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Health and Medicine Research A new survey aims to reveal the strain faced by front line health care workers and help provide a remedy.
Health and Medicine Research A new survey aims to reveal the strain faced by front line health care workers and help provide a remedy.
Health and Medicine Research A new survey aims to reveal the strain faced by front line health care workers and help provide a remedy.

Guerda Nicolas, a professor of the School of Education and Human Development, created the research that aims to reveal the strain faced and help provide a remedy.

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Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie

World-renowned cardiologist Eugene Sayfie remembered

A tireless physician who was always on call, Dr. Sayfie made patients partners in their care.

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Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie

World-renowned cardiologist Eugene Sayfie remembered

A tireless physician who was always on call, Dr. Sayfie made patients partners in their care.

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Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie

World-renowned cardiologist Eugene Sayfie remembered

A tireless physician who was always on call, Dr. Sayfie made patients partners in their care.

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Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie
Health and Medicine Dr. Eugene J. Sayfie

World-renowned cardiologist Eugene Sayfie remembered

A tireless physician who was always on call, Dr. Sayfie made patients partners in their care.

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Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.
Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.
Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.

New undergraduate health course seizes the perfect teaching moment

As the coronavirus swept into South Florida, students in the inaugural Your Health, Your Immune System, Your Microbiota course had firsthand lessons about protecting their health as they watched history—and science—in the making.

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Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.
Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.

New undergraduate health course seizes the perfect teaching moment

As the coronavirus swept into South Florida, students in the inaugural Your Health, Your Immune System, Your Microbiota course had firsthand lessons about protecting their health as they watched history—and science—in the making.

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Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.
Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.
Health and Medicine A healthy gut contains millions of beneficial bacteria that help our immune systems function.

New undergraduate health course seizes the perfect teaching moment

As the coronavirus swept into South Florida, students in the inaugural Your Health, Your Immune System, Your Microbiota course had firsthand lessons about protecting their health as they watched history—and science—in the making.

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Health and Medicine Juliet Daly, 12, leans on her mother Jennifer Daly on their front porch, as Jennifer recounts the ordeal of almost losing Juliet to the coronavirus, in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Health and Medicine Juliet Daly, 12, leans on her mother Jennifer Daly on their front porch, as Jennifer recounts the ordeal of almost losing Juliet to the coronavirus, in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Health and Medicine Juliet Daly, 12, leans on her mother Jennifer Daly on their front porch, as Jennifer recounts the ordeal of almost losing Juliet to the coronavirus, in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Illness that is a by-product of COVID-19 affects children

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Health and Medicine Juliet Daly, 12, leans on her mother Jennifer Daly on their front porch, as Jennifer recounts the ordeal of almost losing Juliet to the coronavirus, in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Health and Medicine Juliet Daly, 12, leans on her mother Jennifer Daly on their front porch, as Jennifer recounts the ordeal of almost losing Juliet to the coronavirus, in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Health and Medicine Juliet Daly, 12, leans on her mother Jennifer Daly on their front porch, as Jennifer recounts the ordeal of almost losing Juliet to the coronavirus, in Covington, La., Thursday, April 30, 2020. A team of pediatric cardiology specialists found that Juliet had acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM), an uncommon heart condition that tends to present with sudden onset acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock or life-threatening arrhythmias. A nasal swab confirmed that Juliet was also COVID-19 positive and that she had a second viral infection – adenovirus. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Illness that is a by-product of COVID-19 affects children

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Health and Medicine The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host a webinar to discuss migration in the age of deportation.
Health and Medicine The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host a webinar to discuss migration in the age of deportation.
Health and Medicine The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host a webinar to discuss migration in the age of deportation.

Upcoming virtual symposium tackles hard-hitting issues on immigration

The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host an online seminar to discuss immigration in the age of deportation.

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Health and Medicine The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host a webinar to discuss migration in the age of deportation.
Health and Medicine The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host a webinar to discuss migration in the age of deportation.
Health and Medicine The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host a webinar to discuss migration in the age of deportation.

Upcoming virtual symposium tackles hard-hitting issues on immigration

The University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas will host an online seminar to discuss immigration in the age of deportation.

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Health and Medicine mother and child embrace
Health and Medicine mother and child embrace
Health and Medicine mother and child embrace

Psychologists offer guidance on how to support children during social distancing

Child experts at the University of Miami offer ways that parents can help ease children’s anxiety and frustration at the inability to see friends during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health and Medicine mother and child embrace
Health and Medicine mother and child embrace
Health and Medicine mother and child embrace

Psychologists offer guidance on how to support children during social distancing

Child experts at the University of Miami offer ways that parents can help ease children’s anxiety and frustration at the inability to see friends during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health and Medicine Rudy Fernandez at a Citizens Board meeting
Health and Medicine Rudy Fernandez at a Citizens Board meeting
Health and Medicine Rudy Fernandez at a Citizens Board meeting
Health and Medicine Rudy Fernandez at a Citizens Board meeting

Senior vice president for public affairs and communications discusses COVID-19

Rudy Fernandez, senior vice president for public affairs and communications at the University of Miami and chief of staff to President Julio Frenk, talks about the University’s ongoing response to COVID-19.

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Makeshift desk while working from home
Health and Medicine Makeshift desk while working from home

Helping managers address the workplace from home

A University of Miami faculty member offers tips on how to preserve healthy work-life practices as we face the challenges that come with a global pandemic.

