Touro University Nevada receives $3.25M grant to fund scholarships
Carl Court
and last updated 2021-02-16 18:47:32-05
Touro University Nevada (Touro), home to Nevadaâs largest physician assistant program, largest medical school, and only school of osteopathic medicine, is the recipient of the Scholarships for Disadvantaged Physician Assistant Students (SDS) grant in Southern Nevada.
Totaling $3.25 million over five years, the grant is funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and will provide scholarships to first- and second-year Physician Assistant Studies students at Touro.
The SDS grant aims to increase diversity among physician assistant students who have demonstrated financial need.
A biotechnology company working on a vaccine to prevent HIV, whose work is licensed by UMass Medical School in Worcester, has won U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to advance its clinical work.
The firm, Worcester HIV Vaccine, was approved for the FDA s investigational new drug process for a vaccine that s aimed at preventing the virus that causes AIDS. An early-stage clinical trial is expected to start this month, with a second-phase trial to follow, the medical school said Friday.
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Dr. Shan Lu
The potential vaccine is based on discoveries by Dr. Shan Lu, a professor of medicine at UMass Medical School and licensed by the Worcester school. Worcester HIV Vaccine was founded more than two years ago, and the investigational drug approval by the FDA is a major achievement in its development, Yegor Veronin, the firm s COO, said in a statement.
Midland County crime log - Feb. 13, 2021
Feb. 13, 2021
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FILE The Midland Law Enforcement Center building located at 2727 Rodd St.
The following list includes recent reports from the Midland County Sheriff’s Office and the Midland Police Department. Compiled by reporter Mitchell Kukulka.
Thursday, Feb. 11
10:29 p.m. Deputies responded to a car-deer crash in Larkin Township.
10:25 p.m. Deputies were dispatched to a Larkin Township residence in reference to a 43-year-old woman believing someone had entered her house while she was gone. Deputies checked the residence and nobody was found inside.
10:09 p.m. Deputies responded to a car-deer crash in Homer Township.
Every N.J. COVID vaccine site handles appointments differently. Here’s how to register in every county. (2/12/21)
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Feb 12, 2021
A line forms at the new Gloucester County COVID-19 vaccination site in Sewell on Jan. 11, 2021.
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Eligible New Jersey residents are slowly but surely becoming inoculated for the coronavirus as the number of entities distributing the vaccine grow throughout the state.
Individuals qualified to receive the vaccine include those in priority groups, specifically healthcare professionals, first responders, people over the age of 65, and those with chronic health conditions.
New Jersey does not have a streamlined vaccine appointment system, meaning that a countless of number of counties, municipalities, healthcare systems and other entities can take appointments themselves.
If youâre an American who prefers independent thought, and if your thoughts, speech, and behavior stray from the edicts of the governing elite, prepare to be publicly shamed, marginalized, canceled, and, in some cases, unemployed, silenced, and essentially ground to powder. Letâs look at a few examples of these elite asserting their power.
In a Tennessee middle school, a black female principal sent a school newsletter to parents announcing the theme of Black History Month. Christy Caldwell Drake is the daughter of Dr. Virgil Caldwell, the late pastor and prolific author serving at a prominent African American Church in the Brainerd Community of Chattanooga. She hoped to increase the participation in the month-long commemoration but instead lit the fire of controversy â even in a county public school system where 35% of the students are black, 27% are white, and 36% are Hispanic. Ms. Caldwell Drake, inspired by a mural in the schoolâs entrance that read, âWhe