Stories tagged with: Health Impact

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Health impact

Ohio University’s Community Health Programs has $63 million financial impact on Southeast Ohio

Southeast Ohio is the beneficiary of roughly $63 million in social and economic gains, according to a social return on investment analysis of the Heritage College’s Community Health Programs.

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Community

OHIO demonstrates commitment to service at ninth annual Athens Area Stand Down

The words are inscribed on the Alumni Gateway—those who attend Ohio University enter to learn and depart to serve. The Ohio University community undoubtedly demonstrated a commitment to those in need at the recent ninth annual Athens Area Stand Down.

Sunset at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine Dublin Campus.

Ohio University and the City of Dublin continue partnership to bring health-centered conversations to community

Ohio University and the City of Dublin are continuing their partnership with the next program of the OHIO Dublin Speaker Series. The speaker series brings awareness to relevant health-related topics.

: two young boys and two older camp counselors play with pool noodles in a gymnasium-style room
Health

OHIO’s Diabetes Institute

Offering free care for those in need

researchers in street clothes conduct a movement experiment
Health

OMNI’s Injury & Pain Research Center

Leading national research on the neurological impact of knee injuries

a male researcher wearing glasses, a lab coat and purple nitrile gloves examines two mice in a clear holding container with bedding and a water dispenser
Health

John Kopchick’s Blockbuster Discoveries Continue

First a new drug for humans, now a cancer- and diabetes-resistant lab mouse that holds the world record for the oldest mouse

a female student wearing scrubs puts on a disposable face mask and plastic eye shield
Health

The Heart of Health, Here at OHIO

Ohio University is leading the way in health care education.

College of Health Sciences and Professions students are shown in a clinical lab

Health professions licensure exam pass rates set OHIO apart

At OHIO, many of the health programs within the College of Health Sciences and Professions are ranked among the highest in the state in first-time licensure exam pass rates.

4-Aminoquinolines inhibit the function of the bacterial T-box riboswitch RNA. Illustration by Jennifer Hines

Hiding in plain sight: Hines group uncovers new class of medicinal compounds that target RNA

Chemistry students in Jennifer Hines' lab uncovered a new class of compounds that can target RNA and disrupt its function, a discovery that could be used in the development of RNA-targeted medicines.

Ohio University professors (left to right) Douglas Goetz, Stephen Bergmeier and Kelly McCall, who discovered a compound that can possibly help protect against a plethora of physiological and pathophysiological diseases.

Alumna Kelly McCall veered into a research career fighting autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

Kelly McCall thought she was headed to dentistry school. But as graduation loomed, she changed her major to biological sciences and found herself on a very different health-care related path.

Jon Snyder on his graduation day in June 1987 with his parents, Glenn and Anne Snyder.

Alumnus Jon Snyder helped make patients' lives better through medical devices, therapies

When Jon Snyder was a communications major at OHIO, the closest he came to the field of health care was a marketing and communications internship with the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.

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