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Study: Can aspirin prolong a healthy life?

Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are partnering with colleagues from across the U.S. and Australia in the largest international trial ever sponsored by the National Institute on Aging to study whether aspirin can prolong life.

Categories: Research & Discovery

Bzdelik impressed by tradition

In his two months on the job, basketball coach Jeff Bzdelik says he has learned that “there is great tradition here; the players need to understand our responsibility to uphold that tradition.”

Categories: Athletics

Parents with cancer worry about children

Cancer patients with children have the added pressure of worrying about their children, said Dr. Kathryn Weaver of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, author of a new study on how cancer affects parents and their children.

Categories: Research & Discovery

Students travel to Nicaragua to encourage healthy lifestyles

Students collect plants from La Chureca in Managua (the city dump) to be replanted as part of a beautification project at a local school. Eleven students and two professors are in Managua, Nicaragua, for a month for a service-learning experience combining health care, communication and service. With communication professor Steven Giles and health and exercise science professor Gary Miller, the students are studying global health issues and using a variety of communication techniques to promote healthier lifestyles among the local people.

Categories: Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements

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