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July 22, 2016 by
Caroyln Shapiro
Two molecular physiologists at the University of Vermont (UVM) have taken a step closer toward a possible new treatment to address the underlying root cause of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an inherited disease that causes the heart muscle to thicken and struggle to pump blood.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jeffrey Wakefield
The University of Vermont honored several faculty members and graduate students responsible for nine patents at the 2016 annual Invention 2 Venture (I2V) conference on April 7. Three faculty members from the College of Medicine were honored for their patents, which were awarded in the year since the last I2V conference was held in April 2015.
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July 22, 2016 by
Carolyn Shapiro
Jen Lavoie’s daughter began showing symptoms of Crohn’s disease at age nine, but most of her clinicians found nothing wrong with her, and one suggested the girl’s gastrointestinal discomfort was “all in her head,” a symptom of stress.
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July 22, 2016 by
Virgina Hood
Kidney stones occur in one out of 11 people during a lifetime. The number of people forming stones has doubled in the past 15 years. A person who has had a kidney stone has a 50 percent chance of forming another stone over 5 to 10 years. The good news is that for many people, another kidney stone can be prevented or the number reduced by simple measures.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
In honor of World Health Day, the University of Vermont College of Medicine hosted nine distinguished international guests from Russia, Dominican Republic, Vietnam and Uganda on Monday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 5, 2016 for a “Celebration of Global Health Day” featuring a broad range of activities.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
University of Vermont (UVM) medical students, along with students from the Northeast Medical Student Queer Alliance (NMSQA), are promoting #PushForPronouns on social media as part of National LGBT Health Awareness Week.
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July 22, 2016 by
Carolyn Shapiro
A team of University of Vermont researchers has pinpointed a unique self-controlling characteristic of an arenavirus that offers hope of a possible vaccine for now-untreatable infections.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
University of Vermont medical students, residents and faculty gathered March 22, 2018 to celebrate the Class of 2017’s completion of the Clerkship level of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum, induct new student members into the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and formally recognize their mentors through the presentation of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Banana suturing, splint-making and stethoscopes were on the agenda at the second annual Med Mentors Health Career Exploration Day on March 12, where College of Medicine students became teachers for more than 80 area high school students.
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July 22, 2016 by
Carolyn Shapiro
Researchers might make wonderful discoveries in the lab, but if those ideas never reach the clinical arena, they can’t help patients.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
From anxiety to elation, emotions ran high on Match Day, a nationwide event during which graduating medical students open the envelopes that tell them where they will first officially work as physicians.
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July 22, 2016 by
Laura Lazzarini
While I could give you a shortened version of my highly edited personal statement explaining how and why I chose pediatrics as my specialty, I feel like it can all be summed up with the following: My pediatric clerkship was the only rotation where I smiled every day.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Researchers at the University of Vermont (UVM) Vaccine Testing Center, along with collaborators at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, have been working since 2008 to develop a dengue vaccine that will protect against all four dengue strains.
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July 22, 2016 by
Carolyn Shapiro
Are we genetically doomed when the double helix we all identify with DNA breaks? No, say a team of researchers led by University of Vermont (UVM) immunologists, who discovered a novel mechanism that provides life support to cells while DNA double-strand break repairs are in progress.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
A team of Vermont investigators has been issued a patent for their discovery of a molecule that rescues damaged blood vessels, yet preserves healthy vessels and could serve as a springboard for a new pharmaceutical therapy with fewer side effects for hypertension – a major risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney disease that effects roughly one in three people in the U.S.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Limited treatment options and no vaccines exist to treat or prevent a leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children in the developing world: Cryptosporidium, a single-celled intestinal parasite found in soil, food and water that also causes significant illness and death in immunocompromised individuals.
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July 22, 2016 by
Carolyn Shapiro
To neuroscientist Anthony Morielli, Ph.D., the study of the brain opens a window to better understand the way the world works.
“The brain is the one thing in the universe that can reflect back on itself,” says Morielli, a University of Vermont associate professor of pharmacology, who was recently named director of UVM’s Neuroscience Graduate Program.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
An international consortium of institutions and investigators, including Mark Nelson, Ph.D., University of Vermont professor and chair of pharmacology, recently launched a major collaborative research program to uncover mechanisms and pathways in different forms of small vessel disease.
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
Now entering its 18th year, the Community Medical Series presented by the University of Vermont College of Medicine and University of Vermont Medical Center launched its Spring 2016 series on Tuesday, March 1, with a lecture by Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry Beth Robbins, Psy.D., titled "All Stressed Out: Symptoms, Physiology and Approaches for Relief."
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July 22, 2016 by
Jennifer Nachbur
The 7th Annual Vermont Brain Bee, a neuroscience competition and day of exploration for Vermont high school students, took place Saturday, February 20, 2016 at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.