Osteopore (ASX:OSX) has signed a research collaboration agreement with the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicines Department of Surgery and the National University Hospital (NUH) to investigate the potential for using its 3D printed implants in reconstructing lower jawbones.

Patients may need mandibular reconstruction from bone loss due to trauma or disease, and while there are treatments available, including grafts, they can lead to post-surgical complications and donor site morbidities.

There are an estimated two or three mandibular reconstructions per week at NUH, Osteopore says.

Osteopore, the Department of Surgery at NUS Yong Loon Lin School of Medicine and NUH Department of Surgery will work together on a preliminary study to see if Osteopores 3D printed products could be combined with bone marrow aspirates to regrow bone.

Osteopore says its implants have a unique advantage in that they are bioresorbable and can be custom manufactured to fit each patient.

The main objective of the collaboration is to gain pre-clinical data for the evaluation of future studies.

The project has a long development pathway and theres no guarantee the company will be able to successfully commercialise the mandible products, Osteopore warned.

As previously reported, Osteopore has added the Australian Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) to its pool room shelf of regulators who think its bone healing products, in this case for the skull and face, are worthy of joining the Australian market.

The Singapore-based medical device company is commercialising a range of 3D printed bioresorbable scaffolds for regenerative bone healing, and in this case for use as bone void fillers.

The TGA has approved for use in Australia the Osteomesh, Osteoplug, and Osteoplug-C products, which European and US regulators have already done, together with Singapore and other East Asian regulatory clearances.

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It takes a special kind of person to want to go into medicine. The path is really hard, expensive, and incredibly self-doubting. One mitigating factor in all of that is having the right support system. Not only can a good support system really help with getting through medical school, but also the process of getting in.

Preparation, planning, and execution starts years before you ever start that first application. When you're still a child or young adult with all of these challenging, long-term goals, it's easy to be nearsighted and just live in the moment.

You know that eventually you want to become a doctor, lawyer, nurse, professional athlete, etc. At the same time, you don't want to be studying, training, or going to professional development camps all the time. You want to hang with friends, go out, and have fun. This was definitely how I was in high school, and well into college.

In high school I had good grades, strong extracurriculars, and the drive to do well. I have always been a competitive and determined person, but I also always had my parents there to push me just a little harder. As self-motivated as I was, there were several times where I got complacent, or just didn't really understand the work it would take to get where I wanted to go.

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As simple as this message is, there are a lot of kids who don't get that push to just give their best effort no matter what. My parents and I had this conversation several times in regards to sports, academics, and any other aspects of my life. Without this encouragement and direction, I'm not sure I ever would have had the work ethic that it takes to pursue something as challenging and selective as medical school.

My parents also put a lot of value on education, which was also really important. I've worked with and studied with many kids who didn't care about school. It was merely a formality, or a legal obligation. When I spoke with many of them, they said their parents didn't put a lot of emphasis on attending school, and they just wanted to work, make money, and support their families.

This is a common value, and a very understandable one considering the socioeconomic background that my patients or friends came from. However, in the world we are in now, higher education can be the bridge to better health, social, and economical life. Almost any form of higher education is positively correlated with a better predicted life outcome. This is something my parents understood and instilled into me and my brothers.

This sounds extreme (it's the weekend, who cares when it gets done) and at the time I felt it was. But I realized later that my parents were trying to teach me the value of not procrastinating, and waiting until the last minute. There's a breath of fresh air you can breathe on Sunday night knowing that all of your assignments are done and you're not cramming and turning in subpar work. These are skills that they wanted me to carry through college, and eventually, medical school.

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My mom went on to get her PhD while working a full-time job and taking care of my family. It was inspiring to watch her balance everything and still excel in a very challenging doctorate program. Was everything perfect all the time? No. But she tried her best in every aspect of her life, and that's the important value she wanted me to understand. You don't have to be perfect, you just have to try your best, and eventually, that will translate into being one of the best.

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It's stressful, and questionable if that's the best approach, but when someone like a doctor has your life in their hands, you would hope that they have the mindset of trying to be their very best every day. You would hope that in the light of adversity, they would have the grit and resilience to problem-solve, and do everything they can to keep you alive and well.

These are just a few of the skills and lessons my parents wanted me to learn, and I really didn't understand it as a child. I thought they were being unnecessarily hard and putting a lot of pressure on me. Sometimes, I still feel that way. But I know, at the end of the day, it's so I can go out into a world that cares nothing about my feelings and excel no matter what.

It's these attributes that will help children become extraordinary and pursue the seemingly impossible. You don't have to have a PhD or even a Bachelor's or high school diploma to show your kids what's important. Just instill in them good values, a solid work ethic, and let them know the world is theirs for the taking, and they will excel in anything they put their minds to.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven biomarker discovery innovator Scailyte announced today that Michael Brenner MD, Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has joined Scailyte as an advisor to the Board of Directors.

Prof. Brenner is the director of Brigham and Women's Hospital's Human Immunology Center, which creates and performs single-cell transcriptional analysis and functional investigations in order to decipher human autoimmune illnesses, stratify patient groups, and find prospective therapeutic target cells and pathways. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States and has received numerous awards.

Prof Brenner's research focuses on T cell biology, antigen presentation, microbial pathogenesis, and autoimmunity. His research discovered the integrin molecule aEb7 (CD103) and its role in leukocyte homing, as well as a role for the CD1 antigen presentation system in the activation of T cells and NKT cells. His team has recently identified distinct fibroblast subpopulations that are pathologically expanded in disease, as well as a new T helper cell population, T peripheral helper (Tph) cells, that are implicated in antibody production in autoantibody-mediated disorders.

Michael Brenner, MD comments: "I am thrilled to support Scailyte in their pioneering efforts combining single-cell technologies and artificial intelligence for biomarker discovery. Single-cell technology is moving into the clinical space, and Scailyte is there at the right moment to capture the potential and create a new generation of clinical applications that will make a difference for patients."

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Scailyte AG is a spin-off of ETH Zurich and combines single-cell technologies, high-quality datasets and machine learning methods to identify disease-specific biomarkers, with a focus on oncology and immunology. Scailyte's proprietary best-in-class data analysis platform ScaiVision associates multimodal single-cell datasets (RNA-/TCR-/BCR-seq, proteomics, etc) with clinical endpoints, such as disease diagnosis, progression, severity, treatment response, in order to identify ultra-sensitive biomarker signatures. Thanks to the single-cell resolution and AI-driven approach, ScaiVision is the most powerful and cutting-edge approach to develop methods for precise diagnosis and prediction of therapy response. Scailyte leverages a global network of clinicians to identify disease indications with high unmet needs and collaborates with global pharmaceutical and biotech companies to translate the novel biomarkers into ultra-sensitive companion diagnostics (CDx) and IVD assays.

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In the midst of the pandemic, Michael R. Bloomberg is focusing on a unique way to improve the health of Black communities: by giving money to Black students studying to become doctors.

Mr. Bloomberg, the billionaire and former mayor of New York, announced on Thursday that his philanthropic organization would give $100 million to four historically Black medical schools.

The immediate goal is to reduce medical students financial burdens by giving about 800 of them up to $100,000 in grants. The bigger goal, architects of the gift say, is to improve the health and wealth of Black Americans.

If the goal of the portfolio is to create intergenerational wealth, we have to think about the mortality and the life span of the Black community, said Garnesha Ezediaro, program lead for the Greenwood Initiative, Mr. Bloombergs philanthropic effort meant to address the systemic economic inequity faced by Black Americans.

The gift is the first major donation by the Greenwood Initiative, which is named after the Tulsa district where hundreds of Black Oklahomans were massacred in 1921. Mr. Bloomberg introduced the initiative as part of his presidential campaign, during which he was forced to apologize for policies he instituted as mayor, most notably the aggressive stop-and-frisk policing strategy that disproportionately disadvantaged Black and Hispanic New Yorkers.

