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Registry Science: where medicine and data science intersect

Dr. Steve Labkoff discusses medical registries and the challenges of data curation, interoperability, and big data analytics.

11 Nov 2021

What is Schizoaffective Disorder?

Schizoaffective disorder is a combination of schizophrenia and a major mood disorder – such as depression or bipolar disorder.

23 Nov 2021

How Could Sharks Lead to New Medical Devices?

The antimicrobial properties of shark skin may become another incentive for the development of unique materials that protect surfaces.

22 Nov 2021

What is Male Pattern Baldness?

Male pattern baldness is also known as androgenic alopecia.

21 Nov 2021

What Are the Negative Health Effects of Eating Meat?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently recommended a reduction in the consumption of red and processed meats.

20 Nov 2021

The Relationship Between Climate Change and Global Social Medicine

Climate change has exacerbated the challenges of many individuals, particularly those who are living with disabilities and chronic health conditions.

19 Nov 2021

What Are the Positive Health Effects of Eating Meat?

Meat provides protein as well as several micronutrients such as iron, and B complex vitamins.

18 Nov 2021

What Are The Health Benefits Of Honey?

Honey has long been considered to be a food with great nutritional and therapeutic value.

17 Nov 2021

Depression and Insomnia: clinical treatments for a common comorbidity

Dr. Alexander Sweetman discusses the comorbidity of insomnia and depression, and how behavioral insomnia treatment is effective in the presence of depression.

3 Nov 2021

What is Reverse Zoonosis?

Reverse zoonosis, in which a disease transmits from humans to animals, poses threats to animal health as well as public health.

11 Nov 2021

How is Infant Mental Health Measured?

Infant mental health (IMH) is defined as the young child’s capacity to experience, regulate, and express emotions, and form close and secure relationships.

11 Nov 2021

What is Global Social Medicine?

Global social medicine is a field that brings social sciences together with medicine in order to support the development of effective health policies.

11 Nov 2021

The Evolution of Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy involves the use of ionizing radiation to induce damage to tumor cells in an effort to prevent their growth and division.

11 Nov 2021

The Role of Alternative Splicing in Disease

Alternative splicing (AS) is a key technique for increasing transcriptome and proteomic diversity from a small genome.

11 Nov 2021

Rabies Vaccination

Rabies is a highly preventable viral disease which takes at least 59,000 human lives a year.

11 Nov 2021

Genetic Disorder Comorbidities

The occurrence of two or more diseases in the same patient is known as comorbidity. It poses significant difficulties in terms of disease diagnosis and therapy.

11 Nov 2021

What is Emotional Dysregulation?

Emotional dysregulation refers to difficulty in managing emotions or in keeping them in check.

11 Nov 2021

What is Remote Surgery/Telesurgery?

Telesurgery or remote surgery is an emerging surgical tool that utilizes is both robotic technology and wireless networking to connect patients and surgeons.

11 Nov 2021

History of Public Health

This article presents an overview of the history of public health from the Middle Ages towards the present day.

11 Nov 2021

What Role does Endothelial Infection Play in SARS-CoV-2 Infection?

SARS-CoV-2 can cause inflammatory lung disease, including clot formation and hyper-permeability of the lung vessels, resulting in bleeding into the lung.

27 Oct 2021