for people who cannot rely on sight," said John-Ross Rizzo, MD, an NYU professor (and co-author of the paper ) known for his engineering work that helps people with disabilities. (engadget.com)
  • We still know very little about ALS, including its cause(s) and why ALS strikes some people and not others, but the Registry continues to work to better understand the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Regional Directors and I rely on you to guide us as we continue to work for better health of the people of the world. (who.int)
  • We're starting to build more rigor into the work. (medscape.com)
  • Founded in 2018, NYC Brunch Squad brings together hundreds of people who come as strangers and leave as friends through its in-person events. (upworthy.com)
  • The surveys were taken from January to February 2018, a time when, researchers noted, "many survey respondents were still without water and electricity. (cbsnews.com)
  • CDC - safer, healthier people. (cdc.gov)
  • Leibfarth and his fellow researchers are dedicated to figuring out how the plastic we use every day could be turned into something useful and better. (katc.com)
  • In a study published in the JAMA Network Open Journal, researchers found that "the incidence rates of early-onset cancers increased substantially" between 2010 and 2019. (kxan.com)
  • The researchers admit that this is a small, limited study that included mostly affluent white college students who could afford to attend in the 1970s. (upworthy.com)
  • There's also the modern issue of technology: The study only took in-person interactions into account. (upworthy.com)
  • A study published Wednesday in the BMJ found that the more years a person spends in school, the more likely they are to be nearsighted, or myopic. (globalnews.ca)
  • People who consumed more food containing whole grains had a slower rate of memory decline, equivalent to being 8.5 years younger, compared to those who ate less whole grains, according to the study. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Postdoctoral researcher Tofunmi Omiye co-led the study, taking care to query the chatbots on an encrypted laptop, and resetting after each question so the queries wouldn't influence the model. (ctvnews.ca)
  • ChatGPT and GPT-4 both answered back with "false assertions about Black people having different muscle mass and therefore higher creatinine levels," according to the study. (ctvnews.ca)
  • This phenomenon is called a glacial lake outburst, and according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, the roughly 15 million people around the globe that live within 30 miles of a glacial lake are at risk. (cnn.com)
  • The study noted that over the past two decades, glaciers in the Andes have melted rapidly as a result of the climate crisis, creating huge glacial lakes in their wake and increasing the threat of outburst flooding. (cnn.com)
  • Lab-grown blood could fill this gap-and researchers are already testing the stuff in human study participants. (extremetech.com)
  • Data analysis revealed that while belief in one's competence and performance is indeed a factor to seeing oneself as a math person, it is secondary to the individual's interest in the subject and the recognition received from teachers, parents, relatives or friends. (phys.org)
  • Chalmers was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his services to medical science. (wikipedia.org)
  • As we're building on the recognition that workers are exposed to longer term and delayed illness that may take years to appear, the national disaster discovered a core area. (cdc.gov)
  • Instead of focusing on what kind of articles will attract the most advertising dollars, we can spend time devoted to researching and writing stories that our readers find most valuable and make the most positive impact in our region. (thetyee.ca)
  • On average, how many men should the researcher expect to check to find one who is colorblind? (quizlet.com)
  • To find out, researchers put thousands of people in hot rooms - with surprising results. (wnyc.org)
  • Here's how to find the right people on your own timeline. (nature.com)
  • While people crave meaningful IRL connections, it can be hard to know where to find them. (upworthy.com)
  • We're able to try to push the science forward, and we're able to find new ways and new creative ways then to help people in the end. (kjrh.com)
  • The university's Smart Management of Infrastructure Laboratory created the robot Brutus which analyzes rocks that are potentially damaged and could create problems at rockslide sites. (krqe.com)
  • Collaborating with industry partners on a new product for market is potentially hugely rewarding for a young researcher. (nature.com)
  • It could potentially create a detour to what's now a one-way road for plastics. (katc.com)
  • The co-researchers conducted 68 interviews across the three neighbourhoods with older people who were experiencing social exclusion, isolation, poverty or health problems. (who.int)
