Jennifer Brown

4 weeks ago | medicine.uiowa.edu | Jennifer Brown

Landmark study aims to optimize emergency stroke care and improve outcomes for thousands of thrombectomy patients nationwide University of Iowa Health Care, in collaboration with Cooper University Health Care, has been awarded research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support a large clinical trial comparing two triage strategies for guiding thrombectomy, a life-saving intervention for patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes, the most severe...

Jul 24, 2024 | jjbrownauthor.com | Jennifer Brown

A glimmer is the opposite of a trigger, I recently learned from scientists Karen Casey and Kendra Bjoraker at the NPKUA (National PKU Alliance) conference — and I believe we need glimmers now more than ever. They led a panel presentation at the meeting by PKU mentors to “spark joy” for people who have phenylketonuria, PKU, a rare lifelong health condition, and their families. I was one of the mentors (holding the mike).

Jun 17, 2024 | aiche.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jennifer Brown |Dong Li |Patricia Holden |Elaina M. Blair

1 INTRODUCTION Only a small percentage of microbes have been cultivated and characterized.1 Yet, microbes are involved in vast aspects of human life,2, 3 including the war on plastics.4 Microbes produce degradative enzymes, such as carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) and rely on a carbon source for growth, which plastics can potentially offer.5 More than 5 billion tons of plastic waste can be found in the environment,6 and that number continues to grow.

Mar 8, 2024 | jjbrownauthor.com | Jennifer Brown

If she can see it, she can be it, as Geena Davis says about equal representation in media. Strength, power, leadership, ground-breaking author, inventor, activist, creator – a person who is female at birth can be these and so much more. How often do young people have a chance to see all this about their potential? History was mandatory in public schools where I grew up, but I didn’t learn much about women there when I was a little girl.

Feb 12, 2024 | jjbrownauthor.com | Jennifer Brown

“I grew up in a single parent household and this play is a love letter to my mom and all birthing people, without whom all of us would literally not exist.” – Lillian Isabella, NYU Tisch alumni, half-Cuban Bronx-raised playwright Primordial, up Feb 1-25 off Broadway at The Tank NYC deals with pregnancy, childbirth, patient advocacy, maternal health, birth without violence, birth equity, and celebrates this innate connection we all share – having been born – while encouraging the audience to...