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150 Years of the University of Michigan’s Academic Medical Center
It’s one of the world’s largest, busiest, most highly regarded university medical centers. Millions of times a year patients come here for care. Discoveries and innovations emerge here from research on a host of diseases. Thousands of future health and science professionals launch their careers here. And it all started 150 years ago on a […]
Continue Reading...NIH Job: Medical Officer
Being a Medical Officer at NIAID in particular, but probably for NIH in general, means that as a physician what one does is oversee clinical studies and clinical trials that are going on to try and advance our understanding of different diseases and also how different interventions or diagnostics might work. The type of people […]
Continue Reading...3 Medical Cases In 90 Seconds
A boy ate only potato chips and French fries for 10 years. He was unable to tolerate the textures of other foods. Chips and fries lack vitamin B12. Your body doesn’t make B12. The vitamin is essential for the formation of myelin sheath, which covers your nerve cells and helps conduct signals from your brain. […]
Continue Reading...Becoming A Doctor Is Not For Everyone
So, my name is Anna Brown and I’m a medical student at Duke but working here at the NIH for the year and we’re in the molecular imaging clinic. Which is a clinic that focuses on different types of cancer and developing new imaging agents to look at the cancer. This year I’m focusing on […]
Continue Reading...Why Diet Might Be a Big Deal for Mental Health
[ ♪INTRO ] When it comes to physical health, mountains of evidence will tell you that a healthy diet is important. And it is. But a growing body of research is showing that diet is important for mental health, too. And before you click away, no, I’m not about to show you 10 superfoods to […]
Continue Reading...What happens when you have a disease doctors can’t diagnose | Jennifer Brea
Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez Hi. Thank you. [Jennifer Brea is sound-sensitive. The live audience was asked to applaud ASL-style, in silence.] So, five years ago, this was me. I was a PhD student at Harvard, and I loved to travel. I had just gotten engaged to marry the love of my life. I […]
Continue Reading...The science of why sitting all day is bad for your health
– Joe, do you sit all day? – Of course I sit all day. What, am I gonna have a standing desk like a psycho? – Sitting all day might actually be killing you. Guess I’ll have to Science the (bleep) out of this one myself. – Time to do a little sitting. – Joe, […]
Continue Reading...Salt: Are you getting Enough? (More Sodium & Health)
Salt. It doesn’t get much attention lately as the most that is said about it is usually just to eat less of it. But is that always the best advice? A March 1940 paper by Lawson Wilkins in Baltimore describes the case of a child who, starting from 11-months of age, had a very unusual […]
Continue Reading...A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer | Carl June
So this is the first time I’ve told this story in public, the personal aspects of it. Yogi Berra was a world-famous baseball player who said, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Researchers had been, for more than a century, studying the immune system as a way to fight cancer, […]
Continue Reading...MacRobert Award 2018 winner: Owlstone Medical
One of the things about lung cancer is that those with early stage disease often don’t have much in the way of symptoms. Patients who present with symptoms, which is around 75% of the people we see the five-year survival will be at best around 5% and often less. What we really need to do […]
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