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Preventative Medicine
Preventive Medicine: Preventive healthcare (alternately preventive medicine or prophylaxis) consists of measures taken for disease prevention, as opposed to disease treatment. Just as health encompasses a variety of physical and mental states, so do disease and disability, which are affected by environmental factors, genetic predisposition, disease agents, and lifestyle choices. Health, disease, and disability are dynamic processes which begin before individuals realize they are affected. Disease prevention relies on anticipatory actions that can be categorized as primal, primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.
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JUL 07, 2020Immunology
An international team of researchers has analysed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks the proteins i ...Written By: Hilary ThompsonJUL 07, 2020Microbiology
Urinary tract infections can be very painful and can cause nausea, chills, and fever. A pathogenic strain of E. coli is ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 07, 2020Clinical & Molecular DX
False-negative results are particularly problematic in containing the spread of COVID-19 — infected individ ...Written By: Tara FernandesJUL 06, 2020Cancer
Breast cancer is the most lethal cancer affecting women worldwide. While most are caught early thanks to the many diagno ...Written By: Jasper CantrellJUL 06, 2020Genetics & Genomics
The folds of the human brain are essential to its function, and improper folding has been linked to a variety of disorde ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 05, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists from the University of Toronto have identified a new drug candidate that may reduce all kinds of inflammation ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 04, 2020Cardiology
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a progressive and fatal disease characterized by the muscularization of blood c ...Written By: Jasper CantrellJUL 03, 2020Microbiology
Millions of people around the world have been infected with the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 03, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Campylobacter jejuni is a foodborne bacterial pathogen that causes millions of cases of food poisoning each year.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 03, 2020Cardiology
Researchers are learning how dietary choices may be causing damage to the arteries as people age.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2020Cancer
There is hope that ACE inhibitors and ARBs, medications that are commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, may be hel ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 02, 2020Neuroscience
A study from the University of Georgia has found that light to moderate drinking may preserve brain function in older ag ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 02, 2020Cardiology
Heart attacks are an unfortunately common occurrence across the country. One of the biggest consequences of a heart atta ...Written By: Jasper CantrellJUL 02, 2020Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers from Lancaster University, England, have found that Salbutamol, a medication commonly used to treat asthma, ...Written By: Annie LennonJUL 01, 2020Genetics & Genomics
Researchers followed 2,000 kids and determined that when young adults were raised in disadvantaged neighborhoods, their ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 01, 2020Cancer
Angiogenesis is the vascularization, or generation of blood vessels, of a part of the body. It is a normal function of h ...Written By: Jasper CantrellJUN 29, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have been working to understand Alzheimer's disease for over 100 years. A major feature of the disease is th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 29, 2020Microbiology
Vaccines that contain live attenuated viruses may be giving people some protection from serious cases of COVID-19 that i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 28, 2020Microbiology
The 1918 pandemic flu was caused by a variant of the HIN1 strain of the influenza virus, and its genome shows that it pr ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 26, 2020Cancer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer that prevents the complete maturation of stem cells. These immatu ...Written By: Jasper CantrellJUN 26, 2020Cardiology
In a recent study done by Jonas Bovijn, MBChB, MSc, DLSHTM, of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford’ ...Written By: Lawrence RennaJUN 25, 2020Cardiology
Strokes are a leading cause of death and long term-disability across the globe. Ischemic strokes (IS) or acute ischemic ...Written By: Jasper CantrellJUN 25, 2020Immunology
When cells become diseased or infected, a “suicide switch” is triggered, preventing neighboring cells from b ...Written By: Tara FernandesJUN 24, 2020Cancer
A new study investigates the causal relationship between mortality and long-term exposure to a low level of fine particu ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 07, 2020
Immunology
An international team of researchers has analysed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks the proteins i
...
Written By:
Hilary Thompson
JUL 07, 2020
Microbiology
Urinary tract infections can be very painful and can cause nausea, chills, and fever. A pathogenic strain of E. coli is
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 07, 2020
Clinical & Molecular DX
False-negative results are particularly problematic in containing the spread of COVID-19 — infected individ
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JUL 06, 2020
Cancer
Breast cancer is the most lethal cancer affecting women worldwide. While most are caught early thanks to the many diagno
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUL 06, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
The folds of the human brain are essential to its function, and improper folding has been linked to a variety of disorde
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 05, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Scientists from the University of Toronto have identified a new drug candidate that may reduce all kinds of inflammation
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 04, 2020
Cardiology
Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) is a progressive and fatal disease characterized by the muscularization of blood c
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUL 03, 2020
Microbiology
Millions of people around the world have been infected with the coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. Th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 03, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Campylobacter jejuni is a foodborne bacterial pathogen that causes millions of cases of food poisoning each year.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 03, 2020
Cardiology
Researchers are learning how dietary choices may be causing damage to the arteries as people age.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2020
Cancer
There is hope that ACE inhibitors and ARBs, medications that are commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, may be hel
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 02, 2020
Neuroscience
A study from the University of Georgia has found that light to moderate drinking may preserve brain function in older ag
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 02, 2020
Cardiology
Heart attacks are an unfortunately common occurrence across the country. One of the biggest consequences of a heart atta
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUL 02, 2020
Drug Discovery & Development
Researchers from Lancaster University, England, have found that Salbutamol, a medication commonly used to treat asthma,
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 01, 2020
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers followed 2,000 kids and determined that when young adults were raised in disadvantaged neighborhoods, their
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 01, 2020
Cancer
Angiogenesis is the vascularization, or generation of blood vessels, of a part of the body. It is a normal function of h
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUN 29, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have been working to understand Alzheimer's disease for over 100 years. A major feature of the disease is th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 29, 2020
Microbiology
Vaccines that contain live attenuated viruses may be giving people some protection from serious cases of COVID-19 that i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2020
Microbiology
The 1918 pandemic flu was caused by a variant of the HIN1 strain of the influenza virus, and its genome shows that it pr
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 26, 2020
Cancer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer that prevents the complete maturation of stem cells. These immatu
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUN 26, 2020
Cardiology
In a recent study done by Jonas Bovijn, MBChB, MSc, DLSHTM, of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford’
...
Written By:
Lawrence Renna
JUN 25, 2020
Cardiology
Strokes are a leading cause of death and long term-disability across the globe. Ischemic strokes (IS) or acute ischemic
...
Written By:
Jasper Cantrell
JUN 25, 2020
Immunology
When cells become diseased or infected, a “suicide switch” is triggered, preventing neighboring cells from b
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
JUN 24, 2020
Cancer
A new study investigates the causal relationship between mortality and long-term exposure to a low level of fine particu
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan