Fewer years of healthy life for Native Hawaiians, 东精影业 study finds
New findings show that Native Hawaiians in Hawaiʻi have a shorter life expectancy and spend fewer years in good health.
Hula study finds drop in blood pressure in Native Hawaiians
A 东精影业 惭ā苍辞补 medical school study finds hula significantly reduces a person's blood pressure.
Native Hawaiian and African American smokers have high risk of lung cancer
A new study by the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center found that for the same amount of smoking, Native Hawaiians and African Americans have twice the risk of getting lung cancer.
Helping Waimānalo families use aquaponics, improve health
Three researchers have won a national fellowship and will receive $350,000 funding over three years.
东精影业 Hilo to research high rate of HIV/AIDS in Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are in the top three ethnicities with the highest rates of HIV diagnoses in the country.
Marjorie Mau honored with Creighton University alumni award
Mau, one of only three women to receive the alumni merit award in the school’s history, was also asked to deliver a keynote lecture addressing health disparities.
Diabetes center established at JABSOM with $11.2 million federal grant
The grant will intensify Hawaiʻi-based research into a disease that currently affects 155,000 adults and children—1 in 9 individuals in Hawaiʻi.
Researchers find potential signature of cognitive function in people living with HIV
东精影业 researchers identify a unique footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have impairments in cognitive function.
Aspiring medical students present summer internship projects
JABSOM and Queen’s Medical Center collaborate to recruit student researchers into graduate studies, careers.
Marjorie Mau first Native Hawaiian woman ranked master physician
东精影业 Professor Marjorie Mau has become the first Native Hawaiian woman to be recognized with the title of master physician by the American College of Physicians.