Hydrogel Implants

A Potent New Tool Against Cancer: Hydrogel Implants

In the fight against cancer, surgery is often the first step for patients. However, once a tumor is surgically removed, inflammation impedes healing by suppressing antitumor immune cells which can result in the increase of cancer cells. Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of all cancer deaths.  Now there appears to be new hope in

The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine—Our Researchers in Action, Part Two

In this second article, the Foundation presents the research of our final four grant awardees. Two of these young research scientists are also recipients of our M. Irené Ferrer Award. Doctor Ferrer was a distinguished scholar who used the cardiac catheter to define the nature of heart disease in the living patient. Our Foundation is

The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine—Our Researchers in Action, Part One

A research scientist’s work is never done. It involves planning, is often rigorous, painstaking and always evidence-based. When theories are proven, the results can yield major breakthroughs; when theories fail, it is back to the drawing board to begin again. The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine is proud to note that many of its awardees have
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Deep Vein Thrombosis—The Blood Clot That Can Kill

According to the National Blood Clot Alliance, 274 people will die every day from the consequences of a blood clot. Neither age nor gender offer protection:  you can develop a clot just as easily at 25 years of age as 85 years of age. Most are the result of a traumatic injury, a surgical complication
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Shingles virus

The Shingles Vaccine—Should You Take It?

If you are a Baby Boomer, you’ve surely heard of shingles— a painful rash that often presents with blisters, fatigue, muscle weakness, and fever.  According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), one in every three Americans will get shingles during their lifetime. Shingles is caused by a virus — the varicella-zoster virus — which also
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Seasonal Affective Disorder

How the Changing Seasons Make Us SAD

This has to be one of the coldest, dreariest, and snowiest winters on record. Spring isn’t shaping up any better with snow and rain storms heralding its arrival. Everywhere you turn, people appear depressed, lethargic and moody. If the weather and season have got you down and there is no other reason to feel this
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Your Thyroid and You

Have you ever wondered why there are days you feel like a couch potato and are too tired to move and when you step onto the bathroom scale, your weight seems to be ballooning out of control and you can’t figure out why?  Inactivity, illness, depression and/or age might all be factors, but a thorough
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Depression

How Depression Can Alter Your Brain

At one time or another, we all suffer from bouts of sadness brought on by something such as a career disappointment, physical illness, relationship woes or financial strains. Sadness is a normal emotion. For most, this is transient often disappearing after a short while. However, when unrelenting stresses continue they can signal serious risks to
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Stroke Rehabilitation

Wearables for Stroke Rehabilitation: A New Technology for a New Age

Wearable technology is more than just a fashion or techie fad. Just under 50 million wearable devices were shipped in 2015 and over 125 million units are expected to ship in 2019 (Forbes, 2016). These wearables are used for everything from tracking calories and evaluating exercise regimens to monitoring the progression of more substantial illnesses.
Osteoporosis

A Rare Bone Loss Disease May Show Promise in Treating Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis which means “porous bone” is a bone disease of middle and old age affecting more women than men. A healthy bone resembles a honeycomb but an osteoporotic bone is less dense and replete with abnormal tissue, spaces and holes. It’s a “silent” disease that patients don’t know they have until a bone weakens and