December 2, 2016
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Chantal Gillett, Shalini Namathirtham, Tanya Kakkar, Harris Joseph and Kahiye Warsame
Demystifying Medicine
Discusses the need for sleep and benefits of sleep including memory consolidation, how sleep affects the body's mechanisms and how sleep affects interactions with other people.
June 20, 2016
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students for McMaster University's Demystifying Medicine
Demystifying Medicine
Explains what sepsis is and how it affects the human body, treatment for sepsis, how sepsis develops and new tools for recognizing and predicting outcomes in sepsis.
June 1, 2016
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Anser Daud, Mario Hanna, Khizar Karim, Megan Morris and Aalok Shah
Demystifying Medicine
Explains a systematic review and meta-analysis of over 120 nutrition clinical trials, linking the saturated vs. trans fats with different health concerns.
May 13, 2016
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Maria Sheikh, Shiza Sheikh, Gurteg Singh, Jelena Poleksic and Kaushik SripadaHarleen Kaur Padwal, Myfannwy Pope, Britney Baiden and Rajat Bhargava
Demystifying Medicine
Functions and processes of the innate immune system and the differences between adaptive and innate immunity
May 13, 2016
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Maria Sheikh, Shiza Sheikh, Gurteg Singh, Jelena Poleksic and Kaushik Sripada
Demystifying Medicine
Basis of bacterial infection, the role of antibiotics in treating infectious diseases, antibiotic misuse and overuse that has been inked to antibiotic resistance
January 16, 2016
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Ahmed Elsharawi, Jano Muralitharan, Jonathan Ho, Nerissa D’Mello and Reda Siddiqu
Demystifying Medicine
Explains what an MRI is and how the process of getting an MRI works.
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