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Depression and Insomnia: clinical treatments for a common comorbidity

Dr. Alexander Sweetman discusses the comorbidity of insomnia and depression, and how behavioral insomnia treatment is effective in the presence of depression.

3 Nov 2021

The Evolution of Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy involves the use of ionizing radiation to induce damage to tumor cells in an effort to prevent their growth and division.

11 Nov 2021

The Role of Alternative Splicing in Disease

Alternative splicing (AS) is a key technique for increasing transcriptome and proteomic diversity from a small genome.

11 Nov 2021

Rabies Vaccination

Rabies is a highly preventable viral disease which takes at least 59,000 human lives a year.

11 Nov 2021

Genetic Disorder Comorbidities

The occurrence of two or more diseases in the same patient is known as comorbidity. It poses significant difficulties in terms of disease diagnosis and therapy.

11 Nov 2021

What is Emotional Dysregulation?

Emotional dysregulation refers to difficulty in managing emotions or in keeping them in check.

11 Nov 2021

What is Remote Surgery/Telesurgery?

Telesurgery or remote surgery is an emerging surgical tool that utilizes is both robotic technology and wireless networking to connect patients and surgeons.

11 Nov 2021

History of Public Health

This article presents an overview of the history of public health from the Middle Ages towards the present day.

11 Nov 2021

What Role does Endothelial Infection Play in SARS-CoV-2 Infection?

SARS-CoV-2 can cause inflammatory lung disease, including clot formation and hyper-permeability of the lung vessels, resulting in bleeding into the lung.

27 Oct 2021

Innate versus Adaptive Immunity in COVID-19

Several studies have explored the immunological responses to SARS-CoV-2, seeking to understand what drives the severity of the disease.

27 Oct 2021

Monoclonal Antibody Treatments in COVID-19

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the spike protein have been found to be clinically useful in the therapy of COVID-19.

27 Oct 2021

COVID-19 and Heart Damage

One important potentially long-term clinical consequence of COVID-19 seems to be heart damage. This article looks at this in more detail.

27 Oct 2021

Mythbusting: COVID-19 Misconceptions

This article deals with some of the leading myths concerning COVID-19, while not offering an exhaustive debunking of each.

27 Oct 2021

Maternal Health and Hepatitis

Although all hepatitis viruses can harm the mother and child, acute hepatitis A virus or hepatitis E virus infection poses the greatest risk to maternal health.

22 Oct 2021

What are the Health Effects of Exhaust Emissions?

Exhaust emissions which result from internal combustion engines have become increasingly regarded as a potential health risk.

22 Oct 2021

Pneumonia in Children

Pneumonia is the lead cause of mortality and morbidity among children under the age of 5 years old.

22 Oct 2021

How Will COVID-19 Advances Impact the Future of Medicine?

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating global impact, yet one of the positives to come out of this crisis is the advances to healthcare and medicine.

22 Oct 2021