Morehouse School of Medicine News Center
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Daniel Dawes authors Op-Ed in Essence Magazine: COVID-19: Black Folks Have Been Trying To Tell You That Data Is Political
APRIL 10, 2020 - Daniel E. Dawes, Director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine believes there are lessons from the success we realized in other crises to advance more equitable policies today.
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MSM President and Dean Co-Authors Op-Ed: Black medical leaders: Coronavirus magnifies racial inequities, with deadly consequences
APRIL 10, 2020 - Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG stands with other deans and healthcare leaders across the nation in developing calls-to-action for refining our governmental and health care responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This Is What a Hero Looks Like
JANUARY 2, 2020 - Olayinka Adebayo, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Biomedical Sciences program at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) hails from an eighteen-person household in Nigeria. Her story is featured in This Is What a Hero Looks Like, a biographical book authored by Bill Haney that highlights Nobel Prize Winner James "Jim" Allison and other scientists' success stories.
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AJC: MSM Doctor Using 'Movember' to Fight Prostate Cancer
NOVEMBER 5, 2019 - Prostate cancer is particularly deadly for African American men, who are 40 percent more likely to develop the illness and twice as likely to die from it. Unfortunately, according to Dr. E. Shyam P. Reddy of Morehouse School of Medicine, much of the research has been geared to a different population.
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MSM Receives Renewal Award for Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program
NOVEMBER 4, 2019 - MSM Receives Renewal Award for Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program
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Maternal Mortality Fears Hit Close to Home for MSM Employee
OCTOBER 16, 2019 - Tara Joyner, a manager in administrative services at MSM, experienced complications that threatened the lives of both her and her unborn child. She shared the story of her risky pregnancy with Fox 5 News' Medical Team. Joyner suffered from preeclampsia during her pregnancy with her fourth child. MSM's Obstetrics and Gynecology Director Franklyn Geary, MD provided insight into the medical risks of preeclampsia for this story.
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MSM Maternal Mortality Study to Go Forward In Spite of State Budget Cuts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 - The Georgia Recorder reports on how MSM will continue with plans for its Center for Excellence on Maternal Mortality despite statewide budget cuts affecting a $500,000 grant previously awarded to the program.
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Erectile Dysfunction in Former NFL Players Linked to Concussions
AUGUST 27, 2019 - New findings show a connection between concussions in retired professional football players and erectile dysfunction. Morehouse School of Medicine's Herman Taylor, MD, contributed to the research.
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MSM's Associate Dean of Research Talks Cancer Health Equity on WCLK
JULY 23, 2019 - Morehouse School of Medicines' Associate Dean of Research James Lillard, Ph.D., recently appeared on WCLK Jazz 91.9's "The Local Take" to talk about cancer health equity. During the radio interview, Lillard discussed the American Association of Cancer Research's 2020 by 2020 Program to Cure Cancer and why MSM is the only HBCU involved in this effort.
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Vincent Bond, Ph.D.: Unsung Hero of the HIV Response in Atlanta
JUNE 12, 2019 - "From the 1980s into the '90s if you had HIV and did not have access to standard anti-retroviral treatment, this would have been a death sentence," says Vincent Craig Bond, Ph.D., reflecting on the early HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S.