A UMass Medical School researcher is leading a new study to evaluate the use of telehealth to improve suicide-related outcomes. The four-year, $4.4 million National Institute of Mental Health…
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If someone breaks a leg during a hike in the woods, how does a bystander respond? What can be done to help? These are the questions that a group of second-year School of Medicine students are…
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Air National Guard Brig. Gen. Sean Collins, PhD’09, has been named a member of the Board of Trustees for the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke. Dr. Collins, assistant professor of nursing, was tapped for his…
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UMass Medical School researchers are about to start enrolling adolescents ages 12 through 17 in a clinical trial to test the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine made by Moderna. The vaccine has already been…
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AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published the latest editions of its lists of the top corporate air and…
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School of Medicine students are motivating classmates to tackle stress and fatigue through fitness. UMass Medical School’s chapter of Medicine in Motion , a national nonprofit, is dedicated to…
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Tammy T. Nguyen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery, describes herself as a garbage collector. But it would perhaps be more accurate to say Dr. Nguyen is giving biomedical waste a purpose. She’s…
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UMass Medical School’s new assistant vice chancellor for city and community relations comes into the role with a reputation for bringing people together. Ché Anderson joins the Office of Government…
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Global infectious diseases like the COVID-19 pandemic need global as well as local solutions, says Prof. Ford-Timothy Timothy Ford , the new chair of the BNS landing page Department of Biomedical…, Q: Which diseases are your main focus?, A:, I’m very interested in waterborne diseases, especially cholera and E. coli 0157, a newer strain of E. coli that’s highly toxigenic and has a high fatality rate. My research group at Montana State…, Q: What are you researching now?, A:, We’ve been looking at ways to do better surveillance of the deadly strain of cholera that arrived In Haiti with U.N. peacekeepers, after the 2010 earthquake. It has killed close to 10,000 people…, Q: You have written recently for Timothy Ford articles for The Conversation The Conversation about issues involving COVID-19 vaccines, based on your work in global health. Why are more deadly…, A:, No matter how diseases are transmitted – whether airborne, waterborne, by direct contact or through vectors such as ticks and mosquitoes – the same trends worldwide are leading to the emergence of…, Q: What do you think will cause the next big pandemic?, A:, The most likely sources of pandemics are the respiratory viruses, like influenza and the coronaviruses. After that, perhaps the vector-borne diseases, like malaria. Waterborne diseases that we need…
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We are a nation divided. Democrats. Republicans. Polarized. Cleaved. On everything from race to climate change, from how to repair the economy to how to handle the coronavirus pandemic, Americans are…, Q. Over the past four years, we have seen a society cleaved not so much by disagreements on opinions over policies or issues, but by disputes about the very facts themselves. Has our country ever…, A., The Capitol riots demonstrated the depth of our divided perceptions. In my view, the events of January 6 were in large part driven by dueling fact perceptions — especially about the fairness of the…, Q. You’ve researched what you call “the political consequences of belief.” What does that mean?, A., Simply put, ideas have consequences. The beliefs — values and identities, ideologies and perceptions — can be identified, and the consequences — cooperation and conflict, engagement and decline —…, Q. President Biden has urged Americans to embrace unity over division. But how does a divided nation achieve unity?, A., I don’t see much future unity around cultural similarity, because we are increasingly culturally distinct in terms of diverse ethnicities, religious beliefs, political values, partisan identities,…, Q. What happens if we continue on the road we’re traveling?, A., Nothing good. I fear much more separation into distinct camps within American society, which will make us poorer, less empathetic, less willing to sacrifice for the nation. If our internal division…
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