Leaders of the four institutions Charles R. Drew University of Science and Medicine, in Los Angeles; Howard University College of Medicine, in Washington; Meharry Medical College, in Nashville; and Morehouse School of Medicine, in Atlanta say the donation is one of the biggest by a single donor to historically Black schools. They hope that it highlights the importance of their institutions to the well-being of Black communities.

Mr. Bloombergs donation follows others to historically Black colleges, like the $120 million pledge by the Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, and a series of multimillion-dollar gifts from MacKenzie Scott, the author and philanthropist who was once married to the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. In 2013, Mr. Bloomberg gave $1.1 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, with a key focus on its public health school.

After Mr. Bloomberg abandoned his electoral ambitions, he began canvassing for ways to lift up Black communities. One concern that emerged as the coronavirus spread was the disproportionate devastation in Black communities.

The data is clear: Black patients over all have better outcomes when they get treatment from Black doctors, the famously data-driven Mr. Bloomberg wrote in an email. By increasing the number of Black doctors, we hope the gift will help to save more Black lives and reduce the health problems that limit economic opportunity in Black communities.

Mr. Bloombergs representatives began reaching out to the schools officials around four weeks ago, asking how to best improve Black communities wealth, said Dr. Wayne Frederick, the president of Howard University. The answer: Increase the number of Black doctors.

And free from a pressing need to repay student debt the average burden on graduating students from these institutions is about $285,000 more of the doctors may choose to become primary care physicians in needy communities, said Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, the president and dean of Morehouse School of Medicine.

What we will have the opportunity to do with this reward is relieve the stress of those students, she said.

Under the terms of the gift, students graduating between 2021 and 2024 are eligible for the grants. The donation does not require students to choose a particular specialty.

In the longer term, school officials hope Mr. Bloombergs donation helps raise awareness, particularly for other potential donors, of the institutions and the role they play. Dr. James E.K. Hildreth, the president of Meharry, noted that the schools alumni often lacked the opportunity to earn as much as their white counterparts, limiting how much they could donate to their alma maters.

One ambition is to make education at these institutions free, as New York Universitys School of Medicine announced it would do in 2018 after raising $450 million from benefactors.

Dr. David M. Carlisle, the president and chief executive of Charles R. Drew, said that these funds are really going to shout to the world that historically Black medical schools are not just there, but that theyre there in a big, meaningful way.

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The doctor whos been treating President Donald Trump for the coronavirus has roots in Philadelphia. Its where he trained in medicine

Dr. Sean Conley, the 40-year-old whos been at the forefront of national health updates lately, has been the presidents physician for two years. He grew up in Doylestown, and graduated from Central Bucks High School East in 1998. His medical degree comes from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

The Philly higher ed institution is not your average medical school. Turns out Conley doesnt actually have an MD degree.

Instead, hes a DO a doctor of osteopathic medicine. With that certification, Conley can do everything a regular doctor can do, like prescribe medicine and perform surgery in all 50 states.

The training is different in that it takes a more holistic look at the body than traditional medicine. It emphasizes primary care, and practices that encourage the body to heal itself rather than the immediate prescription of medicine or use of surgery to correct problems.

At first, the practice was highly controversial. During the first decade of PCOMs existence, it wasnt even legal in Pennsylvania. Over the next two centuries, debates over osteopathy continued, with traditional physicians critiquing its more controversial practices like the in the late 1800s idea to shake a child to cure scarlet fever.

In recent years, the stigma has mostly dissolved as the training and practice have themselves become more legit. Now, earning a DO degree requires the same training as an MD, plus extra coursework.

Conleys Philly alma mater is considered a pioneer in the field, and helped see it through to the modern day.

The first person to bring osteopathic medicine to Philadelphia was a woman named Clara Martin. In 1899, the city directory listed her as an osteopath, working from an office on 67th Street near the Cobbs Creek Parkway, just south of Mount Moriah Cemetery.

That same year, two physicians named Snyder and Pressly founded what would become PCOM, then called the Philadelphia College and Infirmary of Osteopathy.

Philly was experiencing a general boom in medical institutions right then, notes a published history of the school called To Secure Merit, by Carol Benenson Perloff. Episcopal Hospital, German Hospital (now Lankenau), Jewish Hospital (now Einstein Medical Center) and Presbyterian Hospital were all founded between 1849 and 1882.

PCOM first opened at 12th and Market, filling two rooms inside a 13-story office tower. Within a year, it outgrew that space and relocated to the Witherspoon building at Juniper and Walnut.

Enrollment kept growing. Many students were people inspired by seeing osteopathic doctors step in after traditional medicine had failed.

Alum Arthur Flack, who graduated in 1906, said he got interested when he saw osteopathic medicine helped cure cases of typhoid fever amid an epidemic in his hometown of Butler, Pa.

When I first became a studentmy marvel was as to the intense devotion manifested by the small group of physicians headed by you, Flack said in 1925, according to Perloffs book. Without such sincere devotion, Osteopathy today would be only a memory in Pennsylvania.

Thing is, osteopathy wasnt even legally recognized when PCOM first opened its doors.

The first attempt to legalize it in Pennsylvania passed through the state legislature in 1905, but was vetoed by then-Governor Pennypacker. It wasnt until 1909 that a Governor Stuart signed the bill to allow osteopathic doctors to apply for state licensure, 10 years after the Philadelphia college was first founded.

Licensing made the practice more popular, and PCOM continued to outgrow its facilities. The school moved to Spring Garden Street, then to 33rd and Arch, and eventually to North Broad Street.

Some drama: Before the legalization of osteopathy, the college had raised about $3,000. But the founders continued not to pay faculty with actual money for their teaching they compensated them only with stock in the school.

In 1904, faculty started demanding payment. The founders refused, and there was a theatrical back-and-forth in which the schools deans threatened to resign unless the two founders resigned. Shockingly, both founders did resign, and a board of trustees was established that still exists today.

By 1910, PCOM was considered a pioneer when it became one of the first to adapt to new statewide legalization requirements, and create a four-year program, which it maintains to this day.

After those gazillion relocations and expansions, PCOM landed at its current campus on City Avenue at the Bala Cynwyd border.

The school currently has almost 2,000 students, across areas of study like clinical psychology, biomedical sciences and forensic medicine. Like osteopathic medicine schools nationwide, its really tough to get in. In 2019, nearly 7k students applied for just 441 spots in the program.

Dr. Conley, Trumps doctor, has a degree that takes four years to complete. The first two are spent learning basic and clinical sciences, and the second two doing hands-on work in teaching hospitals.

While enrolled, the Bucks County native likely got plenty of Philly experience, since students spend four months working in city neighborhoods at PCOMs Community Healthcare Centers.

After their four years, some students declare a specialty and spend more time in school. PCOM reports that a majority of its grads end up in family medicine, general internal medicine, OB/GYN or pediatrics.

In general, osteopathic medicine has grown in popularity in recent years seen as a more hands-on version of health care. DOs work to understand how all parts of the body are connected, and take a major focus on preventative and primary care.

An osteopathic medicine student in New York told the New York Times in 2014 she became interested in the practice after a standard MD said shed need surgery to correct her chronic ear infections but then she went to a DO, who corrected the problem by stretching her neck, she said.

The infection happened because of fluid in the ear, said the student, Gabrielle Rozenberg, and the manipulations opened up the ear canal.

The practice has become widespread enough that PCOM has opened two more campuses, both in Georgia. According to the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, about 25% of all medical students today are training at an osteopathic school.

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Even setting aside the once-in-a-lifetime impact of the pandemic, the physicians role in 2020 is substantially different than it was a decade ago. Todays patients are often sicker, and illness is compounded by numerous nonbiomedical factors, such as inadequate social support to comply with treatment plans and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations.

