An increasing number of Latino agricultural workers are arriving with kidney failure at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, according to Valerie Vi Mac, a postdoctoral researcher at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Many of them wait all day for dialysis, a life-sustaining process that relies on a machine to substitute the kidneys’ functions [...]
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Courtesy Emory Photo/Video The National Institute on Aging selected Emory University as the lead institution to receive a federal grant of over $73 million. The grant will fund five years of international research into drugs that may prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Emory will use the grant to establish an Open Drug Discovery Center for Alzheimer’s disease, [...]
Read MoreThe Briarcliff Corridor Water Infrastructure Replacement Project, which will replace about 45,000 feet of water lines along Briarcliff and North Decatur roads, began construction on Sept. 22, according to Engineering Manager at the DeKalb County Department of Watershed Management Keith Laguaite. The project will replace several pipes that have been in use for over a [...]
Read MorePatients at for-profit kidney dialysis centers are less likely to receive kidney transplants than those at nonprofit centers, according to a Sept. 10 study published by researchers at Emory and health care company Kaiser Permanente. Dialysis is a medical treatment that substitutes the kidney’s functions by removing excess water, salt and toxins and regulating other [...]
Read MoreA decade ago, Emory neurologist and doctor Lynn Marie Trotti made an accidental discovery when one of her patients was prescribed the antibiotic clarithromycin for an infection. After taking the medication, the patient’s hypersomnia, a little-understood condition which causes severe daytime sleepiness, vanished. “She called me up and said, ‘It’s amazing, I can’t sleep at [...]
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