Cancer is the second-leading cause of death in the United States. 33 percent of women and 50 percent of men can expect to develop cancer. Although most cancer strike when we’re older, some are affecting people at younger ages. The medical establishment responds to this uptick of cancers in the young by calling for earlier … Continue reading The Anticancer Revolution
How Not to Die
How Not to Die from these Fifteen Causes of Premature deaths: Heart disease Digestive cancers High blood pressure Kidney disease Prostate cancer Lung diseases Infections Liver diseases Breast cancer Parkinson’s disease Brain diseases Diabetes Blood cancers Suicidal depression Iatrogenic causes Most doctors are good at treating acute illnesses but bad at preventing and treating chronic … Continue reading How Not to Die
Bypassing Angioplasty
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), or heart-bypass surgery, is the most common heart surgery in the United States. In this procedure, the surgeon connects a healthy artery or vein from the patient to the obstructed coronary artery, creating a new path for the blood to flow to the heart muscle. The blood bypasses the obstructed … Continue reading Bypassing Angioplasty
A Suppuration of Blood
In the laboratory buried in the basement of the Children’s Hospital in Boston on a December morning in 1947, a man named Sidney Farber waited for the parcel from New York to arrive. There were no patients in the lab here, just the bodies and tissues of patients brought down for autopsies and examinations. Farber … Continue reading A Suppuration of Blood
Why Does Genetics Matter for You?
Genetics is at the frontiers of science today, and its impact is often misunderstood. The public is often misled by science fictions and remains largely in the dark as to the actual consequences of advances in the biotechnology and genetic engineering industries. Studying genetics can help you understand the economic, social, and ethical implications of … Continue reading Why Does Genetics Matter for You?
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