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What Is Smallpox?
Verywell Health, January 26, 2023.
Smallpox is a deadly infectious disease caused by a virus. It hasn’t caused an infection in the wild since the 1970s. No one has had smallpox in the United States since 1949. The last death from smallpox was in the United Kingdom in 1978.
Though you’re.. →
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Antineoplastic Drugs
Verywell Health, January 26, 2023.
Antineoplastic drugs are medicines used to treat cancer and other diseases. It’s a general name for drugs that stop tumor cells from growing and dividing. Antineoplastic drugs are also called anticancer drugs, chemotherapy, cytotoxic drugs, oncology drugs,.. →
What Is Toxoplasmosis?
Verywell Health, January 24, 2023.
Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite is a tiny single-celled organism called a protozoan. People can acquire it from undercooked meat and exposure to cat feces.
In healthy individuals, this infection.. →
Melatonin Searches Spike Every Winter
SleepFoundation.org, January 4, 2023
Melatonin web searches on Google increased 36% from December 2021 to January 2022, as they have the past few winters.
Google searches for “sleep aid” also hit a five-year peak in January 2022.
West Virginia, Kentucky, and Mississippi are.. →
What Is Thymoma?
Verywell Health, December 31 2022.
Thymoma is a tumor (growth) of the thymus gland. It may be benign or malignant (cancer). The thymus gland is part of the lymphatic system—the tissues that help produce, store, and transport white blood cells. The thymus helps white blood cells called.. →
Dr. Shawn Torres
UCSF Health, December 5 2022.
Dr. Shawn Torres is a primary care doctor with expertise in preventing, diagnosing and treating chronic disorders. She has a special interest in relieving chronic conditions through lifestyle changes. Her approach is to see her patients as whole people, taking.. →
Triple Positive Breast Cancer Prognosis
Verywell Health, November 29 2022.
Triple-positive breast cancer has three features that influence its prognosis and set it apart from other subtypes of breast cancer. It grows in response to two hormones and makes a lot of a protein called human epidermal growth factor receptor.. →
Reaching net zero: A challenging but necessary journey
Boston Globe’s Studio B for Phillip Morris International, November 4 2022.
For decades warnings about climate change have said that humans need to lower how much carbon dioxide goes into the atmosphere. Now, the goal is net zero.
The idea of net zero is to limit how much the Earth.. →
Obstetrician LeRoy Heinrichs, evangelist for virtual medical training, dies at 90
Stanford Medicine, October 24 2022.
William LeRoy Heinrichs, MD, PhD, a professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at the Stanford School of Medicine, died Sept. 21. He was 90.
Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1976 until 1984, Heinrichs pursued minimally.. →
Stanford researchers testing ways to improve clinical trial diversity
Stanford Medicine, June 22, 2022.
Two Stanford Medicine professors are working with the Morehouse School of Medicine to test ways to enroll more diverse patients in clinical trials for heart disease treatments. The research is part of a $20 million project launched by the American Heart Association.. →