Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments…
Month: May 2016
The dying child: Room for improvement in end-of-life care
Many pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists believe that their clinical care extends from treating ill children…
Palliative, hospice care lacking among dying cancer patients, researcher finds
Medical societies recommend that patients with advanced cancer receive palliative care soon after diagnosis and…
Moving beyond race-based drugs
Prescribing certain medications on the basis of a patient’s race has long come under fire…
New study uncovers mechanisms underlying how diabetes damages the heart
Cardiac complications are the number one cause of death among diabetics. Now a team of…
Engineers discover a new gatekeeper for light
Imagine a device that is selectively transparent to various wavelengths of light at one moment,…
Beating the limits of the light microscope, one photon at a time
The world’s most advanced light microscopes allow us to see single molecules, proteins, viruses and…
Coping with active surveillance anxiety in prostate cancer
Men with prostate cancer who are under medical surveillance reported significantly greater resilience and less…
Why everyone wants to help the sick, but not the unemployed
New research explains why health-care costs are running out of control, while costs to unemployment…
How the brain makes, and breaks, a habit
Not all habits are bad. Some are even necessary. But inability to switch from acting…