High-Dose Chemotherapies (HDC) and STAMP as Cancer Treatment
STAMP Since the 1960s, high-dose chemotherapies (HDC) had been successful in curing acute leukemia and Hodgkin's disease, but not that successful in curing solid tumors such as lung cancer and…
Read more >The High-Protein, Low-Carb Diet: An Analysis
High-Protein, Low-Carb Counterattack Carbohydrate-restrictive or ketogenic diets that are rich in animal products can help some people to lose weight because they offer some short-term improvement in glucose control. But…
Read more >History of Alzheimer’s
Learning From Alzheimer's On November 25, 1901, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a 37-year-old neuropathologist and psychiatrist at the Hospital for the Mentally Ill and for Epileptics in Frankfurt, Germany, examined a…
Read more >History of Autism and Asperger’s
Pandora's Box During World War II, the large-scale involvement of US psychiatrists in the required a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders. This prompted the…
Read more >A History of Autism Developments
In Autistic Space Temple Grandin is a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. She completed her PhD in Animal…
Read more >History of Autism Identification
Nature's Smudged Lines When Kanner published his autism paper in 1943, he felt it was premature at that point to propose a set of criteria for diagnosing the condition he…
Read more >History of Breast Cancer Identification and Treatment
A City of Strings In the late 1970s, researchers at Standford and UCSF had invented a technology known as "recombinant DNA." They founded a biotech company called Genentech in 1976…
Read more >History of Cancer Theories
Defining Cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving out-of-control growth of abnormal cell growth in a part of the body. Ancient Evidence of Cancer The world's first recorded case…
Read more >History of Chemotherapy and Cancer Treatment Research
An Early Victory A few doors from Freireich's office at the NCI, Min Chiu Li and Roy Hertz had been studying choriocarcinoma, a cancer of the placenta, which often metastasizes…
Read more >History of Dopamine Research
Restoration In 1957, a Swedish scientist named Arvid Carlsson was experimenting with a new antipsycholtc drug called reserpine. Injection of the drug to rabbits temporarily paralyzed them. Carlsson speculated that…
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