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ISSUES Past Articles Title: Specific study/disease Fall 2008 1. Starved to Life: Autophagy as a mechanism for prolonging life 2. Midwives Helping People Out: Certified nurse-midwives an alternate option to obstetricians 3. A Tat to Beat That: Tattoo needles increase antibody response to DNA vaccines 4. One Type to Rule Them All: Massachusetts-based biotechnology company ZymeQuest® developing machine to convert all blood types to universally-accepted O-type 5. Body Integrity Identity Disorder: An intense impulse to amputate one’s limb 6. Tick-Tock, Where’s the Clock?: Our perception of time a. Warren Meck,PhD, and Catalin Buhusi, PhD, of Duke University narrow the source of interval timing to the brain.s basal ganglia. Spring 2008 1. TREating HIV: Tre enzyme involved in HIV treatment 2. Jam-Free Peanut Butter: Genetically engineered peanuts to prevent peanut allergies 3. The Spectrum of Autism: A survey of the latest autism studies 4. Do Good, Feel Good: The health benefits of altruism 5. Agent Orange: Covert menace of the Vietnam War 6. Ozone: Friend or Foe? a. Research by John Hollingsworth, MD, Duke University finds that ozone exposure appears to augment apoptosis of critical immune cells 7. Breast Cancer’s Unlikely Ally: Increased estrogen renders the immune response against breast cancer cells ineffective 8. Racial Disparities in Breast Cancer: Trends in incidence Fall 2007 1. Calm Before the Storm: Cases of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis on the Rise 2. Microwaving Cancer: Specific Photothermal Ablation of Cancer Cells a. Hongjie Dai, PhD, Stanford University – developed targeted carbon nanotubules to bind to and kill cancer cells 3. The Pseudobulbar Affect: Uncontrollable Laughter and Tears 4. The HPV Vaccine: Promoting promiscuity or preventing cancer? 5. Photoreceptor Stem Cells: Repairing blindness 6. Medicine Cabinet of Addiction: Common cough medicine frequently abused 7. Roadblocks to a Blood Supply Highway: Anti-angiogenesis and cancer therapy 8. Cheap and Easy: A new cancer therapy? a. Evangelos Michelakis, MD, University of Alberta – found that dicholoroacetate (DCA) inhibited tumor growth in rat models 9. The Future of Geriatric Medicine: A pending healthcare crisis Fall 2006 1. Matter over Mind: A physiological basis for the placebo effect 2. Turning Back the Clock: Mitochondrial metabolites and aging a. Bruce Ames, PhD, UC Berkeley – created supplement to repair physiological damage that accumulates with age as well as reverse certain parts of the aging process 3. Crying in Utero: Can fetuses feel pain? 4. Fun, Sun, Get a Surgery Done: The growing trend of transplant tourism 5. Sex, Drugs, and …Surgery?: Second hand exposure to opioids in the operating room 6. Saving Grace: Do spiritual dialogues have a place in Medicine? 7. Attention all Scientists!: Issues editorial a. The preclinical, profit-based, and access gaps in biomedical research 8. Nighttime Noshing OK: Midnight snacks might not be so bad after all 9. Amping up your Memory: Smart Drugs and Ampakines 10. Envisioning the 21st Century: Improving vision with phakic intraocular lenses Fall 2005 1. Guevedoces: Gender metamorphosis at work a. Natural gender transformation in the Dominican Republic and Papua New Guinea 2. Memoirs of an Electron: Soul Sojourn a. Inter-personal memory transfer during organ transplantation 3. The Weakening of HIV: Could HIV’s final victim be itself? 4. Danger in a Bottle: Does bottled water tap out? 5. Hangover Gene: Shedding light on alcohol intolerance 6. Liar, liar, Brain on Fire: The science of deception 7. Test Tube Teeth: Teeth may be the first bioengineered organs 8. In Oxytocin we Trust: Controversial uses of a reproductive hormone 9. What’s the Beef? Carcinogenicity from cooked meats 10. I say Tomato, You Say Cancer Prevention: A saucy new medicine 11. Toast to Topiramate: Epilepsy drug turned addiction breaker 12. The Natural Band-Aid: Using collagen for wound treatment 13. CyberKnife: A new weapon in the battle against cancer Spring 2005 1. Fixing the Fix: A Vaccine for Cocaine Addiction a. Xenova, UK based biopharmaceutical company – therapeutic cocaine vaccine: TA-CD in phase II clinical trials 2. Calculating the Survival Rate: Machine may determine who gets treatment in the ICU a. Acute Physiological and Chronic Health Evaluation III (APACHE III) 3. Orgasmic Chemistry: The science between the sheets a. The purpose of a female orgasm 4. Practice Makes Imperfect: Experience may not be enough a. Due to rapidly evolving science of medicine, doctors rely less on own experience and more on new research being published 5. Smart Viruses: Precisely targeted cancer therapy 6. Don’t Eat Me: Food Allergies are more common than you think 7. A Second Chance: Umbilical cord blood may save leukemia patients 8. Chemical Attraction: Human pheromones in perfume 9. BioBarcoding: A genetic marker for Alzheimer’s Disease a. Biomarker for Alzheimer’s in Cerebrospinal fluid 10. Making a Splash: Underwater Birthing 11. Eliminating Parkinson’s Disease: The cure may be a cup of coffee away Spring 2004 1. Quantifying Emotions: Intelligence – it’s more than an IQ 2. Law Designing Doctors: Unforeseen litigation on healthcare 3. With Liberty and Justice for All: On dangerous ground 4. Two Voices are Better than One: Language and Neural Development 5. Deconstructing Gender: Pink or Blue? a. Ambiguous genitalia at birth 6. “Bean” Healthy: A new twist on an old favorite a. Coffee cConsumption 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Would you Like Fries with That: Juvenile diabetes on the rise True Blue: Take a couple of blueberries and call me in the morning Chocolate for the Heart: Cocoa’s antioxidizing ability Ovarian cysts: Growing pains for young girls Cervical Cancer: New methods of detection and prevention Blurred Reality: Do dreams link the past and the future? Ibogaine: Not your ordinary drug