By Emory University Emory doctors have helped create a new online tool allowing people everywhere to assess how likely it is that they have contracted the novel coronavirus. C19check.com makes it easy for the general public to self-triage and is designed, in part, to prevent a surge of patients at hospitals and healthcare facilities. The free […]
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Emory among U.S. sites hosting new clinical trial for COVID-19 treatment
Featured Image: Nadine Rouphael, is interim director of the Hope Clinic, The Emory Vaccine Center. She is seen here providing treatment in an earlier clinical trial. Emory University is taking part in global clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of novel therapeutic agents in hospitalized adult patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The drug remdesivir […]
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Emory hub aims to spur health care innovation
By Emory University It was a doctor in France who made the discovery: Place a wooden tube on a patient’s chest and you’ll hear the heart more clearly. It seemed simple, but some medical associations back in 1816 were skeptical of the new gadget. More than another century passed before the modern stethoscope was developed […]
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Atlanta Students Get Inspired by Emory’s Traveling Exhibit on Black Art and Activism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Speak What Must Be Spoken,” a traveling exhibit from Emory University now on display at Drew Charter School, connects African American art and activism with today’s youth. By Emory University The setting of this one-act play is an African American barbershop, and three barbers – one much older and wiser than the others – […]
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Emory Opens New Center for Student Innovation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text dp_text_size=”size-4″] Featured Image: Located at The Point, The Hatchery is part of the Clifton Corridor as a sign of welcome to the larger community of entrepreneurs in Atlanta. By Emory University The Hatchery, Emory University’s new student innovation and creativity space, opens its doors in mid-February. It expands Emory’s innovation ecosystem while building a […]
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Emory University Research Demonstrates Real World Impact
Emory’s research funding in 2019 reinforces a record of successful innovation and seeks to unlock the mysteries of the human condition. On a perfect spring day in 1985, Craig Washington woke up with swollen lymph nodes. A good friend verbalized his deepest fears. “He told me I was experiencing the first sign of ‘it.’ I […]
