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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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DEC 30, 2022Health & Medicine
Our immune system has to be able to rapidly mount a response to pathogenic invaders, wounds, and other injuries. But it ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 28, 2022Health & Medicine
For millennia the arms race between bacteria and animals was fought through mutations and evolution. As modern bacteria ...Written By: Amielle MorenoDEC 24, 2022Drug Discovery & Development
There is a class of drugs called “Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors” (PDE5 inhibitors.) Such drugs in this clas ...Written By: Greta AnneDEC 24, 2022Neuroscience
The microbes in our guts are closely connected to our brains, in a link known as the gut-brain axis. Scientists have now ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 23, 2022Health & Medicine
A food allergy occurs when the body has a specific, reproducible immune response to certain foods. This immune response ...Written By: Zoe MichaudDEC 23, 2022Health & Medicine
While about 30,000 Americans are confirmed to have Lyme disease every year, the CDC has estimated that the number may be ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2022Immunology
Allura Red is an artificial food dye that is also called FD&C Red 40 or Food Red 17. It can be found in soft drinks, can ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 21, 2022Health & Medicine
Type I diabetes, or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a multigenic condition in which multiple genes are associated with th ...Written By: Anusha NaganathanDEC 21, 2022Plants & Animals
Pregnancy can lead to a number of complications, from preeclampsia (dangerous high blood pressure) to gestational diabet ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 20, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
Immune checkpoints are a part of the immune system that prevents the body’s immune response from destroying health ...Written By: Zoe MichaudDEC 20, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
It was once thought that inflammation and immune responses in the brain were limited; that is was a so-called immune pri ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 20, 2022Cancer
Many medical treatments have toxicities, sometimes called adverse events , which can complicate a patient’s treatm ...Written By: Katie KokolusDEC 19, 2022Plants & Animals
What is abundantly clear about climate change is the myriad ways in which it affects the world around us. The most obvio ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 17, 2022Health & Medicine
Drug overdose deaths continue to rise in the United States. About 92,000 people died from drug and prescription opi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 14, 2022Plants & Animals
For a number of reasons, plant-based alternative to meat and animal products have emerged in recent years. On one hand, ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 12, 2022Drug Discovery & Development
The FDA’s accelerated approval process had attracted criticism from researchers, FDA advisory committee members, a ...Written By: Amielle MorenoDEC 12, 2022Clinical & Molecular DX
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne illness, meaning it is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. The virus can c ...Written By: Zoe MichaudDEC 12, 2022Microbiology
Trillions of microbes live in our gastrointestinal tracts, and they exert a powerful influence on various aspects of hum ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2022Immunology
About 30,000 people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every year in the United States, and it's a common chronic diseas ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 09, 2022Health & Medicine
The CDC has estimated that over 40% of Americans have been infected with COVID-19, and about half probably do not know t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2022Health & Medicine
The gastrointestinal tract is home to trillions of microbes, many of which have a crucial role in our health. Now the US ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 05, 2022Cancer
Recent research has linked the quality of a plant-based diet to different diseases, including cardiovascular disease, di ...Written By: Katie KokolusDEC 03, 2022Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem; antibiotic resistant microbes already kill tens of thousands of people aroun ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 30, 2022Health & Medicine
A new study has suggested that people's water needs vary so much and depend on so many things, there is no universal rec ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
DEC 30, 2022
Health & Medicine
Our immune system has to be able to rapidly mount a response to pathogenic invaders, wounds, and other injuries. But it
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 28, 2022
Health & Medicine
For millennia the arms race between bacteria and animals was fought through mutations and evolution. As modern bacteria
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
DEC 24, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
There is a class of drugs called “Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors” (PDE5 inhibitors.) Such drugs in this clas
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
DEC 24, 2022
Neuroscience
The microbes in our guts are closely connected to our brains, in a link known as the gut-brain axis. Scientists have now
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 23, 2022
Health & Medicine
A food allergy occurs when the body has a specific, reproducible immune response to certain foods. This immune response
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
DEC 23, 2022
Health & Medicine
While about 30,000 Americans are confirmed to have Lyme disease every year, the CDC has estimated that the number may be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2022
Immunology
Allura Red is an artificial food dye that is also called FD&C Red 40 or Food Red 17. It can be found in soft drinks, can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 21, 2022
Health & Medicine
Type I diabetes, or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a multigenic condition in which multiple genes are associated with th
...
Written By:
Anusha Naganathan
DEC 21, 2022
Plants & Animals
Pregnancy can lead to a number of complications, from preeclampsia (dangerous high blood pressure) to gestational diabet
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 20, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Immune checkpoints are a part of the immune system that prevents the body’s immune response from destroying health
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
DEC 20, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
It was once thought that inflammation and immune responses in the brain were limited; that is was a so-called immune pri
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 20, 2022
Cancer
Many medical treatments have toxicities, sometimes called adverse events , which can complicate a patient’s treatm
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
DEC 19, 2022
Plants & Animals
What is abundantly clear about climate change is the myriad ways in which it affects the world around us. The most obvio
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 17, 2022
Health & Medicine
Drug overdose deaths continue to rise in the United States. About 92,000 people died from drug and prescription opi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 14, 2022
Plants & Animals
For a number of reasons, plant-based alternative to meat and animal products have emerged in recent years. On one hand,
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 12, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
The FDA’s accelerated approval process had attracted criticism from researchers, FDA advisory committee members, a
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
DEC 12, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne illness, meaning it is spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. The virus can c
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
DEC 12, 2022
Microbiology
Trillions of microbes live in our gastrointestinal tracts, and they exert a powerful influence on various aspects of hum
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2022
Immunology
About 30,000 people are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every year in the United States, and it's a common chronic diseas
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2022
Health & Medicine
The CDC has estimated that over 40% of Americans have been infected with COVID-19, and about half probably do not know t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2022
Health & Medicine
The gastrointestinal tract is home to trillions of microbes, many of which have a crucial role in our health. Now the US
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 05, 2022
Cancer
Recent research has linked the quality of a plant-based diet to different diseases, including cardiovascular disease, di
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
DEC 03, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem; antibiotic resistant microbes already kill tens of thousands of people aroun
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 30, 2022
Health & Medicine
A new study has suggested that people's water needs vary so much and depend on so many things, there is no universal rec
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch