Since 2005, in an impressive if somewhat chilling feat, American researchers have “resurrected” the particular variant of influenza responsible for the deadliest pandemic ever, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The achievement was initially announced in the important scientific publication Nature in…
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Smokers although diminishing in the United States as they become educated on the dangers of smoking. Obesity growing rampantly as the media shoves Mcdonalds, Burger King, SubWay, Quiznos, and the many other Fats Food restaurants that rush to get our…
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In 2010, a U.S. federal court sided with Boston bioengineer James Sherley and banned federal funding for stem cell research in the United States. However, the government is now appealing the case, and the Court of Appeals has agreed to…
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The gallbladder is a small pear-shaped sac, about three or four inches long by one inch wide, located on the right lobe of the liver. It stores and concentrates bile, a liquid that the body uses to digest fat and…
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Electroconvulsion therapy (also known as ECT, or electric shock therapy) is a psychiatric treatment that sends a sudden current of electricity through the skin in order to cure problems like seizures, depression, and bipolar disorder. Often seen as controversial, electric…
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Chest pains, shortness of breath and other bodily discomforts such as nausea or breaking out in a cold sweat may already be signs of a heart attack. A patient who comes to the hospital experiencing chest pains and whose ECG…
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Fighting Cancer with Bacteria There are three unique ways that bacteria have been used to help fight cancer: they have been used as probiotics to help prevent cancer, they have been introduced into patients on purpose in order to elicit…
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A major step has been taken by medical technology towards the dream of a so-called ‘smart pill.’ Trevor Mundel, global head of development for the Swiss firm Novartis AG, plans to move aggressively ahead with a plan to introduce a…
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This is a question I asked myself many times while contemplating if it was possible to indeed choose the sex of your unborn baby. Of course, this is without using any of the high end methods such as invitro fertilization…
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Bronchoscope is an instrument which can be passed into the air passages through a nostril and it takes the form of a flexible thin tube with a light source and a fiber optic camera at the end. In certain instances,…
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