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Medicine and surgery
Medicine is both a science and a practice involving caring for patients by diagnosing and managing injury, disease, and illness. Surgery is a medical specialty which uses operative tetchiness to treat injury, disease, or illness, or alter the function or appearance of a part of the body.
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NOV 16, 2016Neuroscience
All of science involves research but finding just the right information can be a daunting task when it means having to c ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 15, 2016Cardiology
Cardiac rehabilitation following heart surgery is reasonably linked with a reduced risk of death, but this connection is ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 10, 2016Neuroscience
When a person has lost sensation in a part of the body, whether to an accident or disease, they don’t just lose mo ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 06, 2016Videos
In this Tedx event from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Professor Ron Heereen of the The Maastricht MultiModal ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 04, 2016Immunology
Scientists are not quite sure why or how individuals develop scleroderma, and there is no current cure for the autoimmun ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 02, 2016Cardiology
A large study of nearly two thousand patients with left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) has confirmed to scientists ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 26, 2016Cardiology
You wouldn’t know that a now-healthy three-year-old had prenatal heart surgery after just two months in his mother ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 25, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In one out of around 35,000 births, a tumor is found growing from the baby’s tailbone, a sacrococcygeal teratoma. ...OCT 24, 2016Neuroscience
Cross your heart, hope to die, stick a needle in your eye. Wasn’t this one of the scariest rhymes ever? As it turn ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 20, 2016Videos
Many plant-based substances can be used for medicinal purposes. Everyone's grandma has at least one or two household rem ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 19, 2016Cancer
Head and neck cancers that are metastatic or resistant to cisplatin are notoriously aggressive. The prognosis for patien ...OCT 15, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Glioblastomas are notorious for being inoperable. That’s why when scientists developed a laser method to “co ...OCT 12, 2016Health & Medicine
The adaptive bacterial immune system known as CRISPR has taken biomedicine by storm in the years following its discovery ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 08, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
It’s no fairy tale – Rapunzel Syndrome led to one 38-year-old woman hospitalized for severe gastrointestinal ...OCT 06, 2016Neuroscience
When someone has a heart attack, the saying is “Time is muscle.” Getting appropriate care as soon as possibl ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 05, 2016Neuroscience
When a baby is first born, the skull is comprised of a few bone plates that gradually come together. As the child ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 29, 2016Cardiology
Statin drugs are approved by the FDA to lower LDL cholesterol, so-called “bad cholesterol,” as a treatment f ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 27, 2016Immunology
Scientists from Stanford University accidentally discovered a new cancer treatment, and it’s got all of the anti-c ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 26, 2016Cardiology
From the mind of an aerospace engineer, not a cardiologist, comes a life-changing new device for treating individuals fo ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 26, 2016Cancer
A new microfluidic chip can pick out any cancer cell of choice obtained from liquid biopsy to perform single cell analys ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 22, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
There is an Italian neuroscientist and surgeon who thinks head transplants are not only possible, but within reach by 20 ...SEP 18, 2016Cancer
For men with early stage prostate cancer, opting for active surveillance may result in the same survival benefits as inv ...SEP 06, 2016Neuroscience
There is ample evidence in neurological research about the benefits of music. It’s been shown that music can help ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 02, 2016Microbiology
Dysbiosis refers to an imbalance in the microbiome associated with the loss of good microbes that promote health, and an ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
NOV 16, 2016
Neuroscience
All of science involves research but finding just the right information can be a daunting task when it means having to c
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 15, 2016
Cardiology
Cardiac rehabilitation following heart surgery is reasonably linked with a reduced risk of death, but this connection is
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 10, 2016
Neuroscience
When a person has lost sensation in a part of the body, whether to an accident or disease, they don’t just lose mo
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 06, 2016
Videos
In this Tedx event from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Professor Ron Heereen of the The Maastricht MultiModal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 04, 2016
Immunology
Scientists are not quite sure why or how individuals develop scleroderma, and there is no current cure for the autoimmun
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 02, 2016
Cardiology
A large study of nearly two thousand patients with left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) has confirmed to scientists
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 26, 2016
Cardiology
You wouldn’t know that a now-healthy three-year-old had prenatal heart surgery after just two months in his mother
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 25, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In one out of around 35,000 births, a tumor is found growing from the baby’s tailbone, a sacrococcygeal teratoma.
...
OCT 24, 2016
Neuroscience
Cross your heart, hope to die, stick a needle in your eye. Wasn’t this one of the scariest rhymes ever? As it turn
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 20, 2016
Videos
Many plant-based substances can be used for medicinal purposes. Everyone's grandma has at least one or two household rem
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 19, 2016
Cancer
Head and neck cancers that are metastatic or resistant to cisplatin are notoriously aggressive. The prognosis for patien
...
OCT 15, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Glioblastomas are notorious for being inoperable. That’s why when scientists developed a laser method to “co
...
OCT 12, 2016
Health & Medicine
The adaptive bacterial immune system known as CRISPR has taken biomedicine by storm in the years following its discovery
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 08, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
It’s no fairy tale – Rapunzel Syndrome led to one 38-year-old woman hospitalized for severe gastrointestinal
...
OCT 06, 2016
Neuroscience
When someone has a heart attack, the saying is “Time is muscle.” Getting appropriate care as soon as possibl
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 05, 2016
Neuroscience
When a baby is first born, the skull is comprised of a few bone plates that gradually come together. As the child
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 29, 2016
Cardiology
Statin drugs are approved by the FDA to lower LDL cholesterol, so-called “bad cholesterol,” as a treatment f
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 27, 2016
Immunology
Scientists from Stanford University accidentally discovered a new cancer treatment, and it’s got all of the anti-c
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 26, 2016
Cardiology
From the mind of an aerospace engineer, not a cardiologist, comes a life-changing new device for treating individuals fo
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 26, 2016
Cancer
A new microfluidic chip can pick out any cancer cell of choice obtained from liquid biopsy to perform single cell analys
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 22, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
There is an Italian neuroscientist and surgeon who thinks head transplants are not only possible, but within reach by 20
...
SEP 18, 2016
Cancer
For men with early stage prostate cancer, opting for active surveillance may result in the same survival benefits as inv
...
SEP 06, 2016
Neuroscience
There is ample evidence in neurological research about the benefits of music. It’s been shown that music can help
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 02, 2016
Microbiology
Dysbiosis refers to an imbalance in the microbiome associated with the loss of good microbes that promote health, and an
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch