Medical Science

There are numerous living organisms on this planet from bacteria, viruses, plants, fungi, insects, aquatic organisms through to every land living and amphibious creature here on earth, not forgetting avian life forms also. All forms of life are categorized into…
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More studies are coming out showing the many physical differences between the brains of murderers and psychopaths and brains or “normal” people. It’s hoped that isolating the causes could lead to treatments to fix those changes and possibly prevent murderers…
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Since my dad died of complications and hospital acquired infections, after a triple bypass, I am well aware of the things that can occur, following surgery. He developed very serious pneumonia, that he could never recover from, in spite of…
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Sometimes called a Zimmerman’s tumor, a phakomatous choristoma, is a very rare tumor that presents itself in infants. These tumors occur in the eyelid and and more rarely in the orbit of the eye. They are composed of proliferating, or…
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The pituitary gland is a pea sized region of specialized endocrine cells and neurons located behind the optic chiasm and enclosed in a bony structure called the sella turcica, or Turkish saddle. Although the pituitary is often called the “master…
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Eyes are organs which detect light and send signals to the brain, where the signals can than be interpreted. The parts of the human eye include: the lens, the retina, the cornea, the pupil, the iris, the macula, the sclera,…
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During the past 100 years, Mankind has achieved many of its age-old dreams: conquering dreadful diseases, achieving spaceflight and escaping the stubborn grasp of Earth, walking on the Moon, diving to the very deepest depths of the world’s mighty oceans……
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Dichloroacetate (DCA) is a buffered form of dichloroacetic acid, a chemical used in the production of other chemicals as well as the removal of warts and skin growths. DCA has previously been the focus of investigations into the treatment of…
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Ben Goldacre is a doctor of medicine as well as a journalist and media personality. He has been writing in The Guardian (as well as on his website called badscience.net) about quackery, various instances of pseudo-science, debunking snake oil salesmen…
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Not all chest pain is caused by damage to the heart. Although most people who have chest pain are likely to think of the heart as the first cause of the pain, there are numerous non cardiac causes of chest…
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