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Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) provides access to over 70,000 images in the collections of the History of Medicine Division (HMD) of the U.S National Library of Medicine (NLM). The collection includes portraits, photographs, caricatures, genre scenes, posters, and graphic art illustrating the social and historical aspects of medicine dated from the 15th to 21st century. The records from the Images from the History of Medicine database are also searchable in LocatorPlus. This database assists users in finding and viewing visual material for private study, scholarship, and research. This site contains some materials that may be protected by United States or foreign copyright laws. It is the users' responsibility to determine compliance with the law when reproducing, transmitting, or distributing images found in IHM.

Equation Search Engine - Free Math Help nation library medicine Athenus - The Engineering and Science Search Engine What Will the Next Decade Bring for Medicine? | Dr. Kaku's Universe No one has a crystal ball, but some predictions that I made in recent years are coming into sharp focus with every scientific advance. For starters, every year, more organs of the body can be grown in the laboratory from our own cells. Just last year, a complete windpipe was grown and implanted in a woman. Also, for mice, a complete beating heart was grown from scratch using stem cells. Also, the technology of bio-printers is making major strides and will continue to do so over the next few years. These printers, such as the one developed by Invetech and Organovo, can print human tissue onto a three-dimensional template creating organs and even arteries. Image & Text from Organovo.com: The NovoGen MMX Bioprinter™ is a novel hardware and software platform at the forefront of bioprinting research and development. Also, It took $3 billion to sequence all the genes of the first human. Image: A tricorder from the original Star Trek television series.

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TipTop Insight Engine Pieter Peach Social Media is a Suitcase Too Heavy for Clinicians To Carry November 2011 I’m uncertain about the potential utility of current social media tools in health, and I suspect I’m not alone. I’ve been struggling for a term to help me articulate my feelings towards the use of the terms “social media” in the context of “health” and “healthcare” for a while. View more → Wealth Biomarkers October 2010 I’m a fan of both longitudinal population studies and of the work of public health researcher Michael Marmot from the University College London. View more → The Machine Stops – Exactly how doomed are we? March 2010 “Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his own image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled by the garments he had woven.” “Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with colors of colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. View more → February 2010

BioNumbers - The Database of Useful Biological Numbers Home Site display: Normal | Text Only My Collection | About Us | Teachers Science Museum. Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine. Welcome to the Science Museum's History of Medicine website, the ultimate resource for educators and students. Read more about this project What it means to be well Discover how our understanding of health, illness and disability has changed over time. Read more Teachers Packed with classroom activities and curriculum links, this is the ideal starting point for all educators. Read more Collecting medicine From the weird and the wonderful to the eccentric and the essential: find out what we’ve got and how we got it. Read more The iron lung Investigate with John Snow, lose a limb and explore an iron lung... all from the safety of your computer. Read more Funded by:

GeniusFind Discovery of novel medicine for treatment of chronic wounds 07:20, Medical research Every 20 seconds, a limb is lost as a consequence of diabetic foot ulcer that does not heal. To date, medical solutions that can change this situation are very limited. Diabetic wounds are the most severe type of chronic wounds that largely impair the quality of life in patients and inflict an enormous burden on the healthcare system. In his thesis, Yue Shen demonstrates that plasminogen, a well-know plasma protein , acts as a key regulatory molecule of inflammation that can be used to treat different types of chronic wounds including diabetic wounds and chronic eardrum perforations. Based on these studies, a controlled clinical study using human plasminogen to treat chronic wounds in humans is now planned. The findings in Yue Shen's thesis not only reshape our molecular understanding of the role of plasminogen during wound healing process, but also bring the hope to millions of desperate patients who suffered from chronic wounds.

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actualidad.rt Los cirujanos Steven Claes, Evie Vereecke, Michael Maes, Jan Victor, Peter Verdonk y Johan Bellemans fueron los primeros que lograron identificar el ligamento anterolateral (ALL, por sus siglas en inglés) con las técnicas de la anatomía macroscópica. Para lograr el hallazgo los científicos estudiaron 41 rodillas de cadáveres humanos y encontraron el nuevo ligamento en 40 de ellas, es decir, un 97% de los casos estudiados. Y no solo se trata de un descubrimiento asombroso en esta época en la que parece que ya se sabe todo sobre el cuerpo humano, sino que la nueva parte del cuerpo parece jugar un papel importante en las lesiones del ligamento cruzado, común entre los atletas. Según los científicos se necesitan más estudios para descubrir totalmente su función biomecánica.

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