Evolution Pt.1: How Our Ancestry Is Revolutionizing Precision Medicine
Our expert this week explains that in order to move into this new era of medicine, we need to take a look back at our evolutionary path.
Allergy and Immunology Sub-categories:
- Immune System (74)
Mercury Hats, Arsenic Dresses, and Poisoned Shoes: Toxic Fashion
Author Alden Wicker exposes the fashion industry’s frequent use of harsh and toxic chemicals that are serious threats to our health.
Medical Notes: Music Is Good for Your Health, New Cancer Therapy, and Is America Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic?
Will America be ground zero for the next pandemic? Grief may be making you sick. A new experimental therapy is saving cancer patients. Music is good for the soul—and your health.
Medical Notes: How AI Can Read Your Mind, Protecting Your Newborn Baby, and if Extreme Weather Is Threatening Our Wheat Production
Can artificial intelligence read your mind? How moms can protect their newborn babies. Are you doing the best exercise for your health? And will the rising heat wipe out our wheat crops?
Helping Patients Feel Like Kids Again: The Magic of Children’s Hospitals
For many long-term, young patients, children's hospitals become their entire world and not just the place where they receive treatment.
Medical Notes: April 16, 2023
New precision medicine may be a breakthrough for cancer treatment. Is dry cleaning bad for your health? Light therapy could mend your heart.
Medical Notes: February 12, 2023
Our brains have been keeping a secret. A new strategy for treating tuberculosis. Science is calling upon elite free divers to help beat lung disease. Plus, can your cognitive performance predict illness?
Medical Notes: February 5, 2023
Scientists have discovered a new use for vaccines. Is it possible for doctors to care too much? And some good news for people with a sesame allergy.
Is Covid-19 the New Flu?
An expert discusses why we can’t become too lax with our treatment of this virus.
Gut Feeling: The Trillions of Bacteria in Charge of Our Immune System
Dr. Robynne Chutkan, a gastroenterologist, explains how this network is a crucial component to our immune system.
Antibiotics Part 2: We Are What We Eat
In this continuation of last week’s antibiotic segment, we explore the prevalence of drug use within animal agriculture.
Antibiotics: The Growing Health Crisis We’re Not Talking About, Part 1
Dr. John McKillip discusses the overuse, overprescribed, and misprescribed issues that, if left unchecked, could result in up to ten million deaths each year due to antibiotic resistance.
