Category: 6. Health

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Introduction

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that may arise after a traumatic experience. PTSD symptoms include reexperiencing the traumatic event, avoidance and emotional numbing, and heightened arousal.¹…

With an increasing intensity and severity of heat waves in the U.S., Rutgers Health researchers, in collaboration with the City University of New York (CUNY), found that older workers, particularly Black, Latino and low-income…

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Each year, thousands of stroke survivors are left with hemianopia, a condition that causes loss of half of their visual field (the “vertical midline”). Hemianopia severely affects daily activities such as reading, driving, or just…

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Introduction

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) represents a spectrum of life-threatening conditions caused by the rupture or erosion of atherosclerotic plaques in the coronary arteries.^1,2 Given the high morbidity and mortality associated with ACS,…

By Tim Sandle, Ph.D.

Bacteriophages are viruses that infect (through injection of the viral genome into the bacterial cell cytoplasm) and can kill bacteria. Interest in the use of phage therapy began in the 1930s; it was…