Inflammation: the Underlying Driver of Many Chronic Diseases It is becoming increasingly accepted within medicine that inflammation is an underlying driver of many of the chronic diseases plagued by our society today. Diabetes is no different, though the mechanism by...

Too Much Time Charting Leaves Not Enough Time for Chatting with Patients No one likes it, and most of us complain about it, but just how much time are we spending doing it? Charting? The answer to this question may surprise you. A recent research article was published...

Antibiotic Resistant Ecosystem Exists in Hospitals and Health Care Facilities The newest research in the antibiotic resistant bacterial infections is starting to show that it is not isolated infections of single bacteria, but many various bacterial types that are...

A New Study Challenges a Historical View of Scarcity in the Slim 6 Categories of Emotion in Psychology A very interesting new study is challenging a historical view in psychology that there are merely six categories of emotion: happiness, sadness, anger, fear,...

Brain Diseases: Breaking Beyond the Blood Brain Barrier Brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s epilepsy and Parkinson’s are all not curable and difficult to treat. However, this may be changing due to recent research conducted at Aalborg University. The...

Does the Health of the Sperm also Impact the Health of the Fetus? When it comes to fertility, many jump to the conclusion that it all happens in the uterus, but sperm count, motility, and health from the male side of the equation is equally important. If things aren’t...

Biomarkers for the Possibility of the Susceptibility to PTSD A recent research study has begun to look at biomarkers which may indicate whether someone is more or less susceptible to PTSD after experiencing a trauma. PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder, is a...

'Outside of the Mat' Thinking, Learning and Doing Perelman School of Medicine has a new project which demonstrates using “outside of the box” thinking to make learning more accessible, and also lower stress levels of student’s lives.1 “Yoganatomy,” is a different type...

Researcher Reveals Potential Mechanism for Enhanced Night Vision Phenomenon Some of you were lucky enough to experience a very unique solar phenomenon a few weeks ago, and along with it, a unique physiological phenomenon. Many people who saw the recent solar eclipse...