Precious Porter, RN, BSN

In part one, I sat down with Amanda Steffon to talk about gaps and opportunities related to social determinants of health (SDoH). For the second part of the interview, we […]

I sat down with Amanda Steffon, project manager and member of the 3M clinical terminology team to talk about social determinants of health and the role they play in our […]

Imaging methods like x-ray, computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are indispensable in health care, but they have drawbacks. What if there was an imaging procedure without the […]

As established by a recent census based on biomass, plants (primarily land plants) account for 80 percent of the earth’s total biomass. From the food we eat and the clothes […]

The winner is blue! In 1995, M&Ms invited people to participate in a two-month long campaign to choose a new candy coat color for the iconic “melt in your mouth, […]

I look at my 14-year-old boy every day and think how much I love this guy. His quirks and all! He’s come a long way. He was first diagnosed with […]

The body and its reaction to disease and infection is still very much a mystery. Sometimes we have signs and symptoms that lead us down a rabbit hole only to […]

On March 11 of last year, the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic. It has been a whirlwind of change since then, with every […]

Vitamin D is a group of fat-soluble secosteroids responsible for increasing intestinal absorption of calcium, magnesium and phosphate. Also known as “calciferol” and even the “sunshine vitamin,” it is also […]

With the recent good news regarding potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, I thought it would be helpful to blog about the vaccine development process and how that process has evolved during the […]

It has been 20 weeks since the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. People have been getting a bit stir-crazy with the social […]

Have you ever come home after a long day’s work and after looking in the refrigerator and pantry wondered, “What should I make for dinner?” I have done that quite […]

2019 marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae, authored by the Scottish physician and professor William Cullen, which described a system for classifying disease based on […]