Health

The psyche should also benefit from a bond for life. Researchers have now noticed a certain degree of protection against depression. However, this is by…
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The current study is the first to show that the use of pulmonary artery catheterization (PAC) declined from 2005 to 2010 in both heart failure…
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), defined as non-traumatic, non-iatrogenic dissociation of the coronary vessel wall, represents an important cause of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) among…
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During the last century in medicine, much progress was made in controlling infectious diseases. The associated human mortality has considerably gone down and nowadays most…
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Type 2 diabetes is two to three times more prevalent among people with bipolar disorder than among the general population, with over half of all…
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Sleep restriction and sleep disturbances are increasingly common in modern industrialized societies, due to, for instance, work-related stress and atypical working hours. In addition, our…
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Venom is a secretion produced by specific animals, which is synthesized in the specialized cells of their body. Animal venoms constitute a plethora of bioactive…
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First, they cut expenses and then recycle hand-me-downs, but how do they know ahead of time that the money is running out? Recent research on…
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In previous postings, we have pushed some giants of placebo research off their column, or rather, jumped off their shoulders (to refer to Robert Merton’s allegory…
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Over 30 million Americans (roughly 10% of the population) have type II diabetes, a disease characterized by insulin resistance which is ca1used primarily by obesity…
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The evolution of the human genome has been facilitated to a great extent by the activity of transposable elements (TEs), also known as “jumping genes”….
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