The role social justice advocacy should play in medicine will be examined by Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist and lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine, in her talk, “Medicine in the Age of Social Justice Activism.”
Weill Cornell Medicine scientists have uncovered the first evidence that astrocyte receptors can trigger opposite effects on cognitive function in males and females. The findings point to astrocytes as contributors to sex-specific brain mechanisms.
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s five boroughs and surrounding suburbs.
The new book from anthropology professor Andrew Willford shows how patterns of psycho-social stress combined with modernity’s pressures can influence psychiatric practice.
John August, program director of healthcare labor relations at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, says this policy chaos has profound impacts on healthcare workers who are the primary point of contact with patients.
An international collaboration led by Cornell researchers used a combination of psilocybin and the rabies virus to map how – and where – the psychedelic compound rewires the connections in the brain.
“What is happening to the kidneys of sugarcane workers is not a result of climate change. It is climate change": Anthropologist Alex Nading documents how environmental justice activists are addressing the epidemic.
Chemotherapy activates a stress sensor in immune cells, which may help explain why many cancer patients experience debilitating pain as a side effect, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and Wake Forest University researchers.
