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Human embryonic cells at various development stages: 4-cell, molura,blastocyst, and hatching blastocyst (Cover image from Cell-Research)

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thecivilwarparlor:

Distal end of left femur with fracture and lead ball embedded in lateral condyle, 1860-1865  from a 20 year old private in the 1st Texas Calvary. 

Bone; brass; wood  Donated by Jefferies Wyman, M.D., 1874
Warren Anatomical Museum, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine 

Case 460 was from a 20 year old private in the 1st Texas Calvary. On September 5, 1864 the soldier was admitted into a hospital in New Orleans where his lower femur was amputated by Surgeon J. Bockee of the United States Volunteers. Bockee donated the amputated femur to the Army Medical Museum.

qbits:

A second meeting of activists for intersex rights has called on the medical community and the UN to respect their rights

13 December 2012| By Anna Leach

The second International Intersex Forum ended on Tuesday in Stockhom, Sweden.

The forum, part of an…

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surviving-science:

Human Hand

after you cringe, just take a deep breath & really look at this. it’s amazing how unbelievably intricate & mechanical the human hand is, let alone any aspect of the anatomy & biological beauties evolution has produced.

…this makes people cringe? But it’s beautiful…

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Here’s a link to the whole video: x

Here’s a link the the website: x

THIS IS THE FUCKING BEST.

Reblog this shit! Make it known.

This is fantastic. Pretty much each one of these situations have happened to me or still happen to me on a regular basis.

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plastiquehair:

ANYONE

medicinenotes:

Overall Winner - Intracranial recording for epilepsy

This photograph shows the surface (cortex) of a human brain belonging to an epileptic patient, displaying the arteries and veins that supply its nutrients and oxygen. This photograph was taken before an intracranial electrode recording procedure, in which a flexible electrode grid is attached to the surface of the brain. The patient is then taken to the telemetry ward, where they are observed and recorded for a period of up to two weeks. Post-observation, the surgeon reviews the recordings and evaluates the data using the unique numbers on the grid implant to identify the specific areas of the brain that need to be removed during the next operation. This patient made a full recovery and no longer suffers from epileptic fits. Credit: Robert Ludlow, UCL Institute of Neurology, London / Wellcome Images

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girljanitor:

WELL they can’t deny you emergency care…but they can take their sweet time getting to you

Oh, but they actually can. If they are privately owned & not a trauma center, they can, legally, refuse you treatment. 

I had a really high fever when I was about 3 years old and went into shock. My parents rushed me to three different hospitals - two turned us away because they didn’t accept out insurance. I could’ve suffered terrible brain damage or died. I don’t think anyone should be turned away when it’s an emergency, but hey, what do I know.

Unless you’re literally bleeding to death in front of them, they don’t legally have to treat you. It’s so messed up. :(

America, land of the free, home of the top 1% who love to fuck the other 99%

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thesciencellama:

Nano-Technology and Medicine

Nano-Materials have proven many times that they have potential in Bio-Medicine applications. An example of some materials being used right now are nano-fibers, nano-particles and nano-spheres for as many things from regenerating nerve or muscle cells to preventing diseases directly or indirectly by delivering drugs into target areas.

In areas of regeneration, nano-materials have been constructed into scaffolds which allow the body to regenerate cells faster. Nano-fiber scaffolds have been used to regenerate nerve cells called Oligodendrocytes which help Myelinate or insulate and protect nerve axons. Other similar structures have been used to help with healing of skin wounds. These technologies can help cure many diseases involving neurons such as Parkinson’s or Multiple Sclerosis for example without any collateral damage to the body.

Other applications include using nano-particles for killing off bacteria. Particles of silver, zinc, gold and copper have been shown to kill bacteria on contact or prevent their replication and incorporating them into fabrics in hospitals can prevent many infections. Gold, specifically, can be used to form what are called nano-bubbles when heated with lasers and can either punch holes in diseased cells - allowing drugs to get through - or bursting the bubble causing the cell to die.

