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Earlier this week, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) announced that they had approved a new drug for type 2 diabetes (see the FDA’s press release here). Type 2 is the most common kind of diabetes and can develop at any age despite the old misnomer that it was an “adult-onset” disease. Essentially, your body does [...]
At first glance, the items in the title of this entry don’t make any sense together – what could lowly grad students possibly have to do with the Nobel Prize?! But dig a little further and the connections become clear… Yesterday, it was announced that a group of American scientists had received the Nobel Prize [...]
The H1N1 flu, better known by its alias “swine flu,” is still wreaking havoc around the world. Everyone is understandably concerned. Every time I am on the phone with my parents and let out something with the slightest resemblance to a cough, they command me to go see a doctor immediately and have the H1N1 [...]
News related to obesity has recently been splattered all over the news, even more than usual in my opinion. The latest headline is that obese or overweight patients had significantly less brain matter than those whose weights were considered normal. The research article, “Brain Structure and Obesity,” resulted from a collaboration between the University of [...]
CNN has posted a very interesting article about blind women in Germany who are being trained to perform breast examinations. The program, called “Discovering Hands,” is based on the theory that the blind have a keener, more sensitive sense of touch and may be able to detect small lumps that may have otherwise been overlooked. [...]
Yes, I’m tooting our own horn – but only because it’s pretty darn exciting! The Institute’s very own director Dr. Teresa Woodruff (a.k.a. my esteemed advisor) and members of our lab have been in the news for a research article that was just published online this week. A major part of our research focuses on [...]
While browsing through Facebook status updates earlier today, I noticed that two friends independently posted a link to this op-ed on the New York Times website, written by blogger Nicholas D. Kristof. Mr. Kristof posted his thoughts on something that has been nagging at us, the consumers, for a while now: chemicals in our plastics [...]
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