Start your stop smoking plan with START S = Set a quit date. Choose a date within the next 2 weeks, so you have enough time to prepare without losing your motivation to quit. If you mainly smoke at work, quit on the weekend, so you have a few days to adjust to the change. […]

Going to the gym to maintain a healthy weight is only half the battle. The other half is following a nutrition-dense and well-balanced diet. Counting calories can get mentally, and even physically, exhausting totaling up all the foods in one day. While most of us want to literally have our cake and eat it, too […]

It’s a wonderful time of year. Birds are chirping, flowers are beginning to bloom, the weather outside is just perfect for bike rides and patio brunches, but you, my friend, are stuck inside making color-coded flashcards and learning the TCA cycle in preparation for step I. Relax, young medical Padawan. Fear not this beast of […]

Scientists at Oxford University have discovered that an MRI scan can pick up the very earliest signs of Parkinson’s disease, giving hope that it could be treated before the symptoms start A brain-scanning technique that detects early signs of Parkinson’s holds out the hope of tackling the disease before it starts to cause symptoms. Researchers […]

3D-Printed Blood Vessels Successfully Created, But Will They Work On Humans? [ads1] Scientists in Boston have created the first synthetic blood vessels using 3D bioprinting techniques. Although successfully created in a lab, we are probably years away from being able to transplant these 3D-printed blood vessels into human organs and tissue. In a study published […]