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What is the definition of physical fitness?

Hello Everybody, How are you, I hope you are fine . I'm a third year medical student, and I'm doing a seminar about allergy to penicillns, as a homework for pharma I need some help in finding evidenced-based medicine information about this subject, clinical picture management related drugs, and so on ... so, I'll be very thankful for helping me .. Good luck .

Around the internet i have noticed lots of people discussing the subject of marijuana being able to cure cancers. I have read that some scientists tested it on brain cancers and it was successful. What do you guys think?

Very Sorry if i Posted in wrong spot plz move but plz dont delete i need help with my questions! Since I was a kid i was interested in bright lights they never hurt my eyes to look straight at them such as the sun or any other light. Since about 8 y.o. to current i had better then 20/20 vision. My latest was 16/20. i am 23 y.o. now but ever since i was young i seen these weird spheres in light waves. The best way i can describe seeing them and what they look like is this: When I zone in to a bright light at night around the light i see waves emitting off the brightest part of the light, like on a hot summer day when you see the heat waves off the street, in those wave…

Does anyone have a fix for the artifacts (refractiles) that occure during biological reagent staining of blood smears (films)?

What are some adverse health effects that may occur from long term exposure to an environment with increased g-forces? Most of us know that there are deleterious effects to human physiology in microgravity environments, but what about the opposite? Hypothetical: Sam is spending his vacation on Jupiter, where he weighs roughly 2.6 times as much as he does on Earth. What effects to his body can be expected? I know this is a very broad question, so please just throw things out there. Everything from digestive issues to compression of CSF. Thanks.

Hey everybody, I currently run a science blog ( url removed by moderator ) and after writing this article I felt like I should share it with more people! Many of us like to live a healthy lifestyle and by that I mean staying active. Although being humans we can sometimes do the wrong thing and cause some pretty bad damage, whether it's a broken bone or a sprained ankle you should know the answer to the question we commonly ask ourselves.. Do I use heat or ice!? First we must understand 2 forms of pain.. Acute pain and Chronic pain. Acute Pain: Acute pain is usually sudden and can usually be sharp pain in quantity. Examples of Acute Pain: Surgery Br…

Hi, this year i was diagnosed as having had cartilage build up on my left side, specially on the muscle running into the heart, which had moved one morning and resulted in arrhythmia and so forth. Anyway, i have since had sensations that had felt like they were centred in the middle of my brain. Ive had a CT scan, which turned up nothing and my blood pressure is fine. The sensations have felt like sort of slightly pulsating, with tingling regions, moving around in the area of what has felt like my insula cortex, temporal/pariental lobe regions as well as some in the occipital lobe and some in the prefrontal cortex. So basically throughout the middle region(s) of my head, …

I didn't really wanted to ask this cause I've never followed a treatment.But Im 20y.o. and I still have black spots and red spots and white,anyway it's not a necrosis state,it's just annoys me cause some disappear one day, then another round appears.so it sucks. Anyway the question is:Is there a real patented treatment which was proved to be useful and definitive?There are a lot of them I know but is there something that really works?

I want to use a pharmaceutical excipient in an injection, what quality standards should i follow? Are there particular quality standards for pharmaceutical excipient used in injections? and where could i find the standards? Thank you guys!!

Treating diabetes 2 , we use Advances and Discoveries from Modern Medical Research and Technical Knowledge to get to fix diabetes. In all autoimmune diseases, there are high production of Antibodies . Oral Tolerance is the Medical Discovery we use to fix Diabetes 2. Diabetes 2 has many of the tell tale signs and characteristics of Autoimmune disease.See Diabetes linked to Autoimmune Reaction at http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/april/engleman.html In diabetes 2, there are high levels of antibodies to Insulin, the antibodies bind to insulin. These bound- insulin is not free and can not act on cells and the result is diabetes. What …

Hello everyone, I'm glad to join the forums and enjoy some scientific discussions I hope my question is not very specific...I've been reading since a while about nanoindentation of polymers...it is always reported that, longer holding times of the test (creep) leads to obtaining less values of stiffnes similarly...faster unloading rates lead also to less stiffness...but the papers where i read that never mentioned the reason any idea about the reason behind this, considering the creep and the chain movements and all this? many thanks!

Can i just buy the e-book ? I need links & the names for tge books for 2nd year General medicine.

Hello everybody How is it going? I hope everything going well. I am having an exam in an intro bio class I am taking in two days, and I need to do this practice one before the exam day. I did it, but I need to check my answers with you. Unfortunately I could not find the answers key. could you please do it, it does not take time if you know the material. Thank you in advance.

a lady with two sons died o fduchene muscular dystrophy one alive son with same condition and grandson with niemanpick disease what is pattern of inheritence

Hey Guys, I have started a blog about discoveries in the world of science and medicine and would be lovely if I could get some views from you guys. Thanks. Link removed by Moderator Please check it out and comment. Would be lovely and it would help enhance my CV for Med School Applications. Thanks again.

Why does it itch when you get bit by a mosquito?

I'm not sure exactly where my thread should be posted in.Please move to correct section if I chose wrong,thanks.My interest has grown rapidly this year about water & anything added in it that effects how it functions throughout the body.I find when it comes to health products & marketing them,they like to bend science in their statement on their product(s). I choose to use properly distilled water.Not based on what distiller companies state.But on my thoughts alone.It's sterile & cheap,40 cents per gallon.I read things such as, Distilled water leeches minerals from the body etc. etc.Like this link, My link Dr.mecola also pushes health products on his si…

This question has just occureed to me and i find it interesting. Assuming a person is blind from birth, how do they understand sight in their own mind. I know a superficial answer is easy to ascribe, but looking a little deeper, are there any common mistakes that a blind person might make, are there forms of cognition (not perception but cognition) that consequently become unavailable. I know for example that a pianist has a certain advantage as they can only locate the keys without the use of sight, where a sighted player (and I am one) can only seem to look at one hand or the other. If the habit of finding a finger position in one hand is triggered by vision then if you…

Okay, there's been recent breakthrough research suggesting practicing homosexuals live shorter lives than their heterosexual counterparts. Anyone care to speculate why this is so?

I got blood type AB, and I've read in some newspapers and publications online, about pros and cons of the AB bloodtype. Though please note I'm not talking about the japanese personality mumbo jumbo, or the "eat right for your blood type" scams, I'm talking about scientific and statistical experiments hinting of blood type actually having a relevance at certain health issues. From what I can gather, the good sides of blood type AB is: + Often very good protection from Cholera, and the Norwalk virus. Some bad sides are: - Risk of stroke, and various artery diseases are skyhigh(I've read values ranging from 20% to 40% higher than those with blood type O), bec…

I my hip joint at the left thigh has been injured for 5 days and I, with my anatomy knowledge as a student and orthopedic tech, think that I have a tendon ruptured. I have an appointment with a doc tomorrow. My concern is how long can an untreated ruptured tendon last until resulting permanent disability

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…

How can drug companies mess up in such modern times? With such modern times how can this happan? http://o.canada.com/2012/09/01/bc-germany-thalidomide-update-1-tv/

What would happen to a person who takes antibiotics if they are not actually ill? I presume nothing would happen, if something would it would happen when the person is ill, too, but I wanna be sure. I got cut last week, it was off that thing for opening the water on a shower, like a lever. The thing broke off, leaving jagged edges and I cut my finger on it. I wore a band aid for around 3 days (changed them daily) and then when I took it off the third day I noticed swelling, redness and bumps. The bumps eventually developed into water blisters which I noticed over night very slowly expanded. Based on looking online I thought it was allergic contact dermatitis t…