[ad_1] Two Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) students from CU Anschutz’s Colorado School of Public Health have been selected as part of the 2022 American Public Health Association (APHA) and Kaiser Permanente (KP) Community Health Scholars Program. Makala Carrington and Shenazar (Shane) Esmundo are one of her 19 candidates selected for competitive scholarships awarded to ...

[ad_1] We hear a lot about “digital health” these days. As data about our health piles up — thanks to sources like electronic health records, personal fitness apps and gadgets, and home genome test kits — we should understand a lot more than we used to about what’s wrong with our health and what to ...

[ad_1] Sign up for The Brief. This is a daily newsletter that keeps readers up to date on the most important Texas news. On a recent Thursday morning, John Hodges brought one of his elderly patients out the door. “May God bless you here, John,” said the patient, shaking the hand of the leaving nurse ...

[ad_1] Karen Douthitt (left) and her two of her older sisters, Susie Gilliam (center), and June Ward (right) each took a test for the genetic mutation presenilin 1 after their mom got Alzheimer’s disease in her early 60s. Each child of a parent with this mutation has a 50% chance of inheriting it. Juan Diego ...

[ad_1] With all of the recent accelerating changes we’ve seen in the world, and our narrower media world, it’s easy to assume that ‘everything is different’. But keep two seemingly contradictory ideas in mind at the same time. Everything is different, nothing is different. As I share, it’s not only possible, it’s still true in ...

[ad_1] With curious eyes, a hairy nose and lush fur, this rat, called Kodake (小竹), perches quickly on a bamboo stalk and poses cutely for the camera. However, this rat does not exist in nature. Made in a Beijing lab, Xiao Zhu pushes the boundaries of what is possible in genetic engineering and synthetic biology. ...

[ad_1] silina boston ashby Boston Ashby is the CEO of Girls Inc. in the Pacific Northwest and a former public health official. She lives in Portland. The U.S. Supreme Court’s overturn of the constitutional right to abortion has had devastating effects in many states, and its aftermath continues to unfold week after week across the ...

[ad_1] OMAHA — Doug Rose has checked COVID-19 case counts and other data off and on during the pandemic, but he says he was never obsessed with it. He has reviewed case counts for his destination when he planned to travel. Last year, the retired Omaha schoolteacher went to Galveston, Texas, instead of his usual ...