PKU. Scientists have been working on this project for nearly a decade; they have found that although the enzyme dramatically reduces blood levels of phenylalanine, when given repeatedly it evokes a potentially harmful immune response. Efforts are underway to block or reduce that response by "...
“Later, I will become a student of trauma. I will read deeply on the subject as a way of understanding the two opposite poles of my own history: the trauma my parents must have experienced in order to have made a decision so painful that it was buried at the moment it was made, an...
self-exams, and other prevention behaviors. Humor-based messages were found to improve attitudes about breast and testicular exams in undergraduate students relative to fear-inducing messages, and hope-inspiring messages increased participants’ intentions to engage in...