Human bone breaks down and regenerates naturally all the time, in a perfectly balanced dance that maintains skeletal integrity.
As people age, bone tends to deteriorate faster, causing osteoporosis and other disorders. Smoking artificially accelerates bone degeneration as well.
Tracy Bale of the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Perelman School of Medicine talks about studying how stressed fathers can affect offspring brain development.
Opioids, such as morphine, are still the most effective class of painkillers, but they come with unwanted side effects and can also be addictive and deadly at high doses. Designing new pain-killing drugs of this type involves testing them on their corresponding receptors, but access to meaningful quantities of these receptors that can work in experimental conditions has always been a limiting factor.
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School co-authors an article about reducing defensive medicine costs.
Michael Grandner of the Perelman School of Medicine advises how to cope with awakening in the middle of the night.
Michael Grandner of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the importance of studying the connection between sleep and mental health.
Jonathan Moreno of Perelman School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences discusses the medical and ethical issues involved in the Sarah Murnaghan waiting-list case.
Harvey Gill of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on new obesity drugs.
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School says, “The only way we’re going to save money, improve the quality of care, improve people’s lives is by focusing on prevention.”
The first-known definitive case of a benign bone tumor has been discovered in the rib of a young Neandertal who lived about 120,000 years ago in what is now present-day Croatia. The bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site of Krapina, contains by far the earliest bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.
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