Archive for the 'Medicine' Category

Finding Out The Sex of Your Baby

Ultrasound is the method of choice to determine sex of a baby prenatally. There are other tests to such as Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) and Amniocentesis but these tests are for diagnostic purposes. Now we have a new gender test to determine your baby sex, maternal blood testing for fetal DNA. The concept of the [...]

Medgle for your symptoms

Some of u may use Google to look for possible diagnosis related to your symptoms. Google MD is 58 % accurate in aiding doctors to make a diagnosis. Let me introduce you to specialized search engine for making a diagnosis. Medgle is personalized medical search engine where anyone can put in their symptoms, answer few [...]

Food Porn

If you mind always preoccupied with food and cant resist food porn you maybe suffering from this newly discovered eating disorder. There is a web space for sufferer of this Gourmand Syndrome. This “gourmand” syndrome describes a preoccupation with food and a preference for fine eating. Two exemplary case reports illustrate this new syndrome. Analysis [...]

Less salt is good for you

Essential Hypertension is a common condition which requires lifelong treatment. It can be silent but if not treated will lead to serious complications. While most of my patients may comply to take their medications, almost all of them find it’s too difficult to restrict salt intake. Restricting sodium intake is a good non pharmacological measures, [...]

No free lunch in the near futute

The NHS is unlikely to be free at the point of use within 10 years, say doctors.A British Medical Association poll of 964 young GPs and hospital doctors found 61% thought patients would have to pay for some treatment by 2017. Source We live in a capitalist world. I guess this capitalist system wont be [...]

Something wrong with this picture

To the common eyes , nobody would detect any abnormality in this picture. But if u stare at it long enough u`ll notice something weird. Let test how sharp your eyes are!! Click here for the picture

Blame you genes

Its more diffcult for me to advice my obese patients now. i cant simply blame on their sedentary lifestyle. Me: “you should bla bla bla bla bla, your BMI is 39!! Patient: “Doc, its in my gene! ” Me: ” !!!?##@”

Plastic Anatomy Models and Digital Manipulation

What an excellent digital manipulations by Koen Hauser.  

Chimera : A solution to Organ Donor Shortage?

A scientist at University of Nevada has created new technique to combine sheep and human. Currently cell`s percentage for the chimera is 85% sheep and 15% human. The end game is to match the sheep`s organ to human. How interesting is that

Bionic Feet

In the near future, even if u lost your feet u may dont have to worry much. Reseachers at MIT has developed a new form of bionic feet that mimics a real human feet. Via Newscientisttech