Our slide show features pictures taken on Tuesday March 15th, 2011, following the full-scale sweep of the homeless population in the Kaka’ako area that took place close to the Medical School earlier that morning. The long stretch of road previously lined with rows of tents was transformed into vacant rows of grass with just a [...]
Archive | March, 2011
Surgery’s Dr. Demare on KHON2 as radiation expert on Japan crisis
Click here for KHON2 story and video by Ron Mizutani – Fukushima nuclear plant crisis not a current threat to Hawaii
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Medical Students Present Powerful Anti-Smoking Message
The children couldn’t avert their eyes. The image of two sets of pig’s lungs–one pink and healthy, the other black from tobacco–was just too compelling. And that’s the point. Students from the John A. Burns School of Medicine set up a booth at the Honolulu Festival March 13. “We had a lot of people check [...]
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PILI @ WORK OPPORTUNITY: Sign up NOW for new class starting in April at JABSOM Kaka’ako
The Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) is happy to announce the start-up of another PILI@Work study group at JABSOM Kaka’ako. PILI @ Work is a weight loss and weight loss maintenance program. Its goal is to see if workplace interventions can make a significant difference in people’s health, [...]
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UH Medical School Helping Recruit and Retain Rural Docs
By Sheri Porter, American Academy of Family Physicians, AFP News Now The legendary surfer’s paradise known as the Banzai Pipeline is located on the north shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. However, a very different kind of pipeline is the topic of the day — every day — at the Hawaii AFP. Hawaii desperately [...]
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Angel Yanagihara’s box jellyfish venom research leads to sting treatment
Story by KNON-2, Reported by Ron Mizutani University of Hawaii Assistant Research Professor Angel Yanagihara has made enormous strides in venom research. After years of studying the Hawaiian Box Jellyfish, her lab and ocean work will soon provide relief for victims on the beach. The components in this vial will soon hit Waikiki Beach and [...]
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