Medical Technology Advances "First the surgeon would cut off the blood flow with a tourniquet. After that he would take a scalpel and slice through the outlying tissue and flesh. Then he would use a hacksaw-like tool called a capital saw to saw through the bone. It had replaceable blades. ...

All through time scholars and fortune tellers have tried to predict the next big thing to hit, whether it is general or a specific, they have tried. No one knows when it will hit until it does, like Fleming's serendipitous discovery of the antibiotic penicillin. At this, the dawning of a new m...

Antibiotics use to be the talk of the medical world just fifty years go, now the talk is about trying to find a better antibiotic than the ones they came up with less than a five decades ago. Antibiotic Resistance has taking the world by storm. The abuse and excessive use of antimicrobials may be dr...

The Tuskegee Experiment Before we speak on the Tuskegee Experiment, I feel there are some questions that should be asked. What is the mission of the Public Health Department? What is the Oath of Hippocrates? What is syphilis? Who is Dr. E. Bruusgaard? These answers will become important in he...