Obstétrique. Léonard de Vinci.
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Obstétrique. Léonard de Vinci.
(Source : another-vintage-blog)
Partial Cross-Section of Adult Skull.
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Ear Including a Sketch of Aural Anatomy and Physiology. D. B. St. John Roosa, 1884.
Wooden acupuncture model, Asia, 1600s.
In an article published this winter, researchers questioned 500 primary care physicians to determine the impact of a physician’s own body mass index. The results are thought-provoking: Overweight doctors were 40 percent less likely to counsel patients about weight loss and a striking 92 percent less likely to record a patient’s obesity in their notes.
Leprosy remained the most feared disease of the Middle Ages, until the Black Death, that is. This disease was rampant throughout Western Europe and leper colonies could be found everywhere. In France, alone, there were 2,000 such colonies in the 11th-13th centuries.
image: Job on the Dunghill is Afflicted with Leprosy to the Dismay of His Friends; Jean FOUQUET; miniature in Hours of Étienne Chevalier; 1452-60; Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
Direct eye exam, from Henry D. Noyes’ A textbook on diseases of the eye, 1890
Stethoscopes On Parade
FDA Review Favors First Drug for HIV Prevention
A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The Food and Drug Administration says that Gilead Sciences’ Truvada appears to be safe and effective for HIV prevention. It concluded that taking the pill daily could spare patients “infection with a serious and life-threatening illness that requires lifelong treatment.”
Today a panel of FDA advisers will consider the review when it votes on whether Truvada should be approved as a preventative treatment for people who are at high risk of contracting HIV through sexual intercourse. The FDA is not required to follow the advice of its panels, but it usually does.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-FDA-Considers-Drug-that-May-Prevent-HIV-051012.aspx
Medical researchers at the Univ. of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor- an essential factor in the regulation of body fat- that could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.
This major advance in research, published in the journal Structure, will greatly enhance the ability to generate drugs that can both block and stimulate the receptor for the obesity hormone leptin. This could have life-changing effects on people suffering from the complications of obesity and malnutrition.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news-Drug-Could-Treat-Obesity-Anorexia-042712.aspx