10/21/11 | Graduate School of Nursing Dean Ada Sue Hinshaw deemed "Legend" by national academy
Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and professor, Graduate School of Nursing, USU, has been selected as a "Living Legend" by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). Dr. Hinshaw was formally inducted on October 15, 2011 at the AAN's 38th Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, DC.
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10/19/11 | Scientists Report Major Advance in Human Antibody Therapy against the Deadly Hendra Virus
A team of U.S. Federal and university scientists, including Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences professor Dr. Christopher Broder, now reports a breakthrough in the development of an effective therapy against the deadly Hendra virus. The results of their study, "A Neutralizing Human Monoclonal Antibody Protects African Green Monkeys from Hendra Virus Challenge," will appear in Science Translational Medicine online.
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09/23/11 | Traumatic brain injury patients imaged swifter and safer with new technology
The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), in partnership with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, recently placed into testing a whole-body simultaneous positron emission topography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. The priority focus of the Biograph mMR will be to improve the diagnosis and treatment of military service members and civilians suffering primarily from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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09/12/11 | Military Medicine Symposium to Address Full Spectrum of Care Following Traumatic Brain Injury
New Jersey Congressman and former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Jon Runyan and Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli will deliver keynote addresses at the fourth USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium, "The TBI Spectrum," Sept. 22, 2011.
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08/23/11 | Study links low DHA levels to suicide risk among U.S. military personnel
A new study suggests that low levels of the highly unsaturated omega-3 essential fatty acids, in particular DHA, may be associated with increased risk of suicide. Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) drew this finding following analysis of a large random sampling of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active-duty between 2002 and 2008. The results of this retrospective study appear in the August 23 online version of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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08/15/11 | Perl to discuss first-ever study of combat-related traumatic brain injuries
Combat-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) will be the focus of two lectures given by Daniel Perl, M.D., professor of Pathology and Director, Neuropathology Core, Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), at the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls on Monday, August 15.
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07/27/11 | NHGRI researchers announce finding gene mutation that causes Proteus Syndrome
After a 15 year search, scientists at the NIH, with support from Dr. Thomas Darling, associate professor, Department of Dermatology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, have found the gene mutation that causes Proteus syndrome, a rare disorder that causes tissue and bone to grow out of proportion to the body. The study describing the AKT1 gene mutation was published in the online edition of The New England Journal of Medicine.
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07/05/11 | NCDMPH Releases Conference Report on Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Education
The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health has released the Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Curriculum Development Conference Report, a summary of the proceedings, outcomes and next steps that were intended as the first step toward establishing a role-specific, competency-based, pediatric disaster preparedness eaducation and training program.
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06/29/11 | USU professor receives top surgical society honors
USU professor of Surgery Air Force Col. (Ret.) Mark W. Bowyer, MD, FACS, received the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Meritorious Service Award from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma at the 89th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
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06/29/11 | Tuberous sclerosis in adult women
Women with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) are often misdiagnosed because the condition, commonly recognized in early childhood when it presents with seizures, manifests differently later in life, typically with renal angiomyolipomas - a benign tumor of the kidney - and pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) - a rare lung disease that affects almost exclusively women. This diagnostic delay places women with TSC at increased risk for morbidity and mortality. TSC is a genetic disease associated with tumor development in the brain, retina, kidney, skin, heart, and lung.
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06/02/11 | USU Nurse Participates in Memorial Day Storytelling Event
Army Capt. Margo Jenkins knows the meaning of Memorial Day. The nine-year Army vet has served her country as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and recently completed her Masters degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), to earn distinction as a Psychiatric Mental Health Practitioner. And she did it with honors, accepting the Federal Nursing Service Chiefs Award and the USU Board of Regents Award for academic excellence during USUs commencement exercises last weekend. She also is the first Army Nurse Corps Officer to be selected to complete her doctoral program straight from her Masters work.
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05/27/11 | Vietnam: In Their Own Words -- Story Telling at the Vietnam Women's Memorial Statue
Army Capt. Margo Jenkins knows the meaning of Memorial Day. The nine-year Army vet has served her country as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and recently completed her Masters degree at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), to earn distinction as a Psychiatric Mental Health Practitioner. And she did it with honors, accepting the Federal Nursing Service Chiefs Award and the USU Board of Regents Award for academic excellence during USUs commencement exercises last weekend. She also is the first Army Nurse Corps Officer to be selected to complete her doctoral program straight from her Masters work.
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05/16/11 | New Research shows promise for TBI
In a collaborative program with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) under the leadership of Dr. Daniel Perl, professor of Pathology, USU, Dr. Stanley Prusiner and the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND) at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), has made an encouraging start to identify drugs to treat troops suffering from the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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04/04/11 | USU, NIH study maps hotspots of genetic rearrangement
Researchers at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are concentrating focus on mouse chromosomes to map hotspots of genetic recombination - sites where DNA breaks and reforms to shuffle genes. Their findings have the potential to improve the detection of genes linked to disease and to help understand the root causes of genetic abnormalities. The research, published online April 3 in Nature, moves scientists one step closer to understanding how mammals evolve and respond to their environments.
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02/01/11 | New fact sheets on the impact of combat injury on intimacy
The impact of combat injury on intimacy is an important and often neglected aspect of healthcare communication. Four new fact sheets addressing the impact of the injuries of war,both physical and psychological, on intimacy have just been released for healthcare providers and affected military families. They are: Intimacy and Health: The Impact of PTSD and Other Invisible Injuries on Returning Service Members for providers, Reintegration and Intimacy: The Impact of PTSD and Other Visible Injuries for families; Physical Injury and Intimacy: Helping Wounded Warriors and their Loved Ones Manage Relationship Challenges and Changes for providers, Physical Injury and Intimacy: Managing Relationship Challenges and Changes for families.
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01/10/11 | Humanitarian aid may bring unique disease risks and concerns
Humanitarian and medical aid workers traveling to remote or resource-limited areas of the world need to take appropriate precautions and risk-mitigation efforts to prevent the transmission of disease while abroad. Guidance about pre-travel precautions and preventive measures are highlighted in the December 1, 2010 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, written by clinicians and researchers at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and their partners from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Naval Medical Research Center and others.
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01/03/11 | Uptick in hospital-based C difficile infections in children raising concerns
Hospitalized children in the United States are becoming infected with the bacteria Clostridium difficile more frequently and children who acquire the infection are more likely to die or require surgery, according to researchers from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The findings, which will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, are available online.
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