Tag: medicine
Despite its disastrous effects, COVID-19 offers some gifts to medicine – an immunology expert explains what it can teach us about autoimmune disease
For all the misery that the pandemic has wrought, it has also opened up a vast storehouse of knowledge about medical issues beyond COVID-19. While it’s still too early to draw conclusions, evidence is emerging of links between autoimmune disorders and the virus that causes COVID-19. As a bioinformatics researcher with medical training and expertise
What it is, how to treat it and why medicine ignored it for so long – podcast
Parents and doctors have known about childhood ADHD – attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder – for decades, but it is only recently that the medical field has started to recognize, diagnose and seriously study ADHD in adults. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we explore what adult ADHD looks like, how it is diagnosed today and
Duke Faculty of Drugs professor describes vital fairness working towards as “Maoist political propaganda,” refuses to wait
A Duke professor disputed with division contributors about vital working towards with the Workplace for Institutional Fairness, calling the modules “left-wing Maoist political propaganda workshops,” in step with an e mail chain amongst Duke Faculty of Drugs Molecular Genetics and Microbiology division contributors bought via The Chronicle. On Tuesday, MGM Leader Administrative Officer Kris Matthews
How much medicine does the U.S. have to fight monkeypox?
WASHINGTON — As the world grapples with a monkeypox outbreak, the Biden administration has been quick to highlight the vaccines and other therapies the United States has in its national stockpile. It’s been far less open about exactly how many of those medicines it has. Right now, the country hasn’t seen many actual cases of monkeypox
Northwestern Medicine Building $100 Million Bronzeville Center, Offering Urgent Care, Pharmacy And Cancer Treatment
BRONZEVILLE — A massive Northwestern Medicine outpatient center along the Cottage Grove corridor in Bronzeville is a go. City and hospital officials announced Thursday they are moving forward with plans for a 120,000-square-foot facility on a vacant lot in the 4800 block of South Cottage Grove. The center will include an immediate care center, primary
Why the global soil shortage threatens food, medicine and the climate
Soil can be considered black gold, and we’re running out it. The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years. “There are places that have already lost all of their topsoil,” Jo Handelsman, author of “A World Without Soil,” and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNBC. The impact
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Announce Joint Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine
NEW YORK, May 31, 2022 /CNW/ — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently announced the creation of the Center for Engineering and Precision Medicine (CEPM), one of the first centers in the nation to bridge engineering and engineering science with medicine. This undertaking will build on shared basic
Nutrition meets health through ‘culinary medicine’
It’s not often that you find someone who is as comfortable preparing a five-course meal as they are diagnosing patients in the clinic. Michelle Hauser is one of those people. Her culinary prowess (she trained at the famed Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, which, if you know Bay Area food, should make your mouth water in