This is from Medical News Today newsletter about research published in the journal Neuron on new treatments for depression, going beyond SSRIs like Prozac and Zoloft. SSRIs prevent serotonin from being reabsorbed at the synapse by the neuron that secreted it after it does its job on the second neuron. Researchers at the Rockefeller University researched the effects of serotonin on cells in the dentate gyrus using a technique called translating ribosome affinity purification and found a receptor important for SSRIs long-term effects.
.http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/09/02/547892623/triple-threat-new-pneumonia-is-drug-resistant-deadly-and-contagious An npr report about drug-resistant pneumonia (klebsiella pneumoniae) found in a hospital in Hangzhou, China, as reported in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, which was resistant to the toughest antibiotics. Similar strains have been isolated from a case in Nevada, which was resistant to 26 antibiotics but the Chinese stains are deemed "hypervirulent.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/29/fat-nutrition-study/ From STAT News, a report of a study called PURE (Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology recording the eating habits of 135,000 adults in 18 countries. People with the highest intake of dietary fat (35%) were 23% less likely to die during the study period than those whose diet was 10% fat. Findings for carb consumption went in the opposite direction, those whose diet was 77% carb were more likely to die, while those with a 46% carb diet were the least likely. These results were published in the Lancet.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health/health-news/what-diabetic-mice-can-teach-us-about-keeping-teeth-healthy-20170901.html From the Inquirer a report on a study of dental health done at Penn Dental which looked at the oral microbiomes of people with diabetes. Typically, unmanaged diabetes causes changes to the bacteria in the mouth, leading eventually to inflammation of the gums and bone loss. They compared mouth bacteria from diabetic mice to bacteria from normal mice (former were worse) and then transferred mouth bacteria from diabetic mice to germ free mice and found that diabetic mouth bacteria caused 42% more bone loss than bacteria from normal mice.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/08/28/teacher-shortages-affecting-every-state-as-2017-18-school-year-begins/?utm_term=.f70ec832f89 Article from the WashPost describing US Dept of Education data of states where there are teacher shortages shows that there are teacher shortages in every state. Shortages have been in existence since data began to be collected 25 years ago but the problem has been exacerbated recently. The teacher education enrollment dropped 35% from 2009 to 2014. There is also an "acute shortage" in substitute teachers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/learning/announcing-a-new-monthly-feature-whats-going-on-in-this-graph.html?mcubz=1 This is an announcement of a new monthly feature in the NYT partnering with the American Statistical Association to produce WGOITGraph? They will offer a NYT graphic and pose questions to students. The graphs will remain online and teachers can use them in the classroom. Students will also be able to post comments.
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