11 May, 2009 – 20:04 | 7 Comments

In an about-face to their stance during the Clinton Administration, leaders of the nation’s healthcare industry have promised to cut prices in response to the Obama Administration’s vow to resolve the healthcare crisis and make health care available to every…

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The Uses of Empathy: A Medical Student’s Perspective
16 July, 2008 – 11:28 | 3 Comments

“Empathy is the feeling that ‘I might be you’ or ‘I am you,’ but it is more than just an intellectual identification… empathy brings emotion.”[1]

While experienced health care practitioners may agree on a general definition of “empathy” and perhaps even…

Researchers uncover how breast cancer tumor cells break free and form metastases
14 July, 2008 – 14:25 | One Comment

Attempted cell escape. This scanning electron microscope image shows breast tumor cell (pink) on a thick layer of Matrigel (green), which mimics the basement membrane separating the body’s tissues. This highly invasive cell penetrates the Matrigel layer and “escapes” in a…