... North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and plans are in the works for the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego to start similar programs. (White students are also eligible for Meyerhoff scholarships, but most of the recipients are of other races.) James Alan Kendrick, assistant dean ...
It was actually a gift from my partner, Opiyo. He made me the shirt that said "Well-Read Black Girl," and I found myself in conversation with so many different women. And it sparked the idea that I should actually start something with this. What does it mean to be ...
... spectrum that can be caused by Zika virus infections during pregnancy.” Dr. Peter Jay Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has also studied the long-term effects of children born with the virus in Latin America. He says today ...
... The woman, who is unnamed for privacy reasons, was born without a uterus, but received one via transplant as part of a clinical trial at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. The baby was born via scheduled Caesarean section, “healthy and screaming.” [TIME] Why it matters: This is only the ...
... pain. A person with opioid use disorder becomes preoccupied with the search for the drugs. Certain contexts become triggers for their cravings, and those triggers start overlapping in their minds. “The basic view is some people start with the pain trigger [the chronic back problem], but it gets partially substituted ...
... United States each year. Other symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, and the nagging feeling that you need to go to the bathroom. These symptoms usually start a couple days after swallowing a bit of contaminated water — usually at a lake or pond, but also at beaches. In most cases, rest ...
... coats the boards with fiberglass, told us back in 2013 that he was earning less, in real dollars, than he made 20 years before. Today, Naylor says he's doing better, but: DAVE NAYLOR: Only for the reason that, instead of just working one job, I got a little part ...
Tropical disease specialists are most concerned about impoverished urban areas along the Gulf Coast, where the numbers of the mosquito that spreads Zika are expected to spike.
In the wake of the CDC’s revelation that Zika virus causes microcephaly in infants, doctors are grappling with the thorny issue of whether they should recommend that women in high-risk areas avoid getting pregnant this summer. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College for more on how medical experts are confronting the...
They grew up in two different countries -- Claire Charamnac in Singapore and Claire Naylor in Nepal -- where they both became conscious of the disadvantages women faced. When they came together at Georgetown University, they decided to do something about it.
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