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Health and Medicine
Denise Vidot
Health and Medicine Denise Vidot

A new survey sheds light on ‘vulnerable’ cannabis users

The international study led by the University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies aims to help guide public policy about marijuana use amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Health and Medicine
Woman celebrating birthday with video conference
Woman celebrating birthday with video conference
Woman celebrating birthday with video conference
Health and Medicine Woman celebrating birthday with video conference

Staff members find creative ways to celebrate during COVID-19

University of Miami personnel share their heartfelt experiences and provide tips on how to reimagine events to celebrate important milestones during this quarantine.

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Woman celebrating birthday with video conference
Woman celebrating birthday with video conference
Woman celebrating birthday with video conference
Health and Medicine Woman celebrating birthday with video conference

Staff members find creative ways to celebrate during COVID-19

University of Miami personnel share their heartfelt experiences and provide tips on how to reimagine events to celebrate important milestones during this quarantine.

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Health and Medicine
A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
Health and Medicine A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Who’s at risk to keep meatpacking plants open?

Two University of Miami law experts query the risks of requiring meatpacking plants to reopen and remain open despite the growing incidence of COVID-19.

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A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)
Health and Medicine A worker leaves the Tyson Foods plant on May 1 in Waterloo, Iowa. The coronavirus is devastating the nation's meatpacking communities, places like Waterloo and Sioux City in Iowa, Grand Island, Neb., and Worthington, Minn. Within weeks, the outbreaks around slaughterhouses have turned into full-scale disasters. (Photo: Charlie Neibergall, AP)

Who’s at risk to keep meatpacking plants open?

Two University of Miami law experts query the risks of requiring meatpacking plants to reopen and remain open despite the growing incidence of COVID-19.

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Health and Medicine Jeffrey Eberhardt
Health and Medicine Jeffrey Eberhardt
Health and Medicine Jeffrey Eberhardt
Health and Medicine Jeffrey Eberhardt

Veteran completed his degree on the coronavirus front line

Jeffrey Eberhardt, a mechanical engineering major, is a veteran special forces medical sergeant in the military who finished his degree while serving COVID-19 patients in a New York hospital.

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Jeffrey Eberhardt
Jeffrey Eberhardt
Jeffrey Eberhardt
Health and Medicine Jeffrey Eberhardt

Veteran completed his degree on the coronavirus front line

Jeffrey Eberhardt, a mechanical engineering major, is a veteran special forces medical sergeant in the military who finished his degree while serving COVID-19 patients in a New York hospital.

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Health and Medicine National Nurses Week
Health and Medicine National Nurses Week
Health and Medicine National Nurses Week
Health and Medicine National Nurses Week

For more than 200 years, nurses have always stepped up

As National Nurses Week begins, Cindy Munro, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies, reflects on the growing—and long overdue—respect for nursing and the students who are ready to enter or advance in the profession.

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National Nurses Week
National Nurses Week
National Nurses Week
Health and Medicine National Nurses Week

For more than 200 years, nurses have always stepped up

As National Nurses Week begins, Cindy Munro, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies, reflects on the growing—and long overdue—respect for nursing and the students who are ready to enter or advance in the profession.

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Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle
Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle
Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle
Health and Medicine Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle

Learn to identify—and manage—your dog’s separation anxiety

A University of Miami philosopher shares some insights to help “paw-rents” and their canine companions continue to live their best lives, even after coronavirus lockdowns lift.

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Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle
Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle
Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle
Health and Medicine Sebastian the Ibis and Goose the mini Goldendoodle

Learn to identify—and manage—your dog’s separation anxiety

A University of Miami philosopher shares some insights to help “paw-rents” and their canine companions continue to live their best lives, even after coronavirus lockdowns lift.

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Nichole Crenshaw, assistant professor of clinical and director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, performing the mock intubation procedure at the Simulation Hospital.
Health and Medicine Nichole Crenshaw, assistant professor of clinical and director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, performing the mock intubation procedure at the Simulation Hospital.

Engineers, architects, nurses, and doctors team up to protect health care workers

As part of the University’s COVID-19 Preparedness Committee, a host of personal protective equipment is being 3D printed and fabricated to safeguard medical personnel.

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Nichole Crenshaw, assistant professor of clinical and director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, performing the mock intubation procedure at the Simulation Hospital.
Nichole Crenshaw, assistant professor of clinical and director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, performing the mock intubation procedure at the Simulation Hospital.
Nichole Crenshaw, assistant professor of clinical and director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, performing the mock intubation procedure at the Simulation Hospital.
Health and Medicine Nichole Crenshaw, assistant professor of clinical and director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the School of Nursing and Health Studies, performing the mock intubation procedure at the Simulation Hospital.

Engineers, architects, nurses, and doctors team up to protect health care workers

As part of the University’s COVID-19 Preparedness Committee, a host of personal protective equipment is being 3D printed and fabricated to safeguard medical personnel.

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Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.
Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.
Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.
Health and Medicine Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

Historian takes an in-depth look at the mortality of pandemics

Hugh M. Thomas, professor of history and director of the University of Miami’s Center for the Humanities, compares and links historical pandemics to current times.

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Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.
Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.
Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.
Health and Medicine Vintage engraving of a dead cart collecting the bobies of plague victims during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

Historian takes an in-depth look at the mortality of pandemics

Hugh M. Thomas, professor of history and director of the University of Miami’s Center for the Humanities, compares and links historical pandemics to current times.

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