Medical Science

Human blood is in a constant battle to maintain the ability to quickly seal a damaged blood vessel through clot formation while ensuring that unwanted clots aren’t created that could lead to disability or death. Human bodies are continually adapting and…
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There are three stages to the product life cycle that can be applied to many things. The stages are introduction, growth, maturity, and decline. Many things go by these stages; toys, styles, diets, and even medications. During the ‘Maturity’ stage…
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Sounding like something out of a futuristic science fiction film, researchers have created an incredible new “putty” that turbo-charges healing in fractured bones. How it works A team of University of Georgia (UGA) Regenerative Bioscience Center scientists worked in tandem,…
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Spinal and epidural anesthesiaare regional anesthetic techniques that target the lower half of the body. So called neuraxial blocks, these techniques involve the injection of an anesthetic medication directly into or around the spinal area. A local anesthetic is usually…
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Drugs that prevent the growth and spread of cancer by altering the way certain molecules and cells interact are called targeted cancer therapies. Targeted cancer therapies inhibit the growth of tumors and slows the progression of the disease throughout the…
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For many decades, scientists have been wondering how to tackle specific cancer cells without harming the normal cells in the human body. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and other modalities of treatment employed for battling the cancers did have its successes although…
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The age of the retrovirus is quickly approaching as more and more is understood about the process of cellular replication. A virus is simply a means of describing a class of organelles which are neither living nor inanimate, they are…
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Medieval Medicine and the Treatment of Wounds When one thinks of a culture from the past, we may think of it as “unsophisticated” when compared to our own. It’s very easy for those of us in the twenty-first century to…
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Genetic Screening. Genetic screening is the screening/testing of blood and other tissues to identify genetic disorders. There are around 1000 different types of these tests available for several purposes such as: the diagnosis of an individual with symptoms, determination of…
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Technological advances are being felt in many industries and professions, none more so than the medical profession. The introduction of a range of software is helping across the full range of medical activities: a) DiagnosticThere have been many instances of…
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