Archive for 'Pathology' Category

Free Medical Books & Study Guides – Scribd

Scribd is a place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. Medical students may find some tasty tidbits in this vast archive. For example, USMLE – BRS Pathology – Flash Cards

Video Review of Pathology – DoctorsTube

DoctorsTube – A large database of pathological states accompanied by video selections. This collection is an excellent review tool for general pathology, and the added video component facilitates long-term retention.

Keloid Review

fibrous growths that uncommonly occur in cases of wound healing. They present predominantly in blacks, and any type of skin piercing can affect those predisposed to the disease. The first-line therapy is injection of steroids into the keloid, with a 70 percent response rate. Surgical excision alone is not effective, as this option is often [...]

Traction Alopecia

There are many causes of hair loss including medications, thyroid disease, iron deficiency, even having a baby. Most of these causes result in temporary hair loss — the hair eventually grows back. Some types of hair loss, however, are permanent; this is called scarring or cicatrical alopecia. A common scarring hair loss in women is [...]

New Alzheimer's Drug Targets Tau Tangles

methylthioninium chloride, is the first treatment specifically designed to target the Tau tangles. Other treatments for Alzheimer’s tend to focus on combating a waste protein in the brain, beta-amyloid, which is known to form hard plaques. The latest work suggests targeting Tau may produce better results. Trials of the drug, known as Rember, in 321 [...]

IBS Drug Approved

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first U.S. drug to treat irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) in adult women, a medicine marketed by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co and its developer, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals Inc. The drug, Amitiza, was approved for women over 18 years old, but not for men, because its effectiveness was [...]

Basic Pathology Terms

Infection: detrimental colonization of a host organism by a foreign species. the infecting organism seeks to utilize the host’s resources to multiply (usually at the expense of the host). The infecting organism, or pathogen, interferes with the normal functioning of the host and can lead to chronic wounds, gangrene, loss of an infected limb, and [...]

MRSA: What Med Students Should Know

by Alison Hayward, M.D. SDN Staff Writer MRSA rose to prominence last month when a CDC report published in JAMA estimated that nearly 19,000 people had died of MRSA infections in 2005. Compare that with AIDS, which killed about 17,000 in the same year,   Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that was discovered in 1880 [...]

10 Basic Medical Definitions

These words are worth sorting out. A mix up can compromise your chart/testimony. 1. Abrasion = A superficial injury to the skin or other body tissue caused by rubbing or scraping resulting in an area of body surface denuded of skin or mucous membrane. 2. Incision = A cut or wound made by a sharp [...]