Tweet Cataract is the cloud that affect the eye lens and cause its opaqueness and at the end losing vision. The treatment of the cataract can be using eye drops or by surgery. In the surgery the surgeon remove the lens injured by the cataract and replace it with a plastic lens. The patient whom [...]
Tweet University of Alberta and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Virology researchers have introduced a new vaccine for hepatitis C virus, the team was led by Michael Houghton, who discovered the virus in the year 1989. The challenge, Houghton said, was that hepatitis C is more virulent than HIV, thus coming up with a vaccine [...]
Tweet More than 3500 years ago the Ancient Egyptians were the first to discover the breast cancer that was visible by eye unlike the other types of cancer. The breast tumors were treated by cauterization, which was not successful and led to a lot of death for breast cancer patients. In the 16th century, The [...]
Tweet A new study on the benefits of tea was announced, drinking three cups of tea daily might lead to lower blood pressure. The research has been tried on participants with various ages and the details were published in the News Tribune. The 95 study participants had systolic blood pressure readings ranging from 115 to [...]
Tweet Orthopedic cast was first made in the year 1812 by the French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey (1768-1842), it was improved in the year 1835 by the Belgium surgeon Louis Seutin (1793-1865). The first plastic cast appeared in the year 1851 by the Dutch surgeon Antonius Mathijsen (1805–1878), but the patient that uses plastic cast [...]
Tweet University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have announced that the its researchers have reached to new fluorescent dyes that are able to highlight the electric activity in neuronal membranes in order to make those activities optical. The ability to visualize these small, fast-changing voltage differences between the interior and exterior of neurons [...]
Tweet Gallstone are the crystallized concretion resulted from the bile in the gallbladder. The gallstone must be removed to avoid inflammation conditions or cholecystitis. Typically the gallblader has to be removed completely to avoid the forming of more gallstone. The removing of the gallstone can be by using endoscopic retrograde sphincterotomy in case of that [...]
Tweet Diabetes is a chronic disease where the patient suffers a high percentage of sugar in the blood. The main symptoms of the diabetes are recurrent urination and increasing thirst and hunger. Diabetes can be classified to 3 main types according to its causes and some other types which are not so common. *Type 1 [...]
Tweet Thrombin is an enzime that is available in our body. It is also a medication that is used in hospitals, as a coagulant. It stops bleeding instantly. But till now it was not used for the battle fields, which is a place that it is needed so much due due to it is not [...]
Tweet Autism spectrum is classified to different disorders as Autism, Asperger syndrome, Childhood disintegrative disorder and Rett syndrome. All these disorders have common symptoms, such as social deficits, communication difficulties, repetitive behaviors and interests and sometimes accompanied by cognitive delays. Asperger syndrome is named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, whom studied and described the [...]