by Talia Lewis | Oct 7, 2019 | News
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced today that they have awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, William G. Kaelin, Jr., and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to...
by Talia Lewis | Sep 30, 2019 | News
Dr. Herbert David Kleber, M.D. was a pioneer in the field of addiction research and treatment. As a physician working at the federal prison hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, Herb saw addiction not as a moral failing, but as a medical problem he wanted to solve...
by Talia Lewis | Sep 19, 2019 | News
For her role in transforming a safety net hospital into a national model for high-quality, cost-efficient health care, the National Academy of Medicine today announced Patricia Gabow is the recipient of the 2019 Gustav O. Lienhard Award for Advancement of Health Care....
by Talia Lewis | Sep 19, 2019 | News
The National Academy of Medicine today announced Daniel Weinberger is the recipient of the 2019 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, for his fundamental role in elucidating the biological origins and genetic expressions of schizophrenia, and...
by Talia Lewis | Sep 18, 2019 | News
Governments and international institutions must take bold steps to manage the mounting threat of deadly disease outbreaks. This is the stark warning of a report released today by an international group of experts, which outlines concrete actions to prepare the world...
by Talia Lewis | Sep 9, 2019 | News
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected five outstanding health professionals for the class of 2019 NAM Fellowships. The fellows were chosen based on their professional qualifications, reputations as scholars, professional accomplishments, and relevance of...
by Talia Lewis | Sep 4, 2019 | News
Dr. Victor Dzau, president of the National Academy of Medicine, delivered a plenary lecture at the at the Nobel conference, “Bio-inspired medicine – unlocking access of nature for opportunities in health,” which was held at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institute,...
by Talia Lewis | Sep 3, 2019 | News
”The single most important intervention for changing behavior is to understand that there is no single most important intervention.” The US National Academy of Medicine and UK Academy of Medical Sciences partnered earlier this year to explore how behavior change can...
by Talia Lewis | Aug 29, 2019 | News
The International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing is tasked with identifying the scientific, medical, and ethical requirements to consider when assessing potential clinical applications of human germline genome editing — if society...
by Talia Lewis | Aug 27, 2019 | News
by Stephanie Miceli You can find a nurse navigating city streets, on her way to a home visit. Or, maybe he is recording educational videos on preventing ear infections. She might even be running for city council. Nurses are taking on new and expanded roles in health...
