Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States after tobacco and obesity. Yet fewer than 50% of Americans were aware of the association of alcohol and cancer. This compares to 89% who identified smoking’s relationship to cancer. This January the U.S. surgeon general released a report that links drinking …
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Platelets (Figure 1; also known as thrombocytes) are an important part of the mechanism of coagulation that controls bleeding. Non-activated platelets circulate freely but once activated, they become sticky assuming a star-like shape and enmesh with each other and fibrin, forming a blood clot. One large group of platelet s in a single sample or …
TRAUMA AND GENERATIONAL HEALTH In the winter of 1944, a devastating famine ravaged Dutch communities in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. After witnessing the negative effects in Dutch children born after this period of distress, British physician David J. Barker hypothesized that the environment of a fetus is not impervious to stress. The same negative effects can …