Medical Science

Why is it that every time I go to the swimming pool I have a runny nose and sneeze for the next hour or so??

Perhaps this could be in chemistry... Please move if needed. Latex gloves have a short life, degrade in air, and perhaps in contact with some liquids. Nitrile gloves, and other materials gloves in the market... Which one has the longest duration -not puncture related- ? Need to save certain small items inside cut-off fingers off flexible gloves, sealed; and looking for longest life material. Any suggestions ?

Hello, I'm on a diet, trying to lose weight, and I'm wondering why some days I gain weight and some days I lose weight. I'm monitoring my calories and being sure I'm under 2000 every day. I also commute to work on my bike everyday, half an hour per leg. Two days ago, I weighed myself. I was at 175 lb. Then yesterday, I weighed myself. I was at 176 lb. This morning, I was at 177 lb. Here's what I ate yesterday: yogurt for breakfast: 35 calories soup for lunch: 200 crackers with the soup: 100 chicken salad for supper: romain lettuce: 10 roma tomato: 35 carrot: 25 1/3 yellow bell pepper: 20 4 or 5 broccoli spears: 10 mushrooms: 5 cucumber: 5 1 ch…

Is it possible to force your body to grow taller? Maybe the following information is useless - I am 18 years old

Hello dear people, So I don't stutter when talking to anything but humans. I can even send voice messages to friends, record yt videos… But when I talk to another person directly, I block so that the words won’t come up. The “funny” thing is that the only reason I stutter is because I somehow block for any words to come out. As I mentioned before, I do not have any trouble whatsoever when talking to anything but a person, and the stutter that happen when talking to another person is just like when I am not talking to another person and try for fun to not let any words come out by blocking any air to leave but then I can just open up for the air and allow it to leave …

How much have changed or advance over the years when it comes to cardiac arrest the person heart stop beating. How long can person be in cardiac arrest before the paramedics or doctors say person is gone at this point. With out the defibrillator how else could they start the person heart again and get the heart beating again? With out the defibrillator people in cardiac arrest would be dying lot more. Are some of the new defibrillator better now at starting the person heart again than the old defibrillators?

This is 1 thing that I haven't been able to decide on. Whether or not external defects get repaired. Now of course cleft lip and cleft palate which are external defects get repaired but what about other external defects? For example a baby could be missing an entire arm and just have a shoulder on that side. This is just 1 baby that is missing an arm, in this case, its right arm. And it was born that way. But should my aliens repair all external defects or just leave them as they are? I know that they repair all internal defects like for example having 1 ventricle in the heart with no ventricular septum. Forming a ventr…

A friend and I were having a late night conversation and we were talking about stem cells and the benefits of them and one of us thought, "Is it possible to remove a deceased women's reproductive organs and use it to grow a baby in it?" We were thinking if there was a way to keep blood going through it and get it the hormones needed to grow a baby, it would be theoretically possible. We are aware there are artificial wombs and that they do work. We were just wondering if it would be possible to do with an actual womb outside of the female body.

Out of the 20-odd amino acids that are required by the the body to make proteins, it is said that 9 amino acids are not synthesised by the body. So it is emphasized that these 9 amino acids must be compulsorily ingested from the food only, so that body is not deprived of them. Hence they are called essential amino acids. My question is how and when we learnt that they are not synthesized by the body? What if some people are capable of synthesizing them in their body? How are we so sure? The same goes for the essential fatty acids also. I would like to know about the study/studies which concluded that they (9 essential amino acids and essential fatty acids) are…

Cancer is result of random mutation, caused in many cases by radioactive isotope decay (f.e. C-14), random decay of cosmic ray particle, primary or secondary cosmic ray.. Nevertheless, tremendously stupid humans (f.e. imbecile truman), increased chance to get cancer tremendously, by making and blowing up in air, ground and water, nuclear bombs...

http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/does-frequent-ejaculation-help-ward-off-prostate-cancer Anyone have any ideas? And while we're at it how strong is the evidence exactly that regular ejaculation of semen results is a lower risk of prostate cancer?

Good day everyone! I have good news, that the cure for eczema exists. I'm not looking for medical advice or knowledge. This is more of a business question. I'm trying to start a business selling this cure, however, this is difficult as I have no knowledge regarding business. I turn to you, perhaps someone is knowledgeable, or you know other forums that are dedicated in business area. The problem is; I want to patent (around 10-15 countires) the thing and then manufacture, and this requires a lot of money, I calculate around 2.5-3 million USD: I have tried contacting venture capitalists, banks, companies with partnering programs, universities, instituti…

Hello, According to this website, which explains how the Atkins diet works, it says that cutting out the carbs works better for losing weight than cutting out other source of energy because the body stores fat when it detects that sugar levels are higher than a certain point. Thus, consuming, say, 300 calories of carbs is more likely to cause you to gain weight than 300 calories of fat. Is there any truth to this, and if so does anybody recommend the Atkins diet for losing weight?

