CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Jan. 13 -- The University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health issued the following news: * * * 8 Gillings School faculty honored for excellence in research Eight faculty members from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health have been honored with the third annual Gillings Research Excellence Awards. Awardees receive $500 to support their research, scholarship and professional development. The purpose of the chair-nominated Gillings Re more PR

PEPPER PIKE, Ohio, Jan. 13 -- The North American Menopause Society, an organization that promotes the health and quality of life of all women during midlife and beyond through an understanding of menopause and healthy aging, issued the following news release: * * * Diabetes Risk Not Associated With Timing or Type of Menopause Despite increases in fat and insulin resistance during the menopause transition, a new study shows no independent or clinically significant relationship between early or more PR

BOCA RATON, Florida, Jan. 13 -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * Study Reveals Social, Family and Health Factors Behind Teen Bullying Study Snapshot: Bullying remains a serious public health concern in the United States, with lasting consequences for adolescents' mental, physical and social well-being. Researchers from FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine examined bullying risk among U.S. adolescents a more PR

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 -- The American College of Cardiology posted the following news release: * * * JACC Issues Inaugural Report on State of U.S. Cardiovascular Health Report highlights trends, disparities and opportunities to improve U.S heart health * Through its commitment to a data-driven approach to improving cardiovascular health, JACC, the flagship journal of the American College of Cardiology, today published the first JACC Cardiovascular Statistics report. This comprehensive analysi more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Jan. 13 -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Police-Related Stress Is Associated With Health Risk for Black Women By Matt Shipman A new study finds that worrying about police brutality and harassment is associated with physical markers of cardiovascular health risk in Black women in the United States. The study found the association was most pronounced for Black women concerned about potential interactions between their children more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Jan. 12 -- Texas A&M University posted the following news: * * * One genetic map could rewrite how we understand mental health * An international team of researchers has shed light on why mental health conditions often occur together. Researchers analyzed data from more than 6 million people to explore the connections among over a dozen psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, ADHD, PTSD and substance use disorders. Th more PR

HONG KONG, Jan. 12 -- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University issued the following news release: * * * PolyU develops new human-safe magnetorheological fibres, leading innovations in smart wearable textiles * A research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in smart materials, successfully developing soft magnetorheological textiles that can flexibly deform and modulate their mechanical properties under a human-safe magnetic field. Driven more PR

BUFFALO, New York, Jan. 12 [Category: BizHospital] -- The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center posted the following news release: * * * Roswell Park and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Analysis Confirms Benefit of Nivolumab Combo in Teens With Advanced Hodgkin Lymphoma * ATLANTA, Ga., and BUFFALO, N.Y. -Teens with advanced-stage Hodgkin lymphoma survive longer without their disease getting worse when they receive the immunotherapy nivolumab (Opdivo) instead of the immunotherapy brentuxi more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 12 [Category: BizHospital] -- Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit academic healthcare organization, posted the following news: * * * Stem Cell Expert Q&A: Innovative Pathways in Biomedical Research * New scientific methods could one day render animal studies-the standard in research laboratories for more than 100 years-obsolete. Clive Svendsen, PhD, executive director of the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai, is helping to pioneer New Appr more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, Jan. 12 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Study: Expedited breakthrough drug approvals linked to higher safety risks * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -A new study co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert in operations management finds that drugs approved under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "Breakthrough Therapy Designation" -a program designed to expedite promising drug treatments to patients -are asso more PR

SANTA CRUZ, California, Jan. 12 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Tiny RNA molecules in sperm, big impact on baby health * Key takeaways * The study pinpoints a specific sperm-enriched RNA that is actively packaged during sperm maturation and delivered to the embryo at fertilization, where it helps regulate early gene activity critical for cell division and genome organization. * Disrupting this RNA immediately after fertilization caused more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Jan. 13 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * One in four older Americans with dementia prescribed risky brain-altering drugs despite safety warnings Sedatives and antipsychotics linked to falls, confusion, and hospitalization remain widely used in patients most vulnerable to their harms * Despite years of clinical guidelines warning against the practice, one in four Medicare beneficiaries with dementia is prescribed brain-altering med more PR