Photo exhibit focuses on neighborhood health needs
October 23, 2017
Empty streets, community gardens and abandoned buildings were some perspectives captured by 25 New Orleans residents participating in the Photovoice Project led by the Tulane Prevention Research Center.
Tulane alumni provide primary care in Haiti
October 20, 2017
The Sante Total clinic, founded by Tulane University School of Medicine graduate Dr. Alison Smith, travels to Haiti to offer primary care every few months, and now the clinic is building a permanent location.
Journey begins for new Fulbright scholars at Tulane
October 19, 2017
Formerly the animal facility laboratory supervisor at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, Chivonne Moodley is now joining a Tulane University tuberculosis research team.
Researchers hunt for Lassa Fever cure
October 13, 2017
Tulane researchers Robert Garry and James Robinson won’t give up until they unravel the mystery of the Lassa virus, saving lives from a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever that infects more than 300,000 people annually and is wrecking West African communities.
School of Social Work offers street-level health care
October 04, 2017
Elk Place Health Spot is a free monthly event where the public can obtain services such as vision tests and 1-minute HIV screening along with the chance to pick up a healthy snack and learn about topics like backyard mosquito control.
Pipe down
October 03, 2017
A graduate student in the lab of Stryder Meadows uses a pipette to load protein into a gel.
Researchers work to understand why HIV patients are more likely to contract tuberculosis
October 03, 2017
Researchers in the Tulane National Primate Research Center want to know more about why patients with HIV are highly susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB). Using two new grants, totaling $8.4 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Tulane team lead by Deepak Kaushal hopes to figure out how the bacterium that causes TB invades T-cells depleted by HIV. The researchers will also study if B-cells can be a source of protection against tuberculosis for patients battling HIV.
Tulane University awarded $6.28 million to study blood pressure control in low-income patients
September 26, 2017
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University a five-year, $6.28 million grant to test ways to best implement new guidelines to more aggressively manage high blood pressure in adults, especially among low-income patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease.
Tulane research aids in reading Earth’s diary
September 26, 2017
A Tulane University geologist has concluded a study on climate change, which will help develop climate models that simulate the effects of climate change and the Earth’s response to it.
Tulane to launch new online MSW program
September 14, 2017
The Tulane University of School of Social Work (TSSW) will debut an online Master of Social Work (MSW) program in January 2018, pending Council of Social Work Education approval.
New Tulane University drug effective against malaria
September 13, 2017
Tulane University researchers have developed a new drug that is effective against non-severe cases of malaria, according to results from an FDA-supervised clinical trial published online in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Get smart
September 05, 2017
Researchers at Tulane’s PolyRMC are working on the synthesis of smart polymers that have wide-ranging applications.
Researcher advocates removal of lead from hair dye
September 05, 2017
Pharmacology research professor Howard W. Mielke is raising awareness of toxins within hair dye.
New drug protects against advanced Lassa fever
September 05, 2017
An experimental therapy using cloned antibodies from Lassa fever survivors was 100 percent effective in stopping the progression of the deadly disease in nonhuman primates up to eight days after infection, according to a new study in Nature Medicine.
Depression treatment may be improving, Tulane study says
September 05, 2017
Researchers associated with the Tulane Brain Institute say they have moved a step closer to improving treatment for chronic depression.