Addressing Low Adherence to Chronic Medications with “Smart Pills”
Many aspects of our lives nowadays can be easily tracked on a smartphone, such as package deliveries, what our friends are doing, and our…
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Bleeding Control: New Initiatives to Prevent Pre-Hospital Hemorrhagic Deaths
Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) such as shootings, infrastructure collapses, or bombings can quickly overwhelm emergency medical resources with gravely injured victims. This has highlighted…
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Is heat-stable carbetocin the new promising uterotonic agent to reduce postpartum hemorrhage worldwide?
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 800 women die every day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Based on…
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Gabapentin: A Potential Drug of Concern for Pain Management
The United States has experienced a rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid medications since the beginning of the 1990s and…
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Innovations in Psychotherapy
Psychological illnesses have serious clinical manifestations that can be debilitating. It has been known for a while now that endogenous derangements in the dopaminergic…
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In rats that are intermittently socially stressed, does viral-mediated knockdown of AKT in the ventral tegmental area block cross-sensitization after administration of amphetamine?
Introduction Social stress is a type of hierarchical stress in which an individual has little or no ability to change his/her circumstances. It is…
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Representation in Evidence-Based Medicine
In our current age of medicine, we often tout the benefits of evidence-based medicine for our patients: better outcomes with fewer unneeded interventions. However,…
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Breathalyzers: Not Just for Blood Alcohol Levels
In continual efforts to improve diagnostic and screening methods, a new emerging tool that is quickly gaining momentum is the “specialized breathalyzer.” An instrument…
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CRISPR/Cas9 Update: Clinical Trials and Research Applications
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)/Cas9 is a gene editing technique that utilizes a viral vector to insert segments of viral DNA to…
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TextRad: Analyzing Tissue Heterogeneity
When presented with the opportunity to select a scholarly project, I knew that I wanted it to involve radiology. Knowing this, I immediately went…
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