COVID-19
Cornell Collaborates with New York State to Create Online Public Health Course
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Cornell and New York State collaborated to launch a free online public health course to empower people to help inform their communities.
COVID-19
Potential Public COVID-19 Exposure at 3 Ithaca Businesses
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The Tompkins County Health Department has issued a health alert after potential COVID-19 public exposures at three Ithaca businesses.
flu season
Coughs on Campus? Probably the Flu
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2,216 cases of the flu have been reported in Central New York since Oct. 5, 2019, with 65 of those having been treated at Cornell, according to Anne Jones, Cornell Health’s director of medical services.
Science
Student Spotlight on Heritage Adetola ’22: Future Docs Abroad in Vietnam
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During the two week program, interns rotated through a number of different departments including obstetrics and gynecology, practical and experimental surgery and dentistry. Students experienced, first-hand, a vaginal hysterectomy, the removal of a benign tumor, and a cystoscopy.
College of Veterinary Medicine
A Veterinarian Without Borders: Dr. Jarra Jagne’s International Veterinary Career
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The “One Health” initiative doesn’t just apply to a link between doctors and veterinarians. It reflects the need for a global effort to combat epidemics that are as far-reaching as zoonotic diseases. Dr. Jagne firmly believes it is this force, a system of collaboration spanning not just countries but continents that will better prepare the world for the next epidemic.
Science
A New PHeNoMena in Health
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According to Prof. David Erickson, mechanical and aerospace engineering, the use of waves to guide particles, allowing for small scale chemical analysis, makes mobile health testing a possibility.
Protest
Protest Against Chicken Slaughter Disrupts Public Health Lecture
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A protest that broke out during a lecture required the speaker, Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to be escorted out of the room by Cornell University Police Department officers on Monday.