Medical Science

A connection between cell phone radiation and brain cancer has been alleged nearly for as long as there have been cell phones. However, scientific research on the subject has, for the most part, been small-scale and with disappointingly mixed results….
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Bright’s Disease is a condition of the kidneys. Specifically it affects the blood vessels of the kidneys causing chronic inflammation. An indicator of this condition is the presence of protein (albumin) in the urine. This condition was named for Richard Bright…
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The pancreas is the gland responsible for releasing the hormone insulin in response to blood sugar, or blood glucose, levels. The insulin and blood glucose cycle is a constant process for the body to use ingested sugars as energy. Diabetes…
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Pseudohypertension is a situation in which the blood pressure measurements get abnormally elevated, when the blood pressure is still normal. It is described as a mean pressure of sphygmomanometric that exceeds intra arterial mean pressure, which is equal to or…
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Diseases that affect the heart and cardiovascular system may be due to external factors, such as a bacterial or viral infection, but they are largely due to factors that are the result of human behavior, such as poor diet, lack…
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The Effects of Chronic Dehydration on the Kidneys Chronic dehydration causes severe and some time irreversible damage to the kidneys. It is a condition where a significient volume of fluid is loss over time without replacement. This dehydrated state overwhelmed…
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For many decades, researchers were trying to uncover the role of normal tissues in the formation of a cancer or a tumor. Although many researchers believed that normal tissues initiate the formation of cancer cells, they fail to come up…
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The brain is a pretty unprepossessing pinkish-grey organ that fills the head, and, merely looking at it, one would be hard pressed to believe that it is by far the most important organ in our bodies, for this less than…
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What is Chemotherapy? Various therapeutic methods are used to treat cancer. They include surgery, radiotherapy, laser treatment and chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is a regimen of drugs used to fight against the cancerous cells. Neoplastic cells are rapidly proliferating cells. The drugs…
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An understanding of the anatomy of the large intestine is useful for individuals with intestinal disorders, students of biology or medicine, and those persons with risk factors that can result in life-threating problems of the intestines. Examples of these risk…
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