I thought class last Tuesday was really interesting and helped situate us in the role of either a physician or an anthropologist. I thought about those two roles and how depending on the perspective, the problem can look totally different. … Continue reading
I really enjoyed our class last week! It was great to finally utilize the scientific method in our case analysis and interesting to see how much collaboration was required between two fields I had never really realized were that similar, … Continue reading
After learning about prion diseases in class and having heard of Mad Cow Disease before, but never truly understanding it, I decided to investigate further. Mad Cow Disease, otherwise known as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, became an epidemic in the United … Continue reading
One of the the aspects of prion disease that interests me most is its long incubation period. An incubation period is the time between the moment a person is infected with a pathogen and the moment a person starts displaying … Continue reading
After our class on Prion diseases, I was interested in finding out more about potential solutions for preventing or stopping chronic wasting disease. Because Prion proteins can manipulate normal proteins into changing their form to fit with the Prion, it … Continue reading
Our introduction to prion diseases this week, like the mad cow disease and scrapie, got me interested in reading more about prion diseases. Usually we classify diseases into four categories: genetic, degenerative, infectious or bacterial/viral. However, it was interesting to … Continue reading
This week we learned about prion diseases, which are 100% fatal to all patients. I decided to look into some of the treatment options that might exist or are being developed for these diseases. The research that goes into treating … Continue reading
Last class, we learned about the body’s carbonic acid-bicarbonate buffer system, which stabilizes the pH of our blood. When this system is overwhelmed, the blood can become either too acidic (this is called acidosis) or too basic (this is called … Continue reading
This week in class we focused on acids and bases, doing so made me think of the term “lactic acid”. For my high school varsity crew team, I had to have my lactic acid threshold tested in order to learn … Continue reading
As we learned in the Acid-Base Crash Course, acids are sour to taste, like vinegar. We have learned drinking lemon juice is not harmful for our bodies, but this has lead me to think, is drinking other, more concentrated acids … Continue reading