Medical Science

Is it true that a person can die from a "broken heart"?

I was reading that diluting 35%H2O2 in distilled water to make it 3.5% is safe to drink for beneficial reasons, do you believe that this is true, has anybody tested this on animals?

Does anyone know where i can find cancer case stats since 1900? I wan't to plot the stats against nuclear tests carried out by various countries so it would also be useful to know how many curies are released, on average per Kt of atomic blast. It would be even better if you know of someone who has already done it!

Im building a general blue print for a list of jobs. The list of jobs involves every job needing to be done if we were to hypothetically go out and cure every disease, dissorder, affliction and dissabling health condition with in the next 50 years. What I need now is to explain the concept to somebody who knows how to write up the idea in the form of a proffessionally organized and thorough proposal. If I can just get the proposal drawn up like that so I can feel confident in promoting it then I will doing some heavy, heavy marketing and persuading to get people to look at it and get some initial funds pouring into this project so we can accelerate its completio…

Given one of the body's organs, let's say the pancreas, cells making up the organ are continually being replaced as present cells age and die. For some reason one division of cells produces new ones which differ in their reproductive process; they reproduce too soon. Those new cells, reproducing too quickly, constitute a "pancreatic cancer" Assuming the above happens, and that it happens frequently, do you believe the normal body is quickly aware of the abnormal cells, and makes every effort to eliminate them? If so, it follows that should the body be unable to totally eliminate those relatively few new abnormally multiplying cells, the pancreas has become "cancer…

Hi, I thank you all for your help....(I put this is the wrong section, so I'll try it here) There is a man on the internet saying that drinking three drops of his Miracle Mineral will cure us of 95% of all diseases, including cancer, malaria, etc. This "miracle mineral" is sodium chlorite that he says to add lemon juice so that it turns to chlorine dioxide. I noticed that my household Clorox says it is sodium hypochlorite, so I asked what the difference is, someone answered: "NaClO is household bleach. Sodium chlorite is NaClO2 Table salt is NaCl all very different substances.. and in the end how they compare makes not one hair of difference bec…

Can the quality of health care in the US be increased by lowering the qualification requirements to provide medical care? It might seem counter-intuitive at first, but not if you think through it carefully. Of course, a better doctor would provide better treatment. However, a doctor is limited in the number of patients he can treat, and furthermore even having to wait for treatment can exacerbate any harm. Furthermore, with a shortage of doctors it becomes necessary to ration out care or to increase the price to the point where people forgo treatment due to the price. Thus, conditions could worsen or go untreated altogether. At some point, even if the fewer doctors can pr…

I read this . http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/10/05/f-cellphone-health-wireless.html It is in the news today. How wireless technology can affect the body This debate has been going on with inclusion studies some saying it does and others saying it does not. Other scientist say well the most a strong microwave radiation can do is lead to skin cancer.I don't understand the type of wave can determinants what it does to the body. That why ultraviolet radiation can cause skin cancer but not strong enough to cause other cancer. The army using high microwave radiation to cause skin burns where you skin gets very hot to the touch and uncomf…

I'm aware of the main usage of the word, i.e. alternative medicine based on the principle that a severely diluted substance which causes the symptoms of the disease to be cured will cure that particular disease. However, my eye doctor suggested I take some vitamins (A, C, and E) and some zinc lozenges to help with my current eye infection. The point was that the vitamins might help shorten the duration. But when I found the lozenges in the store, I noticed that the box said "homeopathic" on it, but it didn't seem like a regular homeopathic treatment like you typically see in those little bottles that contain pills. These were supposedly real throat lozenges that claim…

I've heard and read from various sources that vaping was found to contain the chemical diacetyl which gives the vaping liquid its delicious buttery flavor. I've heard that this is linked to a condition known as "popcorn lung". This may be an old question that is either debunked or confirmed, but I just wanted to know what the smart folks here thought about it. Does using vaporizers cause a real threat to human health/life? Thanks.

What is in gluten that is bad for humans, and why is it found in so many food products?

The Delta Variant is progressing and now infects people vaccinated in France * Will it last to the point of wondering if its evolution of the mutaion at the level of the Spike protein would be possible over the variants to make the vaccine deficient? And to spend the whole Greek alphabet there? Indeed the vaccine does not prevent it from remaining and the epidemic will not over until a natural extension of it? * The Delta variant has mainly affected people already vaccinated in the Landes nursing home Le variant Delta a touché en majorité des personnes déjà vaccinées dans l’Ehpad des Landes

I was having a discussion with friend and he said a lot of medication have side effects. I’m confused of why lot of medication have side effects? Is this because medication is not target therapy? Will quantum computers, AI and super computers allow for more targeted therapy?

