Study links sugary drinks in childhood to higher hypertension risk later in life
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The association between parents’ body mass index (BMI) and their children's childhood BMI may be primarily due to genetic inheritance rather than to any direct biological effect of parental weight during pregnancy, according to a new study published June 23rd in the open access journal PLOS Medicine by Tom Bond of the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues from the University of Queensland, Australia and more.
A night without sleep produced increased markers of connections between brain cells, showing that sleep in humans may be important for restoring cellular balance in the brain, according to a study published June 23rd in the open access journal PLOS Biology by David Elmenhorst from the Forschungszentrum Jülich Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and colleagues.
Han-Chow Koh, PhD, and Frank A.J.L. Scheer, PhD, of the Medical Chronobiology Program at the Division of Sleep and Circadian Medicine in the Mass General Brigham Department of Medicine, are the co-lead and senior author, respectively, of a paper published in Metabolism, “Constant-routine protocol reveals an endogenous circadian rhythm in diet-induced thermogenesis with a peak in the biological morning.”
New Rutgers research suggests much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by recreating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible improvements.
A study in the Annals of Operations Research explains how researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute and Rutgers Business School built a working computer simulation of the institute’s blood cancer clinic and used it to identify and fix bottlenecks that kept patients waiting up to three hours between check-in and treatment. The result: Laboratory blood work turnaround was cut from roughly 90 minutes to less than 30 and helped the clinic nearly double the number of infusion patients it treats each day, from about 50 to about 80.
Compelled by disparities in breast cancer outcomes, the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and Novartis have joined forces in a pioneering collaboration to support medically underserved communities in Los Angeles County with the goal of eliminating barriers to screening and access. While Black women in the U.S. have higher screening rates for breast cancer than white women, the mortality rate for Black women with breast cancer is about 40% higher than white women —a disparity that is not yet fully understood but has been linked to a lack of access to timely, high-quality care and resources. Native American and Hispanic women also face significant disparities in breast cancer screening, often resulting in later-stage diagnoses compared to white women. The Keck School of Medicine of USC and Novartis bring complementary strengths to this collaboration, combining USC’s regional expertise in breast cancer health disparities and population sciences with Novartis’s experience and capabilities in advancing breast cancer care through collaboration and a passion for transforming patient care. The collaboration with Novartis will focus on the early detection of breast cancer, specifically reaching those in communities where access to breast cancer screening and quality care has been limited.USC’s researchers will examine the everyday obstacles that stand between women and timely care, including insurance coverage, language barriers, and access to reliable transportation.