Month: August 2022

Did you ever shop for a dozen eggs and open the carton to make sure none are cracked? After assessing they’re all intact, that’s as far as your inspection goes. Now imagine you had x-ray vision, and you could see all 12 yolks in their 3-dimensional glory. You would know if each egg is perfect, keep reading

Every grade school has seen bullies who verbally pick on kids who are “different.” Obese kids are easy targets. Name-calling includes terms like fatso, blubber, chunky monkey—and worse. While bullying stems from insecurity, there’s no doubt that it’s hurtful and can only increase the victim’s vulnerability and low self-image. Studies have shown that overweight kids keep reading

We hear so much about the most common prostate cancer (PCa) risk factors that it’s hard to believe anything was left off the list. The top risk factors are aging (roughly 60% of PCa cases are diagnosed over age 65), family history of PCa (having a close family relative who had PCa doubles the risk), keep reading

The seven bullet points in the original blog below have stood the test of time since we first reported them in 2016. Four years later, the journal Nature published an article by some of the world’s experts in the use of multiparametric MRI (mpMRI). Compare their 6 key points with... keep reading