Health and Medicine

When Inequality Gets Under the Skin: Epigenetics and Cardiovascular Disparities

Epigenetics shows that inequality is not just experienced, but is biologically embedded. Chronic stressors like racism, poverty, and environmental exposure can alter gene expression, reshape the body’s stress response, and even accelerate cardiovascular disease risk across generations.

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A Future Worth Remembering: Advancing Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease

With over 7 million Americans affected and no cure in sight, Alzheimer’s remains one of the most devastating diseases of our time. But a new wave of blood-based diagnostics could change everything by shifting detection years earlier and redefining what it means to prepare.

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Who Really Has the Advantage in Medical School Admissions?

Becoming a doctor is one of the most respected career paths in the world. It promises an opportunity to help, to save lives, and make a lasting impact. But even before you take your first step into an MD or DO program, there’s a high-stakes game playing out in applications,

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Deaths of 6 Phillies Players Highlights Possible Factor for Rare Brain Cancer. It May Be Affecting All of Us.

Could frequent radio wave exposure put us at higher risk for brain cancer? That’s one of the latest theories being discussed regarding the six former Philadelphia Phillies players who died from glioblastoma–a rare, aggressive, and often incurable form of brain cancer. Symptoms include severe headaches, nausea, vomiting, and seizures[2]. Interestingly,

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The Precipice of the Space Age: How We Got Here, Where We Are, and Where We’re Going

Throughout history, the sun, moon, and stars have been humanity’s companions. The next time you are outside, look up. The lights that shine down upon you now are the same that have guided sailors, mystified fortune tellers, and inspired populations. Those celestial bodies, both incomprehensible and oddly familiar, are embraced

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Pneumonia From COVID-19 Infection: The Deadliest of Them All?

Could SARS-CoV-2 cause the deadliest form of pneumonia? In a breakthrough article recently published in the February 2022 issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, a group of medical researchers from Spain shared their findings in which patients hospitalized for bacterial pneumococcal pneumonia (B-PCAP) were compared to those hospitalized

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