Dear Scientists, I have a small assignment to do. Recently there is an article data demonstrated that increase of skin and blood ILC2 counts in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) patients Title of article "Type 2 innate lymphoid cell counts are increased in patients with systemic sclerosis and correlate with the extent of fibrosis" My task is how you would proceed to analyse of which origin the blood ILC2s are. How would you rule out if they are mobilised from the site of inflammation to the blood circulation or if they are rather mobilised from bone marrow and actively recruited to the site of inflammation? By which means would you examine recruitment of IL…

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Hi evryone, I'm new in this forum and I didn't see an "exercise/ Q&A" topic, so I decided to post it here. In a cell (negative internal), a positive ion has a equilibrium potential of "-90 mV" , which contrasts a concentration of "135 mM / L" (between the cell's inside and outside). Indicate if the ion's concentration is greater outside or inside. I suppose that I've to use Nerst eq to find out if ln(out/in) is >1 or 0<x<1. Can you help me? P.S. Sorry for my bad english.

The polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders caused by expanded cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) repeats encoding a long polyQ tract in the respective proteins. To date, a total of nine polyQ disorders have been described: six spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) types 1, 2, 6, 7, 17; Machado-Joseph disease (MJD/SCA3); Huntington's disease (HD); dentatorubral pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA); and spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, X-linked 1 (SMAX1/SBMA). I have spinocerebellar ataxia type 7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24816443 Your ribosomes form polyglutamine tracts in certain proteins which causes the proteins to bind and become…

Hi everyone, Though this might be a fun opportunity for you some of you. I'm a physical therapist, and right now, I'm putting together a health clinic website. I was going to get physios to submit some interesting articles, but then I thought it could be a good opportunity for a wider spectrum of opinions. After all, many people publishing popular articles online are subject matter experts because of their interest rather than their qualifications! The articles can cover quite a wide remit, from musckuloskeletal problems/sports injuries to more general health/fitness/rehab. Rather than being super technical, they would be more for general consumption (i.e. limited…

Hey, So in my forensics science course I'm taking at my school we were doing some activities which involved our fingerprints. Wasn't until now that I realized my fingers are scarred up. I compared with other students, and their fingers were more or less smooth. Looking up close I have them on every finger. Where did these come from, and why don't the other students have them (or at least the amount that I have)? Note: I can provide a picture if you need a better idea of what I am getting at.

Generally headaches and high blood pressure are thought of synonymously. But I am unable to search for the pathophysiological connection between them from the websites like Pubmed, WebMD etc. Is there any scientific proof that high blood pressure per se causes the headaches. I would like to go through the physiological process of such headaches that are caused by the blood pressure.

i m not able to remember the things and i cannot recall them after some times so can someone give me tip to make my memory sharp so that will also help me thank you in advance it will be much helpful

This is kind of an idiotic question, and I really don't belong on this forum as I'm only fourteen and have next to no knowledge of Science, but is it possible to see a certain kind of color blindness using something, or to erase color blindness? Because someone I know sees green as yellow and yellow as green and I want to see what they see, or for them to see normally. I know there's EnChroma glasses they can wear to, I think, correct their vision.. but I don't know. Sorry if I sound stupid..

The pyloric sphincter opens to allow the chyme, the partly digested food into small intestine from the stomach. Suppose a person ingested a balanced meal of carbs, proteins and fats equally with some micronutrients. Body starts to absorb carbs from the saliva itself and the suggestion will continue in the small intestine. Fat has to be digested in the small intestine. But proteins need to broken down into the amino acids by the HCL acid secreted in the stomach. What will happen to the partially digested carbs and the undigested fats in the acidic medium of stomach. Will they just sit tight and wait, till the proteins are fully broken down, or will they (c…

Hello everyone Let me be brief: APA guidelines report most statistics (all except for the confidence interval, CI) in italics: mean M, standard deviation SD, p value p, t, ... So what if I introduce my "own" statistics with their abbreviations, following these guidelines? Would I also put them in italics? E.g. gross tumoural volume, GTV or GTV? Tumour-to-brain ratio, TBR or TBR? Positive likelihood ratio, LR+ or LR+? Sensitivity, SN or SN? ... ? I know contents are more important, but aesthetics (and consistency and corectness of layout) of a document/book/thesis have major implications on the way I do or do not enjoy reading it. Thanks! Function

Hello everyone's, I come here anticipating an argument I will inevitably have with my very religious in-laws once my fiancé and I decide to have a child. I can foresee us arguing about whether or not my future child ought to be circumsized. Are there any real health benefits for having this surgery done? Besides the small hygiene benefits? Or isn't it a purely religious practice that somehow caught on to be the norm? I see it as unnecessary and cruel.