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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
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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