What is the Lymphatic System?
Even though it is not often acknowledged, the lymphatic system is vital to the immunity of a person. This system performs many functions and is involved with removing toxins and waste. There are certain steps you can take to have a healthier lymphatic system.
The 30 Minute Malaria Test
Malaria is a dangerous disease that affects around 230 million people worldwide. In Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, a new malaria test kit has been created that is accurate and only takes 30 minutes.
Yellow Fever: A Rare Infectious Tropical Disease
Yellow Fever is an internet slang phrase that is often thrown around but the real term is actually a really rare infectious tropical disease! Learn all about the symptoms, causes, and treatment through this article that will give you all the basic information about the viral infection.
Green Practices: Whose Responsibility Is It
Modern society emphasizes the importance of conservation of resources and sustainable development, instilling these virtues from a young age for the betterment of society. However, in what ways beyond simply awareness could the movement towards conservation be encouraged?
Down Syndrome : A Genetic Chromosome Disorder
The scope of this article covers the causes of the syndrome, effects, types and finally some lesser-known facts about Down Syndrome!
River Pollution: Endocrine Disruptors, Eutrophication, and Solutions
River pollution and water pollution, in general, has become a major focus of the public in recent decades. In fact, just this month, a fire broke out in the Gulf of Mexico following a gas leak. These events can be environmentally destructive, and…
Aducanumab (Aduhelm), a cure to the tragedy of Alzheimer’s Disease?
The first major drug to treat Alzheimer’s diseases was recently approved in 18 years by the FDA for clinical use. While this may sound promising, it has received a lot of criticism. This article is a summary about this drug, aducanumab (aduhelm), and its hopes for the future.
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome : effects and reality.
CRPS is a neurological disorder characterised by intense pain and has significant biological and psychological effects on individuals with the condition.
How has COVID-19 changed our attitudes towards medicine?
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm and has impacted not only many people but how medicine is now percieved. This article will focus on how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced our attitudes, behaviors, engagement, and our personal responsibility in our society and dig deeper on the long lasting effects due to the mass pandemic.
The Plague in the Modern Day
The Black Death, an epidemic caused by what is known today as the plague, devastated Europe and much of Western Asia during the 1300s. Many assume that the plague is a thing of the past, and they are partially right. However, that raises the question: how is the plague fairing in the modern world?
The Exoticization of Epidemics
Scientists often study local customs, traditions, and practices before implementing an epidemic control centre in a respective country. This is when anthropology and science combine their forces to work towards a similar goal. However, this marriage of anthropology and science may prove to be detrimental for healthcare due to the subconscious presence of prejudices and biases.
Physical Inactivity: A Petty Problem or a Serious Health Concern?
As sedentarism sweeps through today’s world, we must be cognizant of the damage we are doing to our minds and bodies. Not only does physical inactivity deplete your brain of crucial hormones needed for well-being, therefore increasing the risk of mental illness, but it also wreaks havoc on your physical health and is an increasingly large cause of mortality. Fortunately, it is not too late to fix your lifestyle and put a stop to the harm inactivity is inflicting on your body.
The Complexities of Colour Blindness and its Impacts on Individuals
Colour blindness is typically used as an umbrella term for any form of colour deficiency condition. In actuality, colour blindness is more complex and varied, and can have huge impacts on the individuals with the condition.
The Increasing Prevalence of Autoimmune Diseases
An autoimmune disease is a condition arising from abnormal immune responses which attack body parts, resulting in tissue damage, and often inflammation. Common diagnoses include Multiple Sclerosis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
The Neurological Effect of Illegal Substances and Alcohol on the Brain
This article explores the neurological effect of substance and alcohol abuse and explores the treatment options available from the British healthcare system, the NHS.
Motor Neuron Disease: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
An article exploring the causes, symptoms and various types of motor neurone disease. The article also looks at the current treatments to try to improve patients’ quality of life.
Treating Diabetes with a Smartwatch
Smartwatches like the Fitbit are not an unordinary sight, but what if it was used to treat diabetes as well? Find out how a research team in Switzerland accomplished this here!