  • Created in partnership with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the free-to-use, open-source online platform has been shown to dramatically increase water safety for people living in refugee camps and has corrected major inaccuracies about proper chlorination levels that went on for decades. (yorku.ca)
  • Last year, she made global headlines when she announced that 27-year-old Aaron Hernandez, a former New England Patriot and convicted murderer who'd committed suicide in jail, had the worst case of CTE ever found in a young person. (bu.edu)
  • Warburton found that over a period of 10 years, the people who switched to the anti-psychotic drugs were more likely to die. (thetyee.ca)
  • While that happens, Weber, Brown and other volunteers have found four groups that repeatedly use the tool: journalists, researchers, activists and city staff. (uw.edu)
  • Researchers have found that smoking causes chromosomal damage and speeds up aging. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Researchers have now found that the time spent in front of digital devices can affect the shape of children's brains. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Since 1941, the mountain range has experienced more than 30 glacier disasters from avalanches to glacial lake outbursts that have claimed more than 15,000 lives, researchers found. (cnn.com)
  • What if your doctor told you that you were making up your symptoms or that what you were experiencing was all in your head? (cdc.gov)
  • People started to talk about experiencing improved symptoms of depression or improved mental health from their activities in the water," she says. (medscape.com)
  • So they developed the Council Data Project , a website that creates searchable transcripts of city council and committee meetings as well as establishing a way to track legislation and voting records of elected officials. (uw.edu)
  • NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. (wqln.org)
  • But she also noticed a growing trend of people claiming health benefits from the practice. (medscape.com)
  • Development of human resources and increased communication between local stakeholders (groups and persons whose actions are affected by emerging infectious diseases and animal health) were instrumental for successful implementation. (cdc.gov)
  • Normally, you'd expect most people to drive a medium amount - say, like, 14,000 miles a year - and way fewer people to drive very little or a lot. (wqln.org)
  • Robinson noted that North America and the European Alps don't stand out as highly vulnerable, because fewer people live in the vicinities of glacial catchments. (cnn.com)
  • Partnering with the National Association of School Nurses, to collect data related to conditions causing excessive absenteeism, as well as educate school nurses about ME/CFS in younger people. (cdc.gov)
  • And even just making handwashing a pleasant, easy activity improved health: Children in households with thoughtfully designed soap dispensers experienced fewer illnesses than children in households without those tools, Hussam and colleagues report in a paper to appear in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics . (sciencenews.org)
  • In health, the focus is usually on how the above phenomenon affect, for example, what health risks people face (and why), what health harms they experience (and why), how they understand illness experiences and how and why this understanding affects how they seek relief, how healing systems respond to people living with illnesses and why they respond the way they do (among many other questions! (who.int)
  • LSA freshman Akash Gandhi, an undergraduate researcher in Ahmed's lab, said he is excited by the idea that there are many discoveries to be made in the field of neuroscience. (michigandaily.com)
  • These CDEs are important tools to help researchers collect, store and share information about the illness experience of participants in their studies. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past few years, Massey and Denton have moved from fairly small-scale studies with no real controls to today, completing a randomized controlled trial and looking at the impact that outdoor swimming may have on people living with mild to moderate depression. (medscape.com)
  • The similarity in challenges and difference in contexts makes for some interesting case studies to illustrate the complexity of issue areas that MSPs are dealing with, says Marie Stissing Jensen. (lu.se)
  • Hurricane Maria , which pummeled Puerto Rico in September 2017, is likely responsible for the deaths of more than 4,600 people -- some 70 times higher than official estimates, U.S. researchers said Tuesday. (cbsnews.com)
  • COPD alone affects more than 250 million people, causing 3 million deaths each year. (news-medical.net)
  • The head of the World Health Organization made a historic announcement today: COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency. (wnyc.org)
  • Handwashing is one of the most difficult habits to get people to adopt, but doling out small bribes up front can yield long-term results that lead to improved health. (sciencenews.org)
