Do You Know Your Blood Type?

Mike Magee Medical Science has made remarkable progress over the past 100 years, fueled by basic scientific discoveries, advances in medical technology, improved diagnostic testing, and public health programming to support, inform, and empower patients. Progress has been sequential, with each new discovery and advance building on those preceding it. These have combined to lengthen lifespan in […]

Uncoupling Scientific Progress From Human Progress: How Did We Arrive At This Place? A Three Part Series.

Source: studentblogs.med.ed.ac.uk Mike Magee A fundamental principle in human physiology and homeostasis is the negative feedback loop. When the body produces too much of something, a negative signal is transmitted back to the source which limits further production until peripheral over-production declines. These systems of checks and balances have evolved over the millennia to protect us […]