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Medicine is the doctrine of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries in humans and animals.

Health and medicine questions are off-topic unless dealing with the biology underlying health and medicine. Please carefully explore the tour, help centre, and meta before posting health and medicine questions.

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how to close a severed artery/vein?

This is a medicine-related question that I've been wondering about. I've been watching medical lectures on YouTube regarding the human body and was wondering about how surgeons treat a severed artery or vein (think Juggular or Carotid)? Specifically…
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How are Maggots Sterilized (Disinfected)?

For maggot therapy, how are maggots disinfected? I'd imagine there's a limited scope of measurements that can be taken to sterilize the maggots - i.e. we don't want to sterilize them and kill them too.
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Could this Francobelgian comic book woman really have these 4 diseases at the same time?

I'm doing an archive binge of a paper comic "The Kiekeboes". One of the characters is an elderly woman currently at the doctor, and she says the has the following illnesses: Erythema Exsudativum Multiforme; Necrobiosis Lipoïdica; Phlegmasia Alba…
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Where are newly discovered medicines tested

When a medicine is prepared by a biologist,then where does he first test on? And how does he know that this is the exact combination for a disease to get cured? Does he test that medicine on a human or specific sample of blood? I'm an engineering…
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What are the longterm effects of pancreatitis?

As the title asks, what are the longterm effects of pancreatitis? Having one event, is the person more susceptible to have a recurrence, or are they at higher risk of other conditions such as diabetes?
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What evidence is there on the medical effects of circumcision?

If this is the wrong place to post this question, then I will delete it and post it were it belongs. I have heard many conflicting things about circumcision. I have heard that it reduces the rate of STDs, including AIDS, and cancer in the man and…
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How does drinking 25 mg-50mg Viagra every night cure Erectile Disfunction permanently?

https://www.webmd.com/erectile-dysfunction/news/20040513/nightly-viagra-may-restore-normal-erections#2 This article says that people taking viagra once daily can have erection restored permanently again. Those who take viagra only when they're about…
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Trying to make a homogeneous phantom

I am making a T1 weighted phantom for an MRI project. It consists of distilled boiling water, 7g/L agar, 10g/L NaCl and 1g/L CuS04. As the phantom cools it will get a jelly like texture. What I would like is for the phantom to be as homogeneous as…
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Why are nausea and dizziness such common side effects from medication?

Why are nausea and dizziness such common side effects from medication? If you go through your medicine cabinet and look at side effects, those might just be on every single bottle. Is there some system in the human body that is very sensitive to…
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The relation of a schizophrenia drug side effect and caffeine intake

I am listening to the book Surviving Schizophrenia and in the book, it is mentioned that drugs like Clozapine increases in blood level if the patient takes Caffeine, and can have side effects due to elevated levels. In case the patient takes…
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What causes rashes to appear in specific parts of the body without a site specific trigger?

Why do rashes appear randomly at highly specific locations (and not others), without location specific triggers? Like, if it's a systemic issue, then it should be distributed to other areas on the body too.
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WHO Essential Medicines vs Essential Medicines for Children

Per the WHO (World Health Organization), there are a list of "Essential Medicines" such as those listed on their Wikipedia page. Is there a database link for this directly other than Wikipedia? What is the difference between the "Children" list and…
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What is meant by Remote Diuretics & Remote Vomiting?

I have encountered the terms Remote Diuretics & Remote Vomiting separately or sometimes in association in various articles related to medicine. But I am unable to find any reference to what they actually mean. Can you help me understand these terms…
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What happens if you intake pure magnesium?

We know that body needs a certain amount of magnesium. Why are magnesium supplements in the form of magnesium oxide, magnesium citrate, etc?
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How does the surface of the eye remain moist during sleep?

When we are awake, blinking helps distribute the tears so the cornea and the entire conjunctiva are wet and moist. But how is this maintained during the night, when we are sleep and there is no blinking. Doesn't the tear just pool down? Or is there…
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