Immunotherapy is a process that uses the body's own immune system to fight off bad cells. This can happen two different ways: Either your immune system can be stimulated to work harder and smarter, or you can give your immune system synthetic proteins to help attack bad cells. The Past The first instance of American cancer-specific immunotherapy occurred in 1891 when William B. Coley attempted an immune-modulating therapy for sarcoma cancer. He injected streptococcal bacteria

The most common cancer among women is breast cancer. The American Cancer Society estimated that in 2015, 40,290 women would die of breast cancer and there would be 231,840 new invasive cases and 60,290 new in-situ cases (American Cancer Society, 2015). The survival rates for women with the recurrence of breast cancer is lower. It is thus especially important to find any method for preventing the recurrence of this disease among women who are breast cancer survivors. Recently,

According to a study by Lancet, a UK medical journal, the global financial crisis may have caused 500,000 extra cancer deaths from 2008 to 2010. Patients were unable to obtain treatment due to unemployment and health care cuts. Researchers used World Health Organization and World Bank Statistics on over 70 countries and more than two billion individuals to study the link between cancer mortality, healthcare spending, and unemployment. They analyzed the trend from 1990 to 2010

Texas is one of the states in the US that has very strict abortion laws because it is conservative. The Texas House Bill No. 2 (HB2) is an anti-abortion law passed in 2013. The HB2 bill adds several new restrictions to abortion care in Texas. Some of these additional restrictions include: physicians must have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion clinics; abortion physicians are not allowed to perform abortions on women who are 20 weeks or more in

By: Linda Jacobs Many children experience untold stress during and after a divorce. We know stress can cause undue harm to our mental and physical health. Now we understand through much research that a child’s learning ability is also affected. When a child is stressed and living in the fight-flight part of the brain, they are incapable of learning, processing information or functioning in a reasonable manner. It becomes all about surviving in the moment. When you can get the

By: Janice Tjeng Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. Fifty years ago, Lyndon B. Johnson, signed into law both Medicaid and Medicare programs that improved health care justice. These programs expanded health care access for the elderly and the poor, regardless of their race. Furthermore, hospitals hoping to be certified for Medicare have to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act; avoid hospital segregation. Despite these improvements, justice in healthcare remains an aspiration

By: Kristine Alarcon Edited by: Juliana Zhu, Esq. At the Children’s Clinic in Portland, Oregon, parents are talking with their children’s pediatricians about their children’s health and even their own childhood trauma. A parent’s childhood experience could provide important information on the future health of a child. A simple questionnaire about a parent’s childhood experiences could determine a child’s academic success and whether the child is likely to experience adverse c