Health and Medicine

Live or Dead: What’s in a Vaccine?

Vaccines are among the most successful medical innovations in human history, yet few people understand how they actually work. From training the immune system to recognize deadly pathogens to the science behind live, inactivated, and mRNA vaccines, the story of vaccination is a story of harnessing the body’s own defenses.

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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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Science News

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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Science Myths, Society and Psychology

10,000 Hours and the True Time it Takes to Learn: A look at Pop Psychology, Skill Development, and How We Actually Learn

What does life look like when you become rich and famous? Well, for Malcolm Gladwell, author of the New York Times Bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success, among many others, it might look like being the inspiration for a Macklemore song. The song, titled Ten Thousand Hours, was part of

Science News, Society and Psychology

The dilemma of ethical decision-making for people of color seeking mental health support

By Labiba Nawar and Inara Nanji Introduction Ethical choices arise when ethical questions, complications, or dilemmas emerge. [1] Ethical decision-making is an approach that bases its foundation on ethical codes with a mutual understanding of right and wrong. According to their judgment of right and wrong vs. good and evil, people

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