Breathe in. Breathe out. Look away. Stay sober. Addiction is not an active choice to engage in potentially harmful behavior; it is a disease. In fact, conscious attempts by addicts to avoid drug and alcohol use are frequently suppressed by their neural processing systems. Changes in cognition, emotion, and environment all affect a body’s ability […]
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On paper, it sounds pretty easy to determine if something is alive or not — within the medical field, though, it is far more complicated. Because of outside pressures of lawsuits, religious objections, and state-to-state legislation, it can be a minefield when trying to correctly meet the criteria for death. The Universal Determination of Death
Increased heart rate. Rapid breathing. Struggling to sleep. Feeling weak and tired. Sweating or trembling. These are the signs and symptoms of anxiety. One or more of these symptoms might be familiar to everyone because of the current pandemic. Anxiety disorder is real, and it has escalated quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anxiety is characterized
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When a doctor calls time of death on a 35-year-old female lying motionless on a stretcher, it is usually definite. He has watched the patient’s vital functions slowly cease, giving him the needed certainty to call the time at which physiologic death has occurred. These types of cases, where death occurs in the presence of
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Few organs are held in as high regard as the human brain. It’s incredibly complex with many mysteries that still puzzle researchers. As the keeper of all thoughts, emotions, memories, and senses of self, it’s what makes humans human. Traditional in vitro models can be useful, but they fail to imitate communication between the different
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Loss of taste and smell, persistent cough, stubborn fever, chills and aches, and maybe blue toes. These are typical symptoms of COVID-19 that we have all come to know too well; yet, much of the virus still remains a mystery, like why some experience no symptoms while others suffer enormously. Many are quick to claim
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Therapeutic hypothermia, as the name suggests, is a method of purposefully lowering a patient’s body temperature to approximately 93 degrees Fahrenheit in an effort to increase survival rate and decrease the likelihood of further damage to the brain. Take for example, a patient who’s suffered cardiac arrest and, after an intense round of CPR, has
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It’s no secret that cardiovascular health is essential to overall body health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cardiovascular diseases have been the leading cause of death in the United States for approximately 80 years, and cause one in every four deaths. However, the risks of these diseases extend even further: poor
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Psychosomatic disorders are more simple than they sound. The word “psychosomatic” can be broken into two components: “psycho-,” which means relating to the mind and “-somatic,” relating to the body. In layman’s terms, psychosomatic disorders occur when one’s mental state manifests physical symptoms. Socrates first introduced a semblance of today’s psychosomatic disorders 2500 years ago
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