Healthcare

This issue profiles real-time immune system imaging that helps in efficient disease management, a quantitative analysis tool for disease detection, and coronary stents for embolic protection.

This issue profiles genetic test patented for effective weight management, gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, and next generation sequencing tests for colorectal cancer.

This issue profiles a minimally-invasive procedure for excision of breast tissue, gas-sensing capsules to track intestinal gases, and an automated fundus camera to screen patients for eye disorders.

This issue profiles personalized treatment for prostate cancer patients, personal genomics that paves the way for future medicine and health, and gene therapy for ophthalmic diseases.

This issue profiles a novel drug to treat bile acid synthesis disorders, FDA approval for a drug for treatment of thyroid cancer, and a drug screening technology platform based on modulation of integrin activity.

This issue profiles an innovative cell-free DNA blood test to detect Down syndrome, a novel experimental vaccine for Ebola, and a novel antibody therapy to reduce HIV loads.

This issue profiles a nanoparticle-based wound therapy, a cancer drug found to be effective in treating arterio-venous malformations, and a gene responsible for insulin resistance.

Preventative healthcare, or preventive healthcare, accounts for measures that are adopted for disease prevention rather than disease treatment. Millions of people die preventable deaths every year and this can be due to environmental factors, lifestyle choices, and genetic susceptibility. Leading causes for the majority of preventable deaths includ...

In almost all parts of the world, women live longer than men. The exact cause behind the differential between male and female life expectancy is uncertain, but it appears to be partly explained by biological advantages and partly by environmental and behavioral factors. However, as women outlive men, they are more prone to suffering from ill healt...