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Preventive Medicine
Preventive Medicine actively focuses on the prevention and addressing underlying mechanisms rather than direct disease treatment. Modern research and medicine provides deeper insights into disease mechanisms, opens diagnostic windows for viewing health and disease for the individual and generates metrics for assessing wellness.
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JUN 02, 2016Immunology
The human immune system works around the clock to fight pathogens and protect the body from disease. T cells play an ess ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 01, 2016Cardiology
After the heart muscle cells of a newborn develop to a certain point where the body has seemed to consider is sturdy eno ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUN 01, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
We all know the dangers of staying out in the sun too long without protection. But short of getting the telltale sunburn ...MAY 31, 2016Cardiology
According to a Dutch study of 1,374 teenagers, children with a certain family history of cardiovascular disease and/or t ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 31, 2016Health & Medicine
Malnourishment encompasses both under- and overnutrition, and for the approximately five million children that die each ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 31, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
It sounds counterintuitive, and possibly illogical: a drug implant to combat the addiction of drugs? But, the U.S. Food ...MAY 31, 2016Plants & Animals
The South African Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on the domestic sale of rhino horns is to be put to an end. It&rs ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAY 30, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
There’s a new hot vitamin on scientists’ minds right now, but it’s one not many people may be familiar ...MAY 28, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
In a medical first, doctors from Houston, Texas reported a simultaneous scalp, skull, kidney, and pancreas transplant fr ...MAY 27, 2016Health & Medicine
Have you ever felt like one extremely stressful activity “took 5 years off your life”? Scientists are actual ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 26, 2016Microbiology
In March 2015, President Obama released The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. It is inte ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 26, 2016Health & Medicine
Picture this scene. It is a blistering hot late-July day, so hot that even the shade seems to melt away. Pink-skinned ch ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanMAY 26, 2016Health & Medicine
All antihistamine drugs on the market today block only the H1 receptor, but there are three more histamine receptors tha ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 25, 2016Immunology
Humans have specialized immune cells designed to detect and kill abnormal cells, whether they are virally-infected or ca ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 25, 2016Health & Medicine
Maintaining a regular exercise schedule is commonly known to be the cornerstone of a lifestyle suited to prevent cardiov ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 24, 2016Cardiology
Recent studies analyzing the global burden of atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque in the blood vessels that leads to co ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 24, 2016Immunology
An analysis of several studies of measles and pertussis outbreaks in the United States suggests that when parents refuse ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAY 24, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
By packing chemotherapy drugs in nanoscale lipid droplets, researchers say they may have found a new way to treat one of ...MAY 23, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the leading cause of skin cancer, also known as melanoma. To prevent this, doctors often a ...MAY 23, 2016Immunology
Every year, scientists with the World Health Organization do their best to predict the most prevalent and dangerous infl ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 23, 2016Neuroscience
Ketamine has been studied more than a few times recently for it’s use as a treatment for depression. The most rece ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAY 21, 2016Health & Medicine
Obesity increases one's risk of developing certain diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke. The symptoms ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetMAY 19, 2016Cardiology
As an embryonic stem cell pluripotency factor, Oct4 was previously thought to only be active in embryos, not in adults. ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAY 19, 2016Cardiology
Jessica Wagenseil, PhD, and her team from Washington University in St. Louis compared plaque buildup in two mice groups: ...Written By: Kara Marker
JUN 02, 2016
Immunology
The human immune system works around the clock to fight pathogens and protect the body from disease. T cells play an ess
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 01, 2016
Cardiology
After the heart muscle cells of a newborn develop to a certain point where the body has seemed to consider is sturdy eno
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUN 01, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
We all know the dangers of staying out in the sun too long without protection. But short of getting the telltale sunburn
...
MAY 31, 2016
Cardiology
According to a Dutch study of 1,374 teenagers, children with a certain family history of cardiovascular disease and/or t
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 31, 2016
Health & Medicine
Malnourishment encompasses both under- and overnutrition, and for the approximately five million children that die each
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 31, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
It sounds counterintuitive, and possibly illogical: a drug implant to combat the addiction of drugs? But, the U.S. Food
...
MAY 31, 2016
Plants & Animals
The South African Supreme Court has ruled that the ban on the domestic sale of rhino horns is to be put to an end. It&rs
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAY 30, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
There’s a new hot vitamin on scientists’ minds right now, but it’s one not many people may be familiar
...
MAY 28, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
In a medical first, doctors from Houston, Texas reported a simultaneous scalp, skull, kidney, and pancreas transplant fr
...
MAY 27, 2016
Health & Medicine
Have you ever felt like one extremely stressful activity “took 5 years off your life”? Scientists are actual
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 26, 2016
Microbiology
In March 2015, President Obama released The National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria. It is inte
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 26, 2016
Health & Medicine
Picture this scene. It is a blistering hot late-July day, so hot that even the shade seems to melt away. Pink-skinned ch
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
MAY 26, 2016
Health & Medicine
All antihistamine drugs on the market today block only the H1 receptor, but there are three more histamine receptors tha
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 25, 2016
Immunology
Humans have specialized immune cells designed to detect and kill abnormal cells, whether they are virally-infected or ca
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 25, 2016
Health & Medicine
Maintaining a regular exercise schedule is commonly known to be the cornerstone of a lifestyle suited to prevent cardiov
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 24, 2016
Cardiology
Recent studies analyzing the global burden of atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque in the blood vessels that leads to co
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 24, 2016
Immunology
An analysis of several studies of measles and pertussis outbreaks in the United States suggests that when parents refuse
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAY 24, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
By packing chemotherapy drugs in nanoscale lipid droplets, researchers say they may have found a new way to treat one of
...
MAY 23, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is the leading cause of skin cancer, also known as melanoma. To prevent this, doctors often a
...
MAY 23, 2016
Immunology
Every year, scientists with the World Health Organization do their best to predict the most prevalent and dangerous infl
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 23, 2016
Neuroscience
Ketamine has been studied more than a few times recently for it’s use as a treatment for depression. The most rece
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 21, 2016
Health & Medicine
Obesity increases one's risk of developing certain diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke. The symptoms
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAY 19, 2016
Cardiology
As an embryonic stem cell pluripotency factor, Oct4 was previously thought to only be active in embryos, not in adults.
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAY 19, 2016
Cardiology
Jessica Wagenseil, PhD, and her team from Washington University in St. Louis compared plaque buildup in two mice groups:
...
Written By:
Kara Marker