Recent Advances In Medicine

Hooly22

Need help ASAP!

Can anyone tell me a recent advance in Medicine! Any med student out there or anything?

dajaffa

HPV vaccine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine

It's rather nifty

Chakar

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2908408.ece

A breakthrough in the development of stem cells from skin cells not from human embryos. This is important as it eliminates ethical and practical problems with the manipulation and eventual destroying of human embryos.

Vorsprung

How long is a piece of string?! Actually I haven't done adult medicine properly in about a year so this is going to be a pretty **** list! If Panda's about she'll have better ones, she's gonna be doing some of her finals in this kind of stuff in a couple of weeks (good luck Elisa!)

HPV jab is a good one.

You could also talk about the use of inhaled insulin which can be used by some diabetics (not all of them though!).

Gene therapy is what a lot of people are talking about though now, it could potentially be used for things like Cystic fibrosis. If this happens it'll be the business.

Meningococcus C vaccine was introduced a few years ago.

Jesus I can't think of anything else, better go read up before I get back into Vincents' in January!

Stepherunie

PET CT for cancer screening/staging. Pretty amazing.

*has complete bias on that one though*

Breezer

Stepherunie wrote: »

PET CT for cancer screening/staging. Pretty amazing.

*has complete bias on that one though*

How recent it this? I realise it's recent in Ireland, but overall? I guess it depends how recent 'recent' is. Or am I just confused? I feel very Systems 1...

Stepherunie

It's been around a while but it's being developed more and more, there's an awful lot of new research coming out and there's looking at using it for other diseases, not just cancer.

However i'm in cancer mode due to study hence le bias.

panda100

bigjimthefirst wrote: »

How long is a piece of string?! Actually I haven't done adult medicine properly in about a year so this is going to be a pretty **** list! If Panda's about she'll have better ones, she's gonna be doing some of her finals in this kind of stuff in a couple of weeks (good luck Elisa!)
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eeeeeeeeekkkk!dont remind me!Congrats to you too!No more obs,paeds,psych 4 eva!yay you!

Well my best piece of advice is to go out and buy the Irish times today for the health supplement.Thats where you'll read all the latest news! Consultant nephrologist was going on about some new breakthrough revoloution type thingy for dialysis patients the other day but I tuned out half way through.....wish Id listened now!

stereoroid

Lots of stuff happening in the world of Multiple Sclerosis, such as genetic factors, the role of Vitamin D, new treatments under study or research, including some not designed for MS (e.g. minocycline). A good place for updates & info is msif.org.

Hooly22

Thanks a million everyone!

Sorry.. I began looking on the internet.... but I got completely confused! DIdn't know the best site to use or anything! So many terms:(


Had to find something... (we sidetracked in biology class a bit)
Thanks again! Really appreciate it!

Stabshauptmann

Sorry.. I began looking on the internet.... but I got completely confused! DIdn't know the best site to use or anything!

Google

There have been a half dozen threads this week which the optimist in me hopes is supposed to be taking the piss out of the lazy student thread.

Google is your friend people

stereoroid

Kaptain Redeye wrote: »

Google is your friend people

And Wikipedia is like that crazy uncle who bombards you with war stories and trivia, then goes off on some politically-incorrect rant about Ayn Rand or Israel...

Raphael

stereoroid wrote: »

And Wikipedia is like that crazy uncle who bombards you with war stories and trivia, then goes off on some politically-incorrect rant about Ayn Rand or Israel...

The above makes me miss reputation...

Breezer

stereoroid wrote: »

And Wikipedia is like that crazy uncle who bombards you with war stories and trivia, then goes off on some politically-incorrect rant about Ayn Rand or Israel...

He he he!

Technically the best site for medical information is probably PubMed.com, although it depends on how much detail you're looking for. Stick to the abstracts and you should be OK, the full text articles can get a little scary

Stepherunie

You need an idea what you're looking for in pubmed too.

Cochrance database can be good enough also and that's totally free to access in Ireland thanks to the State.

I heart Pubmed though.... If only i could marry that site.

Breezer

Stepherunie wrote: »

You need an idea what you're looking for in pubmed too

You could always put in 'medicine' and limit it to stuff published in the last month - a bit random but it'd work in this case

Stepherunie

Remind me to shoot you know it all

Then i can look up your case study on pub med. Heh heh.

*hereby promises to never do such an evil thing, radiation is waaay cooler*

ps your search throws up 535 results including 'the history of occupational therapy in spain'

EamonnKeane

HIV has gone from a death sentence to a manageable chronic illness (so long as you can afford the drugs)

Vorsprung

EamonnKeane wrote: »

HIV has gone from a death sentence to a manageable chronic illness (so long as you can afford the drugs)

Or if you break the patent and make them yourself (eg Brazil)

MatthewVII

Talk about incretins, the new drug that caters for all sorts of type 2 diabetics. They're awesome. None of the niffy side effects of your usual oral anti-diabetic agents.

JohnnyChimpo

electrochemotherapy

MatthewVII

Photochemotherapy