IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

“At any moment, in a matter of seconds, I could have a sickle cell crisis,” writes Indiana University School of Medicine clinical pathology resident Halimat Olaniyan, MD, in her book, “ Breaking the Cycle of Pain, Short Stories on Living with Sickle Cell.” “As the crescent-shaped red blood cells coursing through my veins turn on me,” she continues, “they stick together and block the flow of blood in my body.

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NVIDIA: Healthcare

MARCH 11, 2024

The integration of AI technologies has become crucial for organizations seeking to drive innovation, enhance productivity and gain a competitive edge. Among the most promising advancements are the use of large language models (LLMs) , retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and accelerated data processing to adopt generative AI capabilities. These technologies have the potential to reshape industries, revolutionize customer experiences, optimize risk management and drive efficiency.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Content for the IU School of Medicine alumni blog is provided by alumni of the IU School of Medicine. If you would like your story considered, please contact Ryan Bowman, director of alumni relations, at rsbowman@iu.edu or (317) 278-2123. This editorial was previously published in the Brazilian Journal of Otolaryngology. Sitting unnoticed on my office desk, and constantly growing in height, resides a stack of letters-different sizes and shapes, in handwriting and letterheads of all descriptions

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The Stitch

MARCH 11, 2024

Dr. Tran Locke explains why certain smells create food cravings inside the body. The post Big hats, big smells – this is why you crave all the food at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo appeared first on Baylor College of Medicine Blog Network.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

By Matthew Harris Strolling across the Indiana University campus, Kyle Hornsby attracted his fair share of double takes during his first year of medical school. At 6-foot-5, Hornsby was hard to miss. And at a basketball-obsessed school, the attention made sense. Three years earlier, Hornsby’s shooting stroke propelled the Hoosiers to the finals of the NCAA tournament.

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Penn Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Through the PennHOPES program, staff at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania are spreading kindness among patients facing extended stays.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

By Matthew Harris Barbara Haehner’s early retirement only lasted two weeks. It ended 10 minutes after the nephrologist sent an e-mail to the Heart and Soul Clinic. On that night in late 2015, representatives from a local faith-based food pantry had spoken at her church. They also mentioned adding free medical care—a service Haehner knew would be complex.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

By Matt Harris George Sorrells spent one summer in medical school working on an assembly line bolting bumpers onto buses to help pay for his degree. Fortunately for him, he found more than a paycheck at the job. The woman who dropped his check off each week eventually became his wife. Soon George and Barbara Sorrells were both working to finance his medical education.

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USA Medical and Surgical Supplies

MARCH 11, 2024

SafeGrip SG-375 Provides ideal protection for high-risk or heavy-duty conditions. Four times thicker than standard latex gloves Unparalleled defense against many hazards in the work area. Features Price: $132.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Alumnus’ memoir details service in Vietnam This year marks the 45 th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accord, which ushered in the end of U.S. combat in Vietnam. An estimated 1.3 million people died as a result of the war. We spoke with three IU School of Medicine alumni who experienced the war from different perspectives. First of three parts. By Matthew Harris When the Boeing 707 carrying him to Vietnam touched down at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, James Donadio Jr., MD, didn’t have time to deal with j

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USA Medical and Surgical Supplies

MARCH 11, 2024

DESCRIPTION Masks stains: MICROFLEX® MidKnight® MK-296 exam gloves’ black color disguises dirt while enhancing the visibility of light-colored objects Enhanced grip: A fully textured, non-foaming design of. Price: $122.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

National Institutes of Health funds study to test new drug combination for triple negative breast cancer Think back to your days as a kid. Ever stop by an arcade? If you did, you almost certainly played Whac-A-Mole, the popular game in which toy rodents randomly pop up from holes, and you desperately try to thump them back into hiding with a mallet.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Written by Melissa Kacena, PhD , a professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine. It’s been a while since we posted a blog. The reason: the unpredictability of spaceflight and timing pressures. This journey began in August 2012 when two spaceflight experiments were planned. The first was to be a cell-based study, and the second was to be a mouse bone healing study.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Tarah Ballinger , MD, was named a recipient of the Career Development Award presented by the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). It was presented at the recent 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago. The Career Development Award provides research funding to clinical investigators as they establish an independent research program.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

