Medical Science

I dont know much about this subject but i think i know more about it than the person i was arguing with. The other day in school this girl who takes the "child development" class was arguing to me saying "babies cant be fed water because they cant digest it and they will die". At that point i laughed. I dont think alot of parents feed babies water, but substitute it with milk, then i thought isnt milk the babies "food"? Thanks.

Congress is poised to pass legislation to allow government money to be spent of stem cell research with embryos provided from furtility clinics. These embryos would have to be expressly donated by their owners (parents) and would otherwise be distroyed as medical waste. The religious right is opposed to this and President Bush has said that he would veto such a bill. Is the potential for medical breakthroughs in diseases and birth defects great enough to override the concerns of the religious people in this country who oppose it? Or do we already have enough stem cell lines to work with.

As everyone does, I often stretch my shoulders and neck back and head a cracking sound...but often I feel tight in the sternum area and feel like i need to crack it. I do, it gives a little sound and it gives me the relief I was after. Does anyone else feel the need to do this sometimes? And what exactly is happening? I hope that makes sense!

When taking a shower is it a health hazard to breathe in steam, which may condense in the lungs, thereby drowning them and decreasing how well they take up oxygen? Furthermore, I've been told that steam from the shower can accelerate the wrinkling process, making you look much older than you really are. Can these problems, if they are problems, be fixed by having colder showers? How long should a normal shower be before it become bad for your health?

Hey, I need some help here. Recently I've gotten into riding my bike. Don't know why, just found it and started riding it and got hooked. But now I have this problem: it's getting more and more difficult each day. I try to do an intense, hilly ride one day, a few days of a more flat, easy workout and then back to the intense one and so on. But what I've found is, especially after the intense rides, it's a lot harder to ride the next day. I'm going to assume it's because I'm not eating right after a workout. I usually finish and drink a lot of water and then don't usually eat much (because the water is sort of filling). Is there anything I should eat special before and…

Hello. Im 17 and thinking about applying to study Medicine. I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips about what to include in my personal statement, at the interview. and a list of the best british medical schools/ universities. I've got my work experience sorted out for the summer break! thank you for your help, Martyn.

hey guys, I had eczema for a long long time until about a year ago when it stopped getting it. I was seeing a dermatologist, but not anymore. I have these dark patches on my skin where I used to scratch a lot (thats what my doc told me they were from). Will they fade over time? Or are they permanent? Any help would be pretty cool, just thought I'd find out

I've been increasingly concerned about my height ever since I read a scientitic article that explained how women are instinctually extremely discriminatory when it comes to male height. If I stand up for a long time my feet feel sore. I wonder whether the weight on my body pressing against the legs could actually compress the bones in my legs enough to make me shorter. If you sit down, the body weight from your upper body is not longer pushing down on your legs. So does standing up often make you shrink? Or is the effect negligible?

I have heard that cracking fingers or knuckles does not cause arthritis, but if you crack your fingers/knuckles very often, are there any other adverse health effects? Is there any way someone addicted to finger/knuckle cracking can stop it?

hey can any1 explain to me briefly what anabolic steroids do in relation to GnRH, i think something about them causing the GnRH to release more estrogens and testosterones and that they ignore the negative feedback mechanism in our body...but im not too sure...

Some people say that smelling coffee will wake you up and make you more alert. Is this true or do you actually have to drink the coffee so that the caffeine enters the bloodstream. If you're worried about too much caffeine in your sytem, would smelling coffee regularly be a good substitute for drinking coffee?

Hello, I am doing a research project on cell signaling in acute myeloid leukemia started by writing all about leukemia, then wrote general information about cell signalling and jak/stat normal pathway I was wondering if anyone know or can help in finiding information on what happens to this pathway in the presence of acute myeloid leukemia? i have written about ras, rtks flt3 and genetic translocations that happens in the presence of acute myeloid leukemia.But i still think that something is missing.can any one help please

Out on the golf course yesterday, I became an all you can eat buffet for the mosquitos in the area. (I actually caught one of them in the process of feeding off of me. It was kind of cool to see. I swatted it away and it left its snout stuck in my arm, and every time my heart beat the snout would twitch a bit). Anyway, when the mosquitos first bit it just itched a tiny bit but I left it alone and just put some rubbing alcohol on it. Today, however, the two bites that I have noticed have swelled up tremendously! It now looks like I have a golfball under my left forearm and my right wrist. I'm going to get it checked out after work, but since they are both quite red,…

