The inaugural issue of EVMS Journal of Medicine and Health Sciences (JMHS) is now available. This student-run journal is a compilation of distinguished papers, projects and articles written by student authors with faculty mentorship. All submitted works were reviewed by an editorial team, and future issues of this bi-annual publication will implement a formalized student-run peer review process.

Copies of JMHS are available in Lewis Hall, Hofheimer Hall and outside the Brickell Library. For more information or to view the journal online, visit www.evms.edu/jmhs.

Congratulations to the EVMS Strelitz Diabetes Center for the August 9 front-page Virginian-Pilot article and the August 4 report on WVEC-TV regarding its research examining the link between belly fat and diabetes/heart disease.

The news stories feature Jerry Nadler, MD, chair of internal medicine and director of the Strelitz Diabetes Center; Anca Dobrian, PhD, assistant professor of physiological sciences and lead author of the study; and Stephen Wohlgemuth, MD, assistant professor of clinical surgery at EVMS and medical director at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital's Metabolic & Weight-Loss Surgery Center.

Additional coverage:

WAVY-TV 10 report
Daily Press article

Elizabeth Carr Comeau, the first person born in the U.S. through in-vitro fertilization, gave birth yesterday to a healthy baby boy.

The birth of Mrs. Comeau nearly 30 years ago was made possible through Eastern Virginia Medical School doctors Howard and Georgeanna Jones who performed the country's first successful in vitro fertilization procedure at their clinic, The Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine, the first IVF center in the country.

Read The Virginian-Pilot story.

Read Elizabeth Carr Comeau's personal account in the Boston Globe.