According to the World Health Organisation, substance abuse refers to the consumption of psychoactive substances including alcohol and...

Health is wealth is an old maxim. We eat to live and not live to eat. We are studying since childhood that one should take a balanced...

Coronavirus seems to be one of the deadly outbreaks which have caused multiple numbers of deaths across the world. Attempts have been...

When I was a child, my visits to the family general physician were way different from what I experience today. The first stark difference...

In the past, the common focus in clinical research has been on the variables: patient and practice, and not on the more significant...

As the number of cases of Coronavirus rises to 42,638 in China and more than 190 in 28 countries, people have started comparing it to the...

The earth presently is home to around 7.5 billion human beings and about 20% of them are mute. Some of these people lost their ability to...

Although environmental degradation has been a hot topic for a while, there still remains to this day a vast amount of misconception and...

Every individual carries two copies of the same chromosome, one which he inherits from his mother and one from his father. Each...

Alcohol is the most commonly abused drug around the world. The addiction to the intake of alcoholic liquor referred to as alcoholism is a...

Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease is an infectious disease that is caused by Borrelia bacterium. This disease is spread by ticks and...

Roberta Sinatra, along with her group of colleagues, had researched the predictability of discoveries. Sinatra, visiting research...

Using screws and wires for fixing fractured bones is a common procedure. In fact, in some cases, these may be the only solution. However,...

Synthetic biology allows scientists to use the concept of both engineering and molecular biology to successfully change the molecular...

The evolution of medicine has brought with it higher life expectancy and reduced disease susceptibility. Human beings are safer from...

Food, water, and medicines are a few necessities without which human life is almost impossible to maintain. In a world infested with...

Supplemental oxygen or otherwise known as oxygen therapy is the phenomenon where oxygen is used for medical treatments. This can include...

Rehabilitation is the act of restoring something to its original state. The noun rehabilitation comes from the Latin prefix re-, meaning...

Sari Altschuler, an assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, uncovers a history of the imagination in medicine in her...

Antibiotic resistance has been a growing public health concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...