| 12-07-09 Jennifer Stuber (Cohort 2) Featured in The News Tribune VIEWPOINT: Don’t finger mental illness as the cause of local tragedyIt was and continues to be an agonizing week in the news, especially if you are from the Tacoma or the Seattle area. Four police officers were slain.…Read More |
| 12-21-09 Zoe Donaldson (Cohort 7) - UPI.com - UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News U.S. researchers say they've generated the first transgenic prairie vole by injecting a single-cell vole embryo with a gene from a jellyfish.…Read More |
| 11-24-09 Richard Carpiano (Cohort 2) Party guests bask in the heat - CANADA.com There is a wall plaque often found in kitchens that sums up holiday get-togethers best: "No matter where I serve my guests, it seems they like my kitchen best."…Read More |
| 11-23-09 Robert Hiatt (UCSFB Site Director) News Feature - Marin Independant Journal Breast cancer researchers and community activists who gathered at a Marin forum this week defended the federal government's new recommendation on mammograms and discussed cutting-edge research results.…Read More |
| 11-19-09 Robert Aronowitz (UPenn Site Director) Addicted to Mammograms - The New York Times The United States Preventive Services Task Force’s recommendation this week that women begin regular breast cancer screening at age 50 rather than 40 is really nothing new. It’s almost identical to the position the group held in the 1990s.…Read More |
| 11-19-09 Susan Scrimshaw (NAC) - Times Union.com Local colleges are surviving and thriving despite the weak economy, but all face challenges unique to their campuses.…Read More |
| 11-18-09 Theresa Osypuk (Cohort 3) SMOKE - FREE ALLIES: ABC News Feature The strongest American advocates for smoking bans in public venues are the newest Americans, one study said.…Read More |
| 11-12-09 Kathleen Ziol-Guest (Cohort 4) Job Woes Exacting a Toll on Family Life - The New York Times For many families across the country, the greatest damage inflicted by this recession has not necessarily been financial, but emotional and psychological.…Read More |
| 11-12-09 Allison Aiello (Cohort 1) Mysteries of the Flu - NEWSWEEK Mysteries of the Flu / Influenza is a common virus with a long history. Then why do we know so little about it?…Read More |
| Health & Society Scholars National Program Director Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford interviewed for TV2Africa VOA's health correspondent Linord Moudou talks to Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, President of the NY Academy of Medicine, about the International Conference on urban health that just concluded in Nairobi.…Read More |
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