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Medical Minute: Leptin Preeclampsia

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the role of the hormone “leptin” in preeclampsia, a condition that causes a host of complications during pregnancy.

July 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Killer Iron

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the use of iron to battle prostate cancer.

July 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Sleep Efficiency

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a new study on “sleep efficiency” across various age groups.

July 06, 2022
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Medical Minute: Vaccine Survey 2

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.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Cancer Hotspots

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses a study of mortality rates from common cancers in Georgia.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Synaptic Plasticity

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.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Glycolysis

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the process by which our body makes new blood vessels when our heart of limbs are not receiving enough oxygen.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Salt Neurons

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the battle a diet too high in salt causes for our brain.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Angiogenesis

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.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Retinal Ganglion Cells

This week’s Medical Minute, discusses the newly discovered role of a specific protein in protecting cells that connect our eyes to our brain.

April 11, 2022
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Medical Minute: Spotting Camouflaged Changes On Mammograms

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. 

June 12, 2021
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Medical Minute: Schizophrenia Sleep and Suicide

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.

May 08, 2021
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Medical Minute: Resting Heart Rate

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.

April 24, 2021
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Medical Minute: New Gene Editor

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.

April 17, 2021
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Medical Minute: Spinal Cord Injuries

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. 

April 10, 2021
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