Medical Science

In surgical practice, deciding on the right type of surgical access for a specific condition would be a skill of its own for a surgeon. The decision to select a specific incision would depend on the several elements. These would…
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Fetal surgery is necessary or desirable in a number of different circumstances. Performing surgery on a fetus is complicated because not only do you have the risks associated with any surgery, but fetal surgery also greatly increases the chance of…
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Heart bypass surgery or better known as coronary bypass surgery (CABG) is the procedure used in replacing the defected circulatory vessels towards the heart muscles through a grafted channel which will make a bypass of the blocked segment of the…
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Warts, actinic keratoses, molluscum contagiosum, small basal cell carcinomas, condyloma acuminata and more, the list of skin conditions that can be easily and successfully treated with cryotherapy is quite extensive. Cryosurgery is a surgical technique that uses controlled freezing to…
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No one should be denied health care, period. There is a human obligation to our fellow human beings to give everyone the opportunity to continue living, with some quality, if circumstances allow. With the health care debate in a heated…
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A bone graft is the insertion of a material at the site of bone loss in order to stimulate bone growth. In most situations, the material that is inserted in the site is bone tissue, and usually it comes from…
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A lot of people that are morbidly obese elect to have a gastric bypass surgery. But this surgery does not come without at least a few risks that you should be aware of. I’d like to point some of these…
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Imagine a hospital in the high drama style of medical TV: lights race down a long, sterile hallway making the surgery ride agonizingly fast. Gurney wheels squeak as fear drips into your IV. Echoes of pain bounce off the walls…
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The major difference between a tumor and a cyst is that a tumor is composed of normal body tissue but a cyst is composed of a gas or fluid filled sac.  Both tumors and cysts can be indicative of cancer,…
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The human genome is incredibly diverse and each individual’s genome includes a number of repetitive elements. A specific type of repetitive sequence is copy number variation (CNV). CNV was defined in 2006 by Redon et al. in the journal Nature…
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