The original vaccine, as most people are aware, was produced by Jenner in 1798. He noted that milkmaids, who handled beasts with cowpox, were immune to smallpox. He used the fluid from the cowpox vesicles to infect the skin of […]
VIRUSES are truly remarkable. The organisms which give us HIV and rabies, polio and malaria, and indeed the deadly flu (which killed more in 1918 than World War I) are themselves barely alive. A virus is a single strand of […]
How are sports injuries treated? Although using the RICE technique can be helpful for any sports injury, RICE is often just a starting point. Here are some other treatments your doctor or other health care provider may administer, recommend, or […]
What and where is the gall-bladder? The gall-bladder is a small pear-shaped organ on the underside of the liver that is used to store bile. Bile is made in the liver and is stored in the gall-bladder until it is […]
The D&C (Dilatation and Curettage) is a small surgical procedure and perhaps one of the most misused. It literally entails opening the mouth of the womb to allow instruments into the uterus to scrape the contents of the uterus. It […]
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