FeaturedPublic Health Obese Individuals Face Uphill Battle in Attaining Normal Weight Obesity is a problem that affects more than 78.6 million Americans and increases the risk…Anderson NguyenDecember 4, 2015
FeaturedWellness A Comprehensive Comparison of Contraception When it comes to contraception, the options are practically limitless: gender-specific methods, invasive or non-invasive, medicinal…Zareen ThakorDecember 2, 2015
FeaturedResearch cfDNA Sequencing Helps Keep an Eye on Cancer Imagine if cancer could be monitored by simple blood tests. Rather than through invasive bone…Alex KimDecember 1, 2015
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FeaturedResearch Music’s Role in Mental Health How much music do you listen to? The average American listens to about four hours…Raymond HoNovember 29, 2015
FeaturedWellness Preventing Tragedy: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome On June 29, 2006, former Los Angeles Lakers player Lamar Odom's son passed away. At…Zareen ThakorNovember 28, 2015
FeaturedPublic Health Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in New York Seven died in a recent outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in New York City. The sudden…Tonya LeeNovember 26, 2015
FeaturedHealthcare The Danger of Inaccessibility: Gender Realignment Our society dictates that beauty is a commodity and pain is its currency. When we feel…Khamillah ZimmerNovember 26, 2015
FeaturedPublic Health Oblivobesity: How Parental Denial is Fueling a National Epidemic Obesity among children has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. Despite increasing awareness about…Alexandra RuanNovember 25, 2015
FeaturedHealthcare Art Over Alzheimer’s Health professions are regarded as some of the most important occupations available, and they require…Kishan PatelNovember 24, 2015
FeaturedWellness Staying in Motion with Motion Sickness Many are born with it, some develop it as they grow up, and a lucky…Quang CaoNovember 22, 2015
FeaturedHealthcare Out-of-the-Box Careers in Healthcare: Nurse Researcher Upon being asked to describe what a nurse does, the typical person will respond that…Claire WatryNovember 22, 2015
FeaturedWellness Wait a Minute… Time to Sleep: A Look at Narcolepsy It seems like the older we get, the more we cherish our sleep time. Sleep is…Bansari PatelNovember 20, 2015
FeaturedPublic Health How the ACA Makes Primary Care Visits More Accessible A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reveals…Anderson NguyenNovember 19, 2015
FeaturedResearch Mitochondrial DNA Predicts Mortality Cells contain structures, called organelles, which perform different tasks in order to allow the cell…Karina KakNovember 18, 2015
FeaturedResearch Mice Actually Sing Like Birds? Humans can only hear frequencies within the limited range of 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz,…John HuangNovember 17, 2015
FeaturedResearch Bionic Nose Detects Water Bacteria When people hear about bionics, they likely picture a man in a futuristic suit of…Raymond HoNovember 15, 2015
FeaturedResearch New Test That Can Reveal Every Single Virus You’ve Ever Had Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have created a blood test that can pinpoint…Angela LiuNovember 12, 2015
FeaturedResearch A “Sweet” Revenge Against Superbugs For half of a century, antibiotics have given us a powerful tool to combat infections…Amit KumarNovember 11, 2015
FeaturedResearch All You Need is Love (and Oxytocin) Oxytocin is affectionately known as the "cuddle hormone", the "bonding hormone", and the "love hormone".…Tory DoolinNovember 9, 2015