Medical Science

I was reading this article the other day: http://www.motogp.com/en/motogp/motogp_news.htm?menu=news&news_id=19275&championship_id=2&section=1 which is regarding the condition of a motorcycle racer who suffered some really serious injury's in a practice session on saturday. Anyway, the doctors put him into a coma - I was wondering why this was so, and what they would use to put someone in a coma? I've always thought that a coma would be best avoided? Thanks, Matt

Hi! I've been asking people about the major that should be taken to pursue a career in Medicine - specifically, doctor in medicine (family doctor, or surgeon, etc.). My classmates tells me that I should take Kinesiology major since it is the easiest. It deals with the anatomy of the human body. Others say that I should take Biochemistry major, which is a lot harder than any other subjects (probably, the hardest major). So, the Biochemistry major, as I know, will help the student to prepare for the MCAT test. Recently, I was told by my mother that I shouldn't take the Kineosology major, as was adviced by her doctor. The reason is this major do not give a wide var…

Hey guys. I've been told to take this to aid me in my hyperhidrosis. I went to a doctor and he prescribed me neurotonin which contains something called gabapentin. I'm not sure if it's the same GABA I looked up on the internet that comes in pills and powder form like some sort of supplement (vitamin packaging and whatnot). Can someone aid me on this? And what would be better, powder or pill form if I want to order some online? Much thanks.

So I've been having a problem for about 4 months now with my head. I'm asking about it here because I'm not sure what the problem is, and I would appreciate some educated opinions on the matter. It began with a tender feeling in the upper-left-backhand corner of my head, the sort of feeling being it felt a bit bruised to the touch. I had pulled muscles in my shoulder blade (nothing all that serious) 4 years earlier and had been popping my back since, as it would get stiff from time to time. I took the tenderness in my head as being a result of me popping my back and somehow effecting the muscles in my head. Well that tenderness stopped for the most part a few m…

I need help with a problem, I thought I got rid of it, but it's back and it seems worse. It's gonna mess with my life if I can't cure it In 1997, I bought a game for the Playstation 1 called Alien Trilogy, I started to play it, I loved the gameplay and the graphics and I knew from a magazine that there's over 30 levels in the game. So This game was actually great and I was ready to go through this brilliant game, I started to destroy the big black aliens first and went thru parts of the level, then came little creatures called face huggers. Because of Alien Trilogy being a first person shooter and if you watched the Alien films, you'll no that the face huggers of caus…

Hi, I was just wondering... There were a these people playing a game where you use a quarter and flick it across a table and it hits the other person's knuckle and start to bleed. These people were playing this game and the quarter hit someone and then flew off the table and hit me (my arm)....can I get anything from this (if there was blood on the coin and I...touch a cut I have or my mouth... or something like that ) or am i just paranoid? this is really bothering me thanks, Pseudonym

When ever I'm relaxed but till exsited there this smell it smells sweet, smooth, ant soothing. I wanted to know what this was and does it happen to anyone else?

First, some background: My Grandmother suffered from osteoporosis, among other things which were mostly related to radiation poisoning (she took part in early medical trials involving X-rays). For the last ten years of her life she required nursing home care, and over that period became increasingly bed bound. Due to the osteoporosis, her spine began to crumble until she stood at less than half her original height. It was in a sense fortunate that she had previously had one lung and half of the other removed due to tuberculosis, as this was what essentially "made space" within the chest cavity for this degree of "crumpling" to occur without destroying any organs…

Hi, new to the forum. I have a question for you pharmacological types out there… When you use the term “half-life”, as it relates to an organisms ability to remove a chemical, does the given half-life incorporate all of the secondary metabolites associated with the chemical? As an example, the given half-life of morphine is 2-3 hours. Morphine is metabolized mostly in the liver by glucuronidation to various other morphine analogues (M3G, M6G…) Does this half life value incorporate the time needed to remove these chemical as well? Also, how does HL (half-life) relate to physiological activity? The HL for some benzodiazepines is in excess of 100 hours, yet their effects w…

Lack of exposure to sunlight can result in vitamin D deficiencies, which can lead to osteoporosis down the track. It is suggested that people who do not expose themselves to much sunlight supplement vitamind D levels with their diet. What I want to know is what types of food has much vitamin D and whether or not all dairy products (such as milk) are vitamin D rich or only specific ones?

How can we stop the terror that is immoral doctors? Too many immoral doctors have access to a lethal combination of dangerous drugs and vulnerable patients. Can we weed them out at medical school. I set up a small website to give some examples. Can we stop the Harold Shipman's (of Hyde) and Dr David Armstrong (of Edinburgh) of the world?

