Innocents Lost: Mitigating severe malaria in children & pregnant women through anticoagulation
Will my baby be healthy? How can I protect it? Is my child safe? For the 125 million pregnant women at risk of contracting malaria there is no need to […]
Tag Archives: Health Sciences
The Most Deadly Animals on Earth
It’s almost summer time. That means it’s about to be mosquito season! These masters of annoyance happen to be the world’s most deadly animal. No other animal species is responsible […]
The Bitter-Sweet Truth: Why do we have such a distaste for presumably healthy foods?
I am proud to say that I am a lover of all things brussels sprouts and cabbage, but this wasn’t always the case. As a kid, I would turn my […]
The Magic of (Early) Reading
My parents encouraged my sister and I to start reading from a very early age. I am pretty sure that as a child I read every book I owned about […]
Wealth versus wellness: The complex world of global health
Over the course of the year 2005, nearly 9,500 people lay in bed with arsenic coursing through their veins. They had watched as the toxic drug was slowly forced into […]
The Skinny on Trans Fats
by Christian Schwoyer, Athens Science Cafe Earlier this month, June 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) passed a regulation that will forever change the way Americans snack. The […]
The Secret Life of Yeast
By Anna Lau, PhD, Athens Science Café Earlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a drug, palbociclib, for treatment of advanced breast cancer. Palbociclib works by inhibiting […]
Far From G-M-Over
By: Patrick Griffin, Athens Science Café A couple of weeks ago, as I walked through the charming town of Broad Ripple, Indiana, I stumbled upon a behemoth three-story Chipotle. […]
Editing the Human Genome: With Great Power There Must Also Come Great Responsibility
In 1963, at the dawn of the molecular biology age, Dr. Joshua Lederberg predicted that this nascent biotechnology would eventually allow direct control of human DNA, including the ability to […]
Calm Down: The Ebola Scare
“Ebola does in ten days what it take AIDS ten years to do” –Barry and David Zimmerman (Killer Germs) There have been many different stories and fears circling the world […]
