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 New book delves into diabetes controversies — Aaron I. Vinik, M.D., Ph.D., EVMS
professor of medicine and director of the Strelitz Diabetes Research Center and
Neuroendocrine Unit, co-edited the recently published “Controversies in Treating
Diabetes: Clinical and Research Aspects,” a compilation of scholarly articles that aims
to provide physicians and researchers with a balanced view of many hot-button issues
surrounding the treatment and prevention of diabetes.
A review in The New England Journal of Medicine lauded the book, on which Vinik
collaborated with Derek LeRoith, M.D., Ph.D., of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as a
valuable tool for lecturers, care providers and diabetes specialists trying to keep up with the
latest science on the condition.
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International team is first to describe key protein interaction seen in muscles, cells
— Researchers from EVMS, the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute
for Medical Research in London have become the first to describe in detail a key interaction in
the function of a protein vital to muscle contraction and the health of virtually every
tissue and cell in the body.
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Artwork by
Elizabeth Warson, M.A., A.T.R-B.C. |
Art Therapy professor exhibiting works —
Elizabeth Warson, M.A., A.T.R.-B.C., an
assistant professor in the Graduate Art Therapy Program, is taking part in the
“Mix It Up” mixed-media art exhibition in the Selden Arcade this month.
The exhibition runs through Aug. 29. Warson will give an artist talk at the
gallery at 6 p.m. Aug. 22.
Other artists participating in the show presented by Norfolk's Bureau of
Cultural Affairs are Ellen Alt of New York and John Rozelle of Chicago. For more
information, visit Selden Arcade. |
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Elizabeth Comeau, middle, and her husband,
David, took time Thursday to visit Howard Jones, M.D., left, who with his late wife
Georgeanna Jones, M.D., pioneered the process that led to Comeau’s birth. |
Nation’s first IVF baby tours EVMS Jones Institute — Just ahead of the 30th birthday
of the world's first “test tube baby,” the first person born in the U.S. through in-vitro
fertilization (IVF) visited the place that made her birth possible.
Elizabeth Comeau, along with her husband, David, stopped in to see Howard Jones, M.D., and take a
look around the institute that pioneered IVF science in this country. Her arrival also triggered an
impromptu reunion as several members of the team that worked at the institute in its early days
came by to check in on their first success story.
After catching up with Jones — the two speak at least annually — Comeau, now a journalist for the
Boston Globe, got a look at how far infertility science has come since her mother went
through the IVF procedure. Thousands of babies later, the once hours-long, uncomfortable process
now takes a matter of minutes.
“It was very primitive compared to how it is now,” said Comeau. |
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