by EpicentRx | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog
The medical term that perhaps best describes the term “broken heart” is congestive heart failure or CHF. At issue in CHF is the pump function of the heart, which cannot supply enough blood to meet tissue demands for oxygen. Fundamentally, this makes CHF a supply and...
by EpicentRx | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog
“For the answer to what is cancer read this EpicentRx Word of the Week.” Carcinoma noun kaar-suh-now-muh Definition: : a malignant tumor of epithelial origin Carcinomatous adjective kaar-suh-now-muh-tus : related to carcinoma Example sentences: “The most common form...
by EpicentRx | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog
Raise your hand if you think RRx-001 (nibrozetone) should wear a mask. Not to suggest that a real-life therapeutic agent like RRx-001 (nibrozetone) is in any way like the fictional heroes/vigilantes with alter egos from comic books, clearly it isn’t, but that said...
by EpicentRx | Oct 27, 2023 | Blog
“Assume nothing. Question everything. Verify all.” “Always Zika the truth.” Q: “Now that it’s gotten warmer, how scared should I be of West Nile and Zika viruses when I visit the US?” MMC from Sweden A: OK, this is a 2fer. West Nile virus, originally seen in Africa,...
by EpicentRx | Oct 26, 2023 | Blog
This Halloween amid all the ghosts, goblins, ghouls, spiders, snakes, skulls, and skeletons that you may encounter remember FDR’s admonition that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” To that iconic, hope-bringing phrase, we would add, “and a lack of...
