Medical Science

The elbow joint is created by three bones – one from the upper arm and two from the lower arm. Its construction allows it to act like a hinge or to rotate via the shoulder joint and crossover of the…
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Endophthalmitis is an inflammatory condition of the eye, specifically the intraocular cavities – inside the eye is the aqueous humor between the cornea and lens, and the vitreous humor between the lens and retina. The inflammation can be either infectious…
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Healthcare, over the past century, has shown dramatic changes with people becoming more and more conscious of their health and the need for a healthy life style. The two major wars at the beginning of the twentieth century also brought…
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Do left-handed people really tend to have a shorter life expectancy than their right-handed counterparts? This depends on whom you ask. Studies in the past have suggested this, but others claim that regardless of one’s preference, there is no concrete…
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PREMATURE PROJECTION How can we know just how much of the brain is used when we do not know how to fix it and we know so little about it? With the possible exception of the pancreas, is there another…
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For a cell to become cancerous, it generally must have both defective proto-oncogenes (also known as oncogenes) and defective tumor suppressor genes. The terms oncogene and tumor-suppressor gene each represent a category of genes, rather than name a specific gene….
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Raynaud’s phenomenon is a change in the color of the fingers and toes, and sometimes the nose and ears, in response to cold or strong emotion or stress. Blood vessel spasms cause a lack of blood flow, turning the digits…
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Liver physiology centers mainly around metabolism of important biomolecules in the body such as glucose, in addition to metabolism of medications and drugs that are administered for therapeutic purposes and which are detoxified in the liver there are certain types of liver…
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The Nuremberg War Crimes trials placed upon the international public record the knowledge that the Nazi regime euthanized over 275,000 mentally ill and retarded men, women and children. Nazi Germany’s evil and twisted and unconscionable argument for undertaking this costly…
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The Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition to Buriat Mongolia in 1928 In 1928, a team consisting of eight German and eight Soviet medical researchers departed for Kul’skoe in a remote part of the Buriat-Mongolian Autonomous Republic of the USSR. Their goal was…
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