Business of Pride Awards 2022: Dr. Anthony Dao leads LGBTQIA+ advocacy program at Wash U
Dr. Anthony Dao is instructor of medicine and OUTmed Director within the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. Dao is a St. Louis Business Journal 2022 Business of Pride honoree, which celebrates members of the LGBTQIA+ community who have worked to advance LGBTQIA+ causes. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 23, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Veneta Rizvic Source Type: news
Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness
A polio vaccinator administers the oral polio vaccine to a child in Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Jun 22 2022 (IPS) For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju – a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker – rode for more than 12,500km from London to Lagos to raise funds for polio eradication.
Adeyanju documented his journey on Twitter, where his handle is appropriately named @lionheart1759. Indeed, it takes one with a lion’s heart to embark on such a bold adventure. People like philanthropist Bill Gates, who works on polio eradication, and the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, tweet...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 22, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Africa Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Polio Source Type: news
Medicaid Expansion Tied to Slowing of Adult Suicide
THURSDAY, June 16, 2022 -- Expansion of Medicaid is associated with slowing of suicide rates among nonelderly adults, according to a study published online June 15 in JAMA Network Open.
Hetal Patel, M.D., from the Washington University School of... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 16, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Artificial intelligence may have unearthed one of the world ’s oldest campfires
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It’s not always easy to find clues to ancient campfires. Bits of charcoal, cracked bones, and discolored rocks often give a prehistoric blaze away. But not every blaze leaves such obvious traces, especially after hundreds of thousands of years.
Now, using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect the subtle ways in which extreme heat warps a material’s atomic structure, scientists have discovered the potential presence of a nearly 1-million-year-old fire featuring dozens of purportedly burnt ...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 13, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Education Cannot Wait Interviews UNICEF Executive Director Catherine M. Russell
On 24 February 2022 in Afghanistan, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell listens to a girl reading from a textbook at a UNICEF-supported community-based school in Kandahar’s Dand district. Credit: UNICEF/Omid Fazel By External SourceJun 7 2022 (IPS-Partners)
Catherine M. Russell became UNICEF’s eighth Executive Director on 1 February 2022.
Ms. Russell brings to the role decades of experience in developing innovative policy that empowers underserved communities around the world, including high-impact programmes that protect women and girls, including in humanitarian crises. She has extensive experience bu...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 7, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Armed Conflicts Climate Change Economy & Trade Education Education Cannot Wait. Future of Education is here Gender Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs Sustainability Education Cann Source Type: news
Why Are We Blaming Gun Violence on Mental Illness?
(MedPage Today) -- In this video, Jessica Gold, MD, MS, of the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses the harm caused by those who blame mass shootings in the U.S. solely on mental illness and argues for more... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - May 26, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Long COVID Affects Older Adults More Often —and Vaccines Don’t Prevent It
New U.S. research on Long COVID-19 provides fresh evidence that it can happen even after breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, and that older adults face higher risks for the long-term effects.
In a study of veterans published Wednesday, about one-third who had breakthrough infections showed signs of Long COVID.
A separate report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that up to a year after an initial coronavirus infection, 1 in 4 adults aged 65 and older had at least one potential Long COVID health problem, compared with 1 in 5 younger adults.
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Source: TIME: Health - May 26, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsey Tanner / AP Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
1 Of 5 With Covid May Develop Long Covid, CDC Finds —Though Vaccination May Offer Some Protection, Study Suggests
A study conducted by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found vaccines were effective at preventing some of the most debilitating symptoms of long Covid, including lung and blood-clotting disorders. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - May 25, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Madeline Halpert, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Breaking breaking-news Coronavirus Source Type: news
As the Virus Evolves, COVID-19 Reinfections Are Going to Keep Happening
After the Omicron variant caused massive numbers of infections this past winter, lots of people looked on the bright side, hoping it would be “a free shot for the country,” says Eli Rosenberg, deputy director for science at the New York State Department of Health’s Office of Public Health. Even though lots of people got infected with the highly contagious variant, at least they would then have immunity against the virus, protecting them from getting sick in the future. In theory.
But that hasn’t turned out to be true. Many people—even those who are vaccinated, boosted, and previously infected&...
Source: TIME: Health - May 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Washington University researchers receive $61M federal grant for biomedical research
Washington University's School of Medicine has received a $61 million federal grant to support the infrastructure to complete biomedical research studies, officials said Thursday.
The grant, from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports WashU's Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS).
The five-year grant, a renewal, allows the ICTS to continue to serve as "an engine of innovation" in the r egion's clinical and translational… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 13, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Diana Barr Source Type: news
Beyond the List: Washington U expects federal health research grants to grow by up to 30% in next five years
Over 90% of the $680 million in federal National Institutes of Health grants issued to St. Louis applicants last year went to Washington University. The leader of the university's medical school says new investments are expected to significantly boost its NIH totals in coming years. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 9, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Maddy Simpson Source Type: news
Why Sibley President Hasan Zia says affordable housing is key in maintaining health care workforce
Dr. Hasan Zia first came to Sibley Memorial Hospital during his surgical residency at George Washington University. He started as director of its intensive care unit in 2006, only the second employed physician on a medical staff of about 1,000 independent providers. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - May 6, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Sara Gilgore Source Type: news
Washington state records biggest tuberculosis outbreak in two decades
Dr Marc Stern, an infectious diseases expert at Washington University who used to work in prisons, told DailyMail.com the cases gave him 'goosebumps'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sleep Disorders Lead to Risky Driving Habits Sleep Disorders Lead to Risky Driving Habits
Among people who suffer from sleep apnea, driving habits become riskier as their problem with sleep progresses, according to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine.Quick Take (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
Global deaths from antibiotic-resistant 'super bugs' have surged seven-fold in half a decade
Dr Christopher Murray, from Washington University, estimated 5million people are dying from the infections every year. This was up from 700,000 estimated five years beforehand. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
