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October 28, 2008

Study finds racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences, with some minority groups clustered in lower-performing primary care practices

A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health-care experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients.

Hurricane Gustav changes Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor’s plans for film about that other hurricane

Hurricane Gustav blew away the premiere of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Communication Professor Hanson Hosein’s second film, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, but as it turned out, the storm was a lagniappe (a French New Orleans word for bonus) for Hosein and his film.

Five Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers receive $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grants for innovative global health research

It is an innovative idea that could one day make it possible to cut and disable HIV within the genomes of infected people, thus offering the possibility of a cure for the virus that causes AIDS.

October 16, 2008

National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases awards Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ nearly $17 million for systems biology research on emerging respiratory viruses

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a contract to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ (Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ) to use systems biology approaches to comprehensively analyze and model virus-host interactions and cellular response networks.