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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 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

Innate versus Adaptive Immunity in COVID-19

Several studies have explored the immunological responses to SARS-CoV-2, seeking to understand what drives the severity of the disease.

27 Oct 2021

Monoclonal Antibody Treatments in COVID-19

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the spike protein have been found to be clinically useful in the therapy of COVID-19.

27 Oct 2021

COVID-19 and Heart Damage

One important potentially long-term clinical consequence of COVID-19 seems to be heart damage. This article looks at this in more detail.

27 Oct 2021

Mythbusting: COVID-19 Misconceptions

This article deals with some of the leading myths concerning COVID-19, while not offering an exhaustive debunking of each.

27 Oct 2021

Maternal Health and Hepatitis

Although all hepatitis viruses can harm the mother and child, acute hepatitis A virus or hepatitis E virus infection poses the greatest risk to maternal health.

22 Oct 2021