Ana Rodríguez, Author at Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network

Diet at conception could have long-lasting effects

June 15, 2015 Cancer, diet, epigenetics, Genetics, Nutrition, preconception, Prenatal

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. What a mother eats around the time of conception can have a lifelong effect on how certain of her child’s genes

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Less may be more in treating patients with bacteria in the urine

June 15, 2015 algorithm, antibiotic, catheter, Infectious diseases

By Dipali Pathak When doctors are confronted by the dilemma of patient who has bacteria in the urine but no symptoms to indicate that, they

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Electronic algorithms help "find" patients lost in the system

June 15, 2015 algorithm, imaging, Patient safety, Process Improvement, public health

By Julia Parsons In an era when increasing pressures to increase clinical productivity can create data overload and when time is limited, sometimes the critical issue

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Autophagy: Protector against lung inflammation and fibrosis

June 15, 2015 autophagy, Genetics, lungs, pulmonary fibrosis, sepsis

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. When bacteria or viruses invade the body, a process called autophagy, or “self-eating,” springs into action to take the invaders to

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Study links tumor recurrence to growth factor commonly used in high-risk neuroblastoma treatment

June 15, 2015 Cancer, growth factor

By Dana Benson A human growth factor that expands white blood cells in response to infection could be driving growth of neuroblastoma cancer stem cells

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Image of the Month: Tunneling NanoTubes and macrophage communication.

June 15, 2015

Macrophages, gatekeepers of tissue integrity, are able to communicate at a distance through cellular connections coined Tunneling NanoTubes, membrane channels that contain actin and microtubules

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Depolarizing wave may trigger sudden death in epilepsy

May 15, 2015

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. They call them “brain tsunamis,” but the slow, depolarizing electrical waves that can silence the activity of brain cells for as

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Interaction of estrogen receptor and coactivators seen for first time

May 15, 2015

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. For more than 50 years, Dr. Bert O’Malley, chair of Baylor College of Medicine’s department of molecular and cellular biology,

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Frame shift defines molecular diagnosis in rare disease

May 15, 2015

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. In 1969, Dr. Meinhard Robinow and colleagues identified what they called a “dwarfing” syndrome – a genetically dominant trait

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Improve patient safety by reducing hazards of health information technology

May 15, 2015

Improve patient safety by reducing hazards of health information technology By Julia Parsons As the use of electronic health records expands, new opportunities and challenges