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Ticked Off About Lyme Diseasenew

Lyme disease can mean severe pain for patients and legal headaches for physicians.

Seven Days | Ken Picard | 06-28-2010 | Science

A Professor Investigates Africa’s Most Dreaded Disease: Malarianew

At first glance, UVM assistant professor Arne Bomblies seems like an unlikely person to be conducting research on malaria, an illness that kills more than a million people worldwide each year, most of them African children, at a rate of one every 30 seconds.

Seven Days | Ken Picard | 01-22-2010 | Science

Tags: Arne Bomblies, UVM, malaria, University of Vermont

University of Vermont Faces a Decline in Body Donationsnew

The declining number of donors may be related to the cost associated with giving one's body to medical science. Although UVM absorbs nearly all the expenses, transportation costs are still incurred by the next of kin. In tough economic times, that expense may be too much for some Vermonters to shoulder.

Seven Days | Ken Picard | 10-30-2009 | Science

Tags: Anatomical Gift Programs, medical research, University of Vermont, economic issues