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What kind of illness is epilepsy?

 It is a brain disease that causes repeated seizures, regardless of age, gender, or race. At the World Health Organization (WHO), epilepsy is a "chronic disorder of the brain" characterized by repeated seizures caused by sudden, intense electrical excitement in nerve cells (neurons) in the brain, with various clinical symptoms and tests. It is defined as an illness with abnormalities. About 10% of the population will have one seizure throughout their lives, about 4% will have more than one seizure, of which about 1% will be diagnosed with "epilepsy", and about 1 million epilepsy patients in Japan. Exists. Epileptic seizures vary depending on where the electrical excitement of the cerebrum occurs, but the symptoms of the seizures are almost constant for each patient and are characterized by repeated seizures. In addition, since the electric current in the brain is disturbed during an attack, abnormal waves (spike waves / kokuha) appear when the brain waves are measur...

As long as you treat gastric cancer, you should study the indications of chemotherapy and the side effects of anticancer drugs.

 Postoperative pathological test results: Type IIc + III early cancer (m cancer) that remains in the mucosa, no metastatic findings in lymph nodes, peritoneum, liver, etc., and stage I early cancer (In the gross diagnosis during this operation, the cancer tissue is clearly shown on the serous surface in the serous surface infiltration, and the lymph node metastasis is found in the second group lymph node, and it is judged to be advanced cancer in stage III. However, in the judgment, it is recognized as a misidentification as an ulcerative scar, etc., and the pathological test results, etc. performed several times should be prioritized over the gross diagnosis, and the patient should be diagnosed. X was found not to have advanced cancer) Progress of anticancer drug administration after surgery discharge May 20: Visited the clinic as an outpatient, prescribed UFT in 6 capsules a day for 1 week, white blood cell count 3800 / cubic millimeter The same amount of the drug was prescribed ...

MMT

 MMT is an abbreviation for Modern Monetary Theory and is translated as Modern Monetary Theory. (Some people ridicule it as More Money Theory.) It is a theory that has caused controversy and is attracting attention in Japan as well, because the US House of Representatives Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who advocated the "Green New Deal Policy," took up this theory and supported it as a basis for policy implementation. In the United States, it is advocated by Stephanie Kelton, an economist at the State University of New York, and in Japan, it is supported by Takaaki Mitsuhashi and others. The main points of this MMT theory are as follows. 1. Government expenditure (fiscal expenditure) can be made without relying on taxes or international issuance. 2. The government will not fall into default (bankruptcy) as long as it issues government bonds in its own currency. 3. By taxing and issuing government bonds, it is possible to respond to demand-pull inflation. The idea is that taxation ...

Differences between Chinese medicine and Japanese Chinese medicine

 1 What is Chinese medicine? In China, the word "Chinese medicine" refers to "Chinese traditional medicine". It includes treatments such as Chinese medicine, acupuncture and moxibustion, tui na (massage), and guidance (qigong). Strictly speaking, Japanese "Chinese medicine" does not mean "Chinese medicine", but is a technical term of traditional Japanese medicine. In Japan, Western medicine that entered Japan from the Netherlands in the Edo period came to be called "Ranpo", so the medicine of the Chinese Han era that was introduced to Japan before that, that is, crude drug (Chinese "" After using "Chinese medicine"), traditional medicine that became mainland in Japan came to be called "Kanpo" to distinguish it from Dutch medicine. This is the reason why "Chinese medicine" refers only to "Chinese medicine" in Japan today. Also, in Japan, the main composition of "Oriental medicine...

The way of thinking of Chinese medicine

 What is a diagnostic system for prescribing Chinese herbs?  The question for doctors who are about to start Kampo treatment is what kind of clues should be used to prescribe Kampo preparations to actual patients.    The author believes that there are approximately nine areas of clues for prescribing Chinese herbs. The important thing is that it contains almost all the elements needed for the clinical practice of traditional medicine.    The decision to apply or not to a patient can be made by one of the following nine clues, or by making a combined judgment. The author named these systems "Chinese diagnostic system". "Kanpo Diagnostic System" consists of the following 9 items. 1) Source text = symptom group 2) Abdominal examination findings 3) Qi, blood, water 4) Six illnesses 5) Pulse diagnosis, tongue diagnosis 6) Rule of thumb = Gugyeol 7) Western medical disease name 8) Pharmacology of traditional herbal medicine (Honzogaku) 9) Yin-Yang Five Elements T...

About telomeres

 Keda (Note 4). Another problem with the in vitro cellular senescence model with an emphasis on dividing cells is that the life of an individual is not supported solely by dividing cells. As mentioned above, an adult individual is made up of dividing cells and non-dividing cells. It goes without saying that non-dividing nerve cells, skeletal muscle / myocardial cells, and liver and kidney cells that hardly divide are essential for life support. The number of non-dividing cells is overwhelmingly large. Therefore, an aging model that focuses only on dividing cells should be said to be one-sided when considering individual aging. In this respect as well, telomeres cannot be regarded as coupon tickets for individual lifespan. As will be described later, telomeres are also shortened by oxidative stress, which may affect gene expression and reduce cell function. Therefore, it cannot be denied that telomeres of non-dividing cells are involved in individual aging.

Medical theory

 Inflow. As a result, it promotes the release of acetylcholine and causes muscle contraction. It causes muscle soreness and reversal of temperature sensation. In Japan, there are no deaths, but it is said that it takes several months to recover from the symptoms. Return to table of contents c. Saxitoxin Saxitoxin may be found in the midgut gland of bivalves (mussels, oysters, scallops, etc.). In 1987, 187 people ate shellfish in Guatemala, causing food poisoning and killing 26 people. Recently, poisoning of shellfish has been frequently reported in Asia as well. The producer of saxitoxin is the dinophyceae plankton (Alexandrium species) that form red tide, and the plankton is taken in and the shellfish is poisoned. Eating the shellfish leads to paralytic shellfish poisoning. The pharmacological action of saxitoxin is almost the same as that of tetrodotoxin, which paralyzes the sensation of the mouth and limbs and causes death from respiratory muscle paralysis. There is no effective...