Medical Science

Laparoscopic surgery is rapidly gaining ground in becoming the most preferred option in modern day surgery although certain factors limits its wide spread use for certain major surgeries as well as in complicated procedures. In any event, the popularity of…
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Helium or He to give it its periodical name is a noble gas that has many uses in modern society and many people might encounter it every day. It is lighter then oxygen or the air we breathe (which is…
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Medical errors do happen and will continue to happen. While I’d like to think that most are not done intentionally, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to put our lives in the hands of doctors. Unless a doctor is in…
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Say you have a certain ailment and after much prodding and nudging, your doctor finally found out what’s wrong with you and says you need surgery to fix it. You might release a sigh of relief at having your illness…
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Secret Shame of the World There was a time and many places in the world where people came to believe in things that were blatantly horrible. Famous and educated people placed into the heads of common people ideas that were…
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The electric chairs that are still used today are a lot safer and more reliable than they were in years gone past. Today if you were to be executed in the electric chair you would probably feel very little pain,…
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A surgical drain is a vital component in certain types of surgery in which the wound site may give rise to considerable amount of secretions, blood or else lymphatic fluid.  If the surgical drain is absent, such excess fluid can…
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Blindness was once an incurable, and hardly treatable, condition. In recent decades, corneal transplant has been pursued as a way of correcting certain forms of blindness, particularly those that affect the cornea – the clear outer layer of the visible…
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Bladder is the organ in the pelvis which will collect and hold urine till such time it is ready to be expelled by means of contracting the bladder wall. It will collect urine draining from the kidneys through the two…
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One of the most life-changing forms of surgery is joint replacement or arthroplasty. Joints may require replacement because of injury, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or other bone disease. A person in receipt of a joint replacement, in addition to feeling a…
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