When Tatum Parker was about to turn 6, she woke up in the night with terrible pain in her leg. Her parents took her to the emergency department, but rather than a broken leg or injury, Tatum had a large tumor on her right femur. Her pediatrician immediately recommended Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health. A few days later, Tatum had a biopsy at Riley Hospital, and doctors diagnosed her with Ewing sarcoma.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

At 26, and a new mother, Nadia Miller’s dreams were typical. She wanted a big family, a career and hoped to one day travel the world. Then life—and her dreams—abruptly changed. “I was at that invisible stage in life. I was planning a family. I just bought a new home. My career was going well. And then, ‘You have breast cancer.’” Nadia was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Meridian, Jeff, and Autumn Sobel signing the agreement establishing the Becky Sobel Breast Cancer Research Fund on what would have been Becky’s 50 th Birthday. Beginning a lifelong friendship, Tony Chu and Jeff Sobel first met outside their freshman dorm at Syracuse University in the Fall of 1987. Moving to different regions across the country and around the world, they both served full careers in the United States Air Force.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Indiana University School of Medicine’s Mircea Ivan , MD, PhD, has a strong connection to this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. William Kaelin Jr. of Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Ivan was a postdoctoral fellow and subsequently an instructor in Dr. Kaelin’s lab between 1998 and 2002 and first-authored the original studies on cellular oxygen sensors.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is placing limitations on the global supply of medical grade PPE. In a previous blog , I discussed some moral responsibilities of the public during a public health emergency. One of the points, about the appropriate use of face masks by the public, is causing a lot of confusion due to updates the CDC recently made to its recommendations.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

A researcher exploring new anticancer drugs for triple-negative breast cancer has been named the 2020 Vera Bradley Foundation Scholar. Ryan Higgins, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Chunhai “Charlie” Hao , MD, PhD, is the new scholar. From Madison, Ind., Higgins is the first Vera Bradley Scholar from the Hoosier state. The Vera Bradley Foundation Scholars Career Development Program provides two years of research funding to a postdoctoral fellow to pursue a breast cancer resear

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

This blog is written by and published under permission of Areeba Jawed, MD Over the last few weeks, I have communicated with numerous families whose loved ones were hospitalized with COVID 19 related complications as a palliative care fellow at a county hospital in Indianapolis. Due to imposed visitation restrictions, family members were unable to visit patients admitted to the hospital and we functioned as a communication arm for the ICU team.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Two women pursuing their medical degrees with an interest in combining cancer research with patient care have been selected as the 2020 IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center William J. Wright Scholarship Fund recipients. Alexa Loncharich and Laura Wright (no known relation to the benefactor) earned the $8,000 scholarships for the current academic year.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

For all of us now, we mark our lives—both personal and professional—as life before the pandemic and life after the pandemic began. Before the World Health Organization declared the spreading coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, the staff of the IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Clinical Trials Office (CTO) was going about their important work.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Last week, Dr. Colin Halverson, PhD, addressed ethics enthusiasts in a talk entitled, “Pain and Prejudice,” for the Fairbanks Lecture Series in Clinical Ethics. Dr. Halverson studies the clinical journeys, identities, and realities of patients diagnosed with (hypermobile) Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a relatively elusive and professionally understated and misunderstood disease of the connective tissue.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Although men may not like to talk about it, prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute. Al Roker, the Today show weatherman, recently announced he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and that he had it removed surgically, which put a spotlight on the disease.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Indiana University School of Medicine scientists continue search for life-saving treatments for aggressive types of breast cancer Jenny Larner Brown knew she had an aggressive form of breast cancer. She had been through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy—twice. At every juncture in her difficult breast cancer journey, Brown’s oncologist, Kathy Miller, MD , had been there to assure her there was a path forward for treatment.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Editor's Note: Sadly, advocate Alesha Arnold passed away Feb. 5, 2023. Her legacy lives on through the work of End Lung Cancer Now. Lung cancer has an image problem, and Nasser Hanna, MD , wants to change that. Nearly everyone in America could tell you what the pink ribbon stands for when it pops up on store displays, product packaging and social media feeds during the month of October.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

