Medicine

Is telomere shortening the answer to curing cancer? Before I begin to try to answer or give my opinion on ...
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Opioids are drugs naturally derived from the opium poppy plant, or synthesised in a lab, and are generally used for ...
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The protein folding problem has puzzled scientists and researchers for over 50 years. There seemed to be no solution to ...
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In the past month, the possible culling of up to 17 million Mink has been ordered in Denmark due to ...
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Over the last 50 years, there has quite a revolution in medicine, in extending people’s lives and delaying death. The ...
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Cosmetic dentistry is an advancing, universal specialism within modern dentistry. The sector has grown vastly within recent years and it ...
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Over the decades, the sunscreen industry has seen a rise in the number of sales and are predicted to experience ...
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Malaria is a disease spread by mosquitoes and causes around 500,000 deaths each year. Although preventative measures can be taken ...
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Williams Syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in 18000 in England, from birth (prenatal and postnatal) and progresses ...
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Despite exhausting the hypothetical pros and cons of pursuing a medical career well before applying to med school, it was ...
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Venoms are chemicals which are feared throughout the animal kingdom and for good reason. Some of the most toxic venoms ...
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Peto’s Paradox is the observation that the incidence of cancer does not correlate to the number of cells present in ...
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As the circulatory pump of the human body, it is vital that the cardiac muscle has structures compatible with its ...
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Cryopreservation is the science of using extremely low temperatures to preserve living cells and tissues to keep them structurally intact ...
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Depression affects more than 264 million people and is the leading cause of disability worldwide, according to WHO.[1] With the ...
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Specialisation of cells underpins the effective functioning of the human body. Red blood cells need to be specialised for their ...
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There are many treatments already available for the common cold, but should we ditch these well-known cures and painkillers for ...
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1Within the last 50 years wildlife populations have declined, on average, by 60%. Planet Earth once had an abundance of ...
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More than 10 million adults in the UK have dental anxiety, with an estimated 6 million suffering from dental phobia.1 ...
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Approximately 15% of the world’s population, significantly in low-income developing countries, endure the issue of potable water. Innovations and research ...
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Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was a junior doctor (ST6) on 18th February 2011 when Jack Adcock was admitted to hospital, with ...
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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome is the terminology for the withdrawal symptoms that a baby may experience after absorbing drugs (including alcohol ...
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Coronavirus has made up much of the headlines in the last year, killing so many across the world and infecting ...
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The German healthcare system is one of Europe's oldest, dating back to the 1880s. It has been regarded for a ...
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Metronomic consistency. Brute force. Vital organ. Three phrases that describe one of the most essential organs in our body - ...
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Loneliness can feel heart-wrenching for many of us and impacts greatly on our mental health. Although loneliness may not seem ...
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Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba (Left), charged with manslaughter on the grounds of gross negligence of six-year old Jack Adcock (Right) Should ...
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Hair loss causes many people to lose self-confidence, but now a cure for hair loss could be found in microRNA ...
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A person commits suicide every 40 seconds. This is a staggering statistic, furthered even more by the fact that the ...
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More than ‘70,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the ...
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Marijuana is a drug and a plant which is very controversial across the world. There are two sides to this ...
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Have you ever wondered if the diminutive mouth sore on your lips was a worrisome sign of something more lethal? ...
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Parasitic behaviour, by definition, is when organisms benefit from the deterioration of others - whether it be through extraction of ...
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Addiction is a brain disease commonly associated with mental illness, defined as 'a state in which an organism engages in ...
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Covid-19 has made the news since the dawn of this year and has been on all of our minds ever ...
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Kuru is a neurodegenerative disease: a member of the class of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases. The disease was named ‘kuru’ ...
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Tears are a weird phenomenon. They serve a fundamental role in the human’s fight against disease. Their emotional function has ...
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Covid-19, otherwise known as the coronavirus, is an infectious illness that has affected the lives of billions worldwide. With the ...
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Henrietta Lacks lived a pretty normal life during the early 20th century but that changed in 1951 when she was ...
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The official term olfactory memory refers to the sense of smell triggering vivid memories. Have you ever wondered why this ...
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Raw milk has received much attention for its supposed health benefits, but should you drink raw milk when weighing up ...
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Our oral health is known to be the gateway to our general health; helping to recognise yet also reduce the ...
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Placebo – I shall please. The placebo effect is a widely known medical phenomenon used in modern medicine to test ...
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The effects of social prescribing and the importance of communal support in addressing social determinants of health are explored. In ...
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"Medical mistrust is significantly contributing to delays in African American men utilising the health care system," but who is to ...
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What is more painful? The agonizing 8 hours of childbirth or the excruciating 8 minutes of being kicked in the ...
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Melanoma has been treated painfully and ineffectively up to now, but a new, better treatment for this disease has been ...
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Memories allow us to remember, by storing data within the brain and retrieving that information when needed. It is essential ...
