Medical Science

Although viruses  and bacteria are very different types of microbes, both have genomes made of nucleic acids. These nucleic acids contain the instructions necessary for cells and viruses to exist and reproduce. But since bacteria are living cells, the expression…
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Go back several decades and parents probably never gave it a second thought. Their children were out in the yard and knocked heads together, leaving them woozy. A concussion would not even cross their minds. Perhaps a son was playing…
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Human cloning is too close for comfort.  When the first animal was cloned, human cloning was too close for comfort.  What is cloning and why should we be worried at all?  Cloning is a science with it’s focus not on…
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Oliver Sacks’s books are consistently very readable and thought-provoking. His book on deaf culture (“Seeing Voices”) is quite good and informative, but the books I enjoy the most are his case histories of people with neurological problems that manifest in…
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Blood glucose is affected my many things. It can go up when we eat too many carbs or have an infection or are under stress. It can drop too low if we do not eat enough carbs, or if we…
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Whether in school biology class, a discussion of medical problems, a police investigation, a protest against GMO foods or science fiction, everybody has heard of chromosomes, genes and DNA. Understanding what they are is another matter. A lot of people…
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In chromosomal crossover, genetic exchange increases variation because the genes recombine to form another gene that is new. Only during phase 1 of meiosis, can the similar traits of the chromosome unite, making a variation. The farther apart the common traits…
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This article is written with the objective being to inform the lay reader about  the nursing process that  takes place within health care institutions in the USA. while  under the care of a registered nurse during a hospitalization. The steps in the nursing process…
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Cardiovascular disease affects millions of people worldwide, accounting for 30 percent of global deaths in 2008 according to the World Health Organization (WHO), most due to coronary artery disease and stroke. According to the Centers for Disease Control, heart disease,…
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Previous numbers by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reported that the number of children in the United States living with autism was one in 88. However, new official numbers released Wednesday in a report titled “Changes…
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