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January 30, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Jan K. Carney, M.D., M.P.H., associate dean for public health at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, was honored as the recipient of the 2017 Crystal Heart Award at the American Heart Association’s 10th annual Vermont Go Red For Women Luncheon on January 26, 2017.
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January 20, 2017 by
Mindy Clawson
Last May, the Vermont Legislature passed a law requiring providers to inform patients directly of their breast density. This information has previously been available to the provider in the mammogram report.
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January 20, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Like spicy food? If so, you might live longer, say researchers at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, who found that consumption of hot red chili peppers is associated with a 13 percent reduction in total mortality – primarily in deaths due to heart disease or stroke – in a large prospective study.
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January 18, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Could a lead crisis like the one in Flint, Michigan happen in your town? Mona Hanna-Attisha, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, director of the Pediatric Health Initiative at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, will present the MLK Health Equity Lecture, titled "We Are All Flint: The Flint Water Crisis and Public Health Advocacy" on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sullivan Classroom in the Medical Education Center at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM.
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January 18, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Preventing disease and promoting and protecting the health of the community is at the heart of public health and the second-year Public Health Projects course at The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont.
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January 18, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
On January 5, 2016, an expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, issued clinical guidelines to aid health care providers in early introduction of peanut-containing foods to infants to prevent the development of peanut allergy.
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January 18, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
The Vermont Center on Behavior and Health's January lecture featured Gordon L. Jensen, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Medicine and Nutrition at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
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January 12, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
On January 10, 2017, the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), in partnership with John Wiley and Sons, Inc., announced the launch of the Society’s new open access journal, Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis (RPTH), with its inaugural issue to publish in conjunction with the meeting of the ISTH 2017 Congress in Berlin, Germany, which will take place July 8 to 13, 2017.
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January 12, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
The newest members of the Teaching Academy at The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont were inducted during a ceremony and dinner held January 5, 2017 that kicked off the Snow Season Education Retreat at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center.
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January 5, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
On Wednesday, January 4, 2017, Vermont Governor Phil Scott announced the appointment of Mark Levine, M.D., professor of medicine and associate dean for graduate medical education at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM, as Vermont's new Commissioner of Health.
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January 5, 2017 by
Samantha Magier
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States — as rising physicians, we can improve this statistic. In order to effect change as the next generation of healthcare providers, we must be equipped with the necessary resources.
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January 3, 2017 by
Mindy Clawson
The 2016 University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Group awards for excellence in education and research – along with grants funding research in medicine and medical education – were presented at the practice’s annual holiday reception on December 13, 2016.
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January 3, 2017 by
Michael Carrese
Among the side effects experienced by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy is a higher risk of blood clots, but determining which patients are most likely to get them is a challenge for physicians.
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January 3, 2017 by
Jennifer Nachbur
In rural states like Vermont, opioid-dependent adults desperate for treatment often find themselves stuck on a wait list, sometimes for eight months or more, increasing their risk of continuing to use illicit opioids, contract an infectious disease, overdose and prematurely die.
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December 21, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Antioxidant therapies may hold promise for the nearly 25 million Americans suffering from asthma, and additional 140,000 people diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, but to date, determining exactly how to modify them into a feasible treatment has proved challenging.
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December 16, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
University of Vermont President Tom Sullivan and Larner College of Medicine Dean Frederick Morin, M.D., invested Philip Ades, M.D., professor of medicine and director of cardiac rehabilitation and preventive medicine, as the inaugural Philip Ades, M.D. Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention December 16, 2016. The ceremony, hosted by the UVM Foundation, took place in the Hoehl Gallery in the Health Science Research Facility.
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December 16, 2016 by
Erin Post
UVM Vaccine Testing Center researcher E. Ross Colgate, M.P.H., spent two years working in Bangladesh trying to understand why a rotavirus vaccine that prevents the majority of cases in the U.S. works only 40 to 60 percent of the time in Bangladeshi infants. Finding an answer could save hundreds of thousands of lives given rotavirus’ status as the leading cause of diarrhea in young children worldwide, among whom diarrhea is the second leading cause of death.
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December 16, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund has announced the first awards for its Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans Program, which will allow researchers to develop a comprehensive map of the molecular changes that occur in response to physical activity and uncover findings that could lead to people engaging in more targeted and optimized types of activity.
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December 12, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Medical students from The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont and UVM Medical Center residents are hosting a screening of the film “Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope” on Wednesday, December 14, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. in Davis Auditorium.
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December 12, 2016 by
Eleanor Osborne
This Q&A with Anna Noonan, R.N., vice president of quality and operational effectiveness at the Jeffords Institute for Quality at the University of Vermont Medical Center, was originally published in the November 2016 issue of One.