Reading time: 2minutes New national opioid addiction policy recommendations were co-authored by Professor Claudio Nigg in the UH Office of Public Health Studies.
Reading time: 3minutes The Office of Public Health Services, a unit within the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, celebrates National Public Health Week and the contributions of its students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters.
Reading time: 2minutes Researchers asked potential users what features they look for in apps, and what aspects of an app would make them likely to use it.
Reading time: 2minutes Research was led by Catherine Pirkle and Tetine Sentell in the Office of Public Health Studies at the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work.
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 Kathryn Braun, chair of the Office of Public Health Studies, serves as president of the Active Aging Consortium in Asia Pacific.
Reading time: 2minutes The study co-authored by UH Mānoa Professor Kathryn Braun was published in the Journal for Alternative and Complementary Medicine.