Eccrine sweating glands are divided into functional units: I) a bulbous secretory coil that generates precursor fluid, and 2) a reabsorptive duct that transports the fluid to the skin surface. The secretory coils reside in the...
The ability to communicate with patients effectively continues to be a major hindrance for physicians and physician offices. Coordinating care via conventional telecommunication, involving making calls to a healthcare facility...
The annual increase on price of pharmaceuticals are becoming a growing health concern in the United States for patients, prescribers, and policy makers.
Why is this an issue?
• Prices of newly marketed and pre-existing...
This research project investigates lead exposure in urban areas, focusing on community gardens with lead-contaminated soils. Lead exposure causes brain damage, IQ decrease, and behavioral problems. Lead is one of the health...
Practicing empathy and listening skills are not traditionally components of a graduate-level biomedical science curriculum, however incorporating an opportunity for students to refine both can be given using “patient” podcast...
Presented in the Active/Collaborative Learning track. and The value of introducing graphic design majors to the process of co-design, designing with stakeholders rather than for them, is essential to the education of today's...
In the United States, one of the biggest issues that every state is experiencing is the shortage in doctors. Primary Care Physicians make up a huge percentage of the shortage in doctors. The Midwest took a huge hit by this...
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
(ALL) suffer a litany of therapy induced side
effects. Methotrexate is a common chemotherapy agent
administered for the treatment of ALL. Failure to clear methotrexate from the body...