The COVID-19 pandemic is complicating things further by stalling many clinical research and quality improvement efforts. But a project funded by a grant from the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative continues training students at four U.S. medical schools to incorporate a new history and physical (H&P) modelthe H&P 360to collect biopsychosocial data, better manage chronic disease and address social determinants of health.

The four medical schools receiving the H&P 360 implementation grants are the University of Michigan, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Florida International University and University of Chicago.

While the H&P is the primary process through which a physician obtains key subjective and objective patient information, the traditional H&P was developed decades ago when the physicians role was more limited.

Medical practice is necessarily undergoing a paradigm shift, and the new paradigm has to do with accounting for social determinants and behavioral health, said Brent Williams, MD, MPH, director of the Global Health and Disparities Path of Excellence at University of Michigan Medical School.

The H&P 360 is meant to help physicians stop making the mistakes that are in built into the old medical paradigm, which is based exclusively on biomedical disease diagnosis and treatment, Dr. Williams added. It pushes them to take a realistic view of why so many patients bounce back into the hospitalfor example, because they didn't have access to their medications or they didn't take them appropriately.

Based on a format developed at University of Michigan Medical School, the H&P 360 was expanded and refined by the AMAs Chronic Disease Prevention and Management interest group in 2017 and piloted at four medical schools in 2018.

The idea behind the H&P 360 is that by including at least a few questions in each of six domains besides the traditional biomedical information in the routine history, physicians care of patients will improve.

Those additional domains are:

For example, in the relationships domain, students are being trained to assess the level of support available to their patients. They might ask questions such as:

The effectiveness of the H&P 360 is supported by a 2019 randomized-controlled trial with standardized patients. Nearly 160 third- and fourth-year medical students at four medical schoolsUniversity of Michigan, University of North Dakota, University of Connecticut and University of California, Daviswere randomly assigned to either the traditional H&P or the H&P 360 and further randomized to either see a patient with hypertension or a patient with type 2 diabetes.

For each encounter, a standardized patient doubled as a trained observer and completed a grading rubric that measured:

Analysis of the data demonstrated average total scores on the performance rubric were substantially higher among the intervention group in both cases, at all four schools and across all four standardized patients.

Dr. Williams noted that the grant groups students have returned to clinical settings and are now implementing H&P 360 during both in-person and virtual visits.

While the pandemic has disrupted or delayed some of the work, it has also made it easier to apply the H&P 360, he said. With video visits, medical students are drawn more directly into patients living environments and social support systems.

No matter the type of visit, however, what makes the H&P 360 such a practical tool is that its not a checklist that has to be included in every visit, Dr. Williams added. By gathering just two or three pieces of information each time, the physician will gradually get a more complete picture of a patients health and the paths to improvement.

The long-term goal for H&P 360 is to make it the standard tool in medical practice for improvement of all aspects of chronic disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management. The H&P 360 template and supporting materials are available for use at all medical schools.

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In order for us to train medical students to be the best physicians they can be, we have to be the best medical educators that we can be. That includes keeping up with our colleagues around the country on best practices and sharing our own experiences. This is why medical education research is so important.

When I say that I do medical education research, I get a lot of funny looks. Many people dont understand what it is or what it looks like, and they dont understand that its important research, just like basic science or clinical research.

There is a science to the neurobiology of how we actually learn, and learning takes place in many environments, including the classroom and the clinic. We publish guidelines and protocols for best practices in medical education, just as clinicians publish the newest diagnosis and treatment protocols.

We also perform trials comparing one method of teaching to another, and study how our education interventions effect outcomes.

The very first goal in our Baylor College of Medicine School of Medicine strategic plan is to establish Baylor College of Medicine School of Medicine as an international leader in medical education innovation and pedagogy and our medical education scholarship is one of the ways that we will get there.

Its important to us that our learners are exposed to the latest technologies, learning tools, and pedagogy because that training will ultimately help them provide the best care to patients. Its impossible to teach students everything there is to know about medicine. I believe it should not be our aim to even try.

I believe that we should focus much more attention on teaching students how to critically appraise, apply knowledge and become consciously competent master adaptive learners.

For example, one recent finding about medical education showed us that learners do better when they are active participants in the learning process. There is now far too much evidence that shows lecture-based learning is not effective.

As a result, we have been transforming the first 18 months of our curriculum. We have increased the amount of active learning in every class, utilizing techniques such as flipped classrooms and team-based learning. New courses have been introduced that are 100% active learning.

I have to admit that one of my favorite things about my job is indeed the research aspect of what I do implementing the latest science in teaching and learning and studying its effects. I love curling up with my academic journals and reading them cover to cover, and I actually love writing papers.

I have collaborated on numerous studies with colleagues from around the country. I find that working with other institutions validates the problems that we all face in medical education. They are not unique and its great to problem solve together.

One recent challenge that we faced during the COVID pandemic was how we could continue to effectively teach our students who were pulled from the clinical learning environment. After consulting with counterparts across the country, we found that we needed to increase our usage of high quality, interactive, online patient cases.

Utilizing these cases that provide the opportunity for critical thinking should not be limited to our clinical students they should be the foundation of how we teach students from the first day of medical school. Adult learning theory supports that even students with no medical training can work through clinical cases albeit at a different level than senior students.

Doing medical education research is part of how educators get promoted up the ranks just like in basic science/clinical science, and we disseminate our findings in scholarly fashions the same way through posters and abstracts at national conferences, as well as in publications.

One difference is while there are opportunities for grants, there are not quite as many available for pure medical education research. Most are in much smaller amounts. However, much medical education research could be incorporated into the basic science and clinical research grants that are submitted at health sciences universities.

I try to mentor all junior faculty educators to study what they do. Make sure to turn that abstract into a paper and be persistent when submitting work for publication. It may not get accepted the first time around, but persistence really does win out.

We need to be more cognizant about publishing what we do so that others can learn from it. There is no point in every institution recreating the wheel and my goal is that Baylor will be creating those wheels and looked at as the leader in medical education.

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Adeline Fagan, a second-year OB-GYN resident and 2019 graduate of the UB Jacobs School of Medicine, died on Saturday of a brain bleed after battling COVID. She was 28.

Fagan is being remembered as a beautiful and passionate doctor who wanted to help as many people as she could. The Syracuse native was a fighter who is now inspiring others to give back.

Fagan's story is also a cautionary tale of the dangers of COVID.

On July 8, Fagan worked a 12-hour shift treating COVID patients in the ER. She felt fine and was excited to see patients at the start of her shift, but sometime during the evening, she started experiencing flu-like symptoms.

Fagan spent the next few weeks in the hospital, as doctors tried treating her with several different respiratory therapies and dozens of drugs. When Fagan didnt respond positively to these treatments, she was enrolled in an experimental drug trial.

But before her family could see if this new drug was effective, Fagan's lungs stopped supporting her.

On Aug. 3, Fagan was intubated and placed on a ventilator. On Aug. 4, she was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a machine that pumps blood from the body, oxygenates it and pumps it back into the body.

Over the past few days, Fagan's family became optimistic that Adeline was turning a corner. On Friday night, a nurse called her parents and sounded quite upbeat when she said that Adeline was decannulated and no longer on the ECMO machine.

On Saturday night, Fagan was doing wonderfully. At 10 p.m., her family called the hospital and received a positive report. But 30 minutes later, they got a call back. A nurse had come into Fagans room for a routine task and noticed that she wasnt responsive.

Fagan had suffered a massive brain bleed.

She was given a one in a million chance for survival.

We spent the remaining minutes hugging, comforting, and talking to Adeline. And then the world stopped Fagans family wrote on their GoFundMe page.

Fagan was in her second year of residency in obstetrics and gynecology. She was memorialized by former professors and classmates in a story posted to the Jacobs School of Medicine website Monday.

Addie decided on a career in obstetrics and gynecology fairly late in medical school, but once she made up her mind she was willing to do whatever it took to pursue her goal, said Vanessa M. Barnabei, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology. She had an amazingly positive attitude and infectious smile and her passing will deprive thousands of women of her empathy and commitment to their health.

