education › ... › curriculum
… curriculum (135 semester credit hours) goes beyond the competencies essential to the provision of high-quality … expertise in medical ethics. The Medical Ethics Pathway is comprised of the first-year foundational course in Medical … of a scholarly project in clinical ethics. Students who complete the pathway are presented a certificate during the …
healthcare › ... › liposuction
… some areas may feel hard and lumpy. Your doctor may recommend massage to help take care of any lumps. You can return to your normal activities when you feel comfortable. It may take several days to a few weeks. Most … with other cosmetic surgery procedures, such as a "tummy tuck" (abdominoplasty), breast reduction, or face-lift. …
healthcare › ... › organ-of-corti
… canals and two in a chamber where the three canals come together). The nerve fibers (brown) can be seen on … called the eighth nerve because it is one of 12 nerves that come off the brain in the skull. The spiral shaped cochlea … The wide base of the cochlea from which this segment comes is towards the bottom of the page. The central axis of …
research › ... › projects
… channels were bound in a detergent-insoluble protein complex. With collaborators at Penn, he found this protein complex was located at axonal initial segments and nodes of … for axonal function, and the significance of the protein complex for epilepsy and bipolar disorder. …
research › ... › can-we-regenerate-sensory-cells-of-the-inner-ear
… Hearing loss is one of the most common disabilities in the United States, with approximately … Noise-induced hearing loss has also been a huge problem in combat veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The most common form of hearing loss is caused by the death of …
news › reducing-risk-cardiovascular-disease
… is more to consider than just cholesterol levels when it comes to cardiovascular health. Experts at Baylor College of … for predicting risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke compared to just traditional risk factors. Using data from … known as REDUCE-IT. They found a reduction in nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, coronary …
departments › ... › global-child-health-pediatrics-residency
… Welcome to the Dr. Kelly DeScioli Global Child Health … around the world, positioning you as a leader in delivering compassionate, high-quality pediatric care where it is … focusing on sustainable partnerships that respect the autonomy and needs of the communities you serve. Our program …
news › dna-fracturing-rewires-gene-control-in-cancer
… co-director of Cancer Bioinformatics of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine. … include the same information from non-cancerous tissues for comparison. Working with so many patient samples gave more …
news › novel-brain-circuit-discovery-and-therapy-might-tackle-coinciding-obesity-and-depression
… provide evidence that supports the involvement of a neural component.” To investigate the neuronal circuits that could … because genetically-aided readjustment of the mental states changed their feeding preference from high-fat to low-fat … pharmacologically,” Wu said. “We discovered that the combination of two clinically-approved drugs, zonisamide and …
news › covid-19-patients-have-increased-oxidative-stress-oxidant-damage-and-glutathione-deficiency
… glutathione, the most abundant physiological antioxidant. Compared to healthy age-matched individuals whose samples … Antioxidants , suggest that supplementation with GlyNAC, a combination of glutathione precursors previously shown to … to increase and glutathione to decline. COVID-19 infection changed this pattern. “We were surprised to see that the …