Category: Health

Impacts and Implications of Rising Out-Of-Pocket Healthcare Expenses

Costs Have More Than Doubled It’s expensive to protect your health today. If you were paying $500 a month for healthcare in 2007, you’re probably paying close to $1,000 a month today. A number of factors have driven this cost-increase, including the pharmaceutical industry, inflation, and bad political decisions vis-à-vis the Affordable Care Act (ACA),…

Monoclonal Antibodies: What, Why, and How.

Monoclonal antibodies are synthetic antibodies prepared in the laboratory. They have eased many procedures in medicine, from diagnostics to therapies. But many are still confused about the origin of these therapeutic drugs. Monoclonal antibody development requires recombinant proteins. These are produced by a single clone of cells that recognize only one kind of antigen. Recombinant…