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Building Sustainable Surgical Systems, November 9-11

Health & Behavior

Today, around the world, more than two billion world citizens do not have access to emergency and essential surgical care. The results are devastating, leading to more than 500,000 maternal deaths and more than 5 million fatalities associated with everyday injuries such as road traffic accidents and burns. This lack of surgical care is arguably a top killer around the world but mostly ignored by organizations that can affect positive change.

Building Sustainable Surgical Systems, November 9-11

NIH-Funded Study Shows Increased Prostate Cancer Risk from Vitamin E Supplements

Health & Behavior

Men who took 400 international units (I.U.) of vitamin E daily had more prostate cancers compared to men who took a placebo, according to an updated review of data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention (SELECT) Trial. The results of this update will appear October 12, 2011, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

NIH-Funded Study Shows Increased Prostate Cancer Risk from Vitamin E Supplements

Camera Lucida Music Series Returns with Support from Local Patron Sam Ersan

Humanities

San Diego’s original chamber music series Camera Lucida returns for its fourth season, offering concerts ranging from lesser-known masterpieces to familiar landmarks of the chamber music repertoire.

Camera Lucida Music Series Returns with Support from Local Patron Sam Ersan

Suspects in the quenching of star formation exonerated

Science & Environment

Supermassive black holes millions to billions times the mass of our Sun lie at the heart of most, maybe all large galaxies. Some of these power brilliantly luminous, rapidly growing objects called active galactic nuclei that gather and condense enormous quantities of dust, gas and stars.

Suspects in the quenching of star formation exonerated

New ‘Genome Mining’ Technique Streamlines Discovery from Nature

Science & Environment

A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or "mining," information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science's understanding of basic functions such as how cells communicate with one another.

New ‘Genome Mining’ Technique Streamlines Discovery from Nature

Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins

Science & Environment

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, the genus Homo.