Feb. 2, 2021
Determination, persistence, optimism: those could be a few of the qualities that fueled students from around the country to participate in the virtual version of a conference held in Miami […]
Feb. 1, 2021
Growing up in Nairobi, Kenya, at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, Toyin Ajayi, M.D., felt her privilege. Her parents raised her two younger sisters and her to understand that […]
Feb. 1, 2021
Last summer, in the wake of George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, a seven-member student team of second-year College of Medicine students led by Stacey Gardner-Buckshaw, Ph.D., […]
Feb. 1, 2021
Sixty first-year College of Pharmacy students are now certified and ready to contribute to the massive effort of administering COVID-19 vaccinations to the public. Kunal Amin, Pharm.D., R.Ph., director of […]
Jan. 29, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to some surprising trends in health care. While childhood obesity has risen, due to children spending even more time at home in front of their […]
Jan. 27, 2021
The January 26 episode of the WKSU podcast “OH Really?” asked the public to submit their questions on the COVID-19 vaccine and lined up Angelo DeLucia, Ph.D., professor of molecular […]
Jan. 27, 2021
When Jamie Pandey was working on a Master of Public Health degree in health services management at the University of Cincinnati in 2017, it was against the backdrop of an […]
Jan. 26, 2021
A virtual Commencement that judges called “tear-inducing” and “really cool” has won two awards for the Northeast Ohio Medical University Commencement Committee from the Council for Advancement and Support of […]
Jan. 25, 2021
“An earned mistrust.” That’s the way with which many Black people view the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a physician interviewed for a recent article headlined “Black leaders, residents want culturally […]
Jan. 22, 2021
When Akron Beacon Journal reporter Betty Lin-Fisher received a health reporting grant of $3,000 from the Cleveland based Center for Community Solutions, she decided to redistribute the money to address […]