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Tag: Medicine: Page 15

Ethiopia connects to Indian schools, hospitals with new ‘e-network’

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Dr. Desalew Mekonnen, a first-year medical resident at Black Lion Hospital in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, mulled over a patient’s electrocardiogram and frowned.

July 5, 2007

Arrest Highlights Rx Drug Abuse Among Youth, College Students

CHICAGO Drug abuse experts say the arrest of Al Gore’s son underscores the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among America’s youth. College students use the stimulant Adderall, an attention deficit drug, to get a speedy high or pull all-nighters.

July 4, 2007

The new crusaders: environmental education producing cadre of freedom fighters – from toxic waste

While studying chemistry at Xavier University in New Orleans, Robert Swayzer III excelled in the classroom during his freshman and sophomore years. Although the twenty-three-year-old Winnsboro, Louisiana, native decided against pursuing medical school early on in his college career, Swayzer’s performance as a chemistry major won him an environmental research scholarship as a junior through Xavier’s Center for Environmental Programs.

July 4, 2007

Medical student ruminates on need for anatomy and meaning of life

Before Christine Montross decided to become a psychiatrist, she was a poet, university writing instructor and high school English teacher. So she has a way with words. Now, she has brought that talent to one of the most traumatic parts of medical training – anatomy, the dissection of the human body – in a book entitled “Body of Work.”

July 1, 2007

OU’s medical campus to expand

OKLAHOMA CITY A master plan for the Oklahoma Health Center in Oklahoma City indicates the University of Oklahoma plans to expand one of the state’s largest medical campuses.

July 1, 2007

Georgetown University Researchers Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

WASHINGTON, D.C. In what they call a “stunning research advance,” researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they know how to treat diseases associated with human obesity.

July 1, 2007

UMC’s Jones to serve as president of American Heart Association

JACKSON Miss. Dr. Daniel W. Jones, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, will take over as president of the American Heart Association on July 1.

June 26, 2007

Tuskegee grad finds comedy overcomes adversity

MONTGOMERY Ala. Darryl Moore’s fellow humorists call him the “Meanest Comic in the World.”

June 24, 2007

Pinn expands the scope of NIH – Vivian W. Pinn, National Institutes of Health – special report: health sciences

When Dr. Bernadine Healy, the renowned A cardiologist who was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH), undertook a search in 1991 to hire the first permanent director of NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), she did not have to look far to fill the position.

June 23, 2007

Sports medicine given new prescription: team work – includes related article on careers in sports medicine – special report: health sciences

Sports medicine used to be the sole responsibility of athletic trainers and team doctors, whose only emphasis was treating injured athletes.

June 23, 2007

Miracles – political and medical – in South Africa

Some U.S. congressional leaders are calling projects funded by the United States Agency for International Develop it (USAID) at historically Black American institutions working in South Africa examples of “reverse discrimination.”

June 23, 2007

DNA mapping: a road less traveled by HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities, Human Genome Project – special report:health sciences

It is possible that in the very near future, a doctor will be able to take a blood sample — or even a piece of toenail — from a person and tell everything about who they are biologically.

June 23, 2007

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