Course Name: CBID Master's Projects

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, affects one-third of all Americans, increases the risk for heart disease, stroke and renal disease,...

Patients undergoing Breast Conserving Surgery (BCS) have a one in five chance of requiring a reoperation because surgeons cannot determine if the...

Globally, only 60,000 of the estimated 310,000 new cases of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR- TB) are diagnosed. The situation is...

39 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea (SA), a serious medical condition that causes people to periodically stop breathing during...

Annually, there are over 4 million global neonatal deaths primarily occurring in resource-constrained environments. This accounts for over 38% of...

Oxygen is a critical, life saving medicine. It is used to manage childhood pneumonia, COPD, obstetric emergencies and is necessary...

Moderate to severe anemia is a major public health concern, particularly dangerous during pregnancy for both the mother and the...

Each year 50,000 patients in the U.S. alone will undergo free flap reconstruction, about 15% of whom will experience non-preventable...

Wound care is not glamorous but a $20 billion global market is hard to ignore. Most of us could not...

Type 2 Diabetes: A Shift in Thinking? Twenty five million Americans live with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the...

Annually, approximately 800,000 patients rely on mechanical ventilation (MV) delivered through a breathing tube to survive. Over time the presence...

Headaches in the Emergency Department Each year, six million patients visit emergency departments (ED) in the United States (US) with...

Anemia in Developing Countries Anemia during pregnancy is defined as hemoglobin (Hb) concentration less than 10g/dL. Maternal anemia affects more...

Each year, two million babies die annually from intrapartum-related deaths. Another one million are born with defects caused by birth...

Neonatal hypothermia affects an estimated 17 million newborns annually in developing countries. It is a significant contributing factor to the...

Cardiac arrhythmia patients in the developing world can often go many years of experiencing symptoms such as dizziness and fainting,...

Tremtex is working in conjunction with clinical and research partners at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to develop an...

Many caesarean sections are preventable. During our August field immersion trips in Nepal and India, we witnessed high rates of...

Access to health care is a basic human right. Yet in India, more than 700 million rural people have limited...

Acute kidney injury, defined as a sudden loss of renal function, occurs in 15 percent of the 600,000 cardiac procedures...