As part of Gov. Charlie Baker’s plan to begin statewide vaccinations to deter the spread of COVID-19, the University of Massachusetts Amherst will establish a vaccine clinic for Massachusetts first…, Vaccination Schedule, All eligible individuals must register in advance for the two-dose vaccine at www.umass.edu/coronavirus/vaccine ., First Dose Schedule, Monday, Jan. 11, 2-7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Second Dose Schedule, Monday, Feb. 8, 2-7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2-7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. As determined by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, this is the…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Plans were recently announced for a film adaptation of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” the best-selling debut novel by Ocean Vuong, associate professor at the University of…
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UMass Boston Professors of Psychology Zsuzsa Kaldy and Erik Blaser were awarded a three-year, $457,061 R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support their work studying the role…
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Nicole Bajdek ’20 has received the 2020 Student Investigator Masters Award from The New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (NEACSM) for her research comparing blood pressure…, “, We found that African American women had higher recovery blood pressure following intense bouts of shorter duration exercise, which is consistent with their greater cardiovascular risk. We also found…
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Now that two COVID-19 vaccines have received Food and Drug Administration emergency authorization, with more on the way, how do we encourage widespread acceptance among the public? Two UMass Medical…
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UMass Medical School students are joining the “army of vaccinators” that Worcester Division of Public Health’s medical director, Michael Hirsh, MD, has called upon to get the COVID-19 vaccines to as…
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Two Graduate School of Nursing DNP candidates have stepped up to help a college community stay protected from the coronavirus. Kelly Cutting, RN, FNP-C, and Olivia Slezik, RN, AGPCNP-BC, both…
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A new companionship wellness initiative at UMass Medical School is combating isolation and loneliness among COVID-19 patients 65 and older by having students virtually check in, comfort and…, Click below to watch the WCVB/TV report on the program, Program unites medical students in training with lonely hospital patients
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Looking Ahead
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A new study by Alejandro Vasquez-Rifo, PhD, and Victor Ambros, PhD, shows that certain strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a rod-shaped bacterial pathogen that causes disease in plants and animals,…
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