Ellis Parker, MSN, RN, from Level Up RN, discusses the different levels of health prevention—primary, secondary, and tertiary—and the significant role of health determinants. She uses the community…
Most vaccines help the immune system learn to identify and fight off harmful viruses or bacteria before someone gets sick. But, scientists are also creating vaccines to treat…
Pertussis or whopping cough is a contagious respiratory disease that can be life-threatening to newborns and infants. Children are better protected after receiving a 5-dose vaccine series. A…
Meet the world’s only immortal animal: the jellyfish, Turritopsis Nurtricula. Robert Berger, PhD and Editor-in-Chief of Nutricula Magazine, explains the inspiration behind a magazine focused on teaching both physicians and patients how to…
Robert Berger, PhD and Editor-in-Chief of Nutricula Magazine, talks about how certain compounds, including indole-3-carbinol and carnitine, can help relieve the body of toxins. He expounds on the biochemistry of superfoods like broccoli…
How does the body store the toxins and xenoestrogens we ingest with our food? Robert Berger, PhD and Editor-in-Chief of Nutricula Magazine, discusses how these substances get stored in fat…
Judd Moul, MD, explains why he disagrees with the recent move by the US Preventive Services Task Force to give the routine PSA exam a D-rating. He discusses…
Janna Andrews, MD, discusses the clinical threshold for when a physician should consider preforming a biopsy after preforming a PSA exam to screen for prostate cancer. She also…
How can physicians evaluate what rising PSA levels mean when screening for prostate cancer? Janna Andrews, MD, explains how PSA levels rise naturally with growing age, and how physicians can use…
The recent PLCO study and its results have sparked controversy in some circles. The trial concludes that routine PSA exams and digital rectal exams, standard screening exams for prostate cancer,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients and health care workers (HCWs) with symptomatic nosocomial norovirus (NoV) infection are much more apt to transmit the virus than asymptomatic shedders,…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastases at teaching hospitals in July have higher mortality and complication rates than similar patients treated in other…
