Hormonal contraceptives, e.g. the pill, the patch, and the vaginal ring, contain synthetic hormones that prevent pregnancy by either stopping ovulation, changing the cervical mucus to […]
Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge found that in children with neuroblastoma—a cancer of immature nerve cells—treatment with platinum chemotherapy caused […]
Anesthesia may be an exact science, but it’s not yet fully personalized. Anesthesiologists use a variety of methods to calculate the right dose for a given […]