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In the search of new drugs to treat diseases, scientists often resort to nature in order to find new compounds with useful biological activ...

Being able to hear is governed by the nervous system, by gathering input from the ears and turning it into information regarding our surrou...

Parkinson's disease affects the part of the brain that takes care of muscle control. Because the brain part responsible for these funct...

Patient compliance to medication is an important topic, because it is known that a rather significant percentage is not very strict with th...

There is an app for almost everything nowadays. Smartphones have also steadily been finding their way into the world of healthcare and medi...

Depression is the clinical manifestation of a 'bad mood'. It is characterized by feelings of negative emotions, including sadness, ...

Cancer is one of the worst diseases known to man, especially because many forms are hard to treat and are often lethal. Additionally, the d...

Some patients are easy to treat, while others can be very difficult. Even for patients that have the same disease, it is sometimes necessar...

One of the biggest concerns in healthcare these days is overmedication. That means a patient is taking unnecessary or excessive medications...

One of the biggest scandals in the history of medicine is that of thalidomide, or softenon as it is known in some countries. It was develop...

One of the most peculiar treatment effects in medicine is that of a placebo. It is not supposed to work, but somehow patients receiving the...

There are lots of old wives' tales and folklore when it comes to herbs or other natural products and their medicinal effects. Lots of t...

DNA is normally shaped like a double helix, which basically looks similar to a spiralling staircase. By building DNA in this particular way...

Treating cancer with chemotherapeutics is a double-edged sword. While it is proven to be very effective in killing cancer cells, it also ha...

Therapies for cancer are never very pretty. Scientists struggle with creating treatments that specifically target cancerous cells and leave...

Recently, scientists have begun experiments with bacteria as a new form of treatment. For some diseases it is hypothesized that administeri...

When it comes to viral infections, HIV is the most well-known. It causes AIDS, resulting in the death of many cells of the immune system, l...

We rely on pharmaceutical companies, and, in lesser extent, academics, to get new drugs onto the market. They fulfil an important role in s...

Autism spectrum disorders cover a wide array of brain malfunctions, that predominantly lead to impaired social skills, problems with commun...

We have been quite successful in fighting 'invisible' threats such as viruses and bacteria over the last fifty years. The discovery...