A Step Forward in Personalized Care: Translational Research and Precision Medicine
Our healthcare system, including translational research and precision medicine, has come a long way over the past decade. Targeted vaccine breakthroughs and ongoing improvements in cancer treatment have transformed our ability to survive and recover from health issues...
Assisted Reproductive Technology: Creating Life with ART
ART and Society For some, having children is an ultimate goal in their own life-progression. For those unable to become pregnant naturally, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) can bring hopeful parents the successful pregnancy they desire. ART takes many forms,...
Covid Spreading at an Alarming Rate
Where it is originated from? In December 2019, Covid appeared in a seafood market located in Wuhan, the capital of Central China’s Hubei province. Researchers traced back to the first patient and he did not come into contact with the seafood market. Up until now, the...
A Look Back: New York’s Learning-by-Doing Response to a Pandemic
With thoughts of the latest pandemic on so many of our minds, it can be useful to look to history for context and reassurance as we try to understand our current predicament. Often, it is easy to become lost in a vague picture of the developing world as the sole...
Covid: Calling All Heroes
Language’s fix to a world problem In dedication to Dr. Li Wenliang As a sudden outbreak with untold global health implications, the 2019 Coronavirus exemplifies a crisis scenario where the quality and character of the immediate response has the power to shape future...
China Finalized the Trade Agreement for Patent Drug with the U.S.
Trade Agreement On January 16, 2020 the U.S. and China finalized the trade agreement that specifies the patent protection rules for drugs. Under the patent protection, biopharmaceutical companies can fill out an application and the term of each new patent is 20 years....
Tracking the Coronavirus With AI: How JHU & BlueDot are Leading Pre-vaccine Outbreak Response
To understand and control the spread of the latest coronavirus (2019-nCOV), a vast array of artificial intelligence and natural language processing tools have been deployed, giving those watching from the Health Sciences field good cause to be optimistic about recent...
The New Science of Arthritis
What is Arthritis? “Arthritis” does not refer to one single disease, but multiple joint pain or joint diseases. Arthritis is one of the leading diseases that causes physical deformities and disabilities. There are more than 100 different types of arthritis that affect...