Fagan's father, Brent, kept an online journal detailing his daughter's battle with the virus.

If you can do one thing, be an Adeline in the world, Brent wrote. Be passionate about helping others less fortunate, have a smile on your face, a laugh in your heart, and a Disney tune on your lips.

Fagan's sister, Maureen, set up a GoFundMe page to raise funds for medical expenses and support.

Justin Weiss is the senior features editor and can be reached at justin.weiss@ubspectrum.com

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TWIN FALLS September marks Women in Medicine Month, and 2017 studies conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges show that males still have a handle on the workforce in doctor and physician positions. However, these numbers also show that more women are currently enrolled in medical school, helping lessen a gender gap in the future.

The significance of Women in Medicine Month means a lot to Isabel Rutazihana, a refugee nurse who arrived in California in 2007 with her parents from the Democratic Republic of Congo to escape an ongoing conflict. The initial culture shock to the US was initially very overwhelming. Having to adapt to schooling, US customs, employment, and even driving was a lot to take in.

"The culture like as a kid, how kids viewed their parents, how parents viewed their kids, employment, everything was just totally different," said Isabel.

Despite always having the dream of becoming a doctor, she had put it aside until witnessing her mother take of a woman whose family had abandoned her. Isabel said, "I saw how much love that my mom gave to her and how much joy it brought to her. It made me feel I do want to work in something that actually brings joy to people's lives."

Isabel arrived in Twin in 2018, where she balanced school, a new family, and working as a nursing assistant at St. Luke's Magic Valley. After years of hard work, Isabel graduated from school this past December. Still, due to COVID and other personal reasons, she delayed taking her NCLEX exam, which would make her a fully registered and certified nurse. However, just recently, she finally managed to take the exam.

Isabel said, "I pushed my NCLEX a little bit farther and farther, and I finally took it about a week and a half ago, and I passed, so I'm officially a nurse!"

Isabel's long journey has been a lot, having to manage school, work, and taking care of her child. In some instances, she would miss out on helping her son with homework, tucking him in at night, and having to sacrifice quality time with her husband. However, despite her sacrifices, she attributes her success in completing school to the sacrifices her family made, and that they were the driving force to achieve her goals.

"Right now, my son can say, "Oh! My mom is a nurse, and she works at the hospital," and when he says it, I feel very proud because I accomplished something," said Isabel.

For Isabel, Women in Medicine Month means the world as it signifies women blazing their own path in a challenging field of work, "It kind of shows that as women we're not just homemakers or do secretary work and we can actually go into the field with men and can actually do."

Isabel views her becoming a nurse as just a stepping stone in her career and hopes to accomplish more in the future.

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While my final semester at Michigan State University is much different than I could have ever anticipated, I am so grateful for the opportunities I have had the past three years. Being a Spartan means joining a family that I will forever be a part of, connected by the call of Go Green.

From going to Switzerland for a semester to being the President of the Council of Students with Disabilities, my time at MSU has allowed me to find my passions for my future careers.

Homecoming is very different this year, but I think that with the events going virtual there is an opportunity for more people to be involved than before. The Spartan Nation spans the globe, and the celebration of this timely tradition can now reach those who are not close to East Lansing. I am excited for the events and to be a part of this years court as the weeks festivities are more accessible.

Presently, I am planning on attending medical school and I want to work on disability advocacy in health care. From my time as an emergency medical technician in the local area, I have been able to meet incredibly inspiring practitioners and patients that push me to pursue these goals, even when it gets tough. Working through the pandemic has been incredibly taxing, but it made me realize just how much I want to help my community in a medical capacity.

With my time at Michigan State drawing to a close, the future outside of university grows near. I have made lifelong friends that I look forward to getting some Dairy Store ice cream with years from now. I hope to be able to come back for Homecoming with my family to experience a Spartan game day again. I am so glad that I decided to move across the country to attend college in East Lansing. Come December, I will graduate, virtually, with fond memories and a smile.

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Area students Merit Scholarship semifinalists

Five students from Northeast Alabama high schools are among 16,000 students nationwide who earned semifinalist status in the 66th annual Merit Scholarship Program.

They are Joel T. Bishop, Cherokee County; Benjamin C. Johnson, Sardis; Arturo Rodriguez Lopez, Fort Payne; Lauren A. Taylor, Westbrook Christian; and Anna C. Tumlin, Gadsden City.

Semifinalists now have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,600 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $30 million that will be offered next spring. They must fulfill several requirements to advance to the finalist level of the competition.

Wilson earns NAACP scholarship

The Etowah County (Gadsden) Chapter of the NAACP recently awarded its Elaine Harris Spearman, Esq., Academic Character and Service Scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to Taurus Levelle Wilson Jr.

Wilson is a graduate of Gadsden City High School and the son of Taurus and Towanna Wilson Sr.

The award was presented to Wilson at Gadsden State Community College, with participation by Dr. Leslie Worthington, Dean of Academic Programs and Services.

Wilson will be attending Gadsden State for two years with plans to transfer to a four-year university to complete his degree. His area of concentration is Business/Public Administration.

The coronavirus pandemic prevented the presentation from being made at the organizations annual Freedom Fund Dinner.

Gadsden State releases honors lists

The Summer Semester 2020 Presidents and Deans Lists at Gadsden State Community College were released by Interim President Gregg Bennett.

Full-time students who earn a semester grade point average of 4.0 (with all As) and complete a minimum of 12 credit hours of college-level work are named to the Presidents List. Full-time students who earn a semester grade point average of 3.5 or above but below 4.0 (with all As and Bs) and complete a minimum of 12 credit hours of college-level work are named to the Deans List.

PRESIDENTS LIST

ALBERTVILLE: Jasmine Soto, Cheston Sweat

ALEXANDRIA: Jodi Argo, Casey Brooks, Kristin Kilgore, Micah McGuffey, Wayne Reynolds

ANNISTON: Wesley Boyd, Cary Brand, Christian Coggins, Emily Foster, Krymson Grace, Brandon Hawkins, Jewel Henson, Denham Johnson, Shaquille Jones, Jessica Karns, Ana Logan, Joseph McKay, Sierra Nolen, Jessica Rollins, Kaitlyn Sanders, Kyle Spears, Amanda Stallings, Brandy Taylor, Alyssa Tims

ASHLAND: Holland Hardegree, Nathaniel Hill-Magouirk

ASHVILLE: Kennedy Carter, Annaleisha Hardrick, Britany Mcginnis

ATTALLA: Robert Lowery, Conner Morgan, Justin Saxon, Richard Sims

BIRMINGHAM: Kaitlynn Lively

BOAZ: Dylan Montejo, Marty Parker, Juan Piceno, Stephanie Redwine, Leonard Trammell, Marshall West

CENTRE: Christopher Bourne, Brian Brock, Rebekah Hill, Bret James, Jenifer Prater, Jeffrey White

COLLINSVILLE: Trevor Arnold, Haley Looney

CROSSVILLE: Adrian Hernandez Ruiz

DAWSON: Lisa Thompson

DECATUR: Jenna Halbrooks

FORT PAYNE: Jesus Lopez

GADSDEN: Nethania Amangoua, Allyson Britton, Alexis Burton, Charlotte Byers, Gregory Carnes, Jerry Cothran, Angelica Dandridge, Derek Duncan, Cory Dunn, Adam Goodrich, John Grable, Nakia Jelks, Matthew Johnson, Kalyn Jones, Maria Juarez, Ashley Latimer, MiKayla LeCroy, Shannon Ledbetter, Gabriel Lopez, Kimberly Mason, Benito Matias, Jahmal May, Bethany Mullinax, Wesley Nail, Kevin Rigby, Jana Rowell, Brionna Taylor, Angela Townsel, Janice Underwood, Lisa Vaughn, Chris Vickery, Kaycee Warsham, Beverly White, Etrus Williams

