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Brian Vickery, MD: Setting Dosing Standards for Immunotherapy Trials
February 26, 2019Not all practices should be adopted from groundbreaking work. In an interview with MD Magazine® while at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) 2019 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, this week, Brian Vickery, MD, explained how a poor, unevidenced dosing regimen has burdened recent phase 3 food allergy immunotherapy trials.
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Diet low in added sugars significantly improves fatty liver disease in children
January 23, 2019Miriam Vos and colleagues at Emory, University of California/San Diego, and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta conducted a randomized clinical trial of a dietary intervention in adolescent boys with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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eIRB Go-Live at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
January 15, 2019The Children’s IRB is moving to an electronic system for all submissions starting on Monday, February 4, 2019
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Racial disparities in asthma related to health care access, environmental factors
January 15, 2019Racial disparities in asthma can largely be explained by looking at socioeconomic and environmental factors, such as access to healthcare, a nationwide analysis shows. The findings highlight the potential of targeted interventions, such as mobile asthma clinic programs and joint programs with schools where asthma prevalence is high.
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CDC-funded research aims to improve children’s recovery from mild traumatic brain injury
January 08, 2019According to the CDC, each year approximately 640,000 children 14 years and younger have emergency department visits related to traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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Congratulations to the 2018 Imlay Innovation Grant Awardees
December 10, 2018Imlay Innovation Investment Awardees
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No bleeding required: anemia detection via smartphone
December 06, 2018Biomedical engineers have developed a smartphone app with the aim of non-invasive detection of anemia. Instead of a blood test, the app uses photos of someone’s fingernails taken on a smartphone to determine whether the level of hemoglobin in their blood seems low. The results were published Tuesday, Dec. 4 by Nature Communications.
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Power & Precision: Proton therapy arrives in Georgia
December 06, 2018With the opening of the Emory Proton Therapy Center, a first in Georgia and one of fewer than 30 in the nation, Winship Cancer Institute adds a powerful radiation therapy option to its broad array of cancer-fighting tools.