Tag: medicine
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Transplants, wisdom, (un)learning...
There's a better way to deal with rejection. People who have received a donor organ need to take a host of toxic drugs to stop their immune system attacking it. Soon they might just have their immune system rebooted – making it accept the new organ. (1) Your body shows the way into enlightenment. Unlearn…
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Bad science, humility, virtues.
Among Stanford University's palm trees and sandstone arches—the picture of ivory-tower—there's going to be a center dedicated to chipping away that ivory, The Economist reports. The university plans to open a Meta-Research Innovation Center: a center for the study of bad science. The center will take aim at biomedical studies that are poorly designed, are…
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Midwifery. Witch hunts. Men’s prejudice. Medicine & dogmatism.
The first clear evidence of clinical benefit from hand hygiene came from Semmelweis, working in the Great Hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. The hospital had two obstetric departments, and women were admitted alternately, whatever their clinical condition, to one or the other. In the first, they were attended by medical students who moved straight…
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Life expectancy - The lie of modern medicine.
Life expectancy is the expected (in the statistical sense) number of years of life remaining at a given age. It is the main argument of atheists everywhere to confuse Science with Philosophy and Religion. But how many know what it really is? Really, does anyone believe that during the Middle Ages people died en masse…
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Cells change. Cells change?
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells. More specifically, scientists in UT Southwestern's Department of Molecular Biology first successfully turned astrocytes -- the most common non-neuronal brain cells -- into neurons that formed…
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