A versatile protective agent: flagellin
Flagellin can protect against all those things (in mice, of course)? What about bullets or heartbreak? What is flagellin?
Detecting Lung Cancer at a Higher Rate
The findings from a recent study show the risk of dying from lung cancer could be reduced by 20 percent by use of a low-dose helical computed tomography (CT) scan. With 160,000 deaths each year related to cigarette smoking, this type of screening could save up to 32,000 lives each year.
Scientists still searching for HIV’s lethal ways
It’s a knotty, complex question, and one that’s nearly 30 years old: how does HIV cause AIDS? That is, how does the virus slowly destroy the immune system? Emory immunologist and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Guido Silvestri, MD, and his colleagues are using a method called comparative AIDS research to try and answer that […]
Internationally Recognized Violinist Raises Money for Alzheimer’s Research
On November 19, world famous virtuoso Robert McDuffie will dedicate the Atlanta premiere performance of Philip Glass’ “The American Four Seasons†to the Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) and to his late father-in-law, Mack Taylor, who was a talented musician and business leader in the Atlanta community. The event, “A Family Affair†Dinner and […]
When veterans face emotional trauma
Emory researcher Barbara Rothbaum, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Emory School of Medicine, and director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program, has been treating military personnel with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for more than a decade, helping them to learn how to deal with troubling memories. Through therapy, the service members are […]
Secrets of the elite: Effective immune control of HIV
A small minority of individuals infected with HIV — about one in 300 –Â are naturally able to suppress viral replication with their immune systems, and can keep HIV levels extremely low for years. Doctors have named these individuals “elite controllers.” “These individuals have naturally achieved the outcome sought by HIV vaccine researchers worldwide. Â Studying them […]
Cholera in the time of disaster
Alex Larsen couldn’t make it to the 2010 International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) annual meeting. That’s because Larsen, Haiti’s minister of health, was attending to an outbreak of cholera in this impoverished republic. Larsen was scheduled to speak on NPHIs’ role in disaster preparedness and response. Instead, Scott Dowell, director of the […]
Linking science and action through national public health institutes
As public health leaders from nearly 50 countries gathered this week at the Emory Conference Center, they had a common goal: strengthening individual public health institutes and establishing partnerships to significantly reduce death and disease globally. The International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) held its fifth annual meeting – and the first in […]