Many teens in Hawaiʻi are not getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, primarily because parents don’t know enough about the vaccine, and doctors aren’t recommending the shots.
The Office of Public Health Services, a unit within the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work, celebrates National Public Health Week and the contributions of its students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters.
The study by UH Mānoa's Catherine Pirkle and Yan Yan Wu examined whether social and behavioral risk factors make certain groups more vulnerable to metabolic syndrome.
UH researchers Yvette Amshoff, Gertraud Maskarinec and Andrew Grandinetti looked at 24 years of health data and found that patients who have type 2 diabetes in addition to other chronic diseases have a lower survival rate for colorectal cancer.