Health and Medicine
A series of collaborative research agreements between Indiana University Cyclotron Operations, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center and ProNova Solutions aim to develop advanced proton therapy technologies, including a new pencil beam scanning nozzle.
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Brian Fischer, a senior at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville, Ind., won the KeepRxSafe.com Public Service Announcement Video Contest, which is part of a growing effort statewide to address a rising problem affecting Indiana youth -- prescription drug abuse.
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Dr. Jay L. Hess, currently the Carl V. Weller Professor and chair of the Department of Pathology and professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Health System, has been selected as the new vice president for university clinical affairs and dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine, subject to the approval of the IU Board of Trustees at its June meeting.
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Ben Edmonds, Rasul Mowatt and Carwina Weng are the newest IU Bloomington members of the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching (FACET), an interdisciplinary organization composed of more than 500 of Indiana University's best teachers.
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Beth Meyerson, health policy expert at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, said the new screening guidelines by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force represent an important shift in HIV testing and will result in more HIV screenings because they will now be reimbursable. But the availability of the tests remains a big unknown.
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James E. Klaunig, professor of environmental health at the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board's Chemical Assessment Advisory Committee through Sept. 30, 2015.
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