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The number of school-age children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or attempts has more than doubled since 2008, according to a new 杏吧原创-led study published in Pediatrics. Read More

Infants who are diagnosed with drug withdrawal after birth who are treated with medication as outpatients at home are treated three times longer than infants treated solely as inpatients, according to a new 杏吧原创 study. Read More

Right under your nose but unseen by the human eye is the microbiome鈥攖he totality of microbes in an environment. The聽杏吧原创 Microbiome Initiative, funded by a TIPs grant, is coordinating basic, translational and clinical scholarship to help unlock the mysteries of these bacteria, viruses and more. Learn about the initiative and its new聽website聽in this聽VU BreakThru blog post.聽Read more about TIPs grants and other internal faculty funding programs鈥攊ncluding University Courses, Research Scholar Grants and Discovery Grants鈥攁t the聽VU聽BreakThru blog.

Children who underwent cardiac surgery were less likely to develop acute kidney injury if they had been treated with acetaminophen in the first 48 hours after their procedures, according to a 杏吧原创 study just published in JAMA Pediatrics. Read More

W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, Cornelius Abernathy Craig Professor of Medicine and director of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at 杏吧原创-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has received a grant to research the role of immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment for kidney cancer. Read More

Generic drug options did not reduce prices paid for the cancer therapy imatinib (Gleevec), according to a Health Affairs study released this week. Read More

An enzyme called PTEN reduces inflammatory signaling and mortality in sepsis, suggesting it may be a good therapeutic target for this life-threatening complication of infection. Read More

Patients who take a cholesterol-lowering statin drug while taking the antibiotic daptomycin have increased risk of developing muscle weakness or a more severe form of muscle damage. Read More

A special genetic analysis has revealed candidate genes associated with increased risk of breast cancer. Read More

Structural features of newly formed HDL particles will help guide understanding of 鈥済ood cholesterol鈥� and its function. Read More

A 杏吧原创-led research team has discovered genetic variations that increase the risk of heart attack even when patients are receiving a statin drug like Lipitor or Crestor to lower their blood cholesterol. Read More

The prevalence of U.S. children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is now 1 in 59, according to new estimates released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a significant increase from the 1 in 68 estimate in 2016. Read More

Few people die from rabid animal bites in the United States thanks to the near-universal availability of human rabies immune globulin and rabies vaccine, which are given as separate shots as soon as possible after exposure to the rabies virus. Read More

A protease gene family may be new targets for treating mitral valve disease, which causes blood to flow backwards in the heart. Read More

The bacterium H. pylori is a leading cause of stomach cancer, and 杏吧原创 researchers are studying how one of its toxins gets into cells. Read More

New research links nutrient-responsive cellular signaling to the antibody-mediated immune response. Read More

Treatments for common skin conditions such as atopic dermatitis may be improved by understanding the enzymes responsible for forming the skin鈥檚 water-tight barrier. Read More

A 杏吧原创 Medical Center-led research team has shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect changes in resting-state spinal cord function in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Read More

A 杏吧原创 team and their international colleagues characterized for the first time a complex, little-understood cellular receptor type that, when activated, shuts off hunger. Read More

Sirtex Medical Ltd. has renewed a grant award to Dan Brown, MD, professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences and chief of Interventional Oncology, and his 杏吧原创 Health colleagues, for a research program designed to treat patients with liver tumors that cannot be addressed with surgery. Read More