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UCLA creates nursing fellowship for Gluck Stroke Rescue Program with $1 million gift
UCLA has received $1 million from Mark and Laura Wittcoff to establish the Marjorie Scherck and Raymond Wittcoff Nursing Fellowship in Stroke Care Innovation. The fellowship will support nursing staff for the  UCLA Arline and Henry Gluck Stroke Rescue Program, which operates a mobile stroke unit that provides early diagnosis and care when patients are being transported to a hospital.The fellowship honors two of the Witcoffs ’ family members who were committed advocates for nursing care as supporters of Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, where Mark’s father, Raymond Wittcoff, was chairman of the board at Washington U...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - December 7, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

UCLA researchers study genetics ’ role in COVID-19 susceptibility, severity
“One of the most troubling things about COVID-19 is that we have a limited ability to predict how sick a specific individual will get,” said Dr. Daniel Geschwind.Geschwind is the MacDonald Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics at theDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a member of theEli and Edythe Broad Center of  Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA. And he ’s part of a team of UCLA scientists conducting research to learn why certain people get sick from the virus that causes COVID-19 — and why others don’t.Millions of people around the world have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the v...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - October 26, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Immune System Changes May Cause High Blood Pressure in Postmenopausal Women
A new study finds that menopause-induced changes to protective immune cells might contribute to the sharp increase in high blood pressure in postmenopausal women. The findings may also have implications for sex differences in COVID-19 responses. Brittany Uhlorn Today BIO5 Institutethumbnail_Sylvester and Uhlorn_Brooks.jpg Doctoral students Megan Sylvester (left) and Joshua Uhlorn (right) used microscopy techniques to analyze differences in immune cell infiltration in the kidneys of pre- and postmenopausal mice. Emma Louis, Brooks LabHealthBIO5College of Medicine - TucsonResearcher contact: Heddwen L. Brooks BIO5 Ins...
Source: The University of Arizona: Health - September 30, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mikaylamace Source Type: research

Bilateral pulmonary artery thrombectomy with saddle embolism and COVID-19 infection.
We present a 32-year-old man who developed a large saddle pulmonary embolus secondary to COVID-19 infection and underwent successful bilateral percutaneous pulmonary artery mechanical thrombectomy. PMID: 33100564 [PubMed]
Source: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings - August 12, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Vyas V, Kanagalingam G, Yadava S, Gambhir HS, Costanza M, Chaudhuri D Tags: Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) Source Type: research

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