I want to start off by saying this is a completely serious thread... First off... Lately I've been have umm.... For lack of a better term: "unbearably smelly flatulence"... And small amounts of diarrhea. I haven't been eating anything out of the ordinary except for juice... I NEVER drink juice (Ever.) but for the last two weeks (around the time this "issue" started occurring...) I started drinking a lot of juice, mostly cranberry, because I decided to give up soda and I had to replace it with something. My mom suggested that my body was doing a major system clean up. Is that possible? Or do I have some sort of crazy intestinal problem? My second question is: What's t…

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0511152103v1 http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0511152103v1.pdf Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation Anthony F. Bogaert Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada The most consistent biodemographic correlate of sexual orientation in men is the number of older brothers (fraternal birth order). The mechanism underlying this effect remains unknown. In this article, I provide a direct test pitting prenatal against postnatal (e.g., social/rearing) mechanisms. Four samples of homosexual and heterosexual men (total n=944), including …

Anyone out there wanting to become a vet in the future? Or work in the veterinary profession for that matter. Thought it would be good to chat about experiences, what you've done to try and get into university, what motivates you and such like. It would be good to talk cause in the long run it will help us all to understand and listen to other peoples ideas... well i think anyway! Well, i suppose that i should start! lol Well, from as far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a vet. And due to that I've done lots of work experience with animals, working on farms, and in a veterinary practice. Its my ideal profession and I really Really want…

My dad is 66 years old and very active and young. An hour before he goes to bed he takes three Benadryl tablets totalling 75mg. He has been doing this every night for at least five years because he said if he doesn't he can't get to sleep. With them, he sleeps soundly. I love him and I'm worried that long term usage might harm him.... Please let me know if I have to worry or not. Bettina

BRAIN FACTS AND FIGURES: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html Total neurons in the brain: 100 billion Total neocortical neurons: Approximately 20 billion (Pakkenberg, B., Pelvig, D., Marner,L., Bundgaard, M.J., Gundersen, H.J.G., Nyengaard, J.R. and Regeur, L. Aging and the human neocortex. Exp. Gerontology, 38:95-99, 2003 and Pakkenberg, B. and Gundersen, H.J.G. Neocortical neuron number in humans: effect of sex and age. J. Comp. Neurology, 384:312-320, 1997.) And another paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970728)384:2%3C312::AID-CNE10%3E3.0.CO;2-K#search=%22humans%20million%20neocortical%20columns%22 Some claims: A human n…

HPMC is Hydroxymehthyl cellulose and pullulan is polysaccharide. Any method to breakdown each of them into small fragments so that they can be analyse under HPLC?

generally , we said that hormone travels to the target organ via blood stream n a slower transfer speed MY question is :: why is the effect of adrenaline is so fast once we fear ?????

In present days, most medicines are in tablet and capsule forms. The one i am interested in is capsule. Currently, i am doing an project on capsules, including the ingredients. Is there any method to remove the colouring agent in the capsules?

A friend of mine is having a bit of trouble, and the first thing I think most people will say will be that she needs to go to the hospital, but I am having a bit of trouble convincing her to go. Last Feb, she starting having episodes where she'd pass out and when she came to she'd have severe muscle weakness and things of that nature, and a few other symptoms. She spent about 50k of her own money and lost her job while in the hospital, but none of the doctors in the large city she lived in could find anything wrong. The symptoms went away, and she moved to this rural area for a good job (in the medical industry) which went sour, but she managed to get on her feet…

Hi, My school recently hired a new gifted teacher and well, she wants people in gifted club to do something as "individual project." I'm pretty busy but I want to do something that deals with medicine since that's where I plan to go. What would be a good project that is not TOO MUCH time consuming? I have to take SAT and other extracurriculum activities as well. Thank you! P.S. If anyone recommends job shadowing, that's my senior project so that's not allowed.

I was wondering if a baby were to be fed, and kept healthy, but did not receive interaction from the parents, how would this affect the baby? Someone once told me that the baby can become depressed and actually die......I find it hard to believe, but is there any credibility?

Does anyone know a dictionary(book) of illnesses and Symptoms of the illnesses?

I have been experiencing a peculiar problem for the past 8-10 months. When i get up in the morning, I find that a lot of hair from my eyebrows and eyelashes fall. This was less initially but it has increased recently and today there were about 11-12 hairs, which i noticed while washing my face. I am just 27 & athletic body type,is it natural to have this or there could be some underlying reasons? I sleep about 5 hrs a day and work over 14 hrs! Could it be because of deficiency of vitamins, minerals etc or just less of sleep? Please explain.

I am now a 77 year old male who used to have 2-3 severe events of internal bleeding a year -- defecating red blood which pool collected in the rectum over 20-30 minute intervals -- even to the point of blood loss needing a blood transfusion . Frequent procto exams plus a radiologic method of locating source of bleeding failed to reveal where it was coming from ( no ulcers , no malignancies , no haemorrhoids ) & a diagnosis of diverticulosis was made . About 3 years ago I started taking up to 2 tbspn/day of stool softener / bulker like Metamucil ( psyllium husk ) & have never had another reoccurence of such bleeding . I told my internist but he was non plussed &am…