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From The Labs

Immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer shows promise

July 23, 2019 Conference, Immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer, Research, T cell therapy

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most challenging types of cancer to treat, but new therapy using the body’s own immune system is providing new

Policywise

Is biohacking ‘the practice of medicine?’: Regulators might think so

July 19, 2019 BIohacking, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Citizen Science, Rebecca Hsu, Regulation

In an unprecedented regulatory move, a famous biohacker is under investigation in California for allegedly practicing medicine without a license. The complaint against Josiah Zayner,

From The Labs

‘Can you hear me, now?’ A new strategy ‘raises the volume’ of hard-to-detect gut-body communication

June 27, 2019 enteroendocrine cells, enteroids, gut-body communication, microbiome, neurogenin-3, Norovirus, Research, rotavirus, serotonin

Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they comprise only a small population of the total cells, they

Policywise

What if someone could be ‘kind of’ alive?

April 24, 2019 Brain, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, consciousness, Death, Dr. Kristin Kostick, Life

When the executioner’s assistant held up the freshly guillotined head of assassin Charlotte Corday by her hair and slapped her face on both cheeks in

Progress Notes

Closing the gender gap in cardiothoracic surgery

March 29, 2019 Cardiothoracic Surgery, Education, Medical Education, Women's History Month

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of Progress Notes posts featuring women medical students at Baylor College of Medicine interviewing their role

Policywise

The evolution of medical ethics committees

March 29, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Dr. Janet Malek, ethics, Hospital

In 1962, Swedish Hospital in Seattle was the first institution to offer hemodialysis for patients with kidney failure. Demand for access to this novel and

Progress Notes

Overcoming adversity as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon

March 26, 2019 Education, Medical Education, Orthopedic surgery, Women's History Month

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of Progress Notes posts featuring women medical students at Baylor College of Medicine interviewing their role

Policywise

Do new well-intentioned guidelines advance the stigma of HIV?

March 22, 2019 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, HIV, Nicolas W. Cortes-Penfield, PrEP, Sophia Fantus, Stigma

Pre-exposure prophylaxis, commonly known as PrEP, is a daily pill that HIV-negative individuals may take to lower their chances of acquiring HIV. If taken as

From The Labs

Beyond the airway and into the brain, yeast impairs memory in mice

January 31, 2019 airway disease, Allergies, Alzheimer's Disease, C. albicans, Dementia, FIGG, fungal infection, fungus, sepsis, yeast

An increasing number of clinical observations indicates that fungi are becoming a more common cause of upper airway allergic diseases such as asthma, as well

Momentum

How to care for elderly family members

January 16, 2019 Dementia, Dr. Angela Catic, Healthcare, Huffington Center on Aging, Nicole Blanton

Baby boomers are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population and by 2030, all baby boomers will be over the age of 65. As

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