Medical Science

Water balance in the body is a meticulously regulated process where losses and gains are balanced to achieve a proper ‘homeostasis’. During this process, the osmotic pressures within the cells and in the spaces between cells are regulated without deviating…
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Chemotherapy has been a useful weapon in the fight against cancer, and combined with other cancer fighting drugs, it has saved lives. Now another drug is offering further hope. Herceptin, sometimes called Trastuzumab, is a monoclonal antibody that attaches itself…
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The blood vessels form part of the circulatory system. The circulatory system comprises a continuous system of tubes, which transports nutrients, oxygen, and water to millions of body cells and carries away waste material, including carbon dioxide (CO2) from the…
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Andreas Vesalius (1515–1564) was a Flemish physician who revolutionized the practice of anatomy and changed the way people thought about the human body. Born into a family of physicians and pharmacists, Vesalius began practicing medicine at a time when the approach to…
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Hashimoto’s disease is an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. This means that your body attacks the thyroid as if it were a foreign invader. The cause for this sudden change in your immune system is not known yet, but the…
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NMDA receptors are a type of glutamate receptor in the brain. They have been found to play a role in the neurological damage that occurs after a stroke as well as irreversible neuron death after traumatic brain injury. However, these…
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Hashimoto’s disease, also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, is a disorder that affects your thyroid. Your immune system attacks the thyroid gland, causing inflammation that often leads to an under-active thyroid gland. Most commonly in the United States, this disorder…
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There are few things more devastating in life than being given a diagnosis of cancer. While medical breakthroughs have bettered the chances of patients surviving certain forms of cancer, there are still plenty that give a person a less than…
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In the United States’ Declaration of Independence, it states that “all men are created equal.”  This may be true in the way that we deal with one another, but unfortunately, health and physiology would beg to differ.  Our health and…
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Genetic screening and using genetic manipulation isn’t a new idea. It has been around for 10,000 years or so. This is just the time that humans have used it. Nature has always used it. We humans just sped up the…
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