Archive for May, 2016

May 19, 2016

Precision Medicine: The Art of Exercise Dosing

By Domenic Fraboni

By: Domenic Fraboni A core principle in pharmacology is the dosage/response curve. Pharmacologists endlessly test drugs to discover the effective dose, toxic dose, therapeutic index, and other important dosages that they can use with patients. The difficulty is, not everyone responds to these drugs in the same way. What may be an effective dose for […]

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May 6, 2016

A Better Health Care for All

By Domenic Fraboni

  By Domenic F. Fraboni   “Where’s the duct tape?!” Who has my duct tape?!” “Can someone loan me a roll to make a corner chair for this patient with cerebral palsy?” These are phrases you would likely never even think of hearing in a United States hospital. However, the situation in Honduras is quite […]

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