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Multivitamin/mineral supplements contain different vitamins, minerals and sometimes other ingredients,1 and can be taken alongside a normal diet with the ...
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The musculoskeletal system is one of our core systems that allows humans to survive. Although not as flashy as the ...
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Aging has always been of great importance to humans. We, as a species, have tried our best, especially in the ...
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Blood is the elixir of life. The essence of human functioning. A life-giving river flowing with the elements that humans ...
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Huntington’s disease is a rare genetic illness that occurs in about one in every 15,000 people in the UK and ...
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Anaesthesia is a very unusual phenomenon which although incredibly useful in modern medicine, has not been understood very well up ...
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  PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) is a psychiatric disorder that most frequently presents itself in those who have experienced ...
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Our existence is a result of cells working together. Red blood cells transport O2 around the body. Sensory neurones send ...
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Aleph/Aum Shinrikyo is a Japanese doomsday cult, whose original leaders have since been executed, responsible for one of the worst ...
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Often pain is from a tangible source, sometimes taking the form of a broken arm, angina, and even psychological distress ...
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Nanomedicine is a developing branch of medicine that applies the use of nanotechnology. The intricate nature of nanotechnology makes it ...
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Imagine you are a final year medical student - you've completed most of your rotations in surgery and in medical ...
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In recent studies over the last 5 years, it has become known that the heartbeat heavily affects our response to ...
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The Milwaukee protocol is a medical procedure for the treatment of rabies that was first developed in 2004, by a ...
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In a country with an ageing population, dementia is a big challenge to the health care system. Currently, around 850,000 ...
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Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an antimalarial/disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) commonly used to treat conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis by ...
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What are flavonoids? Flavonoids are a specific group of phytonutrients, or plant chemicals, which exist in most fruits and vegetables ...
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People feel pain when exposed to a damaging stimulus, allowing the individual to respond so that this pain goes away ...
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The limbic system, also known as the paleo mammalian cortex, is a compound system in the brain consisting of several ...
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Obesity is rapidly becoming one of the foremost contemporary health concerns in the UK. In the 80s only 6% of ...
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The rise of people with food allergies can be seen as quite paradoxical in today’s society- the increase in sanitation ...
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How and why does insomnia affect the mind? Have you ever stopped to consider what happens in our bodies as ...
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‘Psychosomatic illnesses’ is a term popularly used when referring to malingering illnesses, or illnesses without an apparent physical basis, leading ...
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Deoxyribonucleic acid, more commonly referred to as DNA, acts as the blueprint for life - it houses all the instructions ...
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One of our previous articles on the immune system gave an incredibly detailed description of the immune system's successes. However, ...
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With the strain on hospitals in the UK, and a growing dissatisfaction with the quality of healthcare provided by hospitals ...
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Group A Streptococcus is a gram positive bacterium that resides in our nose, throat and skin. It can cause a ...
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Money, a resource which some would say is a necessity. We are told that earning money is the sole purpose ...
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Modern medicine has contributed to many revolutions that changed the world. Over time, global life expectancy has risen, and quality ...
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Death, or passing away, is defined as 'the cessation of all vital functions of the body, including the heartbeat.' [1] ...
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As humans, we are constantly gaining the necessary nutrients and energy from the things we consume, food. The digestive system ...
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Blood, made up of the vital components that underpin every reaction in the body, is always flowing through our vessels ...
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Penicillin was isolated and discovered largely by accident in 1928. But the nascent study of penicillin and, more broadly, antibiotics ...
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We, as humans, need oxygen so that we can respire and produce the energy that we need for everything that ...
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Many people think that the lymphatic system serves as a ‘secondary’ or ‘back up’ to the blood. Yet when we ...
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The human brain is a truly remarkable thing: far more complex than any computer, filled with layer upon layer of ...
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It is a very common practice for food manufacturers to slap on the ‘rich in antioxidants’ label onto their products ...
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There have been many great wars over the years, which have resulted in millions of deaths. But did you know ...
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The blood-brain barrier - a pathological marvel - is a highly selective complex surrounding the brain. It is a phenomenon ...
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The autonomic nervous system is perhaps a system known all too well by medical students (having spent hours learning the ...
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As of date, the USA has 1.21 million Covid-19 cases, the most in the world. This is about 800,000 more ...
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To what extent is Asperger’s syndrome an ‘extreme male brain’? Asperger’s syndrome is a condition on the Autistic spectrum, characterised ...
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When human babies are born, they weigh on average a mere 3.3kg, yet over the course of a lifetime, grow ...
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Stem cells hold the ability to develop into various other cells. They replace cells present within the body, as each ...
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Angiogenesis occurs as a result of cells sensing local levels of oxygen, and determining them as being lower than the ...
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Around 100 billion cells are created each day in the human body, and a mutation occurs in around 1 in ...
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Alexander the Great. Genghis Khan. George Washington. Three figures that once held great influence over the masses and have held ...
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