The use of creams to lighten skin is widespread and widely studied, but information about the use of these creams in the U.S. is sparse.
Anita Knopov BUSM’19 is the lead author of a study published in the Journal of the National Medical Association.
This will help researchers understand and possibly design new treatments to better cure colon cancer and help patients live longer.
BUSM researchers sought to identify recent studies that evaluated air pollution exposures and these gynecologic diseases: infertility, menstrual irregularity, uterine fibroids and endometriosis; but stressed that findings be further explored.
Noyan Gokce, MD, will use the four-year, R01 grant to characterize the relationship between obesity, adipose tissue dysfunction, insulin resistance, and how these processes cause vascular disease.
Researchers from BUSM reviewed existing literature related to physicians’ interactions with victims of IPV and found that a Batterer Intervention Program should be the primary intervention.
“It is important to incorporate cultural competency…into the every-day practice of medicine,” explains Neelam Vashi, MD.
The findings have implications for the treatment of hypertension.
University colleagues received a $900,000, three-year grant that will be used to measure the effectiveness of Project BRIGHT, “Building Resilience through Intervention: Growing Healthier Together.”
Time and ability to return to sport is often difficult to predict and based on a myriad of variables; including severity of injury, type of sport, level of competition, compliance with the rehabilitation program and type of surgery.