This week’s Medical Minute discusses an update on a study that examines the connection between the chronic inflammatory disease Psoriasis and heart attacks.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a big group of bacteria that are present virtually everywhere. It is harmless for most of us, but can increase the risk of dying in people whose kidneys have failed.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses an amino acid that may help protect the vision of premature babies and people with diabetes.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new study indicating that chronic stress alone can increase the risk of dying from cancer.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses potentially problematic side effects of a largely effective, inexpensive drug used to treat those at risk of fractures from osteoporosis, the bone weakening condition typically associated with aging.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new technique scientists have developed to label the biological couriers that transport molecules between cells called “exosomes”

This week’s Medical Minute discusses the little-known role of so-called “Motor Proteins” that are essential to life, but can also cause disease.

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a simple and safe way investigators have discovered to dramatically reduce the severity of COVID-19 infection.

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses seizures experienced by Alzheimer’s patients and a novel peptide, which can be delivered via a nasal spray, that can tamp down this abnormal electrical activity and reduce resulting damage to brain cells.

This week’s Medical Minute,  discusses growing evidence that chronic neuropsychiatric symptoms follow COVID-19 infection.

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses why some amino acids might be a logical new treatment target for stroke and traumatic brain injury.

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the role of microvascular disease in the progression of Alzheimer’s.

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the mental and physical health challenges that linger with cancer survivors.

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the challenges doctors encounter when arteries are connected directly to veins in order to treat heart issues and kidney disease.

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the negative role T-Cells can play in pregnant women with preeclampsia.