Emory University News

Veterinary leap forward through collaboration with Zoo Atlanta, Georgia Tech, Emory University and a 300-pound great ape IMAGE: The Georgia Tech team that developed the Gorilla Tough Cuff and a Zoo Atlanta trainer position the pressure cuff casing inside the rectangular mesh trap so that a gorilla's blood... Zoo Atlanta recently became the first ...

One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff.

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health researchers will present Nov. 10 on a range of topics at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting in Philadelphia, including a study that examined compliance with national recommendations that a physician screen chest pain patients within 10 minutes of their arrival to the Emergency ...

The dean of Emory University's School of Medicine has been named the chairman-elect of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

GeoVax Labs, Inc. , an Atlanta-based, biopharmaceutical company developing human vaccines for diseases caused by HIV-1 and other infectious agents, today announced its third quarter 2009 financial results and provided an operational update.

Patients who arrive for care at Emory-Adventist Hospital might reasonably assume that the Cobb County facility is run by Emory University.

Notes on a scandal. Charles Nemeroff, an Atlanta psychiatrist who was the subject of a Senate investigation concerning huge sums he received from drug companies, has been named chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Miami.

The path to victory for Atlanta's next mayor is clear, even if the candidates don't want to say it.

Taught by nationally-known professional organizer Allison Carter, this class can change disorganized lives for the better.

Marcus L. Brown, M.D. and Mohammad Kooshkabadi, M.D. joined Northside Cardiology this fall and bring a combination of cardiac specialty expertise in interventional cardiology and electrophysiology.

Former President Jimmy Carter will make a public appearance at Emory University next week to discuss his creative side.

Last year, 23-year-old Rashida Hill watched the presidential debates, visited the college political party meetings and put a Barack Obama bumper sticker on her townhouse door.

Emory University is bringing Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng to campus for a public forum.

U.S. researchers have engineered an enzyme that can gobble up scar tissue formed after spinal cord injuries in rats, overcoming a key hurdle to getting injured nerves to reconnect and heal.

Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according to an extensive review of published research and data from previous flu seasons.

The risk of serious influenza-related sickness far outpaces the risk of injectable vaccine in pregnant women, a U.S. review of studies found.

Georgia Congressman John Lewis and women's rights advocate Gloria Steinem will be among six people honored by Emory University next week.

Patients in maternity get just one visitor at Inova Alexandria Hospital in Alexandria, Va., where signs alert the public to new visiting policies.

Pregnant women head the list of people who should get H1N1 swine flu and seasonal flu shots, and four new studies highlight the benefits of vaccination for moms-to-be and their babies.

Pregnant women who catch the flu are at serious risk for flu-related complications, including death, and that risk far outweighs the risk of possible side effects from injectable vaccines containing killed virus, according to an extensive review of published research and data from previous flu seasons.