Brain Transplants: Aye or Nay?
What are some of the controversies behind brain transplants? How do the possible benefits measure up to the difficulties of the procedure and their ethical implication?
Bioelectronic Medicine
A vision towards advancement in the medical world through a technological perspective by drug replacement and curtailing its adverse effects.
A Look Into India’s Black Fungus Epidemic
As India’s COVID cases skyrocket each day, doctors have recently been reporting a rash of cases of a rare infection: the black fungus. Cases are seen mostly among recovering and recovered COVID-19 patients. In this article we will be debunking the facts about the new Black Fungus Infection of India.
Psychoanalysis of the total personality
This article explains the Sigmund Freud’s theory or model of the human mind. We come across the ID, Ego and Superego, their behaviours and the role they play in functioning of our minds.
Phantom Limb: Perceiving the Invisible
Phantom limb is the perception of pain or sensations of a limb that is no longer attached to the body. This remains as a poorly understood condition, and intense research is ongoing due to the acute and chronic nature of this phenomenon.
What is Homeopathy? Does it Work?
We often hear about forms of alternative medicine, which are medications not usually prescribed by doctors. Some of these have been popularized recently, while others have been passed down for generations. Out of all of these, homeopathy has remained one of the most prominent variants of alternative medicine. Why is it so popular, and is there any merit to it?
An Overview of Dietary Supplements
Dietary supplements are taken by half of the United States’s population at least once daily. Find out about what they are, how they are used, their benefits and side effects and more in this article.
Neonatal Immunology: Our Immune Systems in the Weeks After Birth
The immune systems of neonates are, unsurprisingly, different and less developed than those of adults.
The Intimate Gut-Brain Connection
This article provides advanced insights into the gut-brain connection and the influence of gut microbiota on the brain’s cognitive, psychological and behavioral functions in the human brain.
Sex Differences in Neural Mechanisms Moderating Benefit and Dependency
Sex differences take place in how men and women set onto the path of addiction. Women transition to addiction more rapidly then men because they are more likely to begin taking drugs that reduce stress and depression.
The Placenta: The Often Forgotten, Underrated Organ
The placenta is a specialised organ which is often unappreciated despite its important role as a lifeline during foetal development. In this article, I hope to give this disposable organ some more appreciation and attention concerning its huge impact on maternal and foetal health.
Coronary Artery Disease
Coronary artery disease is a very prominent disease affecting numerous individuals throughout the world. In the United States, it is currently the most common heart disease.
An Evolutionary Explanation of Loneliness
Despite loneliness being a fairly common occurrence in daily life, not many may know about the way in which loneliness could aid humans in survival. This article thus explores the ironically beneficial mechanism of loneliness and addresses the problem of chronic loneliness on our health in modern times.
SSRIs: Helping You or Hurting You?
When faced with conditions such as depression and anxiety, psychiatrists are quick to prescribe selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIS). While these medications are effective in alleviating psychiatric symptoms, many fail to acknowledge the serious long-term and short-term repercussions these drugs pose.
Predicting Heart Attacks
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Dr. Milzi and her research team in Germany developed one way to predict heart attacks.
Delivery of Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Cancer Immunotherapy
Nucleic acid therapeutics have surfaced as hopeful possibilities for cancer treatment, including immunotherapy. The growing number of approved nucleic acid therapeutics by the FDA displays their potential to treat diseases by attacking their genetic blueprints.
A Brief History of Organ Transplantation: The Past, Present, and Future
An article based on the Cambridge Science Festival lecture “The Horrible History and Bright Future of Organ Transplantation”.
Promise and Peril: Machine Learning in Modern Cancer Treatment
A discussion of both the promises and perils of artificial intelligence in cervical cancer, brain cancer, and lung cancer treatment. A fast-growing field that promises many scientific breakthroughs in future.
Why Is the Discovery of New Antibiotics So Difficult?
