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The New England Journal of Medicine is celebrating 200 years of publishing! Here as a great historical account of how medicine has changed since the beginning of the NEJM. Getting Better

  A Johns Hopkins research team has shown that Google Flu Trends seems to accurately predict demand for flu-related emergency healthcare.  The team tracked and reviewed the amount of patients that sought treatment for flu-like illness (as well as those that tested positive for the flu) in a Baltimore hospital and compared it with Google [...]

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a wound treatment method that seems to help the body regrow healthy, scar-free skin. Although the body has an amazing regenerative capacity, it cannot regrow completely normal, healthy skin – when wounds heal, damaged skin is replaced by scar tissue. Scar tissue is not like healthy skin. Although [...]

Here is a video from a TEDx conference in Iowa City. TED is an organization that sponsors amazing lecture series on emerging trends. Topics include medicine, art, agriculture, technology, business, and more. The “x” after TED stands for an independently organized conference in the spirit of TED, which promotes “ideas worth spreading”. The following video [...]

  Scientists in Imperial College London have identified an ‘enzyme switch’ in women, SGK1, that affects fertility. In a study of over 100 women published in Nature Medicine, women with high SGK1 levels in their womb lining suffered from unexplained infertility; those with very low levels had recurrent miscarriages. Researchers studying SGK1 levels in mice womb [...]

  Sickle cell anemia (also know as sickle cell disease) is a genetic blood disorder that causes red blood cells to form abnormally. The disease is more common in people of African or Mediterranean descent, and affects 3-5 million people across the globe, and about 100,000 Americans. 1 in every 500 African-American babies is born [...]

If you have been keeping up with the news, you probably share the sentiment that everything causes cancer. Here is one to add to the list: oral sex. Yes. Even oral sex could lead to cancer. In the human throat, it might lead to even more cancer than smoking does. Let us clarify: it is [...]