Medical Science

For the past 2 years I have been poisoned from something in my house. It started off gradually with feelings of tiredness and muscle aches and escalated to such a degree that we actually had to leave our home. I suspect that it is a gas that is in the tap water because of several things that have occurred, though it may also be a chemical that settles into the water somehow. In addition, we had a new neighbor move in about a month ago and she immediately asked if there was something wrong with the plumbing. We've kept in contact after the move and she has developed many of the same symptoms that we have dealt with, mainly the headaches and bloody noses. We have pursue…

If there is evidence that a plant extract is good for treating Parkisons disease, how do we make this a drug? Are there other ways to make this a mainstream treatment for pd, without making it a drug? Thanks, Dmitriy

Hello, I'm simply confused how effective is giving aspirin in various cardiac disorder? Ok someone develops severe chest pain, presents to hospital within 3 hours due to MI?Is there any use in giving aspirin. I know aspirin disaggregates platelets, and this is primary haemostasis. Now within 3 hours I believe primary haemostasis is already done, so is their any point in giving aspirin. What I'm basically asking is how long does primary and secondary haemostasis take and also lets say a full thrombus was formed then is the only choice available is to lyse it with streptokinase, or does aspirin have an effect even after a full thrombus is formed. Then having said all th…

Hello everyone, You usually get pulmonary oedema in conditions such as Left heart failure, where there is increased back pressure in pulmonary vasculature, which in turn increase hydrostatic pressure and then fluid in alveoli giving rise to the condition. Now my question is this fluid in alveoli is a transduate it does not contain blood, however the classic symptom of this condition is pink frothy sputum which indicates blood. Why is this the case. Thanks

An Interesting talk from Simon Baron-Cohen as he discusses an article written by Ioan James for the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, which claims that scientists -- including Isaac Newton, Henry Cavendish, Marie Curie and Paul Dirac -- showed signs of autism

I've been trying to dispel the myth (in my family) that being out in the cold causes you to catch a cold. Naturally I try the simplest approach and say that a cold is caused by a virus, and unless you actually catch a virus while out in the cold weather, the actual cold itself won't make you sick. Likewise, it is believed that standing under a ceiling fan with your head wet can make you sick. Or going outside with your head wet causes pneumonia, etc. As far as I know and have read, none of this is true. The closest I've come to anything suggesting otherwise is that maybe some viruses are more prevalent during the cold months, which makes them easier to catch. But again, i…

I found out recently that Have been dating a pathalogical liar. If you do not know what this is, read carefully: it is someone who fabricates nearly everything in their lives, briliantly, almost undetectably. It is very scary and I am realizing, now, that I developed arthritis in my fingers between the 2nd and 3rd dates with this person. The though occurred to me that perhaps he drugged my food and somehow this has caused the crippling of my hands. I could see someone of thi nature carrying something like this out bc once I would find out who he"really" is (much less 'adequate' in his own eyes than the millionaire, ebonaire perosn he made himself out to be), I…

According to Dr. Stephen Devries the Mediterranean Diet reduces the risk of heart disease by 74% and reduces the risk of asthma 72% when their mother is on a Mediterranean Diet during pregnancy. See video:

By concentrating, I am able to produce a sensation throughout my body in my nervous system. Anywhere from my brain to my toes works. Given that any sensation is the passage of an electromagnetic signal, what is the physiological effect of this on my nervous system? Could it be that I am capable of "massaging" my nervous system? Or am I contrubuting to wear of my nervous tissue? Perhaps there is no effect at all?

Americans live longer base from the statistics, thus making the population age and as it ages the need for home care workers will grow significantly. According to the Bureau of Labor Standards, the Home Care Workforce will grow from 1.7 Million to 2.6 million in 2018, but the people caring for seniors in their homes earn on average less than 10 dollars an hour and many do not get benefits. A number of those workers assembled at the Food and Medicine Headquarters in Brewer Thursday to encourage their Senators to make it a priority to improve pay, benefits and training for this growing workforce. Helen Hanson stood at a podium from her huddling under the tent and shar…

Hi dear readers! To improve blinds' stick, lasers and previously acoustic sensors seem an obvious choice, to detect and range objects and obstacles sooner. http://www.lac.u-psud.fr/teletact/publications/report_training.htm (among many) Though, the varied designs have not replaced the white stick. One reason could be that the acoustic signal that represents the distance competes with useful surrounding sounds and is difficult to use to make a mental image of the surroundings. It would also have to represent very fast variations: if the user scans 5m width in 1/4s, a 0.1m pole lasts for 5ms only, which is difficult to perceive through a pitch change - such a fast sweep is…

I have an incredible fear of pain and of getting cut by something sharp, like a very sharp knife. So how can I treat my fear of being cut by a sharp knife? Is there something that can help me with it?

