E-Cigarettes vs. Tobacco Products: The Battle For Banning Both
Unlike many personal vices, smoking presents a number of health risks to others besides the individual smoker. As a result, many cities across the country have banned the smoking of traditional cigarettes in public places. In the wake of these smoking bans,...
3 Reasons People’s Bodies Respond Differently To Various Types Of Food
In the US, more than 50 million Americans pay for a health club membership every year, making up more than one-third of the global population of health club members and contributing more than $75.7 billion toward the global economy. More than 100 million Americans are...
Analyzing Genes To Help Cancer Patients
The results of a new international research project have revealed some surprising results in examining cells within a tissue sample. The research team found that they could distinguish between different types of cells within any tissue sample. This is significant in...
Machine Learning Is Taking Off
Machine learning and artificial intelligence continue to grow exponentially. Statistics show AI could inject close to $2 trillion in the manufacturing and supply chain sectors by 2020. Here is a look at some of the startups to watch this year and beyond. CrowdStrike...
Improving Medicine Through Biostatistics
One of the fastest growing fields in medicine is biostatistics, a field I am incredibly proud to be apart of. The specifics behind this entity of science involves using mathematics and statistical theory to interpret a wide range of medicine, biology, and public...
Stimulating a Focal Pathway in the Brain Proves to Have Calming Effects
Ever heard the saying ‘laughter is the best medicine?’ What if it was the best medicine for brain surgery? It sounds farfetched, but neuroscientists have found that when they electrically stimulate one area of the brain, a person laughs and then feels an immediate...
Tools Help to Detect any Human Virus
When the Zika virus reared its ugly head, researchers began scrambling to identify the pathogen. Initially, the virus was hard to find in affected victims. Zika simply did not leave enough evidence behind to enable identification. However, scientists from the Broad...
New Materials that Drive Wound Healing
The science of tissue repair is constantly evolving. A new understanding of how the body repairs wounds is influencing the strategies used by the medical community. A great example of this is new TrAPs technology. TrAPs, or traction force-activated payloads,...
Mortality Rates are Rising for Two Generations
Life expectancy is a powerful method of determining the health of a country. A steady increase in life expectancy, considered the norm for decades, may no longer be the case. The last time it fell for several consecutive years was directly after World War I which was...
What is Virotherapy?
Usha Govindarajulu goes into further detail to explain the innovative field of virotherapy and what it means for cancer treatments in the future.