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CRISPR Potential to Overcome Sickle Cell Disease
CRISPR Has the Potential to Snip Out Sickle Cell Disease Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and affects millions of people across the globe. A new technology, known as CRISPR, may change all that. CRISPR is short for “clustered regularly interspaced short […]
Medical 3D Printing Advancements
Advancements in Medical 3D Printing Three-dimensional (3D) printing has been around since the 1980s, when Chuck Hull patented the mechanical process of printing successive layers of material to create objects. Known as stereolithography or additive manufacturing, the process quickly spread beyond industry into a number of sectors, including medicine. A 3D printer is similar to […]
The Benefits of Genetic Cancer Screening
Genetic Cancer Screening Benefits for You and for Your Family Genetic cancer screening can be one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself and to your family. Cancer seems to “run in families.” Sometimes this is because families share an environment or lifestyle, such as tobacco use, known to increase the risk of […]
Tdap Lead to Increased Trend in HPV Vaccines
Requiring Tdap May Increase HPV Vaccination in Adolescent Girls About 9 in 10 people will get a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HPV infections are associated with health problems, including several types of cancer in men and women, which means […]
Healthcare or IT Business?
Healthcare is Becoming an Information Technology Business Frank Magliochetti declares that; Health information technology now plays an important role in patient care, payment and research, but it wasn’t always this way. Today’s health information technology represents an evolution in record keeping within the healthcare industry. In 1924, the American College of Surgeons adopted the Minimum […]