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Senior Predictive Health Minors present final projects on Friday, May 3rd at 8:30 am

Posted on May 3, 2013 | Leave a comment

The final course requirement for Predictive Health Minors is called “Health 410: Predictive Health Challenge.”  This year’s inaugural senior class took on as their final challenge the creation of an app to improve health.  The class has been working in small groups of 2-4 students to produce an app targeting a specific health challenge that they have identified.  On Friday, May 3rd at 8:30 am in White Hall Room 207, students will describe the health challenge that they are targeting and then publicly demonstrate how their app works.  We encourage Emory students and community members to attend these presentations.

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Predicting tricuspid valve leakage: Changing treatments and saving lives

Posted on January 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

A joint Georgia Tech and Emory University study released in the January issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging utilized 3-D echocardiography images to develop an advanced method for predicting the severity of tricuspid valve leakage.  Not only do the study’s findings offer a new way for cardiologists to more accurately diagnose tricuspid regurgitation, but it also provided insight into ways to improve surgical repair procedures to improve long-term patient outcomes.

For a full description of the study, view this description that includes commentary by the Emory and Georgia Tech research team.

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Predictions about the future of personalized medicine

Posted on January 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

A new article from the Wall Street Journal addresses questions about the future of personalized medicine. The article by Dr. David Agus, entitled “A doctor in your pocket: What does the future of medicine hold? Tiny health monitors, tailored therapies  – and the end of illness”, explores the possibilities that await us in the future with advances in portable technologies. Click here to read the full article.

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New Course Offerings in Human Health

Posted on January 11, 2012 | Leave a comment

This spring the Center for the Study of Human Health will be offering some exciting new courses to Emory Undergrads:

  • HLTH 385-000: Botanical Medicine and Health
  • HLTH 385-001: Food, Health and Society
  • HLTH 385-002: Contemporary Nutrition
  • HLTH 410: Predictive Health Challenges – Integrative Health

Visit the Emory Course Atlas for the full list of the Spring 2012 Human Health course offerings.

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Andrew Gewirtz, PhD Speaks on our Guts, Inflammation, and Metabolic Syndrome at the 2011 Predictive Health Symposium

Posted on January 3, 2012 | Leave a comment

The theme of the 2011 Predictive Health Symposium was “Health and the Microbiome”, featuring a number of speakers describing innovative findings that relate the health of our microbiome – all of the microbes and their associated genetic content that lives inside our guts – to our overall well-being.

Dr. Andrew Gewirtz, a Professor in the Center for Inflammation, Immunity, & Infection at Georgia State University, spoke on the relationships between our gut microbiota, chronic inflammation, and the development of metabolic syndrome.  Metabolic syndrome describes a host of factors, including insulin resistance and central obesity, that simultaneously contribute to stroke, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes risk.  A video of his talk can be downloaded directly, or from the Symposium’s webpage (along with all of the other talks).  The content requires Real Player to view, which can be downloaded free from the Real Player website.

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Posted in Inflammation, Metabolic syndrome, Microbiota

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