For patients with immunodeficieny problems: Why can't we harvest bone marrow stem cells, culture them and mass produce them so they divide infinitely (weren't stem cells suppose to be able to?). Then introduce various extra-cellular factors that allows them to differentiate into T-Cells, B-Cells, neutrophils, basophils, etc. and then re-introduce them into those patients with immunodeficiency problems? The MHC would still work effectively if the bone marrow stem cells were obtained from the same patient. I can see that this wouldn't really work in leukemia, since it is already the proliferation of WBC's, however, wouldn't this approach work in a insulin-like manner b…

I don't know whether my seat-monitor alignment is incorrect but everytime I'm on the computer I have a habit of leaning forward without realizing it. I'm worried that too much forward leaning might arch my spine and give me a nerdy hunchback appearance. Is it natural to learn forward while sitting? Is it how I'm supposed to sit?

Sometimes when I take a glass from the pantry I pour myself some Coke and drink some only to realize that the glass was just recently washed. In the Coke I could taste some detergent residue. Is drinking of detergent in small amounts harmful?

I know that the best age for getting braces is around 10 to 14 years old but I heard that if you get your braces later than that age range, its possible for your teeth to revert back to what they were (in other words a waste of time adn money) before you wore your braces. so even though your teeth will be fixed in good positions when you wear your braces, maybe after a year or few years....your teeth will just revert back to the crooked positions they were before. Does any1 know if that is true?

Lately, my friends told me about a new LAN center in my area. We usually go about once a week to play games and have fun. Unfortunately, whenever I'm there for more than about 30 minutes, it becomes hard for me to focus and I get a headache. I've come up with several causes, but I'm not completely sure. - Its dark inside to give that cool sort of arcade feel. I was thinking that maybe its causing eye strain. -I'm wearing headphones, and thought that perhaps i was wearing them too tight, but removing them only helped my headache a tiny bit. -Its in the middle of the week, which means that I'm usually tired from school and work, and I was thinking that maybe tha…

is it possble to fuse skin to non-biological materials such as steel or plastic, sounds crazy but imagine like a patched quilt. Where the quilt is human skin and the patch is made of steel. Their is no skin underneath the steel patch. hard to explain...

What I hate most is perhaps people making money by fabricating ridiculous ailments, manufacturing ridiculous products is no where near as ethically wrong. Examples of these somewhat ridiculous ailments proclaimed by the medical society are ADD (attention deficit disorder), CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome), depression, and dyslexia. To the medical society the universe is perfect and so should every human being, anytime a little thing is wrong with more than one person they call it a condition. These guys, these pretentious professionals declaring such flabbergasting ailments do not realize they are perhaps the least competitive and productive of all professionals. Engineers,…

How does the Jendrassik maneuver work?

My mother wants me to go to the doctor, but I don't think so. I( woke up yesterday with a hurting thoat and a small caough, but it wasn't too bad so I went to school. But then today I had a really sore throat. I have a history of strep thoat, my little sister has been sick, and my auny (who we recently visited for the day) is sick and had to take anti-biotics. But it's been weirdly cold, so the heater is on and the air in the house is drier, so maybe it's just dry. And I have no fever, only a small caugh and a horribly sore thoat.

recently i came across this question in one of the scientific journals, that man can theoretically live up to a hundred years. it stated that man can, with the help of current technology and the vast leaps and bounds in medical science, along with progress in the genetics field. so i am here to conduct a poll whether man can live up over hundred years. if you do support it and agree, please state why. would appreciate if people who don't agree would also supply reasons. thanks........ maybe i should rephrase my question. with the advances in anti-ageing science, can we live beyond 100? if so, technically how is this possible?

Sry having a major brainfart but its when you use treated viruses to insert their only RNA into patients whose DNA has turn malignant in hopes of correcting the problem it has a pretty specific name... so any ideas?

Wondering if any of you might know whats up with me and my roommates eyes. In the past 3 weeks, we've both had very bloodshot eyes, Him twice. Its not pink eye. Theres no itching, no pain or any discomfort, Just extreme bloody eyes. Not really bloodshot, But what appears to be actual trauma to the eyes of blood pooling in the corners of blood. After a few days it clears up. Any ideas?