Medical Science

There is a massive campaign today to save healthcare costs and improve healthcare outcomes by focusing on preventive medicine rather than just treating disease after it occurs, when care becomes more expensive and health becomes more difficult to restore. But the simple fact is that most of the truly serious diseases which cost the healthcare system the most money and which are most devastating to human health, well-being, and life cannot be prevented by any known means. Cystic fibrosis, lupus, type 1 diabetes and a host of autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Tay-Sachs disease, muscular dystrophy, more than half of all cases of renal failure and…

Do you know if morphine is stronger than endorphine as a treatment against pain ?

Yoga A good, regular yoga practice will go far in relieving the stress and tension that sometimes cause mild back pain, and in fact, studies have shown that yoga is the number one most effective …

Hi there! I want to share an exciting new continuing medical education portal I came across while searching for new CME activities. It focuses on diabetes and COPD and is adding activities in hypertension and immunization later this year. It looks to be an exciting resource for physicians and patients who are looking for new cutting edge research, resources and CME activities. Check it out at www.penncmebestpractice.org. • The content is focused on improving care of patients with chronic diseases and includes preventive care. • Earn as many as 30-40 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM in diabetes and COPD, with activities in hypertension and immunization coming later this…

As i have studied it seems Haldol antidote is cocaine. Please comment and share some links who clarify that statement. Maybe aphethamines are more efficient lower stimulation peak and longer effect. Please comment that too. Thanks in advance

From what I understand presently, and this is tenuous knowledge, neurons come in three types: sensory, interneuron (relay neurons in the UK) and motor neurons which are in contact with muscle or glands. Some neurons are covered in a fatty non-conducting substance called myelin which speeds up the electrical impulses carried by neurons. The presence of myelin speeds up the impulses in comparison to neurons that have no myelin. Correct so far? My problem is that I want to be exact about which neurons are myelinated in the body and which are not. Therefore I need more expert help, a reference or two... and where else could I go to except here? Neurons

On Ask The Experts which is a social media site whose focus is New Technology, an interview article talks about a new procedure which will increase the speed of DNA analysis and testing. It can be found in its ATE Science and Medical secion http://www.asktheexperts.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=155&Itemid=225

This fascinates me: there are some patents online on increasing melanocytes ( darkening hair and skin) It's already often done by injecting ( melanotan) but it looks like alternatives are more practical. This one for instance: <a name="OLE_LINK1">https://data.epo.org/publication-server/pdf-document?PN=EP2191819%20EP%202191819&iDocId=7331169&iepatch=.pdf I'm a redhaired person, light skin, I dislike both of them, so maybe anyone could help to put this patent into a formula? looks like it's possible, I'm just not a scientist

Healthy males can have a hemoglobin level varyng from 140 up to 180, though there is a gradual decline with age. Most medical textbooks will tell you that an otherwise healthy male patient with a hemoglobin of 130 is anemic and requires some treatment, usually in the form of iron supplements. In supportive cancer therapy, several studies have indicated that increasing patients' hemoglobin levels with erythropoietin either close to or even all the way up to the lower end of the normal range produces important benefits in quality of life. This seems logical, since evolution would not have threatened the survival of the species by creating a demand for calories to support…

Hi: The below link describes a health product I'm looking for. How long until such becomes available for $1-per-package? http://groups.google.com/group/healthiest-food-possible?hl=en&lnk= I seriously wouldn't mind living off that stuff. Along with at least 30 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise [preceded by warm-up and stretch exercises], this would greatly increase the chances of living a long, healthy life. Thanks, Green Xenon P.S. Feel free to join that group

Although I'm used to hearing from doctors and nutritionists about milk being good for you, I've come across some almost convincing arguments for the idea that it isn't. Here's an article, though it's a bit long: http://www.notmilk.com/kradjian.html And for those who don't want to bother with the article, here's a video: It's a bit disturbing to think that even nutritionists would be misinformed on this subject; but the arguments for why they would be sound somewhat plausible. As a type 1 diabetic, I hope they find out what's causing this disease, and if it really is milk, I hope the diary industry gets punished for it.

I was reading about a recent breakthrough by the fine folks at Trinity college here in Ireland, the article in question says that A hormone called Amylin, or Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (IAPP) has been discovered to a key underlying cause to type two diabetes and the main trigger for the disease because it gets deposited in the pancreas and causes the body to produce much greater levels of insulin than it normally would. It is claimed that a drug could be designed to suppress this hormone and thus bring insulin levels back down and prevent the onset of diabetes, My question is that would the suppression of this hormone have any serious adverse effects or cause any other com…

Hi: Lets say the venom of the Portuguese Man of War jellyfish magically enters my cerebrospinal fluid. What symptoms will I experience? My guess is paralysis, involuntary movements, impaired vision/hearing, visual/auditory hallucinations, impaired balance, dizziness, vertigo, memory loss, false memories, distortion of existing memories, inability to access existing memories, loss of awareness, decreased level of consciousness, alteration in sense of time, dissociative states, tinnitus and other interesting CNS symptoms. Thanks, Green

Does anybody know what the host range is for filoviruses (i.e. Ebola and Marburg)? I mean I known that they can infect most if not all types of mammals as well as several species of birds, but I can't find the actual host range anywhere. Any help here would be appreciated.

