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The Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences is hosting a virtual Lecture Series titled “When Law, Ethics & Medicine Collide.” The first webinar in the series, “Considering Medical Aid in Dying,” will be Wed., May 1, from Noon to 1:30pm Central time. The webinar will feature three international experts on the law, ethics, and clinical realities of medical aid in dying, both in the U.S. and Canada -- … Read More
A new online tool, launched by the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), allows researchers to better evaluate brain organization by identifying an individual’s neural networks. The tool aims to help clinicians develop personalized approaches for care. The MIDB Precision Brain Atlas is an open resource compiled using brain images collected from more than 9,900 participants representing a range of cohorts… Read More
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) at NIH renewed its designation of the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) as a comprehensive cancer center last summer. MCC’s community engagement efforts and innovations to high-impact clinical trials were contributing factors in the renewal. With that renewal, NCI has now awarded a five-year, $20.4 million commitment, funding that will help MCC continue to fight cancer through research… Read More
Thanks in part to initial seed money from UMN’s Clinical & Translational Science Institute’s Office of Discovery and Translation (ODAT), a new low-cost, portable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner… Read More