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Over 13 Facts About Bones-Medivizor

Over 13 Facts About Bones-Medivizor

Posted by on May 31, 2017 in Blog | 2 comments

We don’t think about them but our bones give our bodies, our internal organs and our muscles, structure and protection.  Your skeleton is the birthplace of blood cells.  And it store minerals that are essential to life.   What Mom Never Told You About Osteoporosis! is a post that describes the composition of bones.  Here is a cross section of a...

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Quick Guide: Understanding the Importance of the FDA’s Keytruda Approval

Quick Guide:  Understanding the Importance of the FDA’s Keytruda Approval

Posted by on May 26, 2017 in Blog, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Lung cancer, Melanoma, Prostate cancer | 2 comments

In July 2015, we published a post called Patients Included In Research: Studying Cancer by Mutation Not Organ.  In that post, we shared the goal that cancers would be treated not by the site of origin, but rather by their genetic features.  Achieving this goal is closer than you think! This week the FDA announced accelerated approval** of a...

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Take A Daytime Sleepiness Quiz

Take A Daytime Sleepiness Quiz

Posted by on May 11, 2017 in Blog |

In a previous post, Why do we sleep? we puzzled through the purpose of sleep for our bodies. In a recent TED talk, neuroscientist Lisa Genova (see her talk below) connects the dots explaining how good sleep clears out the toxic amyloids that are associated with Alzheimer’s. (learn more about Alzheimer’s here) “In slow-wave deep sleep, our...

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