Researchers examined associations between measures of sleep quality and the dietary patterns of 500 women who participated in a year-long study of sleep patterns and cardiovascular risk in women.
“We don't yet have a vaccine and we don't have approved drugs for prevention of disease or treatment of disease. So all we have is isolation,” said Dr. Ian Lipkin of Columbia University.
As the virus enters lung cells, it starts to replicate, destroying the cells, explains Dr. Yoko Furuya, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University.
While pursuing her education as a geneticist, Gina Wingood, ScD, MPH, witnessed the early days of the AIDS epidemic and changed fields to help address it.
Lorna Dove, medical director for the liver transplant center at CUIMC, was drawn to her field partly because of the close relationships she is able to develop with her patients.
While new drugs are being developed to thwart P. falciparum, some researchers are busy developing tools to predict what mutations are likely to occur next in the parasite’s genome.
