Wait, Men and Women are different...?

Yes!

The answer is yes!

In so many, many, diverse ways!

We have different chemical constructions, we have different neurological tendencies, we have different body structures, we have a tendency to like different things, we even get sick differently.

That was the moral of today's article entitled Men and Women Get Sick In Different Ways. Very straight forward. However, in the medical world, its not very straight forward. The first major disease which I knew affected men and women differently was heart disease because of the differences in signs of a heart attack. It is interesting that most medical studies are done on men. Perhaps studies ought to be done on women as well. I would guess that with different chemical make ups, diseases respond differently in each environment and that the body will respond to disease and treatment differently. That's just my guess. I could be wrong.

And even though men and women seem to love differently, we can all love. And everyone is better off with a little love. Especially when they are sick. Here's a little love.

Even Mummies have diseases!

The science article today is about how mummies have atherosclerotic vascular disease as well. That is when your arteries clog up and get hard. It causes heart attacks, strokes, and other deadly symptoms. I do not know much about it. I know that I saw a bunch of patients in the hospital this past summer with it. I saw a man have one of his arteries cleaned by surgery this summer because he had, and was in danger of having more, strokes. I am glad that someone thought to check how long this disease has been going on by looking at mummies. Lots of things can be blamed on lifestyle and diet, but if this kind of problem is actually naturally part of the aging process, then it can be looked at and monitored differently. I looked up the definition of disease and was surprised. I always thought that disease meant something that you contracted, not something that was naturally part of you. While I will have to think about the definition of disease a little bit more, I know I do not agree that every disease is abnormal. Some 'diseases' are quite normal. They are just another thing that makes us a little bit different from each other. We are unique. 

The Magic of Gold

The article I read today was very cool. http://scienceblog.com/60728/how-gold-particles-dna-and-water-will-shape-future-of-medicine/ I didn't know how a home pregnancy test works, and the idea of being able to diagnose diseases with water, blood, and gold particles is so simple and cool. It does take a fair bit of work I would assume to set the procedure up so that the gold particles and the DNA-zyme solution works when it comes in contact with the water and blood. The article makes it seem so simple that I could buy some gold particles and mix them up with blood and water and see if I have malaria or cancer. However, the ability of the powder they are making could seriously help the doctors, nurses, and volunteers working in areas with high rates of health problems to more efficiently diagnose and help certain patients. I wonder how much gold this procedure takes and whether there would be any fall out from that. I doubt it, but you never know. It probably wouldn't do anyone any good in the medical test powder, and certainly not after it has been used to test someone for a disease.
If you haven't looked at any of the science blog pages that I have taken articles from, you totally should. There are so many interesting articles and things going on in science these days. Did you know also that there is a Society of Ordained Scientists? Perhaps someday I would be able to work with them. Although I am a mathematician by training. I wonder if there is a society for ordained mathematicians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Ordained_Scientists and http://home.earthlink.net/~jjkeggi/SOSc/