March for Babies – March for Hope
As parents we hope all babies are born with a healthy start in life, after a full 37 – 40 weeks in the womb. Sadly, every year more than half a million babies are born prematurely in the United States. The rate of premature birth has risen by 30 percent since 1981 according to the March of Dimes.
Talent in the pipeline
The Pipeline program, an initiative led by Emory medical students to improve college readiness and promote health career interest among Atlanta high school students, held graduation ceremonies Wednesday night at Emory University School of Medicine. Leaders at South Atlanta School of Health and Medical Sciences credit Pipeline with sparking interest in health science careers and […]
EPA Administrator Jackson leads town hall on children’s health
People don’t think of the Environmental Protection Agency as a public health agency, says EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, but the EPA’s job is to protect the health of adults and children by safeguarding air and water and promoting clean communities. Jackson was the keynote speaker last week at a Children’s Health Town Hall at […]
Pilot simulation lab trains students, residents and staff at Emory University Hospital Midtown
A new pilot simulation laboratory at Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM) is providing medical students, residents, nursing students and staff with hands-on training to develop, perfect and maintain their skills.
Facing the Facts on Skin Care
The desire to look good and feel great about ourselves doesn’t disappear when we hit 50, 60 or even age 70. Caring for your skin is the most important way to impact the way you age.
Common Health Issue Addressed this Afternoon in a Live Web Chat
Emory Heart & Vascular Center cardiologist, Khusrow Niazi, MD, will answer questions about peripheral artery disease (PAD) in a live web chat today from 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Medicine Through the Ages
Sometimes treasures are hidden in plain sight. Take for example the enormous mosaic that graces Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building, conveying the history of medicine through the ages through 2.5 million small mosaic chips.
China-U.S. health care forum highlights similarities, challenges, solutions
The recent Westlake Forum III at Emory brought more than 250 leaders from Chinese and U.S. academic and government institutions together to examine and compare health care reform in the two countries, focusing on cost, quality, and access to care. “This was an incredible human partnership, bringing together two countries with very different governments and […]
Links between autism and epilepsy
Emory cell biologist Gary Bassell and his colleagues have published a paper in Journal of Neuroscience, showing that the protein missing in fragile X syndrome, FMRP, regulates expression of an ion channel linked to epilepsy. This could provide a partial explanation for the link between fragile X syndrome and epilepsy.
HIV vaccine design: always a moving target
HIV presents a challenge to vaccine design because it is always changing. If doctors vaccinate people against one variety of virus, will the antibodies they produce stop the virus that they later encounter? A recently published report on an experimental HIV vaccine’s limited effectiveness in human volunteers illustrates this ongoing puzzle in the HIV vaccine field.