Dear All, A friend of mine met a road accident and an injury to his brain stem occurred.She is not able to berathe on her own since the day of accident (around 60 days)and her BP also has to be controlled from time to time.She is not responding to any external stimuli. However her digestion is working fine and doctors said she had mensus also recently. The doctors are unable to take a CT scan to check if any signals are in the brain as she is on ventilator support and they are afraid to move the patient. Her parents have tried pranic healing and alternate medicines such as homeopathy with no affect.The doctors are also surprised on how the digestion works normally but…

A new bird flu strain (H7N9) infecting humans has emerged in China. 3 infections were confirmed yesterday, 2 of whom died, in Shanghai. 4 new cases in a serious condition were confirmed today, in 4 different cities in the same province, north of Shanghai . Only 1 of the 4 had occupational contact with poultry. None of the contacts of the 7 confirmed cases have shown signs of the virus, so it looks as if (thus far) there's no human to human transmission. However, two sons of one of the fatalities have been in hospital with 'serious pneumonia', one dying. It's not confirmed they were infected, but they obviously were. However, this family were butchers, so could have been…

Hi, I'm sophomore student who wants to become a doctor. I have few ideas on colleges but I want to see more options. If you know any good medical school or accelerated program, please post here. Thanks.

Ok Guys, I'm panicking. I've been one of those "i wanna be a doctor" kids since I could walk. And I pursued that dream until...about 6 months ago. I started out as a bio major in undergrad, hated learning about plants, talked to a bunch of people and settled on an English degree. Five novels courses later I decided I couldn't stand not studying medicine and decided to continue my pre-medicine track. But I was about to turn 23, lose my parents insurance and found myself graduating with my English degree, getting a 'real' job with my own insurance and taking the required chemistry and physics courses I had yet to finish post grad. I have worked in a hospital setting sin…

Hi guys, I'm new here. Quick question, and I really need help doing so. How do I trick my mind into seeing clear, vivid things that aren't actually there? Google was useless, so this is really my last hope. There's got to be some way. Oh, and I'm sorry if this is in the wrong section, I thought it would fit under here best.

Hi everybody I'm currently programming a Windows Phone app that should allow people to record their movement during sleep and derive estimated sleep phases from those values. Does someone have knowledge about how movement changes with different sleep phases? My guess now is that both, intensity and frequency of movement decrease with deeper sleep phases. I also think that frequency may be more accurate, i.e. in a REM phase, there is almost no movement of the whole body. What do you think? Does someone know good literature to that? Cheers, Bill

When training your muscles for strength, does motor unit recruitment increase in the way that the neurons fire more efficiently and produce greater contractile strength, or does the amount of motor neurons increase in the muscle? Or both? Or neither? Also, this is taken off medscape.com: -"Increasing the number of active motor units (ie, spatial recruitment)" Do they mean there are motor neurons in the vicinity of the muscle that are "dormant" or does the actual amount increase? Also, "As a general rule, motor units are recruited in order of their size. When the muscle is activated initially, the first motor units to fire are small in size and weak in the d…

I have had dreams while being awake. I need help, I have looked on the internet I can's really find anything that pertains to my experiences. On more than one occasion, I will be wide awake.. I will all of the sudden have a "flashback" of a dream that I've already had. I know that I've already had the dream because once the "flashback" starts I remember. It's so intense I can't focus on anything around me. I'm having the dream playback in my head like I'm asleep and dreaming it all over again. I definitely feel like I'm not in this world anymore while this is happening. I'm completely mobile, I can move around and talk but it's not the same. Most of the time I grab m…

Hey everyone, brand new here. So I take MSM daily as it really helps with my joint pain. Really been a godsend for me. Recenty, I stumbled on this study, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19336900, which says : "MSM significantly inhibited the release of nitric oxide and prostaglandin E(2) by alleviating the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase-2 in LPS-stimulated RAW264.7 cells." Now I know nitric oxide is critical for erections , as drugs like viagra promote nitric oxide, as well as nitric oxide being important for other systems as well, so I was very concerned when I read this. My question is: is this saying it is only lowering NO when…

In the case of soft tissue calcification of the throat or larynx, or calcification of cartilage such as thyroid cartilage, how long can one expect it to last? i.e: is it a permanent, long lasting, or just temporary condition? I came across it whilst doing some reading and my curiosity was stirred, but I cannot find an answer to my question anywhere. Thank you in advance for any answers.

Just wondering what instincts are built into the human psyche. For example things like curiosity and will power. Is there a list of things we are born with and from which everything else grows?

First, let me say this is my first time at this forum and didn't know where else to turn. Here's our problem in short. We are renting a home that is making us sick and it seems to be coming from the tap water. When we drank the water we'd get stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. So we switched to bottled water and all the symptoms went away. We repeated this process a few times of a period of weeks and months. When I say we, I am referring to our entire family. The water company did a so called "extensive water testing" at the request of us and our landlords. Tests were done from the kitchen sink and outside the house at the meter. All tests fell w…

When the body has developed an immunity to a particular strain of virus, either through past infection or vaccination, and the virus enters the body once again it is obviously overcome before it can have any harmful effects. What I was wondering is whether such viruses manage to infect any cells before the immune response takes effect, or if they are totally overcome before this can happen?