This CDC stat I saw recently in a news article was a bit of a shock. https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/index.htm "Six in ten Americans live with at least one chronic disease, like heart disease and stroke, cancer, or diabetes." This number really doesn't line up with my own experiences, with a variety of social and work circles in five different states, so clearly I have had sampling errors and perceptual filters that led me to think that number would be lower. Either that, or the statistic presented has been tinkered with in some misleading way. (if that figure was describing, say, all adults over fifty, I would find it easier to swallow)

If there is a wound which is contamined with a small amount of foreign objects e.g. cotton, tissue paper or metal shrad, etc, will our body remove it on its own if not treated. What is the steps or mechanism of such process?

Hey guys, I have been consuming dairy and other animal products for my entire life. I have also recently come onto the animal rights front, and have been studying PETA propaganda / ideas. One of their campaigns states that beer is better for you than milk, and in another part of the ad, says that at just two glasses a day, increases male's chances of getting prostate cancer. My whole question is....Is this information legit!?! PETA has been known to make some pretty outlandish statements and then retract them, if any of you have seen their fur opposition page, you'll understand what I mean. Can dairy products and other forms of animal products be that bad fo…

I'm looking around on the web doing research on something and then I come across something I just find very odd. Someone claims that birth control causes early abortions. http://www.prolife.com/BIRTHCNT.html What is this claim this person is really trying to say? That if you take the pill while you're pregnant there will be a biological dysfunction with the birth in which you will be forced to either have an abortion or suffer in eternal pain until death? What is this crap people are talking about? I suspect that most women probably don't test themselves to see if they are pregnant or not. Or else 1 out of 300, seeing as there are usually over one…

Just curious, does AIDS have a natural survival rate, or is it 100% fatal? I don't mean is it considered 100% fatal. I mean have we seen survivors on a regular basis? And I don't mean people who have the disease but hang on until they're taken out by another disease attacking their weakened immune system. I mean they beat it, lock, stock and barrel, through their own super-poweful immune system. I'm pretty sure I've read about cases like this -- people whose immune systems simply beat AIDS. Also, is it possible that I'm confusing this with the issue of immune systems that reject/destroy the HIV at introduction and don't let it survive and thrive in the sy…

At many universities and on various hospital ethical committees, you will find that the resident 'medical ethicists,' who have to have an extremely sophisticated understanding of the legal, philosophical, psychological, and social issues involved in the ethical problems arising in medicine, have training only in medicine. While they may have the technical expertise from their training to know what can be done and what can't be done with the available medical technology, it is typically the case that years of purely technical training -- memorizing biochemic pathways rather than thinking creatively, devoting all their energies to competing fanatically to get into medical …

Thank you for posting links to actual information. I created a thread a while ago that received the generalized "Go talk to your doc." responses , I mean I wouldn't have asked for information elsewhere if my doctors where more informative. Or on the other hand maybe I wanted to be more informed before I talk to my doctors. Anyway thank you for helpful information, I wish more people would had out tools instead of advice (unless it's advice with tools... BONUS!)

Greetings to all, Just joined this forum today. Perhaps someone can help me answer a question that I've been pondering for more than a decade. Here it is: The human eye is much like the lens of a camera, telescope or microscope. An image, as it passes through the lens, is projected onto the retina upside down and backwards. It is the brain's job to sort out and make sense of the image entering through the eye. Most doctors agree that newborn babies see everything upside down for a "period of time" - but no one really knows for how long. Since gravity determines "up" and "down", wouldn't the baby have to be able to at least hold it's head up to begin to sort things …

This is the really worrying situation. More than half of the 30 - 50++ million deaths in the 'Spanish Flu' epidemic a century ago came as a result of a second wave mutated virus (though they didn't know it at the time). Coronavirus has mutated in a more virulent way. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52557955

What causes hallucinations? I have them occasionaly in the middle of the night, when I am really tired. And how do drugs cause them?

Hey guys. How long do the typical effects of food poisoning last? On Thursday I went to McDonalds for lunch and got some chicken nuggets. About an hour later, I started feeling VERY nauseous and the intensity just progressed at an alarming rate. About 2.5-3 hours after eating the chicken, I began throwing up quite violently and without any way to stop it. My ribcage and chest muscles are now killing me from all that throwing up, and I've felt VERY weak. So weak, in fact, that I've fallen down twice just trying to walk a few feet towards the bathroom. I have NEVER felt this ill before. Only now, about 26 hours after eating the tainted food, have I gotten enough ene…

This seems to be an issue of much confusion, especially since I've heard many trying to claim that nicotine is in and of itself a carcinogen. As far as I can tell these are the primary carcinogens in cigarettes: Polonium-210 and Lead-210: Radioactive isotopes which emit ionizing alpha radiation, making them extremely mutagenic. They are present in chemical fertilizers enriched with phosphate and comes in the form of either soluble or insoluble compounds. The soluble compounds are removed from the body through natural processes, whereas the insoluable compounds remain in the lungs and bombard lung tissue with ionizing alpha radiation. According to this site: …