A New Ninth Planet?
For those upset by the recent downgrading of our solar system from nine to eight planets, there is a new hope! Research by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) suggests that...
Silent Actors in the Immune System
A recent study published in the Journal for Infectious Disease found a potential explanation for the decline in immune response found in the elderly population. The culprit: telomeres. To clarify, telomeres...
Insulin at the Touch of Your iPhone
What if you no longer had to go to the doctor’s office for your appointments? What if all of your lab tests could be done at home, on your own time? What if you had continuous access to all of your vital...
Slippery Surfaces Promise to Make Hospitals’ Infection Rates Fall to the Ground
A team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering developed a new material with the potential to prevent some of the 721,800 infections estimated to develop annually in U.S....
A Look at End-of-Life Care in the United States
Moving Beyond Death Panels Back in 2009, in the midst of the health care debate, Sarah Palin was famously quoted for saying the proposed reform created figurative “death panels” that would judge whether...
Does Exercise Work?
Not For Everyone, Apparently As gift-giving season reached its peak, personal fitness devices such as the Fitbit, the Nike+ FuelBand and the Aduro U-band were especially popular gifts. The ability to track...
The Politics of Ebola
What is it all about? From national newspapers to popular magazines to local television broadcasts and everything in between, Ebola has dominated the media over the past month. As the news coverage...