“Look at the detail inside the heart,” said Paul Brown, DDS, a consulting associate professor of anatomy at Stanford. “Isn’t that phenomenal?” I tend to …
Author: Devika G. Bansal
Gunshot injuries slam hefty price tag on initial hospitalizations
Gun violence in the U.S. – intentional or otherwise – poses tremendous costs to our society. Some of the greatest expenses are indirect and estimated …
What can you learn from your own genome? Science writer Carl Zimmer found out
I was in high school when the human genome made it to front pages of newspapers around the world. Unlocking our genetic code had taken …
Health-care costs skyrocket when defibrillators send needless shocks
For people with heart conditions — not the kind a romance might spark — pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators are devices sent straight from heaven, …