Category: Health Care

  • MacMillan, Ploss labs to map viral-host interactions for COVID-19

    April 30, 2020 Health Care, Research

    MacMillan, Ploss labs to map viral-host interactions for COVID-19

    Responding to a challenge that tragic necessity has thrown to countless research labs around the world, a team from the Department of Chemistry will deploy its new cell mapping technology to shed light on the molecular interplay between COVID-19 and its host.The work is out of the research groups of David MacMillan in chemistry and Alexander Ploss in molecular biology.

  • Love in the time of COVID-19: negligence in the Nicaraguan response

    April 9, 2020 Health Care, Policy

    Love in the time of COVID-19: negligence in the Nicaraguan response

    Ben Gallo ’17, a medical student at Brown University, and Brianna Christophers ’17, currently at Weill Cornell Medicine, have co-authored an article in “The Lancet Global Health” outlining the Nicaraguan government’s erratic response to COVID-19. Directly contradicting mitigation strategies recommended by the World Health Organization, President Daniel Ortega has refused to encourage any physical distancing measures. Gallo, Christophers, and their co-authors state that the country’s lack of testing and low numbers of ventilators can cause the already fragile public health infrastructure to collapse under the pressure of widespread infection.

  • Particle physicists design simplified ventilator for COVID-19 patients

    April 9, 2020 Health Care, News, Research, Technology

    Particle physicists design simplified ventilator for COVID-19 patients

    An international team of particle physicists led by Princeton’s Cristian Galbiati paused their search for dark matter to focus on the growing demand for ventilators, needed for patients with serious cases of COVID-19. While it may sound odd for a dark matter researcher to have taken up medical manufacturing, it makes more sense when put another way: an expert in constructing sensitive instruments for compressed argon decided to experiment with compressed oxygen and nitrogen. The first 1,000 units will be constructed within the week.

  • When It’s Safer to Stay Apart

    March 23, 2020 Community, Health Care

    When It’s Safer to Stay Apart

    Penned by Jordan Salama ’19, this personal account shares the story of his family leaving New York City, while his father, an infectious disease physician in New York City, stays behind to do his job.

  • #TellUsTigers Q&A: Tanesha Brown, nurse manager, University Health Services

    March 20, 2020 Community, Health Care

    #TellUsTigers Q&A: Tanesha Brown, nurse manager, University Health Services

    Tanesha Brown, the nurse manager at University Health Services, is a critical member of the University’s coronavirus preparedness team, working with a broad range of departments and colleagues across campus. She reflects on addressing the fear of the unknown, how she practices self-care and the most important things she wants people to know during the coronavirus crisis.