Category: Medicine
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Healing Minds: How Bone Marrow Transplants Could Combat Alzheimer’s Disease
Welcome again to another exploration into The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Medicine! Today, we will take a look at an exciting discovery scientists have made that can provide a potential treatment to Alzheimer’s, a progressive neurological disease that has no known cure or treatments. But first, what exactly is Alzheimers? Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain…
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From Crisp to Risk: The Hidden Hazards of Alcohol-Based Mouthwash
Welcome again to another exploration into The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Medicine! Today, we will take a look at one of the more puzzling, and alarming, discovery scientists recently made about a common hygiene product we all have used: Listerine. Listerine and other popular brands of mouthwash are alcohol based, meaning the compound alcohol is a…
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The Convenience of Contraception: Opill Hits the Shelves
Welcome back to another journey along The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Medicine. Unfortunately, I was on break the past two months, juggling AP test and DECA Nationals. However, all of this has ended, and the guide will once again continue its journey, teaching travelers the biggest discovered and the most interested trivialities in the medicine. Today, we…
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