GALLANT: Lloyd Pratt

GARDENDALE: Mallory Goode

GAYLESVILLE: Tabitha Landis

GLENCOE: Avery Brown, Jeremy Mitchell

GUNTERSVILLE: Andrew Williams

HARTSELLE: Molly Green

HEFLIN: Jackie Blackburn, Monica Harman, Bailey Howle, Caleb Ivester, Jakson Spurlin, Joseph Stephens, Claire Trotter, Tesla Wheeler

HOKES BLUFF: Timothy Black, Erin Ford

HOOVER: Rowen Akers

JACKSONVILLE: Ashtyn Burbank, Connie Dotson, Jordan Hardy, Levi ODell, Katrice Patterson, Mackenzie Prickett, Elizabeth Shelton, Joshua Womack

LEESBURG: Patricia Long

LINCOLN: Amanda Schlieger, Gabrielle Thomas

MUNFORD: Ashlynn Farmer, Tyler Gallahar, William McGuire

MUSCADINE: Leonard Konvicka

ODENVILLE: Austen Stubbs

OHATCHEE: Logan Chandler, Stephen Martin, Kyle Taylor, Kelsee Thrower

OXFORD: Blaise Adams, Mason Blakeney, Edward Bogan, Michael Boyd, Rebecca Boyd, Kaitlin Carroll, Robert Corker, Kyle Curry, Jennifer Dopson,

Jonathon Gatlin, Jilaine Head, Helenia Hess, Veronica Martinez Cuevas, Matthew Mizzell, Courtney McCormack, MaCaden Timmons, Shila Wheeler

PELL CITY: Domenic Carney

PIEDMONT: Kellye Blanchard, Andrew Conner, Savannah DeVoe, Billy Gaddy, Savannah Rogers, Shayla Swain

RAGLAND: Heather Clark

RAINBOW CITY: Connor Butler, William Leach, Prince Patel, Kaylyn Rozelle, KC Scott, Matthew Smith, Megan Walker

SOUTHSIDE: Stanley Brasher, Lauren Clemons, Shauna Fuhrman, Courtney Garner, Lindsey Griffin, Jason Hendon, Caleb Jacobs, Laney Owens, Michael Pentecost, Hannah Turner

SPRINGVILLE: Dewayne Nolin, Ronnie White

STEELE: Julia Rodgers

VESTAVIA HILLS: Zachary Evetts

WEDOWEE: Daniel Morris

WELLINGTON: Justin Garrard

HONDURAS: Yhasser Eulisses Rodriguez Nunez

DEANS LIST

ALBERTVILLE: Marshall Cofield, Evan Delahoussaye, John Eddings, Anderson Taylor

ALPINE: Savona Garrett, Mylea Gash

ANNISTON: Donna Coley, Landon Curvin, Andrew Gattrell, Sarina Gibson, Alex Hernandez, Dayiell Johnson, Savannah Martin, Greg McBrayer, Sam Shaw,

Darrial Stanford, Xerxes Stanford, Robert Wadsworth

Ashland: Lukas Ferguson

ATTALLA: Eric Anderson, Shaina Ayers, Taylor Bush, Elizabeth Lopez, Cierra Shull, Hunter Steele, Ryan Turner, Tianna Watkins

BOAZ: Nicholas Keeper

CEDAR BLUFF: Savanah Clifton

CENTRE: Brittany Blanks, Corrina Edge, Emma Huffman, Sarrah Hunter

CHELSEA: Taylor Hackett

COLLINSVILLE: Miguel Arellano, Alma Palacios, Zachary Warnken

EASTABOGA: Dustin Chumley, Gabriella Lowery

FOLEY: Ashley Ramsey

FRUITHURST: Olan Pryor, Logan Wright

FORT PAYNE: Thomas Killian

GADSDEN: Jonathan Alexander, Julie Ballenger, Douglas Bohannon, Kayla Brooks, Joel Bunton, Jacqueline Chapman, Aymen Chebbi, Jordan Davidson, Jahvaronze Dillard, Keeley Fletcher, Elena Francisco, Ronaldo Gaspar, Katlyn Glass, Samuel Goldthreate, Dakaesha Greer, Beverly Hardy, David Henry-Oki, Justin Mayfield, Robin McDuffie, Makai Morgan, Julie Street, Darin Westcott, Donovan Wilson, Katherine Yohe

GALLANT: Javin O Barr

GAYLESVILLE: Sarah Landis, Tray McMeekin, Jonathan Smith

GERALDINE: Hayden Young

GLENCOE: James Garmany, Addie Gentry, Payton Hicks, Christian Summers

HEFLIN: Charles Lee, Caden Lines, Eric McClenton, Austin Rollins

HOKES BLUFF: Montrez Mostella, Maria Shew, Madelyn Stinson

HORTON: Tyla Sanders

JACKSONVILLE: Catelynn Alford, Jessica Boling, Truett Cagle, Shelley Johnson, Haleigh Moody, Dalton Payne, Jashayla Wheeler

LEESBURG; Trena Lyles, Ethan Tillery

LINCOLN: Emma Baker, Anna Barnett, Christopher Swain, Matthew Wright

MUNFORD: Shaina Hicks, Jayden Nunn

ODENVILLE: Nathan Speights

OHATCHEE: Kelly Davis, Dexter Headrick

OXFORD: Matthew Dabit, Cobie Grizzard, Jeremy Shierling, Christopher Taylor, Jarrett Webb

PELL CITY: Simon Adkins, James Powell

PIEDMONT: Quineisha Higgins, William Jones, Stephanie Morgan, Waylon Parris, Karen Stewart

PRATVILLE: Nicholas Stokes

RAGLAND: Taylor Seawright

RAINBOW CITY: Cody Aultman, Krystal Aultman, Jamie Bradley, Robert Day, Ayih Edoh, Daniel Loudermilk, Blane Payne, Chris Robinson, Mark Sketoe, Savannah Smith

RAINSVILLE: Paul Griffin

RANBURNE: Devon Chambers

ROANOKE: Riley Jones

SOUTHSIDE: Colby Abernathy, Colen Ellis, Jordan Mabrey, Jeffery Rich, Wesley Speegle, Anna Thomason, Jason Cox

SPRINGVILLE: Sheyanne Butler

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According to theU.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 10% to 15% of couples who want to have children will have difficulty becoming pregnant, a reality which can cause heartache, strain relationships, and generate negative social stigma. But thanks to their extensive experience, knowledge of the latest advancements in the field of reproductive medicine, and creation of a safe, compassionate, and trusting environment, the doctors at the New Jersey-based Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science (IRMS) are empowering their patients and helping them to build the family of their dreams.

Affiliated with theRWJBarnabas Healthand offering sevenconvenient locations throughout the state (Clark, East Windsor, Hoboken, Jersey City, Livingston, Old Bridge and Teaneck), the practices eight female doctors, all of whom have amassed decades of experience in the field, provide patients with a range of state-of-the-art fertility consultation, guidance and treatment. We treat infertility and endocrine disorders associated with reproduction, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, and help patients better understand their menstrual cycle, said Debbra A. Keegan, MD, the practices chief clinical strategist.

Among the many fertility services offered at IRMS are intrauterine insemination (IUI), ovulation induction, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), and in vitro fertilization (IVF), a process by which the female ovaries are stimulated with hormones to enhance the development of a viable egg. We can also provide elective egg freezing for women dealing with a disease or treatment that might render them infertile a process known as fertility preservation as well as preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) to determine if an embryo is chromosomally normal, Dr. Keegan said. The practices many other services includesingle embryo transfer (SET),gestational surrogacy,LGBTQ family buildingandreproductive support,egg and sperm donationandgenetic counseling.

