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Public Release: 23-May-2012
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
UC Davis MIND Institute study shows that fever during pregnancy more than doubles the risk of autism or developmental delay in children
A team of UC Davis researchers has found that mothers who had fevers during their pregnancies were more than twice as likely to have a child with autism or developmental delay than were mothers who did not have a fever or who took medication to counter its effect.
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, US Environmental Protection Agency, UC Davis MIND Institute

Contact: Karen Finney
karen.finney@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
916-734-9064
University of California - Davis Health System

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Research team awarded prestigious National Institutes of Health grant
Queen's University professor Daren Heyland and his research team at the Kingston General Hospital Clinical Evaluation Research Unit received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance research into meeting the nutrition needs of high risk, critically ill patients.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Anne Craig
anne.craig@queensu.ca
613-533-2877
Queen's University

Public Release: 23-May-2012
2012 American Urological Association Annual Meeting
European Urology
Prevalence of kidney stones doubles in wake of obesity epidemic
The number of Americans suffering from kidney stones between 2007 and 2010 nearly doubled since 1994, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles and RAND.
NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Urologic Diseases in America project based at UCLA and RAND

Contact: Rachel Champeau
rchampeau@mednet.ucla.edu
310-794-2270
University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Journal of Clinical Oncology
Cardio fitness levels of breast cancer patients may affect survival
Women receiving care for breast cancer have significantly impaired cardio-pulmonary function that can persist for years after they have completed treatment, according to a study led by scientists at Duke University Medical Center.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Sarah Avery
sarah.avery@duke.edu
919-660-1306
Duke University Medical Center

Public Release: 23-May-2012
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
'Obesity genes' may influence food choices, eating patterns
Researchers from the Miriam Hospital say individuals with variations in certain "obesity genes" tend to eat more meals and snacks, consume more calories per day and choose the same high fat, sugary foods.
NIH/National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Contact: Jessica Collins Grimes
jgrimes2@lifespan.org
401-793-7484
Lifespan

Public Release: 23-May-2012
PLOS ONE
Study supports urate protection against Parkinson's disease, hints at novel mechanism
Use of the antioxidant urate to protect against the neurodegeneration caused by Parkinson's disease appears to rely on more than urate's ability to protect against oxidative damage. In the May issue of the open-access journal PLoS One, researchers from the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases describe experiments suggesting the involvement of a novel mechanism in urate's protection of cultured brain cells against Parkinson's-like damage.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense, American Parkinson's Disease Association

Contact: Mike Morrison
mdmorrison@partners.org
617-724-6425
Massachusetts General Hospital

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Science Translational Medicine
Anti-inflammatory drugs may improve survival from severe malaria
A novel anti-inflammatory drug could help to improve survival in the most severe cases of malaria by preventing the immune system from causing irrevocable brain and tissue damage. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have shown that a new class of anti-inflammatory agents, called IDR (innate defense regulator) peptides, could help to increase survival from severe clinical malaria when used in combination with antimalarial drugs.
Foundation of the National Institutes of Health and Canadian Institutes for Health Research/Grand Challenges in Global Health Research, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Victorian Government

Contact: Liz Williams
williams@wehi.edu.au
61-405-279-095
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Neuron
Reverse engineering epilepsy's 'miracle' diet
Researchers link seizure resistance to a protein that modifies cellular metabolism in the brain. The findings, which shed light on the extremely low-carb ketogenic diet, may lead to the development of new treatments for epilepsy.
Harvard Catalyst, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, National Institutes of Health

Contact: David Cameron
david_cameron@hms.harvard.edu
617-432-0441
Harvard Medical School

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Science Translational Medicine
Hormone plays surprise role in fighting skin infections
Antimicrobial peptides are molecules produced in the skin to fend off infection-causing microbes. Vitamin D has been credited with a role in their production and in the body's overall immune response, but scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say a hormone previously associated only with maintaining calcium homeostasis and bone health is also critical, boosting AMP expression when dietary vitamin D levels are inadequate.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases,US Veterans Administration

Contact: Scott LaFee
slafee@ucsd.edu
619-543-6163
University of California - San Diego

