 Current News
The "Medicine Firms Faculty" site has moved to the GIM site. Please click on the link above and don't forget to update your bookmark! Jack Lake, Gastroenterology Division, was recently quoted on Bloomberg.com about the liver transplant system. Research done by Jerry Molitor, Rheumatology Division, and colleagues about ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) screening was featured on Med Page Today.com. Shalamar Sibley, Endocrinology Division, was quoted in articles on MinnPost.com and Med India.net about recent research which may suggest a link between vitamin D and weight loss. Mark Paller, Renal Division and Academic Health Center, was quoted in the Minnesota Daily about the Medical School’s new executive vice dean position, a role he will serve in beginning July 1. Frank Cerra, Academic Health Center, was also quoted in the article. William Robiner, General Internal Medicine Division, was quoted in an article in the Wisconsin State Journal about prescription-writing privileges for psychologists.
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Drs. Betsy Kren and Cliff Steer
Division of Gastroenterology 
Scientists have attempted to cure hemophilia by using viruses to insert the missing gene for factor VIII into affected animals, but this "viral vector" technique has met with little success. Drs. Kren and Steer recently used an alternative approach to successfully introduce the factor VIII Gene into hemophilic mice. These studies lay the foundation for gene treatment of hemophilia, a disease which has for centuries crippled and disabled most of those who suffer from it. Click here to view the full article in Journal of Clinical Investigation.
International Health Global Health
Immigrant Medicine Video Resources from Free Country Media, Medicine Box Series: New Global Health Article: Disease recognizes no borders. Click here to read more. 2009 Global Health Course Flyer (pdf)
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