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Mortality
Mortality is a quantification of death, often referring to deaths attributing to a specific cause such as a disease or illness. Epidemiological studies often report mortality rates which are calculated by dividing the number of deaths due to a disease by the total population.
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MAY 22, 2020Cancer
New research urges individuals at high-risk of breast cancer to get moving, shaking, shimmying, and kicking! According t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 19, 2020Immunology
In the early 1900s, French bacteriologists Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin spent the better half of a decade developi ...Written By: Tara FernandesMAY 15, 2020Cardiology
A wide variation in cardiovascular disease mortality rates has been noted among counties in the United States. Residents ...Written By: Lawrence RennaMAY 13, 2020Microbiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept through various countries with widely discrepant mortality rates.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 03, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
COVID-19 was declared a public health threat on January 30th and since then it took the world by a storm with more than ...Written By: Nouran AminMAY 02, 2020Cancer
In the modern age of biological research, one of the tools that have become readily available in the ever-increasing dat ...Written By: Jasper CantrellMAY 01, 2020Cancer
A study published today in the online edition of Cancer Discovery reports that people with cancer who develop COVID-19 a ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 30, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
A clinical trial investigating the ability of antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19 has found that it can signific ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 23, 2020Health & Medicine
Are you drinking more coffee than usual during the COVID-19 lockdown? Navigating weeks of working from home or onsite, a ...Written By: Tiffany DazetAPR 23, 2020Cardiology
Researchers have found that young adults in their 20’s and 30’s who experience inconsistent blood pressure m ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 20, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have successfully completed the first-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine against MERS (Middle East Respir ...Written By: Nouran AminAPR 17, 2020Neuroscience
Researchers from Texas Tech University have found that anti-vaxxers (those who deny the efficacy of vaccines) are more p ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 17, 2020Cardiology
In the US alone, approximately 182,000 heart valve replacements are performed every year. Now, researchers from McGill U ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 16, 2020Health & Medicine
As mortality and infection rates rise globally, it appears that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pande ...Written By: Stephanie Leon QuinonezAPR 15, 2020Immunology
As of April 9th, over 60% of deaths from COVID-19 in New York state were men. Meanwhile, as of April 6, 82% of patients ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 15, 2020Immunology
Researchers from the US and China have found that COVID-19 can destroy T cells, a type of lymphocyte that plays a key ro ...Written By: Annie LennonAPR 14, 2020Microbiology
Some have looked economic data and suggested that social distancing has gone too far, but a study shows it's saving us f ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 08, 2020Earth & The Environment
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is going through another bleaching event; it's third in five years. The ARC Centr ...Written By: Tiffany DazetAPR 03, 2020Cardiology
Although initial reports focused mostly on COVID 19’s respiratory effects, including pneumonia and difficulty brea ...Written By: Annie LennonMAR 29, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Older adults are more susceptible to infections and don't generate a robust immune response after a vaccination.Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 29, 2020Cancer
The most common, and most deadly, cancer across the world is lung cancer. If caught early, lung cancer has quite a low m ...Written By: Jasper CantrellMAR 28, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
As the search for a treatment for coronavirus continues, a perhaps obscure-sounding candidate has begun to make headline ...Written By: Annie LennonMAR 25, 2020Health & Medicine
CT scans from 27 patients that first contracted Cornonavirus in Wuhan, China reveal signatures in the lungs that could h ...Written By: Carly BoydMAR 19, 2020Cardiology
New research has shown that having bariatric surgery, by means of having a gastric band placed around the stomach to res ...Written By: Annie Lennon
MAY 22, 2020
Cancer
New research urges individuals at high-risk of breast cancer to get moving, shaking, shimmying, and kicking! According t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 19, 2020
Immunology
In the early 1900s, French bacteriologists Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin spent the better half of a decade developi
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
MAY 15, 2020
Cardiology
A wide variation in cardiovascular disease mortality rates has been noted among counties in the United States. Residents
...
Written By:
Lawrence Renna
MAY 13, 2020
Microbiology
The COVID-19 pandemic has swept through various countries with widely discrepant mortality rates.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 03, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
COVID-19 was declared a public health threat on January 30th and since then it took the world by a storm with more than
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAY 02, 2020
Cancer
In the modern age of biological research, one of the tools that have become readily available in the ever-increasing dat
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
MAY 01, 2020
Cancer
A study published today in the online edition of Cancer Discovery reports that people with cancer who develop COVID-19 a
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 30, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
A clinical trial investigating the ability of antiviral drug remdesivir to treat COVID-19 has found that it can signific
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 23, 2020
Health & Medicine
Are you drinking more coffee than usual during the COVID-19 lockdown? Navigating weeks of working from home or onsite, a
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
APR 23, 2020
Cardiology
Researchers have found that young adults in their 20’s and 30’s who experience inconsistent blood pressure m
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 20, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers have successfully completed the first-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine against MERS (Middle East Respir
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
APR 17, 2020
Neuroscience
Researchers from Texas Tech University have found that anti-vaxxers (those who deny the efficacy of vaccines) are more p
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 17, 2020
Cardiology
In the US alone, approximately 182,000 heart valve replacements are performed every year. Now, researchers from McGill U
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 16, 2020
Health & Medicine
As mortality and infection rates rise globally, it appears that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pande
...
Written By:
Stephanie Leon Quinonez
APR 15, 2020
Immunology
As of April 9th, over 60% of deaths from COVID-19 in New York state were men. Meanwhile, as of April 6, 82% of patients
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 15, 2020
Immunology
Researchers from the US and China have found that COVID-19 can destroy T cells, a type of lymphocyte that plays a key ro
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
APR 14, 2020
Microbiology
Some have looked economic data and suggested that social distancing has gone too far, but a study shows it's saving us f
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 08, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is going through another bleaching event; it's third in five years. The ARC Centr
...
Written By:
Tiffany Dazet
APR 03, 2020
Cardiology
Although initial reports focused mostly on COVID 19’s respiratory effects, including pneumonia and difficulty brea
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 29, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Older adults are more susceptible to infections and don't generate a robust immune response after a vaccination.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 29, 2020
Cancer
The most common, and most deadly, cancer across the world is lung cancer. If caught early, lung cancer has quite a low m
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
MAR 28, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
As the search for a treatment for coronavirus continues, a perhaps obscure-sounding candidate has begun to make headline
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 25, 2020
Health & Medicine
CT scans from 27 patients that first contracted Cornonavirus in Wuhan, China reveal signatures in the lungs that could h
...
Written By:
Carly Boyd
MAR 19, 2020
Cardiology
New research has shown that having bariatric surgery, by means of having a gastric band placed around the stomach to res
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon