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Health: Page 62
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URI Scientists Awarded $1.25 Million Grant to Provide Research Opportunities to Minority Students
KINGSTON, R.I. – January 15, 2020 – Two scientists at the University of Rhode Island have been awarded a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to encourage historically under-represented students to gain research experience in the biomedical sciences. The grant to Assistant Professor Bryan Dewsbury and Associate Professor Niall Howlett will […]
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University of Illinois College of Medicine Decreases Tuition
Newswise — The University of Illinois College of Medicine will reduce its tuition rates for all students, beginning with the 2020-21 academic year. The decision was approved today by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. Tuition rates at the College of Medicine will decrease by 2.1% for in-state students and 16% for out-of-state students. […]
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Why Black Doctors Like Me Are Leaving Faculty Positions in Academic Medical Centers
A decade ago, the Department of Health and Human Services made “to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups” one of its goals for Healthy People 2020. It didn’t come close. Black Americans continue to experience some of the worst health outcomes of any racial group. Black men have the […]
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Partnership Encourages Native American Students to Pursue Health Care Careers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. January 15, 2020 – The UC Davis School of Medicine has joined with two other universities and a regional health board in a collaborative effort to increase the number of Native Americans practicing health care. The joint project, called Reimagine Indians into Medicine, or RISE, stands to substantially increase the total number of […]
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Balance is Elusive. Seek Personal ‘Integration’ in 2020
“Work-life balance” is a widespread challenge, one originating in industrialization, the marketplace, and the reinforcement of public versus private spaces. Rather than work-life balance, for the new year attention must be paid to the ongoing integration between and among ourselves, our many identities, and the institutions and communities to which we belong.
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Gut Microbes May Improve Stroke Recovery
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 8, 2020) — New research shows that the microorganisms in our gut could help protect brain cells from damage caused by inflammation after a stroke. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience by researchers from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center […]
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Minority Health Workforce Diversity Scholarship Offered by Arkansas Minority Health Commission
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (News release) – The Arkansas Minority Health Commission (AMHC) is offering its Minority Health Workforce Diversity Scholarship during the Spring 2020 semester to minority race students who plan to pursue a career in the field of health. The goal of the scholarship offering is to help increase diversity in the state’s healthcare […]
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U of T Rolls Out On-Demand My SSP Counselling Service to All Students
The University of Toronto is encouraging students to take advantage of My SSP, a text and chat helpline service that offers free and confidential counselling on a 24-7 basis – and is now available to all students on all three campuses. Short for My Student Support Program, My SSP provides access to trained counsellors who […]
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The New Face of the American Doctor: How Marketers Can Adjust Appeals to Reach Them
When Dr. Joanna Haight was a medical student at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, she often sat in on educational lunch talks coordinated by the school. At one of them, a company discussed an anesthesiology drug that wasn’t used at her institution. The presentation was data-intensive and interactive, explaining how it differed from […]
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Google’s AI for Mammograms Doesn’t Account for Racial Differences
Google is working on an AI tool for mammograms that researchers hope will one day be more accurate than human radiologists. The tech giant paid for a study, the results of which were published last week (Jan.1) in Nature. Its findings, at first glance, look promising. But experts caution that AI has a long way […]
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Scientists Discover Six Genetic Links to Anxiety in Largest-Ever Study on Subject
In what they termed the “largest [genome-wide association study] of anxiety traits to date,” a team of scientists from two universities and two veterans healthcare offices have identified six genetic variants linked to the development of anxiety disorders. To find these genetic markers, researchers examined genetic and health data derived from 200,000 veterans of the […]
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Barriers Steer Minority Med Students Away From Dermatology
Minority medical students perceived a number of factors as deterring them from pursuing careers in dermatology, according to survey results. One was the current lack of diversity in dermatology, according to Yssra Soliman, BA, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and colleagues in JAMA Dermatology. They noted that African-Americans and Hispanics […]
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