When it comes to education at Indiana University School of Medicine, it’s not just the training that can last a lifetime but also the connections that students make with their peers. Recently, the Radiologic and Imaging Sciences Undergraduate Programs welcomed five alumni back to campus after nearly 50 years since their graduation from the program. The visiting alumni included Karen Retzner, Joan Burton, Marty Perkins, Wendy Ross and Lorraine Woodard, all of whom graduated from the radiography p

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

No one is ever prepared for the disruption a breast cancer diagnosis brings. Jen Hedges, a 41-year-old executive with a property management company, knew chemotherapy would be brutal. She knew she would be tired, but the extremity of her exhaustion coupled with rapid weight gain left her feeling defeated. When her nurse navigator mentioned a new exercise therapy program for breast cancer patients at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center , she didn’t hesitate.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Kathy Miller, MD , doesn’t just care for patients in the clinic. The physician-scientist also designs clinical trials to improve the quality and length of patients’ lives. One of the country’s leading breast clinical trial specialists, Dr. Miller, the Ballvé-Lantero Professor of Oncology at IU School of Medicine and the associate director of clinical research at the IU Simon Cancer Center, is co-chair of the National Cancer Institute’s Breast Cancer Steering Committee where she oversees clinica

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

By Matthew Harris Dr. William Forgey inched his way forward as a 65-miles-per-hour wind howled and whipped glacier snow around his face. In front of him, a pair of medical students crept along, slowly picking their way back from a camp to the physicians’ hand-built cabin in the wilds of Northern Manitoba. For decades, Forgey wracked his body and tested his mind by pushing into empty regions of a map.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

By: Mary Maxwell Bryan Schneider, MD , explains to a shadowing medical student that his morning breast cancer clinic will be filled with chemotherapy patients – all of whom he describes as “in their 30s.” The afternoon will include “a little bit of everything, including women newly diagnosed with breast cancer.” As he categorizes his patients to plan his day, he is also acutely aware of his growing body of research that reveals just how vastly unique each tumor and each woman really is.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

A recent, new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine — which has been hailed as a “milestone” study — confirmed that widespread use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine dramatically reduces the number of women who will develop cervical cancer. We turned to Darron Brown , MD, a leading authority on HPV, for some answers about this study.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Obesity has long been known as a risk factor for developing many diseases, including cancer. For obese women, this means an increased risk for developing breast cancer, although the reason for this increased risk has not been substantiated. A new study published in the journal Cancer Research provides a better understanding of the mechanisms at work with obesity to increase this risk.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

By Karen Spataro Long before the ball drops in Time’s Square this New Year’s Eve, another countdown has begun: The number of days left for parents to find a babysitter for one of the most in-demand nights of the year. If you’re lucky enough to book a responsible, qualified sitter, you just might have Patricia Keener, MD, to thank for it. Keener, a 1968 graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine and professor emerita, is the founder of Safe Sitter®, a national program that teaches young te

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

A major breast cancer study, recently published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine and announced at the world’s leading meeting for oncology professionals, caught the attention of the national news media and, naturally, women, because it found that chemotherapy does not significantly improve disease-free survival rates in some women with early stage breast cancer.

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IU School of Medicine

MARCH 11, 2024

Even though Chuck Pagano is now an NFL coach in another city, the lasting effects from his resilient battle with leukemia—a fight that transcended sports to inspire Hoosiers throughout the state—are still making an impact in cancer research. It all began shortly after Pagano, who was the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012 to 2017, publicly shared his leukemia diagnosis in 2012.

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