Breaking News from August 19, 2026, The New York Times: “A New mRNA Vaccine Could Prevent Skin Cancer From Returning.” A vaccine? For cancer? For melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer? How can this even work? To explain it to myself, and to you, I turned to what I know about ...
In just four days we will celebrate our 2026 Fourth of July throughout the USA. This year's celebration will be a very special patriotic celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of our great country. As we do every year, we will all have the opportunity to celebrate our great ...
Heartburn is very appropriately named. The personal symptoms of heartburn are a true “burning” painful sensation in the middle of the chest, usually located behind your breastbone, or sternum. It may occur anytime, but is also frequently experienced after one goes to bed, often with a full ...
Our pancreas is located behind the stomach in the upper abdomen of our body. It is the organ likely best known to most people because it produces the hormone insulin, used by the digestive system to remove glucose (sugar) from the bloodstream. It also produces glucagon, and this hormone has ...
What if an altered perception prevents you from identifying a symptom that indicates a serious disease? A recent study by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, published in Nature Health in January 2026, examined whether a common variation in human perception—color vision ...
For many decades, psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical scientists have described two separate components of the human mind. These are referred to as the conscious and the subconscious mind. These two functions of the mind were first described by Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939). He often ...
