Medical Science

Patients may require mechanical ventilation for chronic or acute respiratory failure.  When a patient is intubated and placed on ventilation, there are several settings a physician may have to manage on the mechanical ventilator.  These ventilator settings include the positive…
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Blood vessels, as its name suggests, are vessels that carry blood to different parts of the human body. These intricate ducts act as the conduit of blood so that oxygen and nutrients can be delivered to the tissues. Without the…
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Apert syndrome is a genetic disorder in which the skull bones of infants prematurely fuse together. This causes abnormal growth of the skull and face.  It is a rare condition that affects about one in 65,000 children. Some estimates put…
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Current human sleep patterns are obsolete, inefficient, and a risk to human mental and physical health. In societies of excess, such as in America, oversleeping has a direct influence to the quality and length of human life. Doctor Daniel Kripke,…
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Macular degeneration is a form of age-related blindness that develops over time. One cause of the blindness is neovascularization (i.e. new blood vessel growth) of the eye. In 1997, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was found to be over-expressed in…
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Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is an autoimmune disorder effecting the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is a small butterfly shaped gland located in the front of your neck. It is responsible for the production of a hormone known, not coincidentally, as thyroid…
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An American engineer in the 1950s, Hal Anger, invented the gamma scintillation camera and made possible the use of nuclear medicine in the diagnosing and the treatment of illnesses. Although knowledge of radioisotopes has been around since the 1930s, its…
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When people suffer from an autoimmune disorder, the chances of hair loss increase manifold. Alopecia is a type of condition in which the person loses excessive hair because the immune system starts attacking the hair follicles. Hair follicles are the…
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INTRODUCTION Naturally occurring medicines are drugs that that are used most extensively before science and technology advanced fast enough to identify the compounds effectively. It was later when people were able to isolate the active pharmalogical compounds and identification techniques…
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The human body has a complex chemical messenger system enabled by the endocrine system. The major components of this system, the endocrine glands, consist of specialized cells that release hormones directly into the bloodstream (i.e. ductless) so they can travel…
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