November 27, 2018
Outpatient palliative care can improve survival duration as well as quality of life in advanced cancer patients.
November 20, 2018
There are 5.7 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to Alzheimers.org, and the dreaded disease has caused more deaths than both breast and prostate cancer combined. Finding a cure is paramount.
November 16, 2018
A new consortium backed by Tulane University, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has awarded collaborative research grants to two teams of investigators fighting health disparities in the Mississippi Delta.
November 14, 2018
The National Institutes of Health awarded Tulane University School of Medicine a contract for up to $8.5 million over five years to develop a more effective and longer-lasting vaccine against pertussis, more commonly known as “whooping cough.”
November 13, 2018
Researchers at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine have received $11 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to continue their ground-breaking research and programmatic activity in support of family planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
November 13, 2018
Men who are neurotic or introverted are more likely to be distressed after their prostate cancer diagnosis, according to a new study by researchers at Tulane University.
November 06, 2018
The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world, and Louisiana consistently ranks among the top US states for rates of death among pregnant and postpartum women. Two new studies by a Tulane University epidemiologist aim to figure out why.
October 30, 2018
If you’re having a political argument about voter fraud, you may want to think twice about citing a nonpartisan, neutral source like Snopes to correct misinformation, according to a new Tulane study.
October 30, 2018
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University a $2.3 million grant to study whether maintaining vacant lots and fixing up blighted propertiesin high-crime areas can also reduce incidents of youth and family violence within those neighborhoods.
October 16, 2018
Dr. Paul Whelton, a clinical professor and the Show Chwan Health System Endowed Chair in Global Public Health at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, has been recognized with the American Heart Association 2018 Excellence Award for Hypertension Research. The award is considered one of the most prestigious awards for a researcher in the field of hypertension.
October 16, 2018
Tulane researcher wins grant to develop a tool that could lower tumor recurrence in cancer patients.
October 09, 2018
October 02, 2018
More than six million people are currently infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that causes Chagas disease. Of those infected with the T. cruzi parasite, one million are women of reproductive age.
October 02, 2018
Tulane students are part of the university’s exciting research endeavors almost from the moment they enroll. Tulane’s best research resource is access to the university’s impressive faculty.
September 25, 2018
Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz, a senior in the School of Liberal Arts, traveled to St. Petersburg to conduct research on Turkology manuscripts in the original Russian. The project will form her honors thesis.