AHC News Releases

(Nov. 4, 2009) — 

The University of Minnesota School of Nursing will spotlight six influential nurses who have tackled difficult health care challenges and created new models of health care delivery. The nurses will tell their stories during the Summit of Sages, November 4-6, at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

(Nov. 3, 2009) — 

The University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) has appointed Bradley P. Carlin, Ph.D., head of the Division of Biostatistics.

(Nov. 2, 2009) — 

The University of Minnesota has been selected to lead a clinical trial site for national research which is studying whether a testosterone therapy can improve certain health conditions affecting older men. Low serum testosterone levels may be tied to a number of problems experienced by older men, including decreased ability to walk, loss of muscle mass and strength, decreased vitality, decreased sexual function, impaired cognition, and anemia. This multi-site study will test whether any of these conditions can be improved with a testosterone gel therapy.

(Oct. 30, 2009) — 

Experts from the University of Minnesota will soon be on the frontlines working to help developing countries better respond to emerging animal diseases that pose a threat to human health.

(Oct. 19, 2009) — 

University of Minnesota Medical School professor Janet Dubinsky, Ph.D., has been awarded the Science Educator Award on behalf of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

(Oct. 12, 2009) — 

Medical School faculty Karen Hsiao Ashe, M.D., Ph.D., Michelle Biros, M.D., M.S., Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., and Susan M. Wolf, J.D., have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences.

(Oct. 7, 2009) — 

More women in the greater Twin Cities region who are diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast are choosing also to have the healthy breast surgically removed.

(Oct. 6, 2009) — 

University of Minnesota School of Public Health research found that previously identified heavy-drinking colleges have shown little improvement.

(Sept. 30, 2009) — 

The University of Minnesota Medical School welcomes Badrinath Konety, M.D., M.B.A., as professor and chair of the Department of Urologic Surgery.

(Sept. 3, 2009) — 

University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center scientist Jian-Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., has been awarded a five-year grant of more than $3 million from the National Cancer Institute to continue research on tobacco byproducts expelled in the urine that can be used to predict risk of lung cancer.