WILMINGTON, Del. (November 18, 2024) — Pediatric patients with orthopedic injuries like sprains or fractures often face frustrating, time-consuming and costly transfers from one emergency department to another. A recent study by Alfred Atanda, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, suggests that more than a third of these transfers could be avoided with the use of telemedicine.

A new study that investigates patient perceptions and the perceived benefits and harms associated with the use of behavioral flags has been published in a recent issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM).

As laws, policies, and regulations around psychedelics change and use increases, CU researchers are exploring ‘real world use’ and its outcomes.

Ryan Teague, Ph.D., professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Saint Louis University’s School of Medicine, and his team are now trying to uncover the exact mechanism underlying the metabolic dysfunctions associated with obesity that directly impact T-cell function.

Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an innovative testing strategy for mesothelioma that could potentially increase the detection rate of cancer DNA in the blood. 

Few things are as fascinating to look at a flock of starlings performing their aerial bird dance that is commonly seen, for example, above the West Pier in Brighton, UK, or in Rome when exiting the main train station, or a school of fish escaping a predator. In order to move together so nicely and to make efficient collective decisions, grouping animals (such as certain birds or fish) interact socially with each other, constantly adjusting their movements in ways that create the choreographies that we find so mesmerizing. These interactions are nothing but many small acts of attraction between distant individuals, repulsion from neighbors that are too close, and alignment among neighbors to coordinate the group’s direction of movement. By examining these motions in more detail, scientists from Science of Intelligence in Berlin and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona found that in fish schools, these interactions are regulated by the relative speeds between neighbors, and that individuals tend to align with the faster ones and ignore the slower ones. The findings were published in a PNAS paper. The bottom line is: swimming faster will get you followers. 

Gamers are often associated with unhealthy diets, messy living spaces and at times asocial lifestyles. While the gamer stereotypes first mentioned have some basis in reality, this is not necessarily for the reasons we thought. This, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen that examines the daily lives of gamers.