by d_admin | Mar 14, 2019 | Biology, Janice Willson, Medical, Nature, Science News
Antimicrobial resistance is quickly becoming a big problem in the field of medicine with antibiotics being less and less effective. These drug-resistant bacteria may require alternative antibiotics or higher dosages that can prove to be more expensive and/or toxic....
by d_admin | Feb 21, 2019 | Biology, Janice Willson, Medical, Science in the Real World
Recently there has been a rise in many childhood diseases due to peoples’ refusal to vaccinate their children. Rises in the occurrence of measles, mumps, pertussis, and rubella have been seen in North America and across Europe and is becoming more common. The World...
by d_admin | Jan 31, 2019 | Janice Willson, Medical, Science Quirkiness
Mass psychogenic illness (MPI) or mass hysteria (an outdated term that stirs up visions of panicked people running through the streets) is the rapid spread of illness with signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group originating from a nervous system...
by d_admin | Jan 24, 2019 | Innovation, Janice Willson, Medical, Science Quirkiness, Technology
A dream is a succession of images, emotions, and sensations that occurs involuntarily in the deepest phase of sleep. Scientists are unsure of why we dream although there have been a number of theories hypothesized over the years and seers have looked to dreams as...
by d_admin | Dec 6, 2018 | Biology, Janice Willson, Medical, Science News
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatally degenerative brain disease that is, thankfully, pretty rare but is also extremely hard to diagnose conclusively. The only truly definitive way to diagnose is a brain biopsy after death. That may be changing, at least in the cases...