Achieving the Dream

From heterosexual couples to same-sex couples, single individuals, and more, Dr. Keegan said that the demand for IRMS services and expertise have never been greater. Thanks to the evolution of our culture, the influence of social media, greater tolerance, and enhanced access, society has increasingly grown to accept that people are different but that everyone has a right to have a family, she said. The joy is in helping these patients achieve their dream.

According to Dr. Keegan, the camaraderie and collaborative relationship between the eight doctors at IRMS sets their practice apart from others. In addition to being board-certified reproductive endocrinologists, were all moms, daughters and sisters ourselves and what draws us together makes us unique, she said. We acknowledge the difficulty of becoming a family and provide a compassionate and safe place for people who are experiencing stress in building their families. We treat people with dignity and dont practice cookie-cutter medicine; rather, we advocate for our patients, individualize every treatment plan, and bring the best of science to help each patient achieve their goal.

In a society that can stigmatize those with infertility issues or those who may represent a deviation from normal, we go out of our way to help patients feel comfortable and understood and try to help educate them during the process as well, Dr. Keegan said. With pregnancy success rates that compare to all of the top fertility programs in the country, IRMS has one of the most experienced teams of doctors, nurses, and embryologists in the country and the world and is dedicated to bringing the best outcome for each and every patient.

Having positively touched thousands of lives in their practice, Dr. Keegan couldnt be prouder of IRMS mission or her colleagues Top Doctor status. Were honored and humbled to be recognized by our peers for the care we provide to our patients and hope that our practice continues to remove the stigma often associated with fertility treatment by providing a warm, compassionate and understanding approach that recognizes individuality in reproductive potential, she said. Its all about building families and helping each patient realize their dream.

For more information or to make an appointment, call (973) 548-9900 or visitwww.sbivf.com.

OFFICE LOCATIONS

94 Old Short Hills Road,

Suite 403E, East Wing, Livingston

(973) 548-9900

100 Walnut Ave. Suite 104, Clark

(732) 943-7169

300A Princeton Hightstown Road

Suite 205, East Windsor

(609) 448-4300

116 Newark Ave., Jersey City,

(201) 963-7640

129 Washington St., 4thfloor

Hoboken, NJ 07030

(201) 963-7640

2 Hospital Plaza, Suite 340

Old Bridge (732) 786-7900

400 Frank W. Burr Blvd., Suite 145

Teaneck, NJ 07666

(201) 645-1873

HOSPITALS

Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Jersey City Medical Center

University Medical Center Of Princeton

EXPERTISE

Reproductive Endocrinology

and Infertility

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS

Obstetrics, Gynecology,

Reproductive Endocrinology,

Infertility

ORGANIZATIONS

American Society for Reproductive

Medicine (ASRM); American College

of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

(ACOG); Alliance for Fertility

Preservation; Livestrong Fertility;

Society for Assisted Reproductive

Technology (SART)

EDUCATION

Dr. Natalie A. Cekleniak:

Dartmouth Medical School and Brown University School of Medicine; Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia (Residency); Brigham and Womens

Hospital in Boston (Fellowship)

Dr. Serena H. Chen:

Duke University School of Medicine; Johns Hopkins Hospital (Residency); Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Assistant Professor); Johns Hopkins Hospital and

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (Attending)

Dr. Debbra A. Keegan:

Cornell University Undergraduate; NYU School of Medicine Bellevue Hospitals/NYU Langone Medical Centers (Residency and Fellowship)

Dr. Jessica Salas Mann:

University of Florida, College of Medicine; Bellevue Hospitals/NYU Langone Medical Centers (Residency); John Dempsey Hospital, University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Fellowship)

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Head of Medical Public Affairs recognized by Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Institutional Advancement

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Joni Westerhouse, associate vice chancellor and associate dean in the Office of Medical Public Affairs at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2020 Distinguished Service Award from the Group on Institutional Advancement (GIA) of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

The honor presented to Westerhouse on Sept. 17 recognizes her for significant and longstanding contributions to the group, the AAMC and her profession.The GIA is a national professional-development group devoted to the role of institutional advancement in academic medicine.

Westerhouse has overseen the School of Medicines public relations, communications and marketing efforts as associate vice chancellor and associate dean since 2014. She joined the office in 1987 as medical editor of the Record and as a media relations specialist. Over the years, she has taken on myriad roles as a spokesperson, writer, editor, and director and executive director of medical communications before being named an assistant vice chancellor in 2011. She also has had leadership roles in events on the Danforth Campus, including as a member of several presidential and vice presidential debate planning committees.

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For 50 years, the Poussaint Prematriculation Summer Program (PPSP) at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has given incoming Harvard Medical School students from underrepresented groups an opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of science and medicine before starting classes. The format of this years program may have changedbecoming all-virtual because of the coronavirus crisisbut the spirit of learning and professional apprenticeship was fully intact.

At a teleconference forum on July 24, the 12 participants spoke about their experience with the program and what they will take from it as they begin their medical education. The students had spent the previous two weeks learning about cancer care and research from Dana-Farber clinicians and scientists and began their HMS degree programs during the first week of August.

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In her opening remarks, Andrea Reid, director of the HMS Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs (ORMA) and associate dean for students and multicultural affairs at HMS, thanked Dana-Farber faculty and others who led and administered the program. You are the bedrock of the PPSP, she said. As lecturers, workshop leaders and lunchtime speakers, you put the same thoughtfulness and enthusiasm into the virtual experience that were the hallmarks of PPSP in its more traditional format.

The PPSP was created in 1970 by Alvin Poussaint, professor of psychiatry, emeritus, and founding director of ORMA at HMS, to give underrepresented students an opportunity to take science courses the summer before their first year in medical school and gain exposure to laboratory research. By 2016, it had evolved into an oncology-focused program with courses, seminars and virtual clinical experiences led by HMS and Dana-Farber faculty. Now co-sponsored by Dana-Farber and ORMA, the PPSP is supported by the Richard and Natalie Jacoff Breast Oncology Fund in honor of Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.

One of the reasons Dana-Farber became involved in this program is our desire to diversify the workforce in oncology in general and DFCI in particular, taking advantage of the excellence of students entering HMS who will be based in the Longwood area and who can easily become engaged in our research and clinical activities, said Robert Mayer, faculty associate dean for admissions at HMS, faculty vice president for academic affairs at Dana-Farber and an administrator of the PPSP.

In their reflections, students spoke about how the program had changed their perceptions of cancer and broadened their understanding of its impact on patients and families.

We had the privilege of learning about both the pathophysiology of cancer and the real-life experience of a cancer diagnosis and treatment from patients, said Angela Marie Mercurio, who graduated from the University of Nebraska. I found myself questioning what cancer means for people who feel like their entire lives are upended by a single word, a diagnosis. I also found myself thinking about the power that physicians hold in delivering this life-changing information. The responsibility that a physician has to hold a patients history, family, dreams, purpose and experience in balance with the finality of a diagnosis that can change it all.

Arinzechukwu Nwagbata, a native of Nigeria and a graduate of the University of Texas, also found himself thinking about the role of the physician, as well as the molecular intricacies of cancer. Illnesses may affect the patients family as much as the patient, and its left to a physician to be sensitive to the needs and worries of a patients family, he said. In oncology, families often find themselves worrying about the patient, the possibility of the cancers predisposition to other family members and the alarming costs of health care.

Nearly all the participants spoke of their admiration for the patients theyd met, their fortitude in the face of a difficult diagnosis.

Interacting with the patients, listening to their stories and observing how they respond to their diagnosis was priceless, said Trinity Russell, a graduate of Wesleyan University.

Even when their condition was seemingly unfavorable, the patients were filled with admirable levels of hope. Of all the moments I experienced during the past two weeks, perhaps the most memorable one occurred when the mother of a young patient shared an image of beads on a string. Every bead represented a procedure or cancer milestone the child endured. I was shocked by the length of the string, especially since the patient was only a few years old. The image of all the treatments strung in succession is one that I will hold close to my heart, Russell said.

