Author: Kyle Phong
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Tai Chi: The Martial Art of Healing
While people often view medicine in the form of prescriptions and surgeries, there are often activities to prevent or mitigate health issues. Tai chi is a martial art that is typically thought to only be performed by seniors, but people of all ages can practice tai chi and improve their overall health.
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Defeating Breast Cancer While Leaving Healthy Cells Unaffected
Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Oxford University have made great progress in the journey to cure cancer when they found a method of killing breast cancer cells without also killing healthy cells.
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The Inferior Temporal Cortex “Recycled” to Aid Reading
Recent studies from neuroscientists at MIT have unveiled that instead of our brains evolving to perform linguistic functions, the inferior temporal cortex (IT cortex) has been “recycled”.
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How Pesticides Increase the Transmission Rate of Schistosomiasis
Researchers have found that the utilization of agrochemicals has accelerated the transmission process of schistosomiasis. Some effects of agrochemical pollution include eliminating snail predators, increasing algae which are a main food source for the snails, as well as impacting the schistosome parasites’ survival directly.
Youth Medical Journal 