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Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

Mount Sinai and UC San Diego Health announce framework to promote innovation in EMS

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine

As part of nationwide efforts to improve emergency medical care, researchers at the Mount Sinai Health System, in collaboration with UC San Diego Health, have released a national framework report titled 'Promoting Innovations in Emergency Medical Services' that identifies regulatory, financial, and technological obstacles to improving local and state EMS systems.

Funder: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, US Department of Homeland Security's Office of Health Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

New open-source bioinformatics tool identifies factors responsible for diseases

Boston University School of Medicine

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have developed and tested a new computational tool, Candidate Driver Analysis (CaDrA), which will search for combinations of factors that are likely to cause a specific disease. CaDrA recognizes that diseases are complex and likely induced by multiple causes. It is now available free to members of the research community.

Journal: Frontiers in Genetics
Funder: National Institutes of Health, Boston University School of Medicine, and others

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

Takeda collaboration to boost fight against Alzheimer's and other neurodegeneration

University of Dundee

The University of Dundee Drug Discovery Unit, Scotland, has announced a partnership with Takeda, Japan's largest pharmaceutical company, to develop possible new therapeutic treatments for tau pathology, an underlying feature in several forms of neurodegeneration, including Alzheimer's disease.

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

NASA set to demonstrate X-ray communications in space

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring.

Funder: NASA

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

Once-a-day capsule a new way to reduce debilitating symptoms

University of Technology Sydney

In a world first, Mayne Pharma International Pty Ltd announced the listing of Kapanol® low dose sustained-release morphine on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) for the symptomatic reduction of chronic breathlessness.

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

Citizen scientists invited to join quest for new worlds

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search for cold worlds near the Sun. With its newly revamped online interface and equipped with twice as much data as before, the project offers new opportunities to discover planets lurking yet unseen in the outer reaches of the solar system (e.g., Planet 9, Planet X) as well as cold nearby 'failed stars' (a.k.a. brown dwarfs).

Funder: NASA, American Museum of Natural History, Arizona State University, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Space Telescope Science Institute, University of California San Diego, Bucknell University, and others

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

Spending bill recognizes crucial global health goals

Infectious Diseases Society of America

The 2019 spending bill passed by the House and Senate Thursday that the President has announced he will sign, reflects a meaningful commitment to moving our country forward and to continued US leadership of the fight against the world's most devastating infectious disease killers. The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association advocated strongly for, and applaud, these decisive steps.

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

IAU names landing site of Chinese Chang'e-4 probe on far side of the moon

International Astronomical Union

Five sites on the far side of the Moon now have official names, including Chang'e-4's landing site. The names have significance in Chinese culture, reflecting the background of the probe's team.

Public Release: 19-Feb-2019

Shimmer launches Verisense™ wearable sensor platform for clinical trials

Rana Healthcare Solutions LLC

Shimmer, a global leader in wearable technology for research applications, today launched Verisense™, its next-generation wearable sensor platform designed from the ground up to meet the needs of clinical trial sponsors, sites and participants. Verisense is a comprehensive and flexible solution for reliably capturing accurate and complete biometric data. Starting in March, Shimmer customers are planning to use Verisense in trials for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, cancer-related fatigue, and stroke.

Public Release: 18-Feb-2019

Computer game for training dementia carers will be accessible online for free

Kaunas University of Technology

Group of Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, information technology researchers together with colleagues from other countries have developed a computer game for dementia carers. The players experience various everyday situations, face and deal with the challenges and in such a way build knowledge and skills on how to care for dementia patients. The game will be freely available online; it is the first mover aimed at dementia carers, not just the patients.

Funder: European Union

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