A middle-aged, set-in-his-ways, sedentary, overweight (BMI>25), former alcoholic is controlling his diabetes with diet alone. He checks his blood sugar 8 to 10, sometimes 15, times a day, and the numbers I have seen him record are about 125 through 150 mg/dL, once as high as 200, and he says he once measured down in the 80s, which he said was "not good". He often will test his blood, gulp down a snack, and 15 to 30 minutes later, test his blood again. He claims he's heat intolerant, he seems to sweat a bit more than others do in the same situations (but I never see any beading or running sweat), he drinks a lot of ice water (sometimes a quart or two at a sitting…

For anyone who's unsure Cryonics is the freezing of humans or animals for preservation, to be "woken up" at a later stage, as the title sugests. It's an idea that has been used in science fiction while the heroes go on the adventure to other planets. Currently, people pay huge amounts of money for it in the hope they will be woken up some time in the future, when technology has advanced. Around the world 200 people have undergone the cryopreservation procedure. Cryonic procedures usually begin a few minutes after cardiac arrest, and cryoprotectants are used to drastically reduce the formation of ice. In some cryonics procedures these cryoprotectants are used in…

I just watched a documentary on the pet food industry today and these are the facts that where stated. Seems all our pet foods no name brand all the way to high end brands are ALL produced at ONE company in Toronto which controls all of north America. All these dry dog and cat foods contain grains that where shipped from China (which have been found in the past to contain plastic ) which can be harmful to your dog and are often the source of poison and recalling in the pet food industry. It's also said that even though "Chicken" may be the first ingredient on the dog food label there is x3 the amount of GRAIN. Your pets should consuming more meat then grain produc…

Hello everyone ... ^ـــ^ I am a new member to this forum .. I hope that you can help me .. my Q is .. : can we used the bacteria to isolate the protein or amino acid in human or animals ? and I want reference about human milk ,, please ..! ( biochemical information ) thanks .. ^^

So I 'm talking to this guy on MSN and this want he is saying .. Other guy he is saying My quetion why do people oppose chemo or radiation? Has for drugs that can tell cells what to do that does not exit.Cancer and organs going bad is a cellular problem.No drug exit or the know how to manipulate anything at a cellular level. But was reading on new technology called proton radiation very effective and little side effects but way to cosly .Only 2 or 3 places in the US has it do to it is very costly.Other new technology nanowire that is put in the body over the cancer that gives out UV radiation or gets very hot.These are new technology and will not b…

When the government gives health advice to its citizens, you would expect that that advice would be purely scientific and objective. But in fact it is not, and instead, citizens are advised only to do those things to benefit their health which will also force them to curtail their spontaneous pleasures. So all scientific health advice has to pass through a filter of Puritanism before it reaches the public. One example is that a large body of data now demonstrates that cigarette smoking powerfully protects people against Alzheimer's Disease. If government health information were objective rather than Puritanical, every cigarette packet would display the notice that …

Does anybody have any explanation for why low does Naltrexone would be a good treatment for cancer, or not. any ideas?

From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/nyregion/30medschools.html Apparently a small number of students are admitted to Mount Sinai each year without the usual requirement of organic chemistry, physics, and the MCAT. These students still have to take a crash summer course on organic chemistry, but instead study the humanities in their junior and senior years prior to entering medical school. This quote was kinda jarring: Ouch. But they still have to take all the same courses once they get into medical school. If they don't learn the subjects, they fail just like anybody else. The feeling seems to be that they'll be more in touch w…

If the War on Drugs has a rational purpose, it must be to prevent the harm to human health and life which drug use can cause, and also to prevent the disruption of normal consciousness and brain function by drugs which can make people more prone to dangerous accidents or irresponsible behavior. But diabetics using insulin create exactly the same social problems as the War on Drugs addresses. Because the insulin requirements of the diabetic body change spontaneously and unpredictably in response to hormal variations, stress, changes in gastric emptying rates with different kinds of food and degrees of neuropathy, and subclinical infections, the amount of insulin requi…

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 …

Fish and other sea creatures extract oxygen from the water to survive, and the human lungs can do this as well, although the amount of oxygen extracted would be inadequate for higher brain functions. I have seen it proposed that if a human were to drown in fresh water, and the person were able to overcome through some profound self-discipline the natural shock response at drawing water into the lungs and displacing their air content, then that person could continue living at the bottom of the lake or stream, provided it were warm enough. I wonder what other aspects of physiology would complicate this effort? E.g., the nature of human kidney function has been descr…