Hydrogels: from Bubble Tea to Cancer Therapy
Have you ever tried Bubble Tea? Take a sip and discover how the tiny balls you are slurping are connected with smart drug delivery systems, breast implants, cancer, and live cells.
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The Invisible Patient: Women’s Health in Medicine & Research
Medical research and practice have historically focused on male physiology, leading to significant gaps in understanding the female body and the potential sex-specific differences in disease presentation and response to treatments. It is important to address and rectify the resulting biases in disease diagnostics and management, and “sex-sensitive medicine” provides a pioneering framework to do so.
Calming the itch: the skin microbiome & atopic dermatitis
“We tried to calm him in every possible way, but he cried and shouted all night”, desperately declared the Coopers about their three-year-old suffering from severe atopic dermatitis. Stories like this are more common than you think in paediatric and dermatologic wards.
Is the world heading back to a pre-antibiotic era?
Doctors often remind us how important it is to complete prescribed antibiotic treatments. But how many of us ever consider that not following these instructions may mean that, in the future, surgeries will become impossible?
Ever heard of a rhinovirus causing the common cold?
The Questions will be answered:
What is a rhinovirus?
Why is it important?
Can it affect adults? If yes, how? Rhinoviruses are the leading cause of common colds – especially in children. Hence, not much is known about common colds in adults.
A modern pathologist: Artificial Intelligence
Ada, a curious seven-year-old, looks outside the window. It is a relatively humid day in Mansa, a city in northern Zambia, but it appears as though it isn’t going to rain for a couple of hours. Ignorant of the threat lurking around her, Ada happily leaves her house excited to play. Just as she reaches her friends, she suddenly slap
Chronic wounds: a silent epidemic requiring urgent attention
We all know the discomfort of having a wound after a fall: the throbbing pain when our skin is first injured, the care we must take to keep it covered and disinfected, the itchiness while it heals. But wounds can form for reasons other than accidental injury and remain open for much longer than the typical couple of weeks
Mining nature for drugs in the Anthropocene
You may not realise it, but many of the medicines sold in pharmacies are either directly sourced from nature or have an underlying operating principle drawn from a natural process. Widely used pain relievers paracetamol and aspirin? Originally derived from coal tar and willow bark, respectively.
World Changing Diet –Part II
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) To read part I, click here The Great food transformation: Turning the problem into a solution? So, is the planetary health diet the… Read More »World Changing Diet –Part II
World Changing Diet – Part I
By Jadwiga Buchwald and Otso PerÄkylÄ (@peacelovestatistiX) The Planetary Boundaries: Have we pushed our planet to the limit? “It is a planetary emergency,” says world-renowned Professor Johan Rockström in his… Read More »World Changing Diet – Part I
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