Imaging Fat Layer Around Heart Can Help Predict Disease Imaging epicardial adipose tissue, or the layer of fat around the heart, can provide extra information compared with standard diagnostic techniques such as coronary artery calcium scoring, according to research by cardiologists at Emory University School of Medicine.
HPV Vaccine Shows Promising Results in Genital Diseases in Young Women A five-year, multi-site international study has shown that human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations given to adolescents and young women decrease the number of abnormal Pap smears, biopsies and cases of genital warts.
Fighting Cancer by Collecting Biospecimens Clinicians in Georgia can make an important contribution to cancer research by supporting and advocating for the collection of biospecimens from their patients.
Georgia Pain Initiative’s Conference on Policies and Paths to Improvement National and state experts in the field of pain management discussed topics ranging from patient and prescriber perspectives on pain to the state of pain management in Georgia at the Georgia Pain Initiative’s recent conference, “Connecting Pain Management Policy and Practice to Serve Our Communities.”
Transfusion-Related Risk Trials at Emory $8 million NIH grant to Emory's School of Medicine funds clinical trial focused on protecting low birth weight infants from transfusion-related viral infections and new strategies for rebuilding the immune systems of bone marrow transplant recipients.
