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Week of January 4, 2016

Brain's "Garbage Disposal" and Alzheimer's 

A drug that boosts the brain's ability to clear out proteins may improve cognition, a new study by P&S and NYSPI researchers has found. 
 
Television's Top Public Health Moments of 2015
 
There’s no better way to put the “public” in public health than through pop culture. Read about how 10 TV series highlighted public health issues.

Research Funding: Safe for Now, But For How Long?  
NIH funding increased by $2 billion in FY2016. Ross Frommer says advocacy is critical to maintaining support. 

CUMC in the News

 

Photo of the Week

Archivists work to prepare a rare 17th century anatomical book for digitization. The book is a flapbook, an early attempt to represent the three dimensionality of the human body in the two dimensional format using a series of overlapping flaps to illustrate the successive layers of the human body. See the digitized book here.
 
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