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Reproductive Medicine

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

reproductive medicineReproductive medicine is mainly concerned with the question of reproduction and is engaged in this context both the genetics as well as gynecology and urology. The main objective of reproductive medicine is not only the actual reproduction, but also the research of hormonal contraception, and the study of environmental influences on reproduction.

Furthermore, the reproductive medicine deals with the issue of cloning. This portion is very controversial and always hotly debated. The goal of cloning here is to create genetically identical organisms with similar characteristics in their total DNA.

If the cloning in agriculture, for example in potato or onion cultivation, already has a long tradition, it is used in human medicine only in recent years. The first cloned mammal was Dolly the sheep, which came in February 2003 to the world.
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Methods of Surgery

Friday, February 26th, 2010

methods of surgeryThe surgery is in the true sense of the word craftsmanship field of medicine. A surgeon needs equipment and apparatus to treat surgical patients. The surgery consists of several main areas: vascular surgery, thoracic and abdominal surgery and trauma surgery. There are other areas to be counted as surgery jaw surgery, pediatric surgery, cardiac surgery.

Because of this specialization and the layman is aware that no surgeon could now work in all areas. He has to choose a subject and learn the surgical method, which corresponds to the state in this field of research and derWissenschaft. Preference is given to the methods of surgery, which have the best long-term results and the lowest complication rates.
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Endocrinology

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

endocrinologyA specialist in internal medicine with the additional designation of endocrinology concerned with the endocrine glands of man. The endocrine glands produce hormones, which are transferred directly from the cell into the human blood.

The so-called endocrine system or include the pineal gland Endocrinology (located on the underside of the brain), the pituitary gland) (on the base of the skull, thyroid, parathyroid, a certain portion of the pancreas, the adrenal glands and gonads (testes and ovary ).
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Remove Bad Breath

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

remove bad breathMany people suffer from the unpleasant problem is that they constantly despite regular dental care and proper visits to the dentist has bad breath. Often, this provokes in fellow men averse attitude. To prevent this effect, there is the possibility to counteract successfully annoying bad breath. Means for prevention and removal of bad breath exist in a number of characteristics.

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Nuclear medicine

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

nuclear medicineNuclear medicine – the use in the diagnosis of diseases

Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that different diagnostic and therapeutic potential uses, in which radioactive substances are used. At first glance, this sounds very dangerous to, but also used radio-isotopes decay very quickly, so there is no danger to humans.

Nuclear medicine is particularly frequently used to diagnose diseases of the thyroid. Similarly, but also occur in cancer, heart disease and rheumatic diseases in used.
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Abdominal ultrasonography

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

abdominal ultrasonographyWhat exactly is done?

An ultrasound is an ultrasound examination. In the abdominal ultrasonography (including abdominal ultrasonography) is investigated by means of abdominal ultrasound to diseases. This is mainly a question of diseases of liver, spleen, pancreas, gallbladder and kidney, bladder / prostate and related blood vessels such as determine the abdominal aorta. Diseases of these organs are mostly related to changes in shape, size and / or structure.

With an abdominal ultrasonography for example can Renal cysts, urinary bladder stones, gallstones, etc. are identified. ) Also, the enlargement of the liver and corresponding structural changes resulting from fatty degeneration (eg, alcoholism can by sonography of the abdomen are detected.
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Hyaluronic

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

hyluronicWhen hyaluronic acid is long-chain polymers of disaccharides. These chains can contain up to 50,000 of these Saccharidmonomere. In the body of the chains are synthesized Mebranproteinen. For the human body, hyaluronic acid is essential because the organism used in the body and many properties of hyaluronic acid.

Among other things, in comparison with hyaluronic acid can bind to its own mass sechtausendfache the mass of water. The fabric is tied into the water, will also acquire the status of the water, can not be compressed, and is thus very high pressures. This is used for example in the human eye, which consists almost primarily of water and yet is dimensionally stable. Even cartilage and intervertebral discs are capable of because of this feature to carry the weight of the human body.
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Methadone

Monday, February 15th, 2010

methadoneA substitute drug, pain relievers, the devil’s work?

Methadone is an opioid, which is synthetically produced. It is used mainly as a substitute drug abuse for heroin addicts. Methadone was developed in 1929 in the IG Farben.

By breaking up the group after the war, however, was the first drug produced by the American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. It was used primarily as a painkiller. Since methadone but very addictive, makes this use is no longer common. Only in a few exceptional cases, for example in cancer pain, methadone is used as a painkiller.
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