When thinking of memories, we conjure up childhood parties, weddings or maybe your child’s birth. Charles Hoeffer, assistant professor of integrative physiology at CU Boulder has been working for 5 years to better understand a protein called AKT. His answer would be, he thinks about proteins. AKT is ubiquitous in brain tissue and instrumental in […]
According to an article written by Robert Preidt of the HealthDay Reporter, the timing of a cardiac arrest may affect survival. These rates are rising for people who have cardiac arrest while they are in the hospital, according to a study. If a cardiac arrest would happen at night or on a weekend, your possibility […]
Exactly what is seborrheic keratoses? Dr. Robert Ashley expands on what this is and how to care for this condition. Seborrheic keratoses are small, brown, rough and very itchy spots developing on the back and other areas. Many are explained away by age and we just have to live with it. These are also known […]
Protein Identifies Cancer Cells
November 10, 2019I discovered an article written by Catharine Paddock, PhD who gives information on a protein that identifies cancer cells that are becoming aggressive and ready to spread to the rest of the body. Researchers from Rockefeller University in New York and the University of Bergen in Norway, have reported their findings called PITPNC1 in the […]
Yasemin Saplakoglu, a staff writer with Live Science, explains what could happen with our life expectancy by 2040. He feels the way things are going now, by 2040 we are probably going to be better off than we are today. On the average both women and men will have a 4.4 years higher rate. The […]
In America in 2000 we were on the verge of the largest cycle of drug-patent expirations in our history. The analysts remained divided on what benefit the consumers would enjoy from this unprecedented trend. An estimated $34 billion worth of blockbuster drugs expired between 2000 and 2004, which was the largest in the nation’s history, […]
Diabetes Drug Kills Cancer Cells
November 7, 2019An article was written by Ana Sandoiu and checked by Jasmin Collier, giving some facts on a new innovative way to kill off cancer cells in acute myeloid leukemia. This would occur while preserving and regenerating healthy red blood cells. The new study was carried out by researchers from the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer […]
Can We Stop Cancer From Metastasizing?
November 6, 2019Ana Sandoiu wrote an article that explored the subject of a new way to possibly stop cancer from metastasizing. This is the main cause of death in cancer, and the current treatments against it are so far ineffective. However, there is current research that may have found a way to slow it down, and maybe […]
Kratom is called an opioid by the FDA even though it seems to be more of an herbal supplement. Could it be safer to use than prescription opioids? Dr. Robert Ashley gives more information on Kratom. Controlling pain is the purpose of the opioid epidemic in the medical community. Pain is always the enemy that […]
Predisposition Mechanism For Colon Cancer
November 4, 2019Ana Sandoiu published an article that was fact checked by Jasmin Collier looking at the new predisposition mechanism for colon cancer that has been found by scientists. This new novel mechanism interferes with our DNA’s ability to repair itself and genetically predisposing some people to colon cancer. The journal Nature Chemistry published the new study. […]
