medicine

Scientists use harmless viruses to ferry and insert the new genetic material because of their natural ability to get inside cells. But the potential for these viruses to accidentally trigger another cancer has long been considered a…

Director Nicki Perisho Urges Permanent Changes in Medicare Regulations in Senate Testimony Washington, D.C. — November 14, 2023: Nicki Perisho, BSN, RN, Program Director of the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center (NRTRC),…

Express News Service Last month, we celebrated Navratri, which reminds us to embrace the feminine energies of knowledge, creativity and empowerment. During this festive time, we revere Devi Saraswati, the goddess of…

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. “The Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says it all with its portrayal of a…

By Angela Hart REDDING — Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. Her baby, Kyle,…

Crowding your cabinet with redundant items could also lead to confusion and medication mix-ups, especially if bottles or labels looks similar. It’s simplest and safest to clear out the old to make way for the new.It’s clean-up timeStart…

Creating artificial life is a recurring theme in both science and popular literature, where it conjures images of creeping slime creatures with malevolent intentions or super-cute designer pets. At the same time, the question arises: What…

FEDERAL WAY, Wash., Sept. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) welcomes results of a major new public health study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, showing that intensive lifestyle interventions…

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H), a research support agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said today that it is launching an initiative to find and help fund the development of…

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Students who took out loans to pay for college rated their overall health and mental health as being worse than those who didn’t take out student…