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University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
• Nevada Appeal
Following a collaborative recruitment between the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Carson Tahoe Health, Lorrel Toft, M.D., F.A.C.C., a cardiovascular critical care physician and researcher, has been recruited as an associate professor for UNR Med’s Department of Internal Medicine as well as a cardiologist on staff with Carson Tahoe Health.
• Elko Daily Free Press
Shovels of gravel tossed into the air announced the next phase of Nevada Health Centers’ renovation plans.
• Healio Gastroenterology
In this exclusive video from the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, Mark S. Riddle, M.D., of the University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine, discusses his presentation on the effects of single-dose antibiotics on the microbiome in traveler’s diarrhea.
• KKOH 780 AM
Next month, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Adam Alter will discuss how much time screens steal from us, what's keeping us hooked on technology and ways to strike a healthy balance with tech at UNR Med's Healthy Nevada Speaker Series, Nov. 18.
• Carson Now
Following a collaborative recruitment between the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and Carson Tahoe Health, Lorrel Toft, M.D., F.A.C.C., a cardiovascular critical care physician and researcher, has been recruited as an associate professor for UNR Med’s Department of Internal Medicine as well as a cardiologist on staff with Carson Tahoe Health.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
“There is some data that shows that protection can wane by half 50% after 6 to 8 years,” says Dr. Steven Zell, a professor with UNR Med in Primary Care. “So we may even see in the future, a re-visitation of this policy that when they get their TDAP at 11 maybe before they graduate they get a booster. Specifically if they are going to enter college and intermingle with a lot of other people of a youthful age,” says Dr. Zell.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
UNR Med's Dr. Steven Zell, professor, Internal Medicine, explains the difference between the Tdap and DTaP vaccines.
• Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Learning Network
Brian Kirkpatrick, MD, chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, and Gary Hack, DDS, associate professor, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, discuss their findings that people with schizophrenia with primary negative symptoms, known as deficit schizophrenia, had significantly wider oral palates compared with patients with nondeficit schizophrenia as well as control subjects.
• Northern Nevada Business View
Psychologist Adam Alter, Ph.D. has done extensive research on the tech addiction epidemic. The NYU professor will be the keynote speaker at UNR Med's Healthy Nevada Speaker Series on Monday, Nov. 18 at the Pioneer Center in downtown Reno.
• Psychiatry &Behavioral Health Learning Network
People with schizophrenia with primary negative symptoms, known as deficit schizophrenia, had significantly wider oral palates compared with patients with nondeficit schizophrenia as well as control subjects in a study published online in Schizophrenia Bulletin.
• CBS News
"For starters, you're dealing with really low volume," Dr. John Packham, an associate dean researching rural healthcare at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, told CBS News. "Some of the hospitals that I work with, literally have two or three inpatients a day but you nonetheless have to staff it for nursing 24/7. You have to have lab and radiology available."
• KTVN Channel 2 News
Do men who eat healthy and exercise regularly have superior sperm? That's the question that researchers at UNR Med want to find out.
• NBC Today Show 3rd Hour
Suzanne Watson wanted to be a doctor since she was a little girl, but that dream was deferred when she wed and started having children. She eventually discovered another calling, becoming a priest, but that same desire to pursue medicine persisted. She tells the 3rd hour of TODAY how she ended up making that dream a reality.
• KTVN Channel 2 News
Suicide has been a growing problem, worldwide, says UNR Med faculty physician Allison Cotton. According to the World Health Organization, a person around the world dies by suicide every 40 seconds. Reno Behavioral Health is working to give people psychiatric programs to help combat mental health issues and depression.
• This is Reno
Lucas Stone, who shot nearly 50 rounds from the Montage in downtown Reno in November 2017 was hallucinating due to mixing drugs. Consuming a combination of alcohol, meth, Kratom and nitrous oxide is incredibly risky, said Iain Buxton, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine.
• Knowridge Science Report
In a new study, researchers found evidence that points to physical differences among groups of people with schizophrenia. They found patients suffering from a specific form of schizophrenia have a wider oral palate. The research was conducted by a team from the University of Nevada Reno and the University of Maryland.
• KKOH 780 AM
A research team at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine has just gotten a $7 million grant award from the Fertility and Infertility Branch of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund a new National Center for Translational Research in Reproduction and Infertility (NCTRI), making UNR Med one of only eight such centers in the country.
• Medical Life Sciences News
A collaborative study between the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine, and the University of Maryland School of Dentistry reports its findings: people with a certain type of schizophrenia do have physical differences from the rest of us.
• Northern Nevada Business View
The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine created its Physician Assistant program in 2015 and accepted its first cohort of 24 students in 2018. To get an idea of demand, 800 students applied to the first run of the 25-month, full-time master’s-level program, which requires 123 credits to complete. This year, there were more than 1,600 applicants.
• KOLO Channel 8 News
So far 12 people have died in 10 states of an unknown lung ailment caused by vaping. 69% of the patients are male. 62% are patients between the ages of 18 and 34. 22% are between the ages of 18 and 21 years of age. 16% are 18 or younger. “We don't necessarily know the potential side effects and health hazards that are associated with it,” says UNR Med and Northern Nevada Medical Center pulmonologist Dr. Aaron Viray. “So as more people use it, that is when the complications and side effects that are associated with it will start to manifest themselves,” he says.
• Northern Nevada Business View
UNR Med recently announced a trio of senio educational and academic leadership roles.
• Northern Nevada Business View
UNR Med's PA program is one of many such health care training programs geared toward improving regional health care access and creating a pipeline of trained medical professionals to work in regional health care facilities private practice clinics.
• Tahoe Quarterly
The Lambins find artistic inspiration, and new methods of expressing stories, in the page of old books
• Northern Nevada Business View
Amelia Lane, right, assistant director of development at the UNR School of Medicine, speaks during the fourth annual Philanthropy Leaders Summit on Sept. 13 at the Nevada Museum of Art.
• KRXI Fox 11 News
Northern Nevadans who are uninsured, underinsured or without a social security number can receive free medical care this evening at UNR Med Student Outreach Clinics.
