Ebola virus disease: Can vitamin A supplementation lower overall mortality?
October 11, 2019
This study led by Adam Levine provides new information that early vitamin A treatment might help lower overall Ebola virus disease mortality.
Recent News
EBOLA UPDATE: Favorable Results from Therapeutics Trial in DRC
August 12, 2019 National Institutes of Health
An independent monitoring board recommends early termination of Ebola therapeutics trial in DRC because of favorable results with two of four candidates. CHRHS Director Dr. Adam Levine is member of the trial steering committee.
Adam C. Levine Named in Two "Under Forty" Lists
July 22, 2019 Providence Business News
Dr. Adam C. Levine, Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, has been named to Providence Business News' 40 Under Forty for 2019, and Top 4 Doctors Under 40 by the Rhode Island Medical Society.
DRC warns of new Ebola wave after latest violence
May 6, 2019 Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
In a retrospective cohort study at five International Medical Corps Ebola treatment centers in Liberia and Sierra Leone, a research team led by Brown University scientists evaluated 424 Ebola cases, 354 of whom were treated with IVF during their admission. The group described its findings in a May 3 early online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
In Liberia, the UN mission helped restore confidence in the rule of law (written by Robert Blair)
April 30, 2019 The Washington Post
Assistant Professor Robert Blair in The Washington Post, " Beyond the lives lost and livelihoods destroyed, the Liberian civil wars shattered the already-strained relationship between citizens and the Liberian government, especially the police and courts."