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• Diabetes Self-Care Improves Slowly, U.S. Report Finds

  author Dr. Mohammed Ali, an assistant professor of global health and epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a consultant in the CDC's division of diabetes translation in Atlanta."There are still huge gaps," Ali said. "We   Read more »

• Don't Overlook Eating Issues Tied to Autism, Study Warns

  results of this study have broad implications for children with autism," study author William Sharp, an assistant professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, said in a university news release."It not only highlights the importance of assessing   Read more »

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• Shrewd Ga. businesswoman fought stereotypes

  ATLANTA — As a shrewd businesswoman with keen insight and endless aspirations, Ophelia DeVore worked for much of the 20th century to smash stereotypes and empower black women by teaching them poise, confidence and the courage to get ahead in a world deep   from KansasCity.com Read more »

• Book Talk: Of apes and atheists - is empathy evolution?

  Frans de Waal, a psychologist who studies primates at Emory University, who is the director of the four-day conference on Animal Social Complexity and Intelligence, is pictured at the conference in Chicago, August 23, 2000. JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - For b   from Reuters Mobile Read more »

• Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta discuss the magic of 'Midnight's Children'

  "Midnight's Children" is Salman Rushdie's sweeping, multigenerational story of the birth of independent India and the life of the big-nosed, big-hearted protagonist, Saleem Sinai. Like India, Sinai reflects multitudes and his pathway is strewn with hards   from San Luis Obispo Tribune Read more »

• Hydrogel biomaterial shows promise for Type 1 diabetes treatment

  Immunostained image of engrafted islet in hydrogel in diabetic mouse. (Red areas are insulin-producing cells. Green areas are blood vessels, and blue areas are DNA nuclei in cells.) (Credit: Georgia Tech) Georgia Tech engineers and Emory University clini   from Kurzweilai Read more »

• Former poet laureate to speak at Emory graduation

  Emergency personnel is working a water main break in Cobb County, just off Cobb ... The FBI is calling it street violence, not an act of terror. But a shooting in ... Police in Rome say a teenager died while playing a game of chicken with a ... The Brave   from 11Alive | Atlanta Read more »