Barbara T. Abrams, associate director of financial aid at Cornell University, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Indian Education Association (NIEA).
Rebecca Sparrow, director of career services for the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, has been named director of Cornell Career Services, Edna Dugan, assistant vice president for student and academic services, announced/
New York and Toronto (December 4, 2002) -- Study findings from the Department of Public Health at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center and the Inner City Health Research Unit at St. Michael's Hospital/University of Toronto demonstrate that screening and treating new immigrants from developing nations for the latent stage of tuberculosis infection would result in substantial public health and economic benefits. Results are published in the December 5 issue of "The New England Journal of Medicine."Lead author Dr. Kamran Khan conducted his research in the United States while a resident/fellow in preventive medicine in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell. He is currently a specialist in infectious diseases and public health, and a clinician-scientist at St. Michael's in Toronto.
Cornell Law School Professor Larry Palmer, a nationally renowned expert on health policy and law, will join the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law in Louisville, Ky., in January 2003.
From dangerously rundown houses in rural upstate New York to urban shantytowns in Latin America, substandard housing is a growing international problem linked to globalization and poverty.
New York, NY (December 2, 2002) -- A widely available dietary supplement, coenzyme Q10, has shown promising results in a clinical trial involving 80 patients with early Parkinson's disease, according to a recent article in the "Archives of Neurology." In the trial--a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, and dosage-ranging trial--coenzyme Q10 was shown to be safe, well-tolerated, and significantly effective in slowing the progression of the neurological disorder. And it was clearly dose-dependent - that is, the larger the dose, the greater its effect."Our results are so encouraging that we have to emphasize that they still have to be confirmed by a Phase III clinical trial with a larger group of patients," said Dr. Flint Beal, Chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and one of the authors of the article. He and his colleagues caution that the findings may not extend to patients with later stages of Parkinson's or to patients who are at risk but have not been diagnosed with the disorder. Furthermore, if too many people now buy coenzyme Q10 on their own, there may not be enough subjects for a rigorous Phase III trial.
Ever since the German doctor Alois Alzheimer gave his name to the dementia suffered by many of the aging, nearly a century ago, it has been known that the brains of these patients show an accumulation of plaques.
A new strategy to genetically engineer rice and other crops to make them more tolerant of drought, salt and temperature stresses, while improving their yields, is being reported by molecular biologists at Cornell.
New York, NY (November 22, 2002) -- An innovative and sophisticated computer simulation model can help public health officials and emergency planners to prepare a public health response in case of bioterrorist attack, a study by scientists in the Department of Public Health at Weill Cornell Medical College has demonstrated. The simulation model, which predicts staffing requirements for antibiotic or vaccine dispensing centers, should help remedy a potential gap in current local, state, and national bioterrorism preparedness.The study, authored by Dr. Nathaniel Hupert, Dr. Alvin I. Mushlin and Dr. Mark A. Callahan, first appeared in the current issue of the journal "Medical Decision Making."
Testing for chronic wasting disease in tissues from deer and elk has begun in a specially outfitted facility in the New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory at the College of Veterinary Medicine. The tests are part of a nationwide surveillance effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to track the spread of the nervous system disease, which has infected deer and elk in several states but has yet to reach New York state.
As pollution, terrorism, hunger, cruelty and poverty continue to challenge our world, a new initiative at Cornell offers a simple strategy to buoy the spirit of the campus and simultaneously to foster change in a troubled world.
