The chief of hematology and medical oncology has broken the world record for dribbling a basketball while running over a 24-hour period. Tulane medical students are holding an event called Bounce for Life to support research in Curiel's lab.
While many researchers continue to work on an effective vaccine that will prevent AIDS, a group of scientists is taking a new approach - focusing on specific tissues.
Researchers report that people with metabolic syndrome (Syndrome X) are nearly 2.5 times more likely to suffer from chronic kidney disease.
Increases in HIV infection rates often follow in the wake of civil strife, and Haiti is no exception, says an infectious disease expert who has been working in Haiti to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their newborns.
The higher systolic blood pressure is in children, the more likely they are to have hardened arteries in their late 30s and 40s, say researchers. The study shows shows the importance of checking children's blood pressure, says lead author Shengxu Li.
One in four people in China may suffer from high blood pressure, but barely half of them know they have hypertension. Of those who know, 63 percent have it under control. Only half of those who knew they had hypertension had changed diet or exercise habits to try to control it.
Researchers have confirmed several genes that determine the inheritance of obesity. This is the first study of longitudinal data to link body mass measurements taken over several decades to specific genes located on chromosomes.
Senator John Breaux, a leader in national politics who has served Louisiana in Congress for 32 years, will deliver the commencement address to approximately 2000 graduates on May 22 at 9:30 a.m. in the Louisiana Superdome.
Researchers have published results from the first study to intensively examine high-risk young children and to look at how reliable and valid diagnosis of an attachment disorder might be.
That children are heavier on average today than children were a decade ago may now be common knowledge. The rise in weight appears to be accompanied by a significant increase in blood pressure among children between the ages of 8 and 17, say epidemiologists.
Teens may be more likely to adopt safe sex practices if they learn them from slightly older teens.
Reed Kroloff, former editor in chief of Architecture magazine and one of the leading voices in the world of professional design, has been appointed dean of architecture at Tulane University. He replaces Don Gatzke, who left the position in January. Kroloff's appointment becomes effective October 1, 2004.
A group of young doctors founded a school of medicine in New Orleans 170 years ago to address deadly infectious diseases that riddled the port city. Tulane University Health Sciences Center honors their dream of high quality medical education, public health and research with the "Doors to Discovery" program.
African commercial sex workers who face hostile police and a public that stigmatizes their work are less likely to use condoms, says Tulane University researcher Sohail Agha.
Researchers report that one in three adults between 35 and 74 years of age in mainland China has borderline high or high total cholesterol levels and one in four has borderline high or high LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol).
People who live with HIV in rural areas are less likely to keep up with their treatment schedules if they are problem drinkers. Overall, about one in three HIV positive people surveyed by the researchers reported skipping at least one dose of their medications in the past week.
The Big Easy always has attracted multitudes of visitors to its steamy, tropical climes. In the 1800s, one of the more infamous visitors was yellow fever, resulting in deadly annual outbreaks of the deadly disease and inspiring the birth of the first school of tropical medicine in the U.S.
The most populated country on the planet may also be heading towards the worst tobacco-related health crisis on the planet, say Tulane University researchers. More than 300 million Chinese adults either smoke or are exposed to cigarette smoke at work or at home.
In a recently published study, Tulane University researchers found that high-income and mostly white neighborhoods have fewer fast food outlets per square mile than lower income or mostly black neighborhoods.
Tulane University experts can address a wide variety of issues relating to "Politics, Post Election, the Next Four Years," including voting, the economy, health care, stem cell research, environment, gay rights and more.
Adults in their 20s and 30s who were obese as children are more likely to have hearts with enlarged left ventricles, say Tulane University researchers.
Tulane University public health researchers predict that by 2025, approximately one in three adults over age 20 - or 1.56 billion people worldwide - will have high blood pressure. Nearly three out of four adults with high blood pressure will be in economically developing countries.
The closer food-stamp recipients live to a supermarket, the more likely they are to choose healthy foods, such as fruit, say Tulane University diet and nutrition researchers in a recently published study.
A recent study reveals that married men in Uganda are more likely to seek out HIV testing and counseling if they want to help their wife have a healthy pregnancy; if they have used needles for medical purposes or IV drug use; or if there is a known testing and counseling site nearby.
