Finding Tomorrow’s Cures Today at KU Med
Finding Tomorrow’s Cures Today at KU Med – Science in Action: KU Med’s Clinical Research Center. The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has made Growing Kansas City’s Medical Research, From Discovery to Cure one of its Big 5 Ideas. We’ve been tracking what that actually means on this program with chamber and civic leaders over the last several months. This week, we perhaps put the most human face on the issue as we show you how patients from as far away as New Zealand are now heading to Kansas City to take advantage of some of the cutting edge research and clinical trials now going on in our own backyard. Producer Rich Miller takes us inside KU Med’s Clinical Research Center in Fairway, Kansas for a closer look. – – – – – – – – – – A lot of people don’t know about Kansas City’s booming life sciences facilities and the important, cutting edge research and clinical trials that are taking place in our own backyard. Producer Rich Miller introduces viewers to Dr. Richard Barohn, Director of Frontiers: The Heartland Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at KU Medical Center’s Clinical Research Center in Fairway, Kansas. Frontiers is part of a national group of medical research institutions funded by NIH. Its goals are to speed the translation of laboratory discoveries into treatments for patients, to engage communities in clinical research efforts and to train a new generation of clinical and translational researchers. The Heartland Institute is attracting patients from all over the globe to participate …
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E! News obtained the petition filed Thursday by Tim McCready that resulted in the singer being placed in a treatment center for up to three weeks of mental health and substance abuse evaluations. "Since boyfriend (David Wilson) shot himself she has …
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Crime sweep goes after members of loosely allied groups
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At the same time, more than 100 police officers and federal agents gathered to unleash a different kind of storm on the city's criminal subculture. The Kansas City No Violence Alliance, or KC NoVa for short, hit the streets hard to go after members of …
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