Medical Science

It’s common knowledge that a nutritious diet plays a key role in maintaining good health. But in addition to providing general health benefits, certain foods can actually help to lower your risk of developing many types of cancer. Cancer is…
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Science and tecnology together have created massive changes and brought the world to the place it is now at. Although many of these changes have made life safer and easier for many of the population, there has also been a…
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Opening any pathology textbook to the Heart chapter provides a long list of things that can go wrong with this essential organ. There are congenital diseases, which are present from birth; heart disease that occurs as we age and is…
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The mechanisms of defense against infections are organized along several lines. In the first place, there are devices of a purely mechanical nature – such as the skin, whose outer surface is composed of dead cells – which guard against…
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Science will most likely advance to a point where all diseases will have a cure of some sort. However society will have to go through some massive changes before it will happen. These changes will have to be in our…
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While the body can subsist for many days without food, it can only last a few days without water. Since the body is comprised 75% of water and is the major ingredient for various bodily functions, chronic dehydration can have…
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Glioma is a specific and highly dangerous form of cancer which arises in the glial cells, glue-like cells which occur between neurons in the brain and spine. It is quite uncommon, with only about 10,000 cases occurring in the United…
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Control of infections and inflammation: One of the most notable successes in medical science Through the years, medical science has had numerous notable successes. Perhaps one of its most spectacular victories is the control of infections and inflammation. By simple…
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The INTERPHONE study was carried out from 2000 to 2004 in 13 countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and UK) as the largest epidemiological study of cell phone use investigating a potential…
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The kidney’s function in the body is to maintain the water balance and remove waste products. According to the National Kidney & Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse at the National Institute of health, the kidneys filter the blood, processing about 200…
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