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By David DeFusco
For Julia Agosto, a speech-language pathologist and Katz School clinical assistant professor, life on the front lines of COVID-19 has been an unrelenting series of challenges that have tested the limits of her strength, patience and resilience.
The stress of being thrust into a chaotic and sometimes maddening environment can be all […]
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Residents of a nursing home in the mid-Atlantic region experienced declines in blood-oxygen saturation levels several days before developing symptoms of COVID-19, according to a pilot study co-authored by a recent graduate of the Katz School of Science and Health.
“In this study we retrospectively evaluated 84 nursing home residents to identify whether pulse-oximetry would […]
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Julian Ruggiero, a Fulbright scholar in the Data Analytics and Visualization program, recently conducted an analysis of the occurrence of COVID-19 in the boroughs of New York City and found that people residing in zip codes predominantly populated by low socioeconomic groups, including African Americans and Hispanics, had a higher incidence of the virus, […]
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May Mahmoud is in her last semester of the Katz School’s Speech-Language Pathology program. Originally from Alexandria, Egypt, she currently lives in Brooklyn. May is bilingual in Arabic and English, and holds an undergraduate degree in speech-language pathology from Brooklyn College. Helena Goodman, a marketing manager at Yeshiva University, recently spoke with May about her […]
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Katz Digital Marketing and Media students Shira Feen and Lavanya Karanth have won the Triple Bottom Line Challenge, an open #innovation competition on June 18 to turn COVID-19’s quarantine isolation into a startup improving the world post-coronavirus. Their winning “Remote Education for All” proposal is a virtual tutoring app that will […]
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Dr. Marissa Barrera, director of the Speech-Language Pathology program at the Katz School of Science and Health at Yeshiva University, said prolonged ventilator use can strain the vocal cords of patients suffering from coronavirus, during an interview on “Coronavirus Patient’s Fight Doesn’t End After Getting Off A Ventilator, Speech Pathologists Say” with WCBS on […]
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Lorraine Marchand, a member of the faculty of the Biotechnology Management and Entrepreneurship program at the Katz School and a leader of life sciences consulting at IQVIA, an American multinational company serving the combined industries of health information technology and clinical research, met up with Helena Goodman, a marketing manager at Yeshiva […]
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