Category: 5. Health

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, often diagnosed later due the lack of symptoms in its early stages of progression. It commonly causes jaundice, severe weight loss, and stomach pain. Due to low early detection rate, high…

Virtual replicas of individual patients’ hearts have allowed doctors to refine and personalize a lifesaving medical procedure for dangerous rhythm disturbances.

Like flight simulators for physicians, these “digital twins” give doctors a way to preview different intervention…

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was caused by a virus known as SARS-CoV-2, there have been almost 800 million confirmed cases and 7 million deaths. It’s thought that about 10% of those who were infected (and survived) went on to develop long…

Antigens are a critical part of how the immune system works; they are present on many types of cells, and can be made of proteins, lipids, sugars, and other substances. Antigens are presented to immune cells, and recognized through binding; they can link up…

High blood pressure is strongly correlated to cancer. This risk factor, among others including smoking, obesity, and inactivity, cause deleterious effects to the body. Interestingly, high blood pressure and cancer affect each other in a bidirectional manner….

Immunity is orchestrated by two responses referred to as the innate and adaptive immune systems. Each system works to minimize and clear infections. The innate immune response is a broad-targeting defense network of immune cells that actively survey the body….

New heart health recommendations emphasize early testing and treatment to lower cholesterol levels as key to reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. 

A group of 11 medical associations including the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association released…

Certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) are closely linked to invasive cervical cancer.  Vaccines that protect against these cancer-causing HPV types have been shown to greatly lower the risk of cervical cancer.  As a result, the quadrivalent HPV…

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections are very common–the vast majority of adults are thought to have been infected at some point. But there has also been mounting evidence that EBV is connected to the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic…

It’s long been thought that an organ known as the thymus is crucial to development of the immune system. Early in life, it ensures diversity among immune cells called T cells that fight pathogens and cancers. But it’s been assumed that the thymus then…