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Cardiovascular Disease Symptoms Surprisingly High in Young Refugees

Many individuals seeking asylum in the United States show increased stress and pain symptoms that are associated with indications of cardiovascular disease, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.  

“We would not have expected the rates of these illnesses or conditions to be this high in such a young, otherwise healthy population,” said the study’s senior author, Dr. Gunisha Kaur,...

Commentary Calls for Equal Access to Healthcare for DACA Recipients and All Immigrants

Recent uncertainties regarding the legal status of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program underscore the urgency for policymakers to reassess long-standing restrictions on government-sponsored healthcare subsidies for all immigrants, according to a new analysis by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Law School, and Harvard Medical School.

The paper, published April 17 in The Lancet...

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Safe & Sound

Growing up in Azerbaijan, Yusif was frequently attacked for being gay. Over the years, he was beaten up at school, punched and kicked by neighbors, and pelted with rocks and had homophobic slurs written on the door of his family’s home. The violence escalated when he was 18: Three men dragged Yusif to a schoolyard one night in 2012 and put a knife to his throat. Two took turns raping him, while the third filmed it on his phone and threatened to show the video to others. Yusif went to the...

Article published in Weill Cornell Medicine Magazine: "Safe & Sound: A student-run clinic aids immigrants seeking asylum"

WCCHR December 2017 Newsletter

Human Rights Education Impacts Medical Student Views of Torture

Integrating human rights education into the medical school curriculum may strengthen medical ethics with regards to physician participation in and acceptance of torture, according to the results of a new study from students and faculty from the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights. The center is a Weill Cornell Medicine student-run organization that provides clinical assessments for people seeking political asylum in the United States.

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"Medical Students' Attitudes towards Torture, Revisited," written by members of the WCCHR

The article "Medical Students' Attitudes towards Torture, Revisited," written by members of the WCCHR, was published on November 21, 2017 by the Health and Human Rights Journal as a Paper-in-Press. The article will officially appear in the journal's December issue and can be accessed at the following link:

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