Nano-technology can also prevent disease or infections indirectly by acting as vehicles for drug transportation in the body. Nano-particles can be designed to take the shape of spheres which can hold many types of drugs from anti-cancer drugs to antigens for preventing autoimmune diseases. These ‘vehicles’ can be programmed - using ligands - to target specific cells like cancer cells for example allowing for much more precise treatments. Cancer types ranging from Bladder, Pediatric and Colorectal cancer (among others) have been treated using these techniques.

This field is steadily rising and I can not wait to see what its future holds.

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Family members expect bed rails to protect the parents, grandparents, and great grandparents spending their nights in nursing home beds.

Warning labels are not placed on the bed rails that have strangled and injured senior citizens for years.

The FDA finally issued a warning in 1995 about the dangers of bed rails.You’ve heard about that, right? Exactly. No one has. And so the deaths and injuries continued.

After the FDA’s ineffective warning, officials discussed placing warning labels on bed rails. But, manufacturers resisted, so the FDA let it slide.

Between 2003 and 2012, 36,000 mostly older adults entered emergency rooms with bed rail-related injuries. Since the FDA’s quiet warning, about 550 bed rail-related deaths have occurred. Why should senior citizens get the short end of the stick on this under-publicized and under-regulated safety issue?

Tell the FDA: Put this safety issue to bed by finally requiring warning labels on bed rails!

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A tip from your favorite nurse

(that’d be me)

Always have eggs in your fridge

You just never know when someone will split their head open

Or cut their finger while cooking

And so on

See that membrane there?

While the blood is gushing - hold pressure and crack open an egg

Peel that there membrane off and put it on the wound (continue holding pressure)

The membrane will harden and keep the wound closed until you can get to the ER for stitches

If you even need them that is

Nature: 1, Band aids: 0

You’re welcome.

for reals??

wow sometimes Tumblr is the best education.

Yup! My sister had to do this for me when I cut my palm.

I. Could’ve used this 9 days ago -.- lol.

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allisticntprivilege:

We have until December 14 to get 25,000 signatures on it. You need to live in the USA, and you should seriously sign, signal boost, tumblr bomb, anything you can. Lives are on the line- lives of people like me.

Reminder.

Okay, I am judging you for the fact that this still needs 23,000 out of 25,000 signatures, Tumblr. What the fuck.

Um, do people not understand that this so so people with autism can get life-saving organ transplants, instead of given a death sentence on the grounds that our lives are inherently worthless?

Do you think this doesn’t happen to young adults?

23-Year-Old Autistic Man Denied Heart Transplant at UPenn Hospital

Do you think this doesn’t happen to children with various developmental disorders?

3-Year-Old Amelia Rivera Denied Kidney Transplant

Do you think this doesn’t happen to adults with Down’s Syndrome?

32-Year-Old Sandra Jensen Denied Heart Transplant

UNTIL THE 1990’s, “mental retardation”, meaning any sort of cognitive impairment, was considered “contraindication” for receiving a livesaving organ transplant(link opens as PDF)

“Contraindicated.” That quite literally means that they considered saving a cognitively impaired person’s life HARMFUL.

oh goodness why did i not see this on my dash?

boost!

On the fucked-up-ness of transplants, may I remind everyone that Dick fucking Cheney got a heart transplant when he is passed the age for which he was eligible to receive one.

Oh, and I can just sit here in CHF for another 10 years while UPENN tries to invent some surgery to fix me, but I don’t qualify for a transplant because my heart is too structurally damaged. Uhm, I believe that is the mother fucking point of doing transplants in the first place. By the time some people are considered “sick enough” for transplantation, they have other issues like kidney & lung failure which prevents them from being eligible.

There’s a whole long list of criteria & they basically keep organs for people who will have the “best quality of life”, which is the opinion of some old ass white doctors & highly subjective. If should be for life-saving reasons & for people whose quality of life would be most improved, like me.

So meanwhile, Dick Cheney could have remained on the device he had implanted & been kept alive & fairly healthy, while I choke on the mother fucking fluids building up in my lungs. I’m one of thousands upon thousands of people who should have received a transplant or who should be eligible for one, but they tend to go to mostly wealthier & healthier people. 

The whole system puts the value of one person’s life over another & it’s super fucked up. And, that’s not even getting into the illegal organ trade & organ harvesting that goes on, as well as insurance coverage & the costs of transplantation, which in & of itself is discriminatory.

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