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Researchers say so far SARS-CoV-2 has not been found in any of the samples, but the research could be used as a tool to monitor community infection among beachgoers.

DULUTH, Minn. Dr. Richard Melvin has made many visits to the beach this summer, but not for the reason most do.

"So, Ill collect 100 millilitres from every beach," he said, while standing knee-deep in Lake Superior and holding a tube filled with lake water.

The assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical Schools Duluth campus has been taking water samples from eight beaches along Lake Superior every weekend since the Fourth of July.

"Usually during the warm time of the day ... when people are out trying to enjoy themselves on the beach," he said.

He and a team back at the lab then test the water samples SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19.

Melvin says the virus in a person with COVID-19 is shed in their waste for up to a month after they are no longer showing symptoms.

"Its known that beaches can be contaminated by fecal matter due to human activity," said Melvin. "Its also possible that the virus, if people are shedding, that could wind up in the water at the beach [too]."

It's not a pleasant picture, but one worthwhile to study. Melvin said he and associates at Minnesota Sea Grant, which gave him a $10,000 grant for the research, don't know of this type of study being done anywhere else.

Melvin said so far SARS-CoV-2 has not been found in any of the samples, but their research could be used as a tool to monitor community infection among beachgoers.

"It also tells us how the disease spreads. It tells us how we can best fight the disease," he said. "With the information we gather this time, well be able to make a better response in the future to a pandemic. Well know where to look for the virus. Well know what is a risky activity."

Melvin says they will continue taking samples through the end of September. He says while they have not found the virus in the beach water yet, even if they did, they don't think the viral particles would still be infectious.

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AUSTIN, Texas Fifty years ago this fall, the Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin opened its doors to educate young people to become bold thinkers and doers. To commemorate President Lyndon Johnsons founding vision and to celebrate its 50thanniversary, the LBJ School will present two virtual forums showcasing prominent global leaders who personify Johnson and inspire the next generation to creatively take on the worlds most important challenges.

The forums, at 7 p.m. (CT) on Monday,Oct. 5,and Monday,Oct. 12, will explore big ideas and fresh solutions around todays most pressing issues, including racial justice and equality, voting rights and access, health care, jobs, education, immigration, the environment and the state of democracy all critical issues that LBJ took on as he implemented the most ambitious legislative agenda in modern history. The forums are designed to generate hope for the future and inspire bold solutions.

This once-in-a lifetime anniversary reflects the force of 50 years of impact by those who have taught at and attended the LBJ School. It also enables us to forge new pathways to think and act to create a brighter future, said Angela Evans, dean of the LBJ School. We thank the LBJ Foundation for its support of this ambitious endeavor and its shared commitment to ignite emerging generations of young people driven by purpose and desire to build a better world.

The events will feature interviews, videosand pop-up segments with VIP guests reading LBJ quotes. At each Forum,Luci Baines JohnsonandLynda Johnson Robbwill provide closing remarks.

Register to watch live:

Monday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. (CT)

This forum will open with an inspiring new film, The Destiny of Democracy.

Monday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. (CT)

Stay updated on the LBJ School 50thAnniversary events atLBJ50.org.

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Accused sexual predator Dr. Robert Anderson collaborated with U of M athletic directors, medical school officials and others to get patients shuttled in to him for mandatory physical exams and fake research studies and he reportedly helped young men avoid the Vietnam draft in exchange for sexual favors.

Medical students were handed cards by the U of M Medical School Administration, instructing them to see Dr. Anderson for a research study that officials never bothered to verify.

In 1979, medical students were given cards with lists of appointments for medical tests, such as a test for tuberculosis, which is routine for almost any student attending a university or college. Included on these cards were instructions to see Dr. Robert Anderson, with no explanation of what this visit was for.

According to an article in the Detroit Free Press, a medical student has come forward and has revealed that when he arrived to his mandatory office visit with Robert Anderson, someone in the office informed the student that he was there for a study on incidence of varicoceles in otherwise healthy males. When Anderson entered the exam room, he told the student to drop his pants, and then conducted a very invasive exam of the students genitals. There was no chaperone in the room, and no informed consent was given by the student for participation in the supposed research study. In other words, Anderson did not explain the details, including possible risks, of the study and obtain written consent from the student. After the exam, the student and his medical school classmates discussed the exam and research study and agreed that it was weird since Anderson was not trained in urology. The medical student tried to verify the research study, and to this date, there are no studies or papers published by Anderson on varicoceles or any related conditions.

It is not known how many years participation in this fake research study was required for medical students.

Athletic directors and other U of M officials were aware of Andersons sexually inappropriate behavior throughout all the years Anderson was employed by U of M.

Anderson also used his position to make athletic physicals performed by him mandatory. According to reports, he collaborated with athletic director Don Canham in 1968 on a flight home from a U of M football game on how to get more athletes into health services. In a memo sent to Canham recapping the conversation, Anderson told Canham that he had attempted to make preseason physical exams compulsory for all athletes, and he singled out the wrestling team as needing to be told that more athletes must be seen at student health services.

According to numerous reports and information obtained by Detective Mark West, exams by Anderson were, in fact, viewed by U of M athletes as being mandatory, and these reports include athletes from 1968 2003.

According to FOIA documents that include investigations by Detective West, Andersons inappropriate behavior with patients including student patients was widely known and even joked about by U of M officials, right from the beginning of his tenure with U of M, which began in 1967/1968. A U of M gymnast, Ward Black, has recently come forward, claiming that he was sexually assaulted 4 times by Anderson, starting in 1969, during annual physicals and treatment for toe and ankle injuries, and that he asked his coach what was up with the exams, but his coach made motions to change the subject. Black reported that nobody wanted Anderson to look at them, but that the student athletes had no choice since Anderson was the athletic department team doctor. Black also opined to reporters that his coach and others didnt rock the boat regarding what they knew of Anderson because the athletic director at the time, Don Canham, was feared like crazy.

Indeed, according to reports, almost all the athletic directors at U of M from the late 1960s until 2003, when Anderson retired, were aware of Andersons inappropriate anal and genitalia exams of students, but never took any steps towards stopping this behavior or even having Anderson investigated. According to U of M records, there was zero interruption in Andersons tenure with U of M from 1967/1968 2003.

Prestige and power helped enable Andersons predatory behavior.

U of M gave Anderson enormous power in student health services and in the prestigious medical school and athletic department, and with this power came prestige, which Anderson utilized so he could prey on vulnerable groups such as the LGBT community as well as the countless number of young men who were scared of being drafted to fight in the Vietnam war. At least three men have come forward and claimed that in the late 1960s, Anderson was widely known as a doctor who would offer to write letters for the young men, stating that they were gay, so they could avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. In exchange for these letters, the men were reportedly expected to watch or perform sexual acts for Andersons gratification.

U of M provided Anderson with many modes of access to students.

Anderson was on the faculty of U of Ms Department of Internal Medicine and was U of M Athletic Department Team Physician from 1967 1998. From 1968 1980, Anderson was U of Ms Director of Student Health Services.

Anderson had access to U of M students through the following:

Anderson lived in Michigan his entire adult life. Below is a timeline of his career.

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Organ transplantation is a crucial aspect of modern medicine and responsible for saving millions of lives. It depends on organ donors, whether alive or deceased. However, there is a strict criterion to follow when selecting organ donors. In simple terms, the donor must be healthy and young. This narrow organ pool combined with an increased need for organs has resulted in more recipients than donors, with a lot of recipients all waiting on the transplant list for an organ.

This massive gap between the two groups has caused researchers to look into an alternative to provide organs for these patients. Iske and his colleagues from Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston recently published a study they performed in the Nature Communications Journal. The aim of their study was to investigate a way to use organs from older deceased individuals.

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Organs from older donors are usually not considered, because of the higher risk of adverse effects associated with them. Studies have found that older organs usually have a certain type of cells called senescent cells. These cells are no longer going through the cell cycle and evade the elimination process which is usually applied to older cells.

