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People with dementia can enjoy productive and rewarding working lives in the digital era, contrary to the widespread stereotype that dementia is incompatible with the use of modern technology, according to new research from the University of Bath.

The Trump administration’s firing and furloughing of tens of thousands of federal workers and contractors have obviously caused economic hardship for Americans employed in national parks, research labs and dozens of government agencies.

Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that networks of misplaced immune cells drive an aggressive lung disease, potentially opening a path to new treatments for a condition that kills 80% of patients within a decade.

Glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and lethal brain cancers, has a five-year survival rate of only 6.9%, according to the National Brain Tumor Society. While the relationship between glioblastoma and cell death, also called necrosis, has been established, it had remained unclear whether it contributed to cancer growth or was merely a byproduct of the disease, said Daniel J Brat, MD, Ph.D., chair and the Magerstadt Professor of Pathology, who was senior author of the study.

They’re on our highways and our state roads. We see them at rest stops and service plazas. They move our economy. Literally. They’re tractor-trailer trucks, and they’re a vital part of the U.S. economy, hauling 70% of consumer and industrial goods and logging about 200 billion miles annually in the United States. Trucks, and the men and women who drive them, play an indispensable role in U.S. society. But truck driving is a high-stress, high-risk profession.

Professor Rupert Pearse, NIHR Professor of Intensive Care Medicine from Queen Mary’s William Harvey Research Institute, and an international group of colleagues examined the records of 22,000 patients undergoing inpatient surgery across 17 Latin American countries. Their study found that 1 in 7 people developed complications after surgery, with 1 in 7 of those dying without ever leaving the hospital.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is facing major changes, with five senior leaders stepping down Tuesday.

Every day, decisions that affect our lives depend on knowing how many people live where. For example, how many vaccines are needed in a community, where polling stations should be placed for elections or who might be in danger as a hurricane approaches. The answers rely on population data.

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1 in 8 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime. In addition, about 1 in 44 men will die from the disease, placing it second behind lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among American males.

UCLA Health researchers have helped to develop a new digital toolbox to create a “common language” for brain network studies, potentially accelerating new discoveries and treatments for neurological and psychiatric conditions.