Morehouse School of Medicine News Center
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GPB: More Black Women in Georgia Die From Breast Cancer More Than Any Other Cancer
OCTOBER 4, 2019 - GPB Radio talked to Dr. Veena Rao about breast cancer in Black women. She says socioeconomic status and early detection are major factors in saving Black women from dying from breast cancer.
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MSM Doctor Returns Home to Bahamas to Help After Hurricane Dorian Destroys Caribbean Nation
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019 - All she could do was watch endless news reports of Hurricane Dorian tear through her homeland, destroying essentially everything in its path. But when the Category 5 storm finally left the Bahamas, Shaneeta Johnson, MD, knew what she had to do.
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MSM Maternal Mortality Study to Go Forward In Spite of State Budget Cuts
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019 - The Georgia Recorder reports on how MSM will continue with plans for its Center for Excellence on Maternal Mortality despite statewide budget cuts affecting a $500,000 grant previously awarded to the program.
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Fox 5: Can Smoking Marijuana Affect Fertility?
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 - Fox 5 Atlanta asked Dorothy Mitchell-Leef, MD about smoking marijuana and the effects it may have on a woman attempting to get pregnant.
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WABE Takes a Closer Look at Telemedicine
AUGUST 23, 2019 - Walkitria Smith, MD, medical director for telemedicine at Morehouse School of Medicine talks to WABE about how telemedicine could help extend care to rural and underserved populations.
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NPR: Joy Baker, MD '09 Works to Help Moms in Rural Georgia Have Healthy Babies
AUGUST 13, 2019 - Morehouse School of Medicine alum Joy Baker, MD, is working with expectant mothers in rural Georgia to help reduce low-birthweight births. Atlanta's NPR station WABE shares her story.
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Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., Recognized as One of Atlanta Magazine's Top Docs
JULY 19, 2019 - Morehouse School of Medicine's own Yolanda Wimberly, M.D., was once again named one of the top doctors in Metro Atlanta by Atlanta magazine. Her profile appears in the July 2019 issue of the magazine, which features MSM's commencement speaker and president of the American Medical Association, Patrice Harris, M.D., on the cover.
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Vincent Bond, Ph.D.: Unsung Hero of the HIV Response in Atlanta
JUNE 12, 2019 - "From the 1980s into the '90s if you had HIV and did not have access to standard anti-retroviral treatment, this would have been a death sentence," says Vincent Craig Bond, Ph.D., reflecting on the early HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S.
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Pew: Black Women in the South are More Likely to Die of Breast Cancer
MAY 15, 2019 - Pew talked to several leaders and researchers in the field of breast cancer, including two experts from MSM, to try and figure out why so many more Black women are dying from this disease than their white counterparts.
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NBC News: Shortage of Black Male Doctors Having Public Health Impact
MAY 6, 2019 - The number of Black male medical students peaked more than 40 years ago and has been declining ever since. NBC Nightly News looked at how having more doctors who look like them affects Black male patients and what Morehouse School of Medicine is doing to address this issue.
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