LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – With a camera and a tablet, a school nurse’s office transforms into a dental clinic. UNMC is using teledentistry to provide dental consultations within school walls. It’s through the University of Nebraska Medicine’s College of Dentistry teledentistry program. For the last five years, it’s been operating within Omaha schools, helping around… Read More »
University of Maryland students are growing increasingly concerned mold problems in their dorms may be linked to the death of a freshman who succumbed to the same rare virus that killed 11 children in New Jersey. Olivia Paregol, 18, was early in her first semester when she developed a cough, which later worsened to pneumonia. She… Read More »
Whatever the cluster of second-year students at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York expected to hear from an 82-year-old woman — this probably wasn’t it. At first, Elizabeth Shepherd, one of several seniors invited to meet with future doctors in an anti-ageism program called “Introduction to the Geriatric Patient,” largely followed the script. As student… Read More »