Medicine

How does this even work? How do these little creatures influence bodily functions? You see, the bacteria in the gut aren't just hanging around doing nothing. They're carrying out a bunch of different …

This past April, a beloved 80-year-old-man tragically passed away after he suffered multiple cardiac arrests while ramped in an ambulance. Experiencing crushing pain radiating through his chest and st…

Introduction: The original discover of stems cells was a very long drawn out adventure that had many scientists that contributed to the original discovery. Some of the early non human studies can be …

Introduction Regulatory T (Treg) cells help maintain immune homeostasis by suppressing atypical and excessive immune responses to self and nonself antigens. Tregs can inhibit anti-tumour immune respo…

Vaccines are a popular topic of debate with two extreme positions. The controversy regarding whether an individual is required or free to choose to vaccinate oneself has been an ongoing dispute, with …

With the growing, alarming number of children who are not vaccinated, it endangers everyone, not just the children. It should be a requirement for all children to be vaccinated. After all, vaccination…

America is the definition of capitalism with the largest economy in the world over 21 trillion dollars, in spite of that millions and millions of its citizens don't have access to affordable medicatio…

Before the invention of vaccines, people had to drink snake venom in order to be immune to a snake bite. Vaccinations are the administration of antigenic materials to produce immunity to a disease. In…

When I was seventeen years old, my grandfather lost his lifelong crude battle to diabetes. Just one year later my aunty lost hers to kidney failure. As long as I shall live, I do not believe I will ev…

Diving into the world of Penn truly has been a remarkable experience specifically a remarkable learning experience. Because this experience was focused on educating, my overall goal was to learn about…