In this issue, meet the Haenyeo "sea women" who spend their workdays underwater, reach new frontiers with telehealth, and discover the new technologies that are transforming the future of health care and research.
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Scientists are advancing biomedicine with transformative innovations that open new paths for health care and research, from shedding light on how we see to building prosthetics that help us feel. These advances enable scientists to study disease and explore potential treatments in powerful ways that were not previously possible.
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AWARDS, RECOGNITION, & OTHER NOTES |
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The Haenyeo "sea women" of Jeju Island spend their workdays in the water, diving throughout pregnancy and into their 70s and 80s. What are the genetic changes that help them stay healthy under the intense stressors of free-diving?
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Treating chronic pain means reaching people where they are. U of U Health researcher Julie Fritz, PhD, is using telehealth to bring physical therapy to people in rural and frontier communities and across the state.
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A new toolkit analyzes multi-year patterns in health data to identify individuals at high risk for chronic diseases, including depression and hypertension, with an accuracy of 85-99%.
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New disease modeling research suggests that expanded antibiotic use could slow or stop some cholera outbreaks and even reduce the risk of the sometimes-deadly bacteria evolving antibiotic resistance.
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