  • We are putting health within the context of human development, doing more to establish consensus on effective health policy, improving health outcomes through effective partnerships and creating an organizational culture that encourages innovation and accountability, strategic thinking and prompt action. (who.int)
  • Now that the health regulations are in effect, what kind of changes will people have to make? (cdc.gov)
  • Denton was publishing papers on the potential impact that outdoor swimming may have on people with depression and how it could improve mental health in general. (medscape.com)
  • Another person who uses the Council Data Project is Philip James, who advocates for housing in the Bay Area city of Alameda where he grew up and owns a home. (uw.edu)
  • I knew that having a tool like this would actually be invaluable because most civic governments are making progress in terms of making the recordings and the data of their meetings available, but not very accessible," James said. (uw.edu)
  • He said the Council Data Project has kept people clued into the civic conversation. (uw.edu)
  • And I have seen people on Alameda politics Twitter starting to link to meetings in the Council Data Project instance. (uw.edu)
  • Did an honesty researcher fabricate data? (wqln.org)
  • While we can't say with certainty who falsified the data set, the Hartford statement makes it clear the company believes the change occurred after it was sent to Ariely. (wqln.org)
  • There are, in conjunction with the genomics platforms built with SWEGENE support, in general systems for the immediate management of the large amounts of experimental data generated. (lu.se)
  • The tool allows the researchers to quickly build these visualizations and include development and stope geometry, geologic structures, and other spatially-related data. (cdc.gov)
  • Asked about the criticism by some CTE researchers, Putukian defended the agenda for the summit - pointing to a Thursday session that includes presentations on neurological markers for chronic degenerative disease, neurocognitive dysfunction and neurodegenerative disease in soccer. (wreg.com)
  • People with chronic pain who were on prescription painkillers were at 49% higher risk of mental illness and 82% higher risk of developing substance abuse. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Worldwide, hundreds of millions of people are impacted by chronic respiratory disease. (news-medical.net)
  • Sadly, this is reality for many people living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS). (cdc.gov)
  • This core of supporters - making up about 1 to 2 per cent of our daily readership - enables us to pay our writers, keep our articles free and open to all, and not bombard our readers with annoying ads while you try to read. (thetyee.ca)
  • If you'd like to join thousands of readers who help make independent journalism possible, consider joining Tyee Builders. (thetyee.ca)
  • Edited by Dr. Tine Buffel (EU Marie Curie Fellow researcher), and produced in partnership with Age UK and Age-friendly Manchester (Manchester City Council), the guide and film share stories from older people as they step beyond the traditional role of consultee to that of interviewer and researcher. (who.int)
  • No one had ever looked at the problem of what happens after the tap," Ali explains, noting that unlike most urban settings in the developed world, people in refugee camps must collect water from public faucets in containers and then bring it back to their homes where it is stored and used for many hours, introducing many opportunities for recontamination during this 'last mile' of the safe-water chain. (yorku.ca)
  • Researchers at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering and Grossman School of Medicine have created an app to help people with visual impairments navigate New York City's subway system. (engadget.com)
  • Researchers previously wondered, is there a genetic basis for so-called "COVID superdodgers," people who are exposed to the virus but were never infected? (kron4.com)
  • People with the HLA B 1501 gene were essentially "COVID minidodgers" - they didn't dodge the infection, but they dodged feeling sick. (kron4.com)
  • The assistant professor of infectious disease is also concerned about the number of people hospitalized because of COVID-19. (fox4kc.com)
  • NPR wrote , "Hollenbach and her colleagues demonstrated that, with a specific mutation in HLA, some people have T cells that are already pre-programmed to recognize and fight off SARS-CoV-2. (kron4.com)
  • Because these cells are at this specific stage, researchers actually expect recipients' bodies to accept the lab-grown blood at a higher rate than they would a standard blood transfusion. (extremetech.com)
  • sponsoring of algorithm knowledge, database building for specific applications, some computer related acquisitions such as software and databases. (lu.se)
