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Ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave leads students in a search for secrets of ancient remedies that may benefit modern medicine.
University Research | Emory UniversityA national opioid epidemic is driving people from pills to heroin, filling emergency rooms with overdose cases, and killing tens of thousands of Americans every year. What are we doing about it?
University Research | AAU Universities Battle the Opioid Crisis | The Crisis | Emory UniversityThe following essay comes from Steven Waronker 79C, chief of anesthesiology for Emory Speciality Associates. Having lost his son to an opioid overdose, Waronker asks, “What’s being done now to stop this, and what more can we do?”
Emory UniversityBiology undergraduates at Emory are studying genetics in a big way: They are the first to take a crack at researching the raw data from the sequence of the genome of the whale shark, the world’s largest fish.
Emory University | As part of Emory University's ongoing Conversations with America focus group series, which encourages our community to address some of our country's most difficult issues, President Sterk takes a moment to discuss her own perspective on such topics as inclusion and diversity, immigration, the fut
Emory University | Articles & Op-Eds"Father." Her father, Isaiah Nixon, an African American man who had dared to vote in the 1948 Democratic Primary in Montgomery County, Georgia, only the second held since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled all-white primaries unconstitutional. Her father, who was gunned down by two white men that evening…
Emory University | A randomized clinical study of adolescent boys with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) found that a diet low in free sugars (those sugars added to foods and beverages and occurring naturally in fruit juices) resulted in significant improvement in NAFLD compared to a usual diet.
University Research | Emory University | University of California San DiegoOnly about 16 percent of U.S. adolescents have been fully vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) by the time they turn 13, despite national recommendations that call for vaccination at 11 to 12 years of age.
University Research | Emory UniversityA new screening method using sensor particles and a urine test could catch organ transplant rejection much earlier, more comprehensively, and without a biopsy needle.
University Research | Georgia Institute of Technology | Emory UniversityEmory interventional radiologist David Prologo has developed a procedure that freezes a specific spot on the vagus nerve as a weight loss solution.
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