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December 15, 2010 | |
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Research Extras
Emory Health Now blog includes updates and perspectives on research, health care, education, and community, with videos and web links. Read about the positive impact of the WHSC in Atlanta and across the state in the 2010 Community Benefits Report. Need a physician or want to know more about Emory hospitals and clinical advances in treatment? Go to the Emory Healthcare site. View the Rollins School of Public Health's new website. Search for Emory clinical trials. View WHSC research videos on numerous topics. Listen to archived Sound Science podcasts. |
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 Claire Sterk, PhD |
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| Sound Science: Why Do Americans Still Smoke? Listen to Sound Science as Emory substance abuse expert Claire Sterk, PhD, describes her research to find out why one in five Americans still smokes. As a nation, we've made great progress in reducing smoking, yet with all we know about its harmful effects, expense, inconvenience and stigma, what makes 20 percent of us still do it? Better answers may lead to more effective interventions. Listen and read. . . |
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| Confusion in Dosing Instructions for Children's Medicines Spells Danger A study of 200 top-selling over-the-counter children's medicines found most contained variable and inconsistent dosing directions and measuring devices. Nearly all had directions that did not match markings on measuring devices, some devices lacked markings, and instructions often used nonstandard or undefined abbreviations. These problems could be causing great harm to children, researchers warn. Read more. . . |
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 'Shotgun' glycomics |
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| 'Shotgun' Method Helps Dissect Cells' Sugar Coatings Sugar molecules coat every cell in our bodies and play key roles in development and disease. The parts of these "glycans" have been tough to study, but scientists have adapted gene chip microarray technology to an approach called "shotgun glycomics." Using a chemical method, they attach a fluorescent dye to purified glycans, then separate glycans into tiny spots fixed to glass slides. Read more. . . |
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| Biomedical Informatics Demystified By expanding the way we collect, retrieve, and disseminate medical data at dizzying speeds, biomedical informatics will help target treatments, keep patients from returning to the hospital, and hone in on better diagnostics and therapies for the toughest diseases. This emerging field is only at the beginning of efforts to analyze and compare data from millions and take health care to the next level. Read more. . |
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| Tackling the HIV/AIDS Pandemic From All Directions An Emory Magazine article chronicles Emory researchers' valiant fight against a disease that has killed 25 million since 1981 and will infect 2.7 milion more this year. Emory scientists have invented life-saving drugs and promising vaccines, discovered key aspects of the immune response, led clinical trials, launched effective prevention campaigns, and treated thousands in Atlanta and abroad. Read more. . . |
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