Sentences with phrase «from leading medical schools»

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«There are more cases of imported yellow fever [from travelers] in the past two years than in the previous 20 years,» said Duane Gubler, a leading researcher of mosquito - borne diseases at Duke - NUS Medical School.

Researchers from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found marriage led to higher survival rates.

Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as possible.

Their faculty includes the leading specialists from Stony Brook University, Brookhaven National Lab, MIT, and Harvard Medical School.

The facility is also supposed to lead to a relocation of the University of Ghana Medical School from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to Legon, reducing the drudgery medical students and lecturers go through each day to attend leMedical School from the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital to Legon, reducing the drudgery medical students and lecturers go through each day to attend lemedical students and lecturers go through each day to attend lectures.

In collaboration with a team from Harvard - Medical School, researchers led by Pedro Simas (iMM) and Kenneth Kaye (Harvard) studied a protein of the Kaposi virus vital for maintaining infection.

Professor Jose Valderas, one of the lead researchers from the University of Exeter Medical School, said: «When you're trying to diagnose cancer, other illnesses can be a distraction either because they also require attention or because they can mask what would otherwise be flagged as a possible sign of cancer.

Researchers at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL), together with physicians from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (MEEI), have developed a new, low - power signal - processing chip that could lead to a cochlear implant that requires no external hardware.

The generally accepted medical maxim that elevated HDL cholesterol (HDL - C) is «good» has been overturned by a multi-center, international study, led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lead researcher Prof Anne - Marie Minihane, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «The long chain omega - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid EPA is beneficial for cardiovascular and cognitive health, as well as for foetal development in pregnancy.

Dr Setor Kunutsor, Research Fellow from the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the Bristol Medical School: (THS) and lead researcher, said: «For several decades, the two - stage procedure has been presumed to be more effective than the one - stage.

Among dozens of mouse studies, he presented work led by Moderna Co-Founder Kenneth Chien, then at Harvard Medical School in Boston, showing that mice recovering from induced heart attacks survived longer and had stronger hearts when injected with mRNA encoding a protein that drives blood vessel formation — vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).

A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at high risk of developing depression later in life.

«There has been a lot of debate about how expensive the Medicaid expansion would be and until now, it hadn't been clear which Americans had the potential to benefit from the added healthcare coverage in states that participate,» says lead author Tammy Chang, M.D., MPH, MS, an assistant professor in the department of family medicine at the U-M Medical School and an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.

The research, published in Behavioral Brain Research, was led by Prof. Chagi Pick of TAU's Sagol School of Neuroscience and Sackler Faculty of Medicine and conducted by a team of researchers from both TAU and TAU - affiliated Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.

A team led by David Melzer, an epidemiologist and physician at the Peninsula Medical School, in Exeter, U.K. examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative sample of the general population.

The research, which was conducted between 2013 - 2016 was led by Professor Frances Griffiths from the Warwick Medical School and Jackie Sturt, Professor of Behavioural Medicine in Nursing at King's College London.

The lead researcher Prof Wolke, who is based at the University of Warwick's Department of Psychology and at Warwick Medical School, concludes: «Our findings lead us to recommend that all preterm children born before 34 weeks of gestation may benefit from regular follow - up after discharge from hospital.

«It was a big challenge to extract the DNA sequences from the fossil mammoths and mastodons and then to line these up with DNA from the modern elephants,» says Nadin Rohland, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard Medical School in Boston and the study's lead author.

These figures shrivel next to the staggering number of views of the videos showing Frank Gathers, who died of cardiac arrest while an entire jam - packed basketball stadium crowd watched in disbelief, without anybody providing any form of appropriate CPR,» comments lead investigator Dana Viskin, MD, from the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

«We find a major surprise: Europeans are a mixture of three ancient populations, not two,» says David Reich from Harvard Medical School, one of the lead investigators of the new study.

The lead author of the paper, Antonio Teixeira from the McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said «The literature reveals that further studies addressing the mechanisms underlying Zika - induced neuronal damage are warranted.

Collaboratively led by NYU School of Medicine structural biologist Dr. Moosa Mohammadi, the investigation included researchers from UTSW, the Rockefeller University - based New York Structural Biology Center, and Wenzhou Medical University.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

Specially designed to improve on the surgical treatment of OME, CLiKX is pioneered by a team led by Associate Professor Tan Kok Kiong from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, together with Dr Lynne Lim, an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Otolaryngology at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Senior Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Consultant at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre.

Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and from San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Italy led by Dr. Paolo Fiorina investigated the issue by examining intestinal tissues from diabetic patients and healthy individuals.

Ancient DNA from foragers and farmers in eastern, central and western Europe indicates that they increasingly mated with each other from around 8,000 to nearly 4,000 years ago, a team led by geneticist Mark Lipson of Harvard Medical School in Boston reports online November 8 in Nature.

The research was led by the University of Tasmania's Menzies Institute for Medical Research with input from the School of Medicine.

Conducting the first large - scale, genome - wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world's first farmers.

A new study, led by Assistant Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran and Associate Professor Gavin Smith from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke - NUS), has presented the largest comparative analysis of human influenza B viruses undertaken to date.

A team of researchers from three departments at New Jersey Medical School, led by Michael Mathews and Hartmut Hanauske - Abel, previously showed that Ciclopirox, commonly used by dermatologists and gynecologists to treat fungal infections, inhibits the expression of HIV genes in culture.

In just two years, the powerful opioid fentanyl went from nonexistent to detected in more than 1 in 7 stamp bags analyzed by the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner, according to an analysis led by the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

To examine the relationship between dietary intake of major sources of protein and kidney function, a team led by Woon - Puay Koh, MBBS (Hons), PhD (Duke - NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore) analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore.

Research led by scientists from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke - NUS) has linked the abnormal behaviour of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) to the underlying cause of schizophrenia.

Prof Aedin Cassidy, from the Department of Nutrition at UEA's Norwich Medical School, led the study.

The problem is that this stress is chronic and leads to impairment of cognitive functioning,» explains research student Yifat Segev, who undertook the study together with Dr. Iliana Barrera and additional colleagues from Prof. Rosenblum's laboratory and researchers from the medical school in Bergen, Norway.

«While early diagnosis along with optimal medical therapy offers patients with autoimmune hepatitis a good prognosis, the disease can be very severe in some cases,» explains lead author Dr. Arndt Vogel from Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Gmedical therapy offers patients with autoimmune hepatitis a good prognosis, the disease can be very severe in some cases,» explains lead author Dr. Arndt Vogel from Hannover Medical School in Hannover, GMedical School in Hannover, Germany.

An international team of scientists from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, the University of Kiel in Germany, and the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) collaborated on the study, which could lead to new approaches for preventing the disease.

«As it is known that atherosclerosis is linked to inflammation, our next step was to look for an association of high - risk plaques with other systemic inflammatory conditions such as NAFLD,» said the study's lead author, Stefan B. Puchner, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

That increased access, though, has not led to a clear decrease in emergency room visits, hospital stays, inpatient costs, or mortality, according to the research by Briesacher and her team, which included colleagues from Harvard Medical School.

A team led by geneticist Anne Ferguson - Smith of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and diabetes researcher Mary - Elizabeth Patti of Harvard Medical School has now explored this idea by studying the DNA of two generations of mice descended from an undernourished mother.

Lead author Dr Andrew Thompson, from Warwick Medical School, said: «The presence of anxiety and depressive symptoms as confounding factors in those with sleep disturbance could potentially explain the findings.

Led by Professor Eric Finkelstein and Assistant Professor Chetna Malhotra from the LCPC, a centre of Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke - NUS), the study surveyed 542 adults aged 50 years and older and 332 advanced cancer patients in Singapore.

Lead researcher Prof Changjiang Dong, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «Bacterial multi-drug resistance, also known as antibiotic resistance, is a global health challenge.

Reporting in Science, a team led by researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School describes a new approach to prevent death in these essential kidney cells.

For the new study, investigators led by Helmneh Sineshaw, M.D., MPH, at the American Cancer Society with collaborators from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, focused on the impact of access to care on black - white survival disparity.

In one of the studies, a team led by immunologist Mark Pepys of the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, United Kingdom, treated mice with a protein from cobra venom that sops up a key complement protein.

An international collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), with major participation from Yokohama School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and UC San Diego, has identified the molecular mechanism behind lithium's effectiveness in treating bipolar disorder patients.

«There is no proof of transmission from wild animals and plants to humans,» said lead author Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at UTHealth Medical School and director of the UTHealth George and Cynthia W. Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Brain Related Illnesses.

«There was a major demographic transformation in India from a region where mixture was pervasive to one in which it is very rare because of a shift to endogamy,» says lead author Priya Moorjani, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School.