Top 10 Paid iPhone Medical Apps for Healthcare Professionals & Medical Students 2012
Diagnosaurus DDx
With Diagnosaurus you can quickly search over 1,000 diagnoses by organ system, symptom, or disease, or you can view all entries.
ECG Guide
With more than 200 examples of common and uncommon ECGs this guide can help you study [...]
Is China Running out of Sperm?
Infertility is taking a shape of epidemic in China, and cultural and legal issues are making sperm banks face a critical shortage of sperms.
Infertility is a growing problem in China. In southern Guangdong province, 14 percent of the population, [...]
Validity of USMLE Scores in Other Parts of The World
Every year around 25,000 international medical graduates register to attempt USMLE, out of those only 73% pass it at first attempt. Out of these 25,000 candidates only 5,000 will match in residency programs. The rest would have to give it a [...]
Fast food’s addiction can cause you hypertension
No matter how many diet plans you make, some days are just waiting there to make your routine all messed up. Fast food addiction is one of them. It can cause hypertension in young people due to large amounts of sodium in them.
An average Mcdonald’s [...]
UMASS’s scientists identify new genetic mutation that causes familial ALS
Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s Disease) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disorder affecting motor neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). As motor neurons die, the brain’s ability to control [...]
Study shows more than three abortions can cause prematurity and low birthweight in subsequent live births
Women who have had three or more abortions before their first childbirth are nearly three times as likely to deliver prematurely or to have a baby with low birthrate, Finnish research found.
Premature delivery is associated with a variety [...]
Facebook’s organ donor feature live in Asia now!
Facebook has quietly introduced its four-month-old organ donation feature to Asia, which allows users to sign up as organ donors via Facebook. The feature quietly went live in South Korea and Japan last week.
The addition of Japan & Korea [...]
Columbia colistin nalidix agar
Columbia colistin-nalidix agar is a modification of the Columbia Agar Base with the selective antimicrobial agents Colistin Sulfate and Nalidixic Acid added.
Organisms cultured
The agar inhibit the growth of Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas [...]
Empty Can Test
Empty can Test is a manual muscle test for the supraspinatus in the shoulder. It is used to discover possible supraspinatus pathologies such as a subacromial impingement, or a musculotendinous lesion.
Procedure
Passively abduct the shoulder [...]
Fried Egg Appearance
Fried egg appearance is a term used in pathology to describe abnormal cells found in some diseases.
Causes
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae fried egg colonies on Eaton agar
Oligodendroglioma
Hairy cell leukemia on bone marrow biopsy
Seminoma on light [...]
Owl’s Eye Appearance
Owl’s eye appearance is a pattern in radiology and histopathology. It is seen in:
Histology
Herpes Viruses Family infection as inclusion bodies, which are more commonly associated with cytomegalovirus.
Hodgkin’s lymphoma as Reed-Sternberg [...]
