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Surgery
Surgery: The branch of medicine that employs operations in the treatment of disease or injury. Surgery can involve cutting, abrading, suturing, or otherwise physically changing body tissues and organs. It uses uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.
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NOV 23, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Reporting in Nature Medicine, researchers have been able to use stem cells to make intestinal organoids with functional ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 23, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
There is no such thing as perfect surgery, even if the surgery is considered to be routine. Indeed, a new FDA study foun ...NOV 23, 2016Cardiology
As if a heart attack weren’t traumatic enough, the tissue injury that follows can cause irreparable damage to hear ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 23, 2016Videos
We all have bone marrow, a substance that can be found at the core of our living bones. Inside bone marrow, we can find ...Written By: Anthony BouchardNOV 22, 2016Cancer
In as much as 50 percent of operations to remove brain tumors, some cancerous bits are left behind and the cancer makes ...NOV 21, 2016Cancer
Scientists at the University of Leeds announced the discovery of a virus that can kill liver cancer cells. The virus is ...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, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
As surgeons perform delicate operations to remove tumors, they may soon be aided by a new technology that uses sound to ...NOV 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, 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 Marker
NOV 23, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Reporting in Nature Medicine, researchers have been able to use stem cells to make intestinal organoids with functional
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 23, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
There is no such thing as perfect surgery, even if the surgery is considered to be routine. Indeed, a new FDA study foun
...
NOV 23, 2016
Cardiology
As if a heart attack weren’t traumatic enough, the tissue injury that follows can cause irreparable damage to hear
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 23, 2016
Videos
We all have bone marrow, a substance that can be found at the core of our living bones. Inside bone marrow, we can find
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
NOV 22, 2016
Cancer
In as much as 50 percent of operations to remove brain tumors, some cancerous bits are left behind and the cancer makes
...
NOV 21, 2016
Cancer
Scientists at the University of Leeds announced the discovery of a virus that can kill liver cancer cells. The virus is
...
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
Clinical & Molecular DX
As surgeons perform delicate operations to remove tumors, they may soon be aided by a new technology that uses sound to
...
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
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