Working in the Community to Reduce Health Disparities
Epidemiologist Kristi Allgood of the Sinai Urban Health Institute (SUHI) in...
![The Helping Her Live team (left to right): Maria Trujillo (community health educator/navigator [CHE/N]), Melinda Medina (CHE/N), Jana Stringfellow (CHE/N), Chela Sproles (program manager), Oreletta Garmon (CHE/N), and Jackie Kanoon, MPH (program coordinator)](http://jennywp.jennycarpenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/HHLTeam-300x222.jpg)
Tag Archives: health
Neighbouring cells help cancers dodge drugs
Cancers can resist destruction by drugs with the help of proteins...
Vaccine developed against Ebola
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly...
Researchers switch on genes with blue pulse
Scientists have developed a technique that could be used to deliver...
Superbug Gene Found
A gene that causes bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics has...
Researchers Grow Protoeye in Dish
It’s not quite Avatar, but a movie released today shows, in...
Sensing Organ Rejection
Rejection hurts, but for organ transplant patients it’s more than an...
Nosing Out a Smell Gene
The daily smells of the world—the freshness of spring flowers, the...
How Hormone Puts a Kick in the Sperm’s Tail
It’s exhausting being a sperm. Having made the long-distance swim up...
Organ Development in 3D
If you ever wanted to know how the inner organs of...
Does Bird Flu + Swine Flu = Superflu?
What do you get if you cross bird flu with the...
Don’t Take That Cookie!
Stop it! Don’t touch that! Sit down and be quiet! Whether...
Poop Scoop
New baby? Feeling like you’re waist deep in dirty diapers? Forget...
WHO Endorses ‘Revolutionary’ New Diagnostic Test for TB
LONDON—A new rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) has received an important...
Shaping up HIV
In the 1960s, a Danish company, seeking to improve on the...
Aberrant appendages
Having a second pair of hands might seem like an advantage...
Waxing cutaneous
When we’re in the bath, our skin prevents both water from...
Decloaking the germ
The bacterium Listeria infects humans through contaminated food. Once in the...
Morning sickness may be sign of a bright baby
SICK of morning sickness? Take heart: it may be a sign...
Immune systems are anything but simple
A hundred years since Russian microbiologist Elie Metschnikow first discovered the...