Medical Science
Cochlear implant surgery explained
by Lin Edwards
A cochlear implant can enable a profoundly deaf person to gain a representation of sounds and to understand speech. If implanted early, a young deaf child can learn to understand speech well enough to speak normally and develop normal language skills.
The cochlear is a spiral shaped organ in the inner ear. In a person with normal hearing, vibration waves from the ear drum and other components of the
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Yes
by Eric Lannak
Nature sends waves of lethal flu strains at us, keeps us pinned down in our lifespan with heart disease
No
by Rick Badman
The AIDS virus is no more a way to stabilize the population than the Spanish Influenza was. Even the
Anatomy
- Nerve routes and innervation of the lower limb
- Structure and function of the lungs
- Structure and function of the human brain
- Human kidney structures
- Structure of the fascia of the upper limb
- What is the difference between metaplasia, heteroplasia, dysplasia, neoplasia, hyperplasia, and anaplasia?
- Human life expectancy
Genetics
- The importance of DNA replication in the lab
- How scientists use genetic engineering
- The genetics of intelligence and race: Nobel Prize winner James Watson sets back race relations
- How double-strand DNA breaks are repaired
- Genetics science projects for high school students
- Should human genes be patented
- DNA repair mechanisms
Medical Science (Other)
- Misconceptions on the handling of fecal specimens
- Is Iridology a real science?
- The problem of Housemaid's knee
- The effect of helium on humans
- An introduction to geriatric nursing
- Why the principal problem of bioethics is the moral status of the embryo
- Defining monoatomic gold and its effects on the body
Medical Technology
- The history of the X-ray
- What neonatology can do for us
- Transparent zebrafish to aid in cancer research
- The history of the stethoscope
- Can seven ultrasound tests harm my unborn baby's hearing?
- How computer software has advanced medical technologies
- Using heat to kill germs: Effect of high temperature on bacteria and viruses
by Lulu
From an African perspective I can't help but be amused at the thought of educating people about HIV/AIDS. My amusement is coloured
Vision correction surgery, specifically LASIK, was a procedure I had done more than five years ago. Myopia is very common, but prior
Listeriosis, more commonly known as listeria, is a rare but potentially deadly bacterial infection with a wide variety of possible
by K.D. Saffron
It started like any other early spring day with birds chirping outside the window as the sun began to shine through the white Battenburg
Writing Assignments
- Surgery
- A guide to societies for professional surgeons
- How surgeries are performed by Da Vinci Robotic surgical systems
- Fetal surgery: How and why
- Bone grafts explained
- Anatomy
- Structure and route of the superficial veins of the upper limb
- Structure of the lymphatic drainage of the lower limb
- Complications of femoral head and neck fractures
- What happens in the walking gait cycle
- Route and innervation of the nerves of the upper limb
- Structure and route of the arteries of the lower limb
- Structure of the fascia of the upper limb
- The different types of organ systems and their functions in humans
- Structure of the lymphatic drainage of the upper limb
- Superficial vein routes of the lower limb
- Nerve routes and innervation of the lower limb
- Structure and route of the arteries of the upper limb
- The evolution of the modern human nervous system
- The evolution of the modern human respiratory system
- The evolution of the modern human digestive system
- Disease & Illness
- Hong Kong flu (1968): History and symptoms
- The effect of flu viruses that mutate
- How flu viruses combine to form deadlier viruses
- How flu viruses combine to form deadlier viruses
- Potential new vaccines
- Genetics
- DNA replication errors
- How clinical genetics can save money for the health industry
- Genetics: How it brings the human family together
- A look at how biologists use DNA fingerprinting to identify animal species
- Genetics science projects for high school students
- Media bias in the stem cell research debate
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- Anatomy
- Do humans use only 10 percent of their brain?
- Disease & Illness
- Could the AIDS virus be viewed as a natural way to stabilize population growth?
- Will science and technology conquer water-related diseases?
- Genetics
- Should testing be approved for human genetic engineering?
- Is cloning our pets a slippery slope to human cloning?
- Have breakthroughs in DNA research led to more harm than good?
