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Gianluca Pirozzi, MD, PhD, Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Immunology and Rare Disease Research

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Dr. Pirozzi received a Doctorate of Medicine from Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in Italy, a Doctorate of Philosophy in Immunology from Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy, a Post-Doctorate degree in Immunology from the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, and business training at the London Business School, UK.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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Chinese researchers scoured ancient medical texts containing written records of malaria outbreaks and the plant-derived recipes that were used to treat them nearly two thousand years ago. Over the course of 12 years, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) screened more than 250,000 compounds in search of an efficacious treatment.

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2021 Young Scientist Award winners announced

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For their remarkable scientific contributions, doctoral student Julia Klaus, Zurich University VetSuisse Faculty, and Dr Yasmin Parr from the MRC-University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, have received the 2021 ABCD Young Scientist Award. To foster young talent development in the feline health research community.

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Dr. Lolettima O. Johnson Celebrated for Dedication to the Field of Medicine

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Doctor Johnson has had an inspiring career that encompasses several aspects of the pharmacy industry. Doctor Johnson aspires to incorporate the latest technologies available in healthcare to care for her patients. Subsequently, she decided to pursue a higher education in pharmacology following her high school graduation.

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AHA News: Hospice Candidate at 2, She’s Now 13 and Thriving

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” That was the term the doctors used six months after a third surgery to correct a heart defect that left her struggling to breathe while her lungs continued to fill with fluid. A doctor suggested hospice. Several doctors came in to evaluate what they were seeing. She had her second open-heart surgery in February 2008.

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MS Has Mixed Impact on Patients’ Cancer Risk: Study

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The answer may depend on the type of cancer, new research shows. But there was good news, too: Their risk of breast and colon cancer is no higher than for people who don’t have MS, according to the Canadian researchers. Why MS patients are prone to bladder cancer isn’t clear.

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Rap Music Is Putting Mental Health in the Spotlight

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. “I think anyone who’s been a fan of rap music across the last two decades — myself included — had a feeling this was happening,” said study author Alex Kresovich, a doctoral fellow in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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