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Environmental Health Perspectives
Socioeconomics may affect toddlers' exposure to flame retardants
A Duke University-led study of North Carolina toddlers suggests that exposure to potentially toxic flame-retardant chemicals may be higher in nonwhite toddlers than in white toddlers.
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Contact: Tim Lucas
tdlucas@duke.edu
919-613-8084
Duke University

Public Release: 23-May-2012
PLOS ONE
The Goldilocks effect: Babies learn from experiences that are 'just right'
Infants ignore information that is too simple or too complex, focusing instead on situations that are "just right," according to a new study to be published in the journal PLoS ONE on May 23. Dubbed the "Goldilocks effect" by the University of Rochester team that discovered it, the attention pattern sheds light on how babies learn to make sense of a world full of complex sights, sounds, and movements.
National Institutes of Health, J. S. McDonnell Foundation

Contact: Susan Hagen
susan.hagen@rochester.edu
585-576-5945
University of Rochester

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Neuron
Researchers uncover new ways sleep-wake patterns are like clockwork
Researchers at NYU and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered new ways neurons work together to ease the transition between sleep and wakefulness. Their findings provide additional insights into sleep-wake patterns and offer methods to explore what may disrupt them.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: James Devitt
james.devitt@nyu.edu
212-998-6808
New York University

Public Release: 23-May-2012
Radiology
Breast MRI helps predict chemotherapy's effectiveness
MRI provides an indication of a breast tumor's response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new study.
NIH/National Cancer Institute

Contact: Linda Brooks
lbrooks@rsna.org
630-590-7762
Radiological Society of North America

Public Release: 22-May-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Scientists unravel role of fusion gene in prostate cancer
Up to half of all prostate cancer cells have a chromosomal rearrangement that results in a new "fusion" gene and formation of its unique protein -- but no one has known how that alteration promotes cancer growth.
US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, NIH/National Cancer Institute, Starr Cancer Consortium

Contact: Lauren Woods
law2014@med.cornell.edu
212-821-0560
New York- Presbyterian Hospital

Public Release: 22-May-2012
PLOS ONE
Newly discovered breast milk antibodies help neutralize HIV
Antibodies that help to stop the HIV virus have been found in breast milk. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center isolated the antibodies from immune cells called B cells in the breast milk of infected mothers in Malawi, and showed that the B cells in breast milk can generate neutralizing antibodies that may inhibit the virus that causes AIDS.
National Institutes of Health, Doris Duke Foundation Clinical Scientist Development Award, Gates Foundation, others

Contact: Mary Jane Gore
mary.gore@duke.edu
919-660-1309
Duke University Medical Center

Public Release: 22-May-2012
UC San Diego Superfund Research Program receives $15 million grant renewal
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, has renewed funding for the Superfund Research Program at the University of California, San Diego. Over the next five years, the $15 million grant will fund continued research on the molecular and genetic consequences of exposure to uncontrolled toxicants from Superfund and other hazardous waste sites.
NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Contact: Scott LaFee
slafee@ucsd.edu
619-543-6163
University of California - San Diego

Public Release: 22-May-2012
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Neuron-nourishing cells appear to retaliate in Alzheimer's
When brain cells start oozing too much of the amyloid protein that is the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, the astrocytes that normally nourish and protect them deliver a suicide package instead, researchers report.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Toni Baker
tbaker@georgiahealth.edu
706-721-4421
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University

Public Release: 22-May-2012
American Thoracic Society International Conference
New England Journal of Medicine
Intensivists at night improve patient outcomes in some ICUs, says Pitt/UPMC team
Intensive care units that had no or limited access to critical care doctors during the day can improve patient outcomes by having the specialists, called intensivists, man the unit at night, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC. However, the researchers were unable to find any incremental benefit of nighttime staffing in ICUs that were robustly staffed with the specialists during the day.
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Contact: Anita Srikameswaran
SrikamAV@upmc.edu
412-720-2058
University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences

Public Release: 22-May-2012
mBio
Harvard team cracks code for new drug resistant superbugs
National Institutes of Health-funded scientists have determined the genetic sequences of all 12 available strains of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria resistant to vancomycin -- an antibiotic of last resort -- and have demonstrated that resistance arose independently in each strain after it acquired a specific bit of genetic material called transposon Tn1546.
National Institutes of Health

Contact: Mary Leach
Mary_Leach@meei.harvard.edu
617-573-4170
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

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