Reading time: < 1minute Soon-to-be doctors learn where they will be spending their residency training during dramatic and simultaneous opening of envelopes.
Reading time: 2minutes The study by UH Mānoa's Catherine Pirkle and Yan Yan Wu examined whether social and behavioral risk factors make certain groups more vulnerable to metabolic syndrome.
Reading time: 3minutes UH researchers Yvette Amshoff, Gertraud Maskarinec and Andrew Grandinetti looked at 24 years of health data and found that patients who have type 2 diabetes in addition to other chronic diseases have a lower survival rate for colorectal cancer.
Reading time: 2minutes UH Mānoa is holding two events—the Concussion film screening and a helmet give away—during National Brain Injury Awareness Month in March.
Reading time: 2minutes Davison’s research will focus on the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Canadian Community Health Survey and Canadian Longitudinal Survey on Aging.
Reading time: < 1minute The John A. Burns School of Medicine sponsored the community event in Kaunakakai for youngsters interested in a career in medical career.
Reading time: 2minutes The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is reaffirming the need to screen all pregnant women for syphilis, which may be present but undetected in expectant mothers with devastating effects.
Reading time: 2minutes The study co-authored by UH Mānoa Professor Kathryn Braun was published in the Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
Reading time: 2minutesHawaiʻi healthcare providers are using technology from a project led by UH Hilo that helps pharmacists manage high-risk patients’ medications across a variety of settings.
Reading time: 2minutes The worldwide spread of a serious infectious disease could result in pandemic-related deaths of 700,000 and annual economic losses of $500 billion, according to a study in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.