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Newswise: UC San Diego: A Living Laboratory for EV Research
Release date: 29-Apr-2025 1:25 PM EDT
UC San Diego: A Living Laboratory for EV Research
University of California San Diego

The UC San Diego campus is home to the largest electric vehicle (EV) charging network of any academic institution in the western world with a growing number of EV chargers expected to exceed 1,200 within the next year.

Newswise: How baby pigs are shaping science
Release date: 29-Apr-2025 1:10 PM EDT
How baby pigs are shaping science
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A new study at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign asks a deceptively simple question: what is the best way to feed artificially reared pigs? The answer has implications not just for agriculture, but for biomedical research where pigs are used to study different aspects of human medicine.

Release date: 29-Apr-2025 1:00 PM EDT
Disparities in breast reconstruction persist after ACA, reports Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Despite steady increases in rates of immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after mastectomy, racial disparities in IBR have persisted in the years since implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), reports a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeryÂŽ, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Release date: 29-Apr-2025 12:30 PM EDT
CAD/CAM shows clinical benefits in jaw reconstruction, reports Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

For patients undergoing jaw reconstruction after surgery for head and neck cancer, computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques can improve some key clinical outcomes, reports a study in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive SurgeryÂŽ, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Release date: 29-Apr-2025 12:15 PM EDT
A potential end to ‘forever chemicals’
University of Miami

A new thermal treatment technique being developed by researchers at the University of Miami College of Engineering could help destroy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil, leading to the potential demise of “forever chemicals.”

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Released: 29-Apr-2025 12:00 PM EDT
Greasing the Wheels of the Energy Transition to Address Climate Change and Fossil Fuels Phase Out
University of South Australia

The global energy system may be faced with an inescapable trade-off between urgently addressing climate change versus avoiding an energy shortfall, according to a new energy scenario tool developed...

Release date: 29-Apr-2025 11:35 AM EDT
New Study Highlights Success of Financial Toxicity Tumor Board in Reducing Cancer Treatment Costs
Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Financial toxicity, the financial distress linked to cancer treatment, significantly impacts patient outcomes. To combat this, the Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute established a Financial Toxicity Tumor Board in 2019. The board is the first known institutional-level intervention of its kind, functioning like a traditional disease-focused multidisciplinary tumor board, but with a singular focus on financial distress.

Release date: 29-Apr-2025 11:25 AM EDT
Smartphone apps claim to assess hot weather threats. But are they accurate?
University of Georgia

A recent study from the University of Georgia found a smartphone application designed to assess heat-related risks frequently reported temperatures that were lower than those recorded through direct on-site measurements.

Newswise: AACR: New CAR T Cell Therapy Benefits Patients with Advanced Thyroid Cancers
28-Apr-2025 5:05 AM EDT
AACR: New CAR T Cell Therapy Benefits Patients with Advanced Thyroid Cancers
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

• Phase I trial demonstrates lasting responses and encouraging safety profile in two aggressive thyroid cancer subtypes, suggesting further progress for CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors • One patient experienced a complete response, and one patient had a partial response • This type of cancer has limited treatment options, and most patients have a poor prognosis of six months or less • AIC100 is a CAR T cell therapy that targets the ICAM-1 protein on tumor cells

Newswise: Differences in survival persist despite access to cancer clinical trials
Release date: 29-Apr-2025 11:10 AM EDT
Differences in survival persist despite access to cancer clinical trials
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Black and Hispanic children with high-risk neuroblastoma experience worse survival outcomes than their white peers, even when treated in frontline clinical trials, according to a study led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study is believed to be the first to comprehensively evaluate survival by race and ethnicity in a national cohort of children with high-risk neuroblastoma enrolled in clinical trials.


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