The treatment of intervertebral disc herniations vary widely, from conservative to invasive modalities. A common surgical procedure that is performed to manage this pathology is a microdiscectomy, where the extruded disc material is removed. In the lumbar spine...
Falls in the elderly population are a serious and substantial public health problem. The medical expenditures attributable to both fatal and nonfatal falls in patients 65 years or older approximated $50 billion in 2015.(1) This problem continues to...
I’ve always enjoyed a good mystery. As a kid I tore voraciously through mystery novels and have watched all the way through House MD several times. But I’ve got nothing on my grandma, who not only has had...
The Vogue Challenge, Zoom Meeting Mishaps, Turn Your DMs Into Quotes, Silhouette Challenge – do any of these sound familiar? There’s a good chance that you may have participated in these, or similar, trends yourself. Statistically speaking, with...
Wordle, the latest pandemic craze, is a free game that gives users six attempts a day to guess a unique five letter word, with a new word available every day. The clever word game has had a meteoric...
“We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.” – Jerry Seinfeld Although...
Are machines going to take over medicine? This might be a question you have heard or asked yourself, especially after watching movies demonstrating somewhat unsettling, yet realistic portrayals, of artificial intelligence (AI). Films such as Ex Machina, Her,...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 800 women die every day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Based on a census taken in 2015, it was estimated that 303,000 women worldwide died during...
Psychological illnesses have serious clinical manifestations that can be debilitating. It has been known for a while now that endogenous derangements in the dopaminergic and serotonergic system contribute to the phenotypic manifestation of psychological illness, hence selective serotonin...
In continual efforts to improve diagnostic and screening methods, a new emerging tool that is quickly gaining momentum is the “specialized breathalyzer.” An instrument once utilized exclusively by law enforcement officers for the measurement of blood alcohol levels,...
In 2008, IBM developed its now iconic supercomputer Watson to play Jeopardy! against the show’s most successful duo, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Boasting 15 terabytes of RAM, 2880 processor cores, and the ability to process more than...
Archived image unavailable: CRISPR_overview CRISPR/Cas9 was recently named the scientific breakthrough of 2015 by the journal Science [1]. Said to be a revolutionary gene-editing technique, CRISPR/Cas9 has risen to fame on national media over the last several months....
The modern smartphone comes with unlimited possibilities for the creative mind. With no more than a few clicks, taps, and pinches of the fingers, anyone can find out practically anything anywhere in the world. But what if we...
From smartphones to thermostats, watches to vehicles, the modern world is increasingly connected to the Internet—the so-called Internet of Things [1]. What is now becoming clear—painfully so for users of Ashley Madison, a popular dating website—is that anything...
Fifteen years after its creation, the da Vinci Surgical System is as futuristic, innovative, and revolutionary as ever before. Designed by the United States Army and Stanford University, the initial idea was for an armored robot to roll...
