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Surgeries
Surgeries broadly describe procedures used to investigate or treat a medical condition, such as a disease, injury, or bodily impediment. In general, surgeries aim to improve function or appearance or repair a damaged or infected area of the body. Examples of surgeries include angioplasty, joint replacements, cesarean section, organ transplantation, hysterectomy.
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NOV 04, 2016Videos
The video above was featured in JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. A peer-reviewed journal, it presents resear ...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 03, 2016Videos
Going through cancer treatment can be frightening, especially for children. Cancer patients have no choice but to be bra ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 02, 2016Cardiology
A large study of nearly two thousand patients with left main coronary artery disease (LMCAD) has confirmed to scientists ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 02, 2016Chemistry & Physics
Diagnosing Sepsis Earlier to Save Lives Using MicrofluidicsWritten By: Jennifer EllisOCT 28, 2016Videos
Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer is, of course, devastated by the news. However, when a breast cancer diagnosis happe ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 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 10, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A new technique under Phase 1 clinical trial gave surgeons the ability to see a brain tumor glow like they’ve neve ...OCT 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 KimOCT 04, 2016Cancer
Robotic surgery sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but reality is quickly catching up. In particular, a system ca ...OCT 01, 2016Cardiology
For the first time ever, a technology called “Cardioband” was successfully used to repair a leaky tricuspid ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 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 23, 2016Videos
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer it's critical for their health care providers to know exactly what stage of dise ...Written By: Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 04, 2016
Videos
The video above was featured in JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments. A peer-reviewed journal, it presents resear
...
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 03, 2016
Videos
Going through cancer treatment can be frightening, especially for children. Cancer patients have no choice but to be bra
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
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
NOV 02, 2016
Chemistry & Physics
Diagnosing Sepsis Earlier to Save Lives Using Microfluidics
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
OCT 28, 2016
Videos
Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer is, of course, devastated by the news. However, when a breast cancer diagnosis happe
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
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 10, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A new technique under Phase 1 clinical trial gave surgeons the ability to see a brain tumor glow like they’ve neve
...
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
OCT 04, 2016
Cancer
Robotic surgery sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but reality is quickly catching up. In particular, a system ca
...
OCT 01, 2016
Cardiology
For the first time ever, a technology called “Cardioband” was successfully used to repair a leaky tricuspid
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
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 23, 2016
Videos
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer it's critical for their health care providers to know exactly what stage of dise
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim