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Heroes Close to Home
News Anchor Hayward Keynotes African-American History Celebration |
| By Carla Garnett |
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| Long-time broadcast veteran JC Hayward delivers the keynote address for NIH’s African-American History Month observance. |
Plenty of famous black women, their names and deeds were acknowledged during NIH’s salute to African-American History Month on Feb. 16. But speaker after speaker reinforced the resounding message of the day: Remember the heroes close to home.
“We have a tendency to think of history as something that is settled, as an official narrative of long-ago events far removed from our existence,” said local TV news anchor JC Hayward, who gave the event’s keynote talk. “But for every president, for every general, for every famous orator, there have always been thousands of others—ordinary people, people like us who are here in this room who withstood struggles, made choices and actions that shaped history as surely as a treaty or a battle did.”
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Applying a ‘Modern Day Miracle’
Liver Transplantation Expert Ascher Shares Wisdom, Insight |
| By Carla Garnett |
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If anyone wants more proof that obesity in America is out of control, they need only look at NASH numbers over the last two decades, according to recent Clinical Center Grand Rounds “Great Teacher” Dr. Nancy Ascher. Professor and chair of surgery at the University
of California, San Francisco, she shared wisdom and insight from her 30-year career in the field of organ—specifically, liver—transplantation.
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH, she said, is “the newest kid on the block” of disorders
indicating liver transplantation. Growing
obesity trends in the U.S. over the last 20 years have contributed to increasing NASH diagnoses.
Ascher showed a graph of state obesity rates according to population body mass index (BMI) readings of 30 or greater, which defines obesity. In 1990, no state reported higher than 19 percent of its population fitting the definition.
By 2009, all but one state reported at least 20 percent of its population could be determined
to be obese.
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