While I was at Columbia, Muriel earned a high school equivalency diploma and began applying to college the day I graduated. She went on to become a psychologist, and her years of schooling initiated a ritual that lasted for over a decade. When I drove home from work, I would find her waiting at the…
Three weeks after Jennifer Camilla Berger and Jesse Prestwood-Taylor began dating in summer 2014 they came down with a bout of food poisoning together. (They blame an avocado). “My parents are both doctors,” she said. “I know what to do when I feel sick. Rest, hydrate, ibuprofen.” Her unflappable, kind nature, with the help of…
WINSTON-SALEM, NC – March 12, 2021 – The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is investigating how cats with chronic kidney disease could someday help inform treatment for humans. In humans, treatment for chronic kidney disease — a condition in which the kidneys are damaged and cannot filter blood as well as they should —…
WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 — Journalists who register for the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will have access to nearly 9,000 presentations on topics including agriculture and food, chemistry and the future of plastics, COVID-19 lessons learned, health and medicine, renewable energy and fuels, sustainability and more. ACS Spring 2021 will be…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – As research into genetic causes of disease began to grow, Le Bonheur Pediatrician-in- Chief Jon McCullers, MD, knew it was time to start building a pediatric DNA biorepository. So in 2015, Le Bonheur’s Children’s Foundation Research Institute (CFRI) created the Biorepository and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Initiative and began collecting DNA samples from…
Myeong Lee, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, is working to understand how people use the 311 non-emergency issue-reporting system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, Lee and his collaborators aim to understand how local governments support people’s different uses of the system during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the different performance metrics of local governments…
Arlington, Va. (March 12, 2021)–A new supplement offering guidance on severe COVID-19 management in resource-limited settings is now available on the American Journal of Tropical Medicine (AJTMH) website. Pragmatic Recommendations for the Management of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Low- and Middle-Income Countries was coordinated by a COVID-LMIC Task Force headed by Alfred Papali, MD, of…
PHILADELPHIA (March 12, 2021) – The biennial award honors the best scholarly qualities that Dr. Fagin, the School’s third Dean, exemplified. It is given to a Penn Nursing faculty member, or a graduate from the School’s doctoral program, who has made a distinguished contribution to nursing scholarship. Dr. Bruner will deliver the lecture ‘Inspiration, Innovation…
Reston, VA–Immuno-positron emission tomography (PET) imaging can provide early insight into a tumor’s response to targeted therapy, allowing physicians to select the most effective treatment for patients who have cancer. The new research was published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The research showed that immuno-PET successfully visualizes changes in different…
At 18, when I aged out of the system, all I wanted was to reinvent myself as quickly as possible. Given a chance, I think I would have crawled out of my own skin, or even seared off my fingerprints. Whoever that throwaway girl was, I didn’t want to be her any longer. I broke…