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Continue reading →: Global Health Challenges: Disease Eradication, Emerging Threats, and the Role of International CooperationAt the moment, the International Task Force for Disease Eradication has identified eight possibilities: Guinea worm, also known as dracunculiasis, poliomyelitis (polio), mumps, rubella, lymphatic filariasis, cysticercosis, measles, and yaws. Politically speaking, governments worldwide need to care about the disease, its impact, and possible harm; eradication efforts need to be…
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Continue reading →: Improving at Work: Focusing on Methods and Core CapabilitiesAn important question is to determine what areas you have to get better in and how you get better in those areas. Let us say you are trying to get healthier. What would you assess at the end of a few months to know if you are indeed getting healthier?…
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Continue reading →: Biofeedback Therapy and the Impact of Sitting on Digestive HealthChildbirth can cause tearing of the delicate nerve fibers that allow the two muscles to communicate with each other. The good news is that those nerves can heal and reconnect. Irrespective of whether the damage was caused by childbirth or some other way, one good treatment option is what doctors…
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Continue reading →: How Early Farming and Genetic Manipulation Shaped Human CivilizationScientists throughout the world have been debating the power of gene editing and particularly its potential to change the genetic sequence of a human for eternity. Biologists, ethicists, lawyers, regulators and politicians have been working together, trying to explore the implications of these new tools, and to develop frameworks for…
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Continue reading →: The Mind-Body Connection: How Exercise Shapes Brain Plasticity and FunctionNeuroscientists have just begun studying exercise’s impact within brain cells-at the genes themselves. Even there, in the roots of our biology, they’ve found signs of the body’s influence on the mind. It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where…
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Continue reading →: The Role and Function of Hormones in the Endocrine SystemWhen you move your arm, a nerve impulse is sent from your brain to the muscles in your arm through a series of nerves. While the contraction of a muscle cell is very physical, other cellular activities that need regulation, such as metabolism, are chemical in nature. Therefore a second…
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Continue reading →: Listening Lessons : Enhancing Our Communication SkillsIt is remarkable that we are never taught how to breathe or how to listen. Certainly with respect to breathing, there is more and more awareness of lessons on how to breathe properly. With respect to listening, the lessons are few and far between. The human ear is a strange…
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Continue reading →: Facing the Unspoken: Understanding the Modern Taboo of Death and DyingThe trouble is, whereas birth, love and even bereavement are widely discussed, death itself has become increasingly taboo. Not knowing what to expect, people take their cues instead from vicarious experiences: television, films, novels, social media and the news. These sensationalized yet simultaneously trivialized versions of dying and death have…
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Continue reading →: The Heart's Mechanics: Understanding Heart Function, Failure, and Surgical InterventionsA normal human heart has a “conical screwing motion” by which the blood is effectively pushed from apex to the base and finally to the aorta to be circulated in the body smoothly. But in patients with cardiomyopathy and heart failure, the heart becomes dilated excessively. It looks like a…
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Continue reading →: The Evolutionary Roots of Human Consumption: Understanding Behavior Through Psychological MechanismsAll human behavior owes its existence to psychological mechanisms in conjunction with environmental inputs to those mechanisms. Psychological mechanisms, at some fundamental level, owe their existence to evolution by natural and sexual selection. Consequently, all fields that deal with human behavior will become more deeply illuminated by understanding underlying evolved…
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