This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the role of the hormone “leptin” in preeclampsia, a condition that causes a host of complications during pregnancy.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a small survey of individuals working at a public health sciences university about how they decided whether or not to get vaccinated.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a newly identified enzyme, called “HDAC9,” that helps the neurons in our brain communicate and allows us to learn and remember.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses our body’s fascinating ability to grow new blood vessels when there is insufficient oxygen to an area like the heart or legs.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses training now available to radiologists that allow them to spot subtle changes in mammograms well before an actual breast lesion is visible.
In this week’s Medical Minute, a new study that emphasizes the association between insomnia and increased risk of suicidal thoughts and action, as well as an increase in disease severity, in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses reports that a steady decline in slow resting heart rate as children move into young adulthood may actually be an indicator that heart trouble is ahead.
This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the newest gene editing technology, called “prime editing”, that scientists say may be as effective as CRISPR at editing DNA, with less collateral damage.
In this week’s Medical Minute, new developments in “cell reprogramming” that could help patients recover from spinal cord injuries which lead to permanent paralysis in the past.