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![FAU Receives $1 Million Grant for Dementia Prevention](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/galvin-newsdesk.jpg.jpg)
June 22, 2017
A $1 million grant from The Harry T. Mangurian, Jr. Foundation will establish the Comprehensive Center for Brain Health in FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine for a unique dementia prevention program.
![Copaiba: Silver Bullet or Snake Oil?](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/copaiba_newsdesk.jpg)
June 06, 2017
Researchers caution that randomized trials are needed to discern whether treatment with the essential oil copaiba is effective or that it turns out to be "yet another beautiful hypothesis slain by ugly facts."
![Method Tested at FAU First to Examine Dolphin Immune System](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/bottlenose_dolphin_newsdesk.jpg)
May 25, 2017
With the drastic increase in unusual dolphin strandings and deaths along the southeastern coast of the U.S. and elsewhere, finding specific antibodies to test and monitor their immune health is critical.
![FAU Launches Nation's First M.D. Pipeline Program](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/FAU_High_Signing_Day_Newsdesk.jpg)
May 19, 2017
"Signing Day" brought new meaning for four of the nation's brightest teens as they were officially accepted into an innovative medical school pipeline program through the "FAU High School M.D. Direct" program.
![FAU Approved for Psychiatry Residency Program](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/psychiatry_residency_newsdesk.jpg)
May 09, 2017
FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine has received initial accreditation for a University-sponsored residency program in psychiatry, in collaboration with its member teaching hospitals.
![Detecting and Treating Alzheimer's Disease at Home](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/fau_ad_grant_newsdesk.jpg)
May 01, 2017
FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing has received a grant to test a novel mechanism for early detection and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in the home setting in underserved communities.
![FAU Confers M.D. Degrees to Class of 2017](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/med_grad_newsdesk.jpg)
April 28, 2017
It's official. The 61 members of the class of 2017 of FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine are now the nation's newest physicians.
![Expanding Waistlines and Link to Metabolic Syndrome](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/love-handle-newsdesk.jpg)
April 06, 2017
For decades, American waistlines have been expanding and there is increasing cause for alarm. Researchers make the case that metabolic syndrome is the new silent killer and that the "love handle" can be fatal.
![Smoking Risks and Need for Wider Use of Varenicline to Quit](https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/images/news/smoking_cessation_newsdesk.jpg)
March 27, 2017
More than 35 million Americans are trying to quit smoking. Experts reassure clinicians that varenicline is a safe and effective way to stop smoking and that not using this drug has caused needless deaths.