Health

Ebola virus and Marburg virus (MARV) are closely related filoviruses that cause severe hemorrhagic fever disease in humans and nonhuman primates and have high fatality…
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Published by Jack Pryor and Stephanie Simonds Department of Physiology, Monash Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, Australia These findings are described in the article entitled…
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Published by Pat Rasmussen Exposure and Biomonitoring Division, Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, HECSB, Health Canada, Ottawa, and the Department of Earth and Environmental…
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Understanding the brain is one of the challenges of the 21st century and the target of a large number of research projects currently funded around…
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Published by Sarah White, Kajsa Brimdyr, and Karin Cadwell Healthy Children Project, Inc., 327 Quaker Meeting House Road, East Sandwich, MA These findings are described…
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For a number of years, researchers have described endocrine (glandular) problems in some people with a history of concussion. These endocrine problems can emerge months…
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Why do we get cancer?  This question has bothered patients and doctors for centuries. But, perhaps the question should rather be: why do we not…
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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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Published by Paul Leigh University of California Davis School of Medicine and Center for Poverty Research These findings are described in the article entitled Minimum…
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Published by Barbara Mulloy and Chris Rider Imperial College London, Department of Medicine and the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control These findings are described…
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