Children who have very healthy levels of blood sugar, blood pressure, weight and cholesterol are likely to become heart-healthy adults, say researchers. The data, drawn from 1474 participants in the Bogalusa Heart Study over two decades.
Eating a high fiber diet can lower high blood pressure and even improve healthy blood pressure levels, say Tulane University researchers in a study.
Why do some species of African monkeys resist developing AIDS? With a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at the Tulane National Primate Research Center seek the answers.
A new study by Tulane University researchers provides insight into one of the ways diethylstilbesterol may alter the development of the uterus.
Chinese men who drink more than 30 alcoholic drinks a week have twice the risk of high blood pressure than those who do not drink, say Tulane University researchers.
Around 18 million adults in China are obese, 137 million are overweight and 64 million have metabolic syndrome-a condition where a number of risk factors for heart disease are present, say researchers. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for Chinese adults, as it is for American adults.
Enhancing the resources available to low-income, urban African American women to make their neighborhoods safer could protect them against poor health and symptoms of depression, says Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine community health researcher Adam Becker.
Black women, women aged 35 years or older and women admitted on weekends are more likely to have potentially unnecessary cesarean sections than others, say Tulane University researchers.
The more heart disease risk factors young adults have, the more likely their arteries are to be hardening, say Tulane University researchers. Risk factors such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking have an impact on arteries even in the early 20s.
International health advocates and policymakers still have work to do to meet the nutrition goals set by the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children in 2002, according to a survey of nutrition needs in developing regions published by Tulane University researchers.
Tulane University researchers demonstrate that people with insulin resistance and weight gain also have prematurely shortened white blood cell telomeres -- a widely recognized sign of aging.
Diuretics work better than newer and more costly medicines in the treatment of high blood pressure and prevention of some forms of heart disease in people with type 2 diabetes, according to results from the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial.
Advanced planning is crucial to managing PTSD in large numbers of people after a terrorist event, say Tulane University researchers. Web- and phone-based counseling, preventive medication and limiting personal exposure to media coverage of the event, particularly for children, must all be considered in planning for the aftermath of a terrorist event.
The Tulane University Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology is investigating a novel treatment for ovarian cancer by using intravenous Ontak to deplete harmful cells that inhibit the body's natural immune response to fight cancer.
Two percent of patients visit their primary care doctor 10 or more times a year, but that seemingly small number of people represents 18 percent of all primary care visits, say researchers from Tulane University and the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
The National Institutes of Health awarded Tulane University a grant of more than $3.8 million for a three-year study designed to develop better tests for one of the deadliest group of diseases called viral hemorrhagic fevers.
Tulane University public health researchers are slated to receive over $7 million to support international health research. Carl Kendall, professor of international health and development, and parasitologist Paul Brindley, professor of tropical medicine at the school, received notification of their awards despite Hurricane Katrina.
Research with female monkeys at the Tulane National Primate Research Center has for the first time shown that three different anti-viral agents in a vaginal gel protect the animals against an HIV-like virus.
Tulane University's Board of Administrators today approved a sweeping plan that strengthens and focuses the university's academic mission while strategically addressing its current and future operations in the post-Katrina era.
Hardening of the arteries in the legs is strongly associated with biological markers of inflammation, which may be a warning sign of heart trouble, say Tulane University epidemiologists, who suggest an inexpensive test for inflammation may identify warning signs of heart trouble.
Two out of three urban black women at high risk for heart disease do not consider themselves at risk, says Tulane University researcher Karen DeSalvo.
Chinese adults who are either underweight or obese increase their risk of early death, say Tulane University epidemiologists in an article.
Men who have survived a heart attack are at increased risk of bone loss and osteoporosis in later life, says Tulane University researcher Jeanette H. Magnus.
Targeting people at highest risk for HIV and STD infection may not be the best approach, says Tulane University public health expert Tom Farley. Farley and coauthor Deborah Cohen of the RAND Corporation published an article proposing broader campaigns to the general public to reduce STD risk.
George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, and William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, will be the keynote speakers at Tulane University's 2006 Commencement, May 13 at 9:30 a.m. in the New Orleans Arena.
With the presence of presidents and the scrutiny of national media, Tulane University's 2006 Commencement entered into history as an event that rode a range of musical and emotional notes and paid homage to both the students and the city of New Orleans for overcoming the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
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