Senescent cells are associated with a higher rate of transplant rejection. Transplant rejection can result in decreased quality of life and sometimes, even death. This would explain the medical communitys hesitation in using older organs which have been shown to contain accumulations of senescent cells.

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Researchers have realized the mechanism of this rejection. Senescent cells release free mitochondrial DNA, which in turn activates dendritic cells. These cells lead to augmented IL6 response along with costimulatory molecules CD40/CD80. The increased IL6 levels are related to inflammation and a massive whirlwind increase in cytokines. This increase in cytokines and increased inflammatory response is related to organ rejection.

Iske and colleagues from Harvard found that a specific class of drugs called senolytics may push these senescent cells back into the cell cycle. This is of importance because the cell cycle usually removes old, aged cells. The study performed aimed to apply this theoretical concept to animal models. The researchers wanted to determine if this concept can be practically applied.

The team of researchers with Iske used two senolytic drugs, Dasatinib and Quercetin. These drugs were given to mice for 3 days, at a dosage of 5mg/kg and 50mg/kg respectively. On the fourth day, researchers prepped the mice for cardiac transplants. They then assessed the mitochondrial DNA levels and inflammation levels usually associated with senescent cells.

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Both the experimental and clinical studies performed by Iske and colleagues showed higher levels of mitochondrial DNA in organs from older donors. Clinically, the peripheral blood sample from the older, deceased donors showed a high amount of senescent cells. Experimentally, the results were similar.

The use of senolytics depended on blocking pro-survival pathways for senescent cells and it showed great results, according to the researchers. These drugs blocked those pathways by blocking IL6 and inhibiting the activation of dendritic cells, all the mechanisms associated with organ failure.

Senolytics slowed down the aging and deterioration of organ function normally associated with senescence. This normal functioning of organs, plus the decrease in free mitochondrial DNA all together showed positive results in the animal models used by the researchers.

It is important to note that the study performed by Iske only showed results in animal models, and they recommend a detailed clinical trial to be performed to ensure the results of their experimental study.

However, this is a giant step in the right direction. The study by these researchers may have just given the medical community a solution to their biggest problem.

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COVID-19 is disrupting just about every students 2020 education, but medical students have it particularly hard right now.

Its a nightmare scenario for the class of 2021, said Jake Berg, a fourth-year student at the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pikeville. In March, students were abruptly pulled out of hospitals and medical offices, where they normally work with professionals to learn about treating patients. Over the space of less than two weeks, he said, medical students in pretty much the entire country transitioned from seeing patients in person to learning online.

Everyone goes along with the idea that were all in the same boat together, he said. But, really, its like were all on the Titanic and its sinking.

Megan Messinger, in her fourth year at the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California, calculates she has lost about 400 hours of patient time. She worries the class of 2021 is going to be the dumb class of interns, said Messinger, who hopes to do a combined residency in pediatrics and psychiatry. I feel very behind.

The problem is most acute for medical students in their third and fourth years of study. Year three is when most medical students do their core clinical clerkships. These are one- or two-month stints in hospitals and clinics, through which they get the flavor of specialties such as internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery and obstetrics/gynecology.

Fourth-year students tend to spend time in more specialized options, often traveling to get experience in specialties in short supply at their own medical schools affiliated hospitals, and also to informally audition at places they might like to apply to for residency. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, however, away rotations have been suspended, and residency interviews for next years graduating class will be done virtually.

Schools and hospitals are trying to restore the core clerkships but, in many areas, this is a work in progress. The uncertainty adds considerably to students stress levels.

I have no idea how I will learn about the culture of the hospitals Im applying to, said Garrett Johnson, a fourth-year student at Harvard Medical School. On one hand, this years class of doctors-to-be will save a lot of money typically, travel and housing costs for away rotations and in-person residency interviews are paid by the students. On the other hand, he said, you dont get to meet any of the people or get a feel for the place.

Karissa LeClair, a fourth-year student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, agreed. I was looking forward to getting to know places I had not been to previously, she said.

LeClair, who wants to become an ear, nose and throat specialist, said clerkships she applied to in New York City, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Boston were all canceled.

Since she was not planning to be in New Hampshire for most of this year, LeClair now has no place to live near Dartmouth. Im piecing together sublets and staying with friends, she said. Unless something changes, she will spend her final year of medical school only in facilities formally affiliated with Dartmouth.

Messinger is facing similar problems in Southern California. Im at Cedars right now, and loving it, she said, referring to Los Angeless Cedars Sinai medical center. But you can only do one rotation there. I dont have anything scheduled after this. My only audition rotation, at Tulane, was canceled.

Administrators are sympathetic. They have had major disruption, said Dr. Alison Whelan, chief medical education officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges, which oversees M.D.-degree programs. Medical school is stressful, and with COVID its even more stressful.

I feel for the students, theyre really in a tough position, said Dr. Robert Cain, president, and CEO of the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, which oversees osteopathy programs. About 1 in 4 U.S. medical students pursue a doctorate in osteopathy, which is similar to an M.D. degree but includes training in hands-on manipulative techniques and more emphasis on whole-body health.

Starting this year, M.D. and D.O. students are competing for the same residency training programs and work side by side, a change planned before the pandemic.

One hurdle is that all these students, in order to become well-rounded doctors, need to see a broad mix of patients with a diverse group of medical issues. But even at hospitals and clinics that have resumed general care, patients with ailments other than those associated with COVID-19 are not showing up, because they are afraid of catching the coronavirus. Elsewhere elective procedures have been canceled or postponed.

That has become a challenge, Whelan said. In areas with high COVID-19 rates, hospitals and other facilities often do not have enough personal protective equipment for even essential health personnel, so students are kept out.

The AAMC in August updated its guidance on student participation in clinical rotations. It continued to leave decisions about allowing students into patient care areas up to individual teaching hospitals and medical schools. But it also noted that while students are not technically essential in day-to-day care activities, medical students are the essential, emerging physician workforce whose learning is necessary to prevent future medical shortages.

The progression of students over time for relatively on-time graduation is essential to the physician workforce, Whelan said. Enabling students to finish their education in the COVID-19 era is an ongoing, complex, jigsaw puzzle.

Both the M.D. and D.O. organizations said third-year students can still complete most of their required rotations, although perhaps not in the usual order, and schools have dramatically increased their use of online teaching of diagnostics and care.

A fair amount of what students do is observation, she said. So schools have created step-by-step videos.

And some educators are confident these students will catch up eventually. Most learning goes on during your residency, said Dr. Art Papier, who teaches dermatology at the University of Rochester medical school. I think it can all be made up.

In addition to losing in-person patient contact, medical students face obstacles in taking required national board examinations there are several types and are not always conveniently offered near their training sites.

After having one required test canceled on short notice, student Jake Berg had to reschedule. The first open seat was three hours away and a couple of weeks later; then his canceled test was reinstated.

The exam that tests clinical skills has been postponed for all M.D. students but is expected to be rescheduled.

The comparable exam for osteopathic students, however, has been made optional. Thats partly because D.O. students must demonstrate not only clinical skills, but also proficiency in physical manipulation techniques, which means they need to work with patients under the supervision of doctors as part of their test. But the D.O. clinical skills exam is offered only in two places: Chicago and outside Philadelphia.

If theres a self-isolation period, who can afford to spend two weeks in a hotel in Chicago or Philadelphia? asked Messinger, of Western University.

While the travel may be a burden, the exams are needed to protect the public from doctors who have not demonstrated competence, said Cain, of the osteopathic colleges association.

Whelan and Cain said details are being worked out and changes are possible as the COVID situation evolves.

In the end, Cain said, this crop of students may emerge from COVID as better doctors than those who didnt face such challenges.

Hopefully, well look back and see them as the class of resilience, he said. That they were able to work through some very hard times.

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