Medical Science

The human body’s circulatory system is similar to a heavily traveled highway. Transporting oxygen, food and water to various areas throughout the body it delivers these needed materials to billions of cells. The circulatory system also gets rid of wastes…
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Blood is the circulatory fluid present in animals that have a blood vascular system. The vascular system provides rapid transport of substances from one part of the body to another by mass flow. Blood is a liquid tissue as it…
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The human muscular system is responsible for roughly one half of the body’s weight. You may have heard someone complain about gaining weight with exercise instead of losing it. This occurs because the cells that make up individual muscles increase…
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The thyroid gland is a small endocrine gland that produces two types of hormones. Nearly 93 percent of its production is the inactive T4 and about seven percent is T3 – a hormone that is in its active state. T4,…
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The human body has two adrenal glands. They are located atop the kidneys. The right adrenal gland has a triangular shape while the left one is in the form of a semi-crescent. ~ Adrenal gland structure ~Adrenal glands consist of…
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Governments’ failure to legalize the selling of organs has created illegal kidney transplantation from living donors. As a result, moral issues have arisen concerning these transactions because kidneys are sold like marijuana covertly and illegally. A possible solution to this…
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There may be a number of reasons for there to be pain in the ear when a throat infection is ensuing.Initially there may be a perfectly logical explanation, i.e., that the Eustachian tube which runs from the middle ear cavity…
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In a condition when the delicate lung tissue becomes acutely infected, there exists the lung disease known as pneumonia.  The infection may be caused by several kinds of bacteria and viruses.  In battling the infection, the alveoli (air sacs in…
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NEXT VICTIM There are fewer scientists than technology in the world than there are innocent or ignorant populations of humans. Yet the paradox of so many water-related diseases, is that humans are the biggest polluters. The question is not without…
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Due to the nature of HIV itself, I think there will never be a cure. HIV is a virus. It mutates with nearly every replication because the viral enzyme responsible for encoding new strands is not reliable. The strain of…
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