Famous Women Scientists and Nobel Laureates From the Second Part of the 20th Century By Sandor Szabo, MD, PhD, MPH, Founding Dean and Professor, School of Medicine As we celebrate March…

By Oksana Zayachkivska, MD, PhD, DSc, Professor of Physiology, AUHS-SOM Grant proposal for a new saliva test from AUHS School of Medicine (SOM) Human readiness for performing important routine and…

The Face Mask Controversy   By John V. Schloss, PhD   Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch made the news recently for refusing to wear a face mask.  The argument over…

Omicron Might Be the ‘Best Variant’ of SARS-CoV-2, So Far: Here Is Why  By Sandor Szabo, MD, PhD, MPH  Professor & Dean, School of Medicine, American University of Health Sciences,…

COVID-19: Where We Are Now  By Barbara Thurn-Tamayo, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, CPN  It has now been two years since the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19, was identified. It…

Public Health and Socioeconomic Implication of ‘Long COVID-19’: An International Collaborative Study with U.S. Leadership  By Sandor Szabo, MD, PhD, MPH    ABSTRACT  of the grant application submitted to USAID…

The Omicron Variant and Its Impact on Nursing Students and Health Care Workers  By Maria Shearing, BSN, RN, PHN  Throughout the era of the coronavirus pandemic, variants have continued to…

Hand Sanitizers Containing Methanol  by Grant D. Lackey, PharmD, FCSHP  Methanol has a long history of severe toxicity and led to the term “blind drunk” because of its potential to…

Spotlight AUHS Alumna and Supporter – Dr. Thi Dang By Brent Davis, PhD This month we are excited to spotlight one of our alumni (Pharm. Tech. 1998), Thi Dang, PharmD. …

Purpose – The purpose of this document is to identify and list a minimal assemblage of clear, concise, program-level, ability-based outcomes for the Doctor of Pharmacy Program at the American University of Health Sciences. The outcomes support the mission of the University and the missions…

By Prof. Janet Kazibwe MSN, BSN, PHN, RN    During this fall 2021 quarter, I discovered a new way of handling the clinical placement of students in an agency that had limited the…

By Grant D. Lackey, PharmD, FCSHP    Keep button batteries out of reach of children.   More and more children are being injured, or even dying, from swallowing buttons or disk batteries. A…

Barbara Thurn-Tamayo DNP, FNP-C, APRN, CPN, Chair/Assistant Dean-Nursing Graduate Studies, American University of Health Sciences    Since the advent of penicillin in 1928, the world has been able to treat infections that…