Health

In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer (though with the Vietnam war still ongoing, he never actually used that phrase, calling for…
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What’s wrong with the Cesarean section rumor? A twin study shows there must be other reasons for asthma. Today almost every third woman gives birth…
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Tumors result from the expansion of cells that bypass the regulatory mechanisms that otherwise control the birth, death, and elimination of cells within healthy tissues….
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“It appears to me a most excellent thing for the physician to cultivate prognosis…” Back in 400 B.C., when Hippocrates of Kos — father of…
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Having a major adverse renal or cardiac event (MARCE) is a calculable risk following cardiac surgery. As techniques for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) have improved…
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During the first stages of pregnancy, as the embryo travels down the fallopian tube it begins to transform from a loose cluster of cells into…
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Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a subtype of breast cancer, the most common cancer in women. TNBC is clinically negative for expression of the estrogen…
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Research performed during the last 50 years has led to great progress in the therapy of cancer. Scientists were able to dramatically increase both the…
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Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection places patients at high risk of death due to liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and it remains a global…
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Science is often advanced with the development of new technologies. Since the sequencing of the first human genome, there has been much progress made in…
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Aging is characterized by a gradual loss of cellular homeostasis and tissue function. This is a major cause of frailty in the elderly, which reduces their quality…
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