PBS Airdate: February 6, 2007
NARRATOR: 1939: A chemist at a midwestern paint company makes a startling discovery, one that could improve the health of millions of people. The company wants him to stick to making paint, but this man has always gone his own way. He was the grandson of Alabama slaves, yet he went on to become one of America s great scientists.
HELEN PRINTY (Julian Laboratories Chemist) : He had to fight to overcome the odds of being a black man in America.
JOHN KENLY SMITH (Historian) : The chemical world was a club, and outsiders were not really all that welcome.
PETER WALTON (Julian Laboratories Employee) : We lived, for the most part, in a highly stressed, very competitive environment.
Amgen and Novartis
It took meeting a college classmate who had been diagnosed with migraine for Karamo Brown, a cast member of the Netflix show
Queer Eye, to realize there was a name and diagnosis for the debilitating headaches he’d been experiencing since he was a teenager. It clicked for me, says Brown, now 40. “I was like, ‘Oh, you can actually go to the doctor for this, you can talk to somebody? Oh, my gosh!’ And also, ‘I’m not alone with this feeling? You’re feeling exactly what I’m feeling?’” he recalls.
Unfortunately, Brown’s experience is not unusual. The majority of people with migraine never seek medical care for their pain, and more than half of people with migraine are never diagnosed, according to the Migraine Research Foundation.
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Gail Daumit, MD, MHS, FACP
Dr. Gail Daumit is the Samsung Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research in the Department of Medicine. She is the director of Johns Hopkins NIMH ALACRITY Center for Health and Longevity in Mental Illness, as well as a practicing general internist, epidemiologist and mental health services researcher whose work is devoted to improving physical health and decreasing premature mortality for people living with serious mental illnesses. Her current projects the ALACRITY Center and a newly-funded NIH project named DECIPHeR focus on testing implementation strategies to scale up evidence-based interventions to decrease cardiovascular risk for people with serious mental illness in community mental health settings. Dr. Daumit’s clinical trial of a behavioral weight loss intervention for persons with serious mental illness, the ACH
A Shaving Profile Might Be Bad for Your Air Force Career
An airman receives an inspection of his neck and face during a shaving waiver course at Beale Air Force Base, Calif., March 15, 2018 (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Colville McFee)
23 Dec 2020 Task & Purpose | By David Roza
This article by David Roza originally appeared on Task & Purpose, a digital news and culture publication dedicated to military and veterans issues.
Many airmen with shaving profiles said that the profiles had negatively impacted their military career by disqualifying them from prestigious positions, leadership opportunities, or awards, according to a new study published in the journal Military Medicine.