In 2018 Isabelle Carnell-Holdaway a cystic fibrosis sufferer was put in ICU after an aggressive infection of Mycobacterium abscessus, a relative of tuberculosis, spread to her liver putting it at risk of failure. With no new classes of antibiotics discovered and available for routine treatment since the 1980s, she was left with a 1% chance of survival. However in under two years, Isabelle went from receiving end-of-life care to preparing to sit her A-levels and learning to drive. It had taken an experimental bacterio-phage therapy treatment instead of antibiotics to save the life of a girl with a seemingly untreatable bacterial infection. This articles will take a look at a few of the factors which made the discovery of an antibiotic that could have treated Isabelle so difficult.
Artificial Blood-A Mystery Soon to be a Reality
A unique discovery with a motto to attempt to replace blood transfusions in emergencies, to reduce the high risk of contaminated blood products, to prevent the shortage of blood due to lack of refrigeration or inconvenience to find matching blood types.
ADHD, ASD, and Schizophrenia
There are several psychological disorders and if we begin to study them one by one, we will be able to observe very distinct characteristics in each one. However, the scope of this article covers 3 common psychological disorders and includes a brief but explanatory profiling of each
‘Patient H.M’ – An unsung hero: The forgotten man who forgot everything
In this article I share a very important story of a man who revolutionised neuroscience by losing his own memory. While patient H.M may have forgotten many things in his lifetime, he is an identity that we cannot allow ourselves to forget as he gifted us his own memory.
What OCD Really Entails
Many of us have all too often heard phrases along the lines of, “this is making me feel OCD” or “I’m so OCD about this thing,” but what is OCD really? Is it as simple as being particular about the arrangement of objects in a given space or the order of colours and letters, or is it much more of a severe, and potentially life changing condition that affects how many individuals function in their daily lives…
Preventing Nerve Cell Deterioration After Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injuries are quite common in the US and cause a multitude of neurological conditions. A research team in Ohio discovered two possible treatments for traumatic brain injury and preventing Alzheimer’s disease as well.
Understanding the Opioid Crisis in the United States
Opioids are a group of psychoactive chemicals which affect our body in various ways. Find out about their side effects and get a brief overview of the history of their use in the United States.
How Can Music Help?: Exploring Music-Based Interventions for Adolescent Mental Health
This article explores teen mental health, common barriers that make treatment inaccessible, and the way music may be able to help teens in ways many wouldn’t expect.
Dyslexia: The Reading Disability
Today, dyslexia is the most common learning disability in the United States, affecting 2-15% of the population. The disability substantially interferes in school and work settings, impairing the education of young children.
Insomnia
Insomnia is a condition of sleep disorder present in the lives of many people. People with insomnia experience hardships in terms of going to sleep, falling asleep, and experience sleep in general in their day-to-day life. Out of all sleep disorders, insomnia is emphasized to be the most common amongst many individuals. Overall, insomnia is proven to be heavily detrimental in the lives of those who have it as they may experience negative and fatigue-like effects due to this disorder.
Replicative Crisis: Mapping Cellular Fates and Identifying Determinants between Cell Survival and Death
In order to divide indefinitely, most cancerous cells activate the enzyme telomerase, which elongates telomeres. To express telomerase, cells typically survive a state known as replicative crisis. This work explores two areas critical to understanding crisis-related mechanisms: the generation of chromosomal aberrations and cytosolic DNA species during crisis and determinants of cell death versus survival during crisis. Understanding these domains is critical to understanding the process of cancer cell immortalization.
A Brief Overview of Telomeres
For centuries, scientists have pondered about the human body and the structures that make us who we are. In recent decades, advances in genetics have helped us understand more about the human genome and the processes by which we are able to live.
Smart Inhalers
Smart Inhalers: an advanced form of inhalers with digital connection for effective respiratory management, reducing the chances of human errors due to manual usage.
Alice In Wonderland Syndrome : A Very Rare Neurological Disorder
Alice in Wonderland syndrome is a very rare neurological disorder also known as Todd’s syndrome. The causes of this rare disease are mysterious and if you’d like to learn more about this disorder check this article out!
Visuoperceptual disturbances within Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive central nervous system disorder that affects movement. Symptoms start gradually, ranging from a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand to difficulty controlling eye movements.
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