Physicians spend a significant portion of their day entering notes about their patients into computers, and the demands of digital recordkeeping can become a burden. But in addition to providing instant access to a patient’s complete medical history, electronic health records create a wealth of information for researchers. Mark Hoffman and his team work to … Continue reading Connecting the dots
Drs. Jared and Amanda Bruce are a great team — both inside and outside the academic realm — when it comes to examining the relationship between brain function and health. This husband and wife duo are using neuroimaging to uncover how the brain responds to various food-related stimuli with the ultimate hope that knowledge from … Continue reading Gut feelings: The effect of food on the brain
A theme of healthy living runs throughout Calvary Temple Baptist Church at 29th and Holmes in Kansas City, a longtime collaborator with the University of Missouri-Kansas City Community Health Research Group. There are stacks of black health magazines, HIV prevention posters and, most profoundly in the Calvary Community Wellness Center, rows of treadmills and elliptical … Continue reading Faith in research
Passwords are about to be a thing of the past — and UMKC is showing them the door. The replacement? A mobile app that can identify a person by scanning the vasculature patterns in the whites of his/her eyes. The ramifications are huge. Smartphone users all over the globe could soon use their “eye prints” … Continue reading Eye on security
In a small physics lab in Flarsheim Hall, Associate Professor Anthony Caruso and a team of student researchers are close to developing technology that could stop a future nuclear terrorist attack. Caruso’s research, already responsible for attracting more than $3 million in funding, spinning off one commercial startup and the creation of a new line … Continue reading Nuclear detector
