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Chronic Disease
Chronic Disease: A disease that persists for an extended amount of time. In order for the disease to be considered chronic, it lasts for about 3 months or more. These diseases often cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear.
MAR 13, 2019 | 8:20 AM
Humans interact with their environment in countless ways and can switch seamlessly between activities. Even for seemingly simple tasks, a variety of sensory inputs and contextual cues are int...
DEC 10, 2018 | 10:00 PM
DATE: December 11, 2018TIME: 06:00 PSTIt’s understood and accepted that animal disease models generally offer great value for pre-clinical research and efficient drug screeni...
DEC 06, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) intended for translational applications need to be of...
DEC 06, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 11:00am EST, 5:00pm CET Introduction Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) offers significant advantages o...
DEC 06, 2018 | 6:00 AM
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME:6:00am PST, 9:00am EST, 3:00pm CET Alterations in the bone and mineral...
DEC 05, 2018 | 8:00 PM
DATE: December 05, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTWhat is desperately needed are methods to detect cells that cause metastasis–known as cancer stem cells (CSC), a subpopulation of...
DEC 06, 2018 | 1:00 AM
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 10:00am CET, 5:00pm CST Intro Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) offers significant advantage...
DEC 05, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: December 05, 2018TIME: 07:00 PSTWhat is desperately needed are methods to detect cells that cause metastasis–known as cancer stem cells (CSC), a subpopulation of...
NOV 15, 2018 | 1:30 PM
In 2017, the Washington State Legislature passed HB 1427, which mandated that boards and commissions for five prescribing professions (dental, medical, nursing, osteopathic, and podiatric) en...
NOV 15, 2018 | 6:00 AM
This presentation will review the scope and history of the chronic pain and opioid epidemic in the US. It will then discuss how chronic pain and opioid use is being dealt with in commun...
NOV 15, 2018 | 6:00 AM
DATE: November 15,2018TIME: 06:00am PST, 09:00am EST, 3:00pm CET Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a unique RNA virus that requires the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) to...
OCT 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Although targeted therapies often elicit profound initial patient responses, these effects are transient due to residual disease leading to acquired resistance. How tumors transition between...
JUN 21, 2018 | 7:30 AM
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis also known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD, are characterized by chronic, recurrent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which result...
MAY 03, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: May 3rd, 2018TIME: 8:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDTIntestinal inflammation is a hallmark of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Cr...
APR 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Screening for Down syndrome began with the question "How old will you be when you deliver?". If the pregnant woman answered 35 years of age or older, she was offered amniocent...
MAR 29, 2018 | 12:00 PM
It has only been in the last 20 years that we, the scientific/medical community, have appreciated the role of the endogenous Cannabinoid system (ECS) in maintaining a healthy immune system an...
