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25-Nov-2024

Project to document medical ableism experienced by people with disabilities

University of Kansas
Grant and Award Announcement

A new project at the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies (IHDPS) at the KU Life Span Institute aims to examine how these prejudices, known as medical ableism, affect people with disabilities. The project, conducted in partnership with researchers at Washington State University, is supported through a $1.2 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. It is the first large-scale study to investigate the prevalence of medical ableism and its effects on health outcomes.

Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

25-Nov-2024

New imaging study finds evidence that emotion regulation is not always the most effective strategy to mitigate suicidal ideation

Elsevier
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Depressed individuals who reflexively attempt to dampen their initial emotional responses to reminders of their negative memories have a low tolerance for distressing emotional stimuli in general and may respond to stress in their daily lives with greater upticks in suicidal thoughts. A new study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, examined the relationship of the engagement of emotion regulation to real-world responses to stress in order to better understand stress-related increases in suicide risk in depression.

Journal: Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

25-Nov-2024

Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing ranked No. 1 in Texas, across nation

University of Houston
Business Announcement

The University of Houston Andy & Barbara Gessner College of Nursing has been ranked No. 1 in the nation – in several categories - by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the world leader in nursing regulatory knowledge and advancement.

25-Nov-2024

Chromosomal chaos promotes therapy resistance in leukemia cells and opens up new treatment approaches

German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Chromosomal instability plays a crucial role in the progression of cancer: it shapes the properties of tumor cells and drives the development of therapy resistance. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM* and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) used state-of-the-art single-cell analysis methods to analyze the cellular heterogeneity of a specific form of acute myeloid leukemia. Their data show how genetic and non-genetic factors determine the functional heterogeneity of blood cancer cells and reveal new therapeutic targets.

Journal: Nature Genetics

25-Nov-2024

Visualizing radiological data bias with persistence images

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY - November 25, 2024 – A new editorial was published in Oncotarget's Volume 15 on November 12, 2024, entitled, “Visualizing radiological data bias through persistence images.”

Journal: Oncotarget

25-Nov-2024

Addressing barriers to advance care planning by adults with advanced cancers

Regenstrief Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In one of the first studies to test the utility of mindfulness to support advance care planning by adult cancer patients and their family caregivers, researchers from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University have found that mindfulness showed promise in improving quality of life and advance care planning outcomes in patients and their family caregivers coping with advanced cancer.

Journal: BMC Palliative Care
Funder: Indiana University Health, Walther Cancer Foundation, NIH/National Cancer Institute

25-Nov-2024

Researchers develop tools to examine neighborhood economic effects on spinal cord injury outcomes

Kessler Foundation
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This Kessler Foundation study emphasizes that neighborhood conditions significantly shape recovery opportunities for individuals with SCI and advocates for environmental interventions to reduce health inequities.

Journal: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Funder: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research