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Scaffold Hopping for Drug Discovery

conorcaffrey wrote 3 weeks ago: Designing new drugs is expensive. Using virtual drug design software to produce novel medicines circ … more →

Tags: About Health, cancer, chemical structure, Chemistry, Chemotherapy, Drug Design, ligand, Molecule, Pharmacophore

Sudden Sports Deaths1 comment

conorcaffrey wrote 1 month ago: CPR training with defibrillator.  Sudden deaths that occur on the professional sports field make the … more →

Tags: About Health, Cardiology, Athlete Deaths, Athletes, cardiac deaths, Cardiovascular disorders, Conditions and Diseases, Fabrice Muamba, health

What is Better than Warfarin?

conorcaffrey wrote 2 months ago: Ball and stick model of the drug warfarin.  Coumarin-induced skin necrosis: The patient on the left … more →

Tags: About Health, warfarin, VTE, anticoagulant, Deep vein thrombosis, thrombosis, venous thrombosis, prothrombin time, Low molecular weight Heparin

Medical Ethics in the Ancient World by Paul Carrick1 comment

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: An historical account of the origin of our modern medical ethics. An examination of the prehistory m … more →

Tags: About Health, health, Health and Disease, ancient greeks, Book Reviews, Books, development of medical ethics, development of medicine, ethics

Why do Bones Fracture?1 comment

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan assessment of bone mineral density of the femoral neck. … more →

Tags: About Health, elderly health, health, Health and Disease, Osteoporosis, women's health, bmd measurement, BMD measurements, Bone Density

Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes3 comments

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: Having diabetes greatly increases your risk of cardiovascular disease. Diabetics have twice the inci … more →

Tags: About Health, diabetes 2, diabetes research, diabetes type 2, about cardiovascular risk factors, about diabetes type 2, about diabetes type ii, Blood Sugar, cardiometabolic disease

Triggers of Type 1 Diabetes1 comment

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: Inside the pancreas, beta cells make the hormone insulin. (Photo credit: jennifertomaloff) There are … more →

Tags: About Health, diabetes 2, Antibody, autoantibody, Autoimmune disease, beta cell, Blood Type, Causes of Diabetes, diabetes

Because It's Winter?

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “If Global Warming is real, then why the fuck is it so cold outside?”   (I just tur … more →

Tags: He said, To Everybody (or Nobody in Particular), I Wept

The biological and not so biological aspects of Darwinian Evolution

Remi Zaidan wrote 3 months ago: I don’t remember the exact day when I actually understood what the term “Evolution” means in the Dar … more →

Tags: About great minds, about ideas, Adaptation, bio-diversity, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, death, Evolution, Life

Darwin and Astbury Were Spinning In Their Graves

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “DNA and evolution is mostly hormonezones and issues you inherit from your parents.” … more →

Tags: He said, Directly to Someone Else, I Wept

Hypoglycaemia in the Elderly Type 2

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: Elderly type 2 patients usually have their diabetes complicated by the presence of other co-morbidit … more →

Tags: About Health, diabetes 2, diabetes type 2, diabetes research, Health promotion, health, Medicine, health in the elderly, Healthcare

Preventing COPD2 comments

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: Enlarged view of lung tissue showing the difference between healthy lung and COPD (Photo credit: Wik … more →

Tags: About Health, health, Health and Disease, about copd, about lung, about lung damage, about lung disease, about lungs, about smoking damage

Vascular Dementia

conorcaffrey wrote 3 months ago: English: PET scan of a human brain with Alzheimer’s disease. Global prevalence of dementia is … more →

Tags: About Health, elderly health, Science & Medicine, science and medicine, Health promotion, health, Medicine, Blood Pressure, aging

How Do You Survive in The Winter?

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “Snow is white because of all the salt in it.”   (So why do we lay down salt on sno … more →

Tags: He said, To Everybody (or Nobody in Particular), I Wept

Because Science - When Attached to Anything - Makes It Real

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “Science fiction is real. It has the word science in it.”   (I don’t know why … more →

Tags: She said, Directly To Me, I Laid My Head on the Desk

Futurama vs Jesus

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “That Calculon Collider is trying to find the Jesus particle.” (It’s the God parti … more →

Tags: He said, Directly to Someone Else, I Laid My Head on the Desk

This One Should Make My Friend Amit Want to Kill People

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “Science is all about what you believe in.”   (That’s religion, which is usua … more →

Tags: He said, To Everybody (or Nobody in Particular), I Wept

Hubble vs Hubbard

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “Scientology was created by the guy who invented the ginormous space telescope.” (I know … more →

Tags: She said, To Everybody (or Nobody in Particular), I Wept

Well, You Heard Wrong

mcclaud wrote 3 months ago: “I heard that blue-eyed people have shark DNA in them.”   (That was one of the most … more →

Tags: She said, To Everybody (or Nobody in Particular), I laughed


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