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The Diverse VCID study uses advanced brain imaging and blood-based techniques to understand how vascular changes in late life cause brain injury that can lead to cognitive decline.
Constant care by a dedicated small baby team in a distinct unit decreases hypothermia during admission and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a chronic lung disease that can cause long-term breathing problems.
Research by Tyler McDonald, M.D., showed that in patients ages 8 to 17 with upper extremity fractures who were presenting for initial treatment, caregivers overestimated the children’s pain. To a lesser degree, caregivers overestimated the children’s stress and underestimated physical function.
USA Health will share its experiences in caring for 22-23 weekers with the rest of the world and gain knowledge from other centers that do the same.
Collaborative care is critical in the management of patients with IBD and demands the best of multiple specialties, including gastroenterology, surgery, radiology, rheumatology, and primary care.
The Southeastern Section is the largest of the association’s eight regions, comprising almost 2,100 urologists practicing in nine Southeastern states, Panama, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The team’s research was published in Molecular Cancer Research, a journal that features articles describing novel basic cancer research discoveries.
In a recently published study, researchers examined the expression of MYB in prostate tumor tissues of various histological grades and clinical stages from Black and white patients, and evaluated if it could be used to predict the risk of cancer recurrence following primary therapy.
Earlier in 2023, Simon Grelet, Ph.D., and his colleagues developed a provisional patent for the technology, which involves labeling cells that have received mitochondria from donor cells.
Jennifer Young Pierce, M.D., M.P.H., attended the White House Cervical Cancer Forum on Thursday in Washington, D.C., where a national network to study self-collection of vaginal samples was announced.
The highly competitive grants provide each investigator $100,000 in funding over a two-year period.
The new Whiddon College of Medicine building will provide state-of-the-art laboratory spaces that will create flexibility and efficiency for research today and in the future. It will also allow for expanding the class size of first-year medical students from 80 to 100, with the capability of increasing to 120 in the future, at the same time the nation faces a projected shortage of healthcare providers.