  • Researchers tested all participants using standard photographs of facial expression before and three months after they were treated. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Other areas under investigation by its researchers include the production of protective goggles and ventilator-related technological aids. (irishtimes.com)
  • Ali and the rest of the team, who include machine learning lead Professor Usman T. Khan from Lassonde's Department of Civil Engineering, modelling graduate researcher Mike De Santi , Dahdaleh Institute director Dr. James Orbinski and field advisor James Brown , say these improvements are informed by real-life lessons gleaned from the field. (yorku.ca)
  • We're about engaging people and ideas - and transforming the world. (uc.edu)
  • The effect goes beyond the people impacted by this disease. (fox4kc.com)
  • On average, persons with the disease die within two to five years after being diagnosed. (cdc.gov)
  • Through the Registry's 18 online risk factor modules, ATSDR is collecting detailed information from persons living with ALS on topics such as occupation, military history, residential history, and trauma history, to better learn about the potential risk factors for developing the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • More researchers are studying the disease today, and technology continues to improve. (cdc.gov)
  • These amazing people chip in an amount that works for them on a monthly, annual or one-time basis so that we can pay our talented journalists and keep our articles freely accessible to everyone. (thetyee.ca)
  • Mitochondrial alterations have previously been observed in obese individuals, but this is the first time we've made the molecular link between insulin resistance and mitochondrial DNA changes. (augustafreepress.com)
  • Nature Index spoke to Hutchinson successful networking, when's the best time to pitch, and what skills researchers need to be valuable partners. (nature.com)
  • Creating blood in a lab is expensive and time-consuming, while a standard donation costs the NHS approximately £130 and can be used relatively quickly. (extremetech.com)
  • We decided, 'Let's make city council meetings easier to follow,'" Brown said. (uw.edu)
  • Researchers went door-to-door at 3,299 homes randomly selected from across the U.S. territory, which is home to some 3.3 million people. (cbsnews.com)
  • In some cases, they appeared to reinforce long-held false beliefs about biological differences between Black and white people that experts have spent years trying to eradicate from medical institutions. (ctvnews.ca)
  • Google said people should "refrain from relying on Bard for medical advice. (ctvnews.ca)
  • The robot has already been field-tested here in New Mexico and researchers say they hope to make it a climbing robot in the future. (krqe.com)
  • After that, the researchers hope to make it available for public use "in the near term. (engadget.com)
  • TB affects people the poorest and weakest of us. (who.int)
  • The tool was designed to allow creators to make custom content as modern DJ hosts. (engadget.com)
  • I don't think it's what the players would want it to be, who are actually the ones out there risking CTE and could have a future (CTE) prevented if there were changes made today. (wreg.com)
  • This paper will discuss the methods used to create this visualization tool and plans for future developments. (cdc.gov)
  • Researchers say the test is also easy for those who are taking it. (kjrh.com)
  • Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the researchers were able to detect the dark matter through weak gravitational lensing. (yahoo.com)
  • While it's not FDA-approved yet, researchers are now looking into whether this type of breath analysis could be used to detect other diseases, like lung cancer. (kjrh.com)
  • That coating is similar to the coating on human cells, which deceives the immune systems in people who are infected. (delmartimes.net)
  • By making itself look like the cells in our body, basically our body doesn't attack it with the immune system. (delmartimes.net)
  • Researchers identified that an abundance of fungi in the gut, particularly strains of Candida albicans yeast, could trigger an increase in immune cells, which could worsen lung damage. (medicaldaily.com)
  • Mild radioactive "tagging" of the lab-grown blood cells allows researchers to monitor which reactions are a result of the experimental transfusion. (extremetech.com)
  • If you have EoE, white blood cells called eosinophils build up in your esophagus. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Much of becoming a math person and pursuing a related STEM (science, technology, engineering or math) career has to do with being recognized and becoming interested - not just being able to do it," said Hazari, who specializes in STEM Education at FIU's College of Education and STEM Transformation Institute. (phys.org)
  • Rather than trying to turn a gene off entirely, the researchers wanted to turn it down to a very low setting. (npr.org)
  • I was contacted to make a survey of the current status of the bioinformatics and compu- tational biology efforts within the groups and researchers with connections to SWEGENE facilities. (lu.se)