The Human Body

A software prototype, developed by IBM, lets you click an area of the body and, in turn, go into the medical history to see previous diagnoses, test results, radiological tests .
"It's like Google Earth of the human body," explains researcher Andre Elisseeff, who emphasized that the Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME)-Search Engine-Symbolic Anatomical and more easily make use of electronic records. Allows access to information by combining medical data with visual representation.

This same expert has argued that has not yet created a unified electronic medical record, really functional, allowing the exchange of information between health professionals and institutions. Therefore, many professionals prefer to continue with the paper records or their own systems of data file. The aim of ASME, created in the lab's research company located in Zurich, is in a single point of component parts and unstructured information, while providing an intuitive tool for ease of use.

According Elisseeff, when a patient comes to consultation because of, for example, back pain, now the doctor questions about the details of your illness that you can remember, while testing with a physical exam. The doctor may also consider documents from previous consultations, "but you may not have access to the full history of the patient and at the same time, information on similar cases."

With new technology, optional with the mouse on the back of the avatar or figure created in three dimensions. Then, for example, would click on the spine, getting all the medical records and information related to the spine of the patient (including diagnosis, laboratory results and medical images such as radiographs).
Also, if the doctor is only interested in information on a particular section of the column, you can expand this area to define the search parameters.

Data curious about the human body

Many times we hear things that seem ridiculous as the truth that you will read below, check the data and if someone has something to say against any of these things or you can deny any of them with scientific data as welcome your comments and its explanation. For now I have the first data where a video can show that if
* People say "health" when you sneeze, sneezing because for the heart is stopped a millisecond.
* If you sneeze too hard.
* If you try to contain a sneeze can break a blood vessel in the head or neck and die.
* Like fingerprints, each language is unique.
* It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open (do not try to do better, because you can not get out ... just kidding).
* The human skeleton consists of 205 or 206 bones (according to each of the coccyx). More than half of them are in the hands and feet: 27 in each hand and 26 on each foot (106 total).
* When a person reaches age 70, your heart will beat at least 2.800 million times.
* Over a lifetime, a person eats around 60,000 pounds of food, which is equivalent to the weight of 6 elephants.
* The feeling that occurs when a part of our body "sleeps" is called neurapraxia. It usually occurs when a nerve is compressed between a bone and other hard object. The blood continues flowing through the affected area.
* The nails of the fingers grow nearly four times faster than the nails of the toes.
* Women blink nearly twice that of men.
* The stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks.
* The human skeleton is still growing up to about 35 years of age, then starts to shrink.
* We have about 100,000 hairs on our head.
* The skin on the feet and hands to be wrinkle in a long time because the water expands. The thick, hardened layers of skin to swell when water is withheld.
* The frenulum that goes under the tongue is not one to swallow and choke her.
* 70 percent of the human body is composed of water.
* The human ears grow throughout life, although they do it very slowly.
* And ... it could not miss more than 70% of people who read this will try to lick your elbow.

Create a 3D model of the human body

The new tool, created at IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich, and named ASME (Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine - Search Engine Anatomic and Symbolic) allows physicians to click the mouse on one body part to start a search information in the patient.Researchers from IBM today launched the prototype of a 3D visualization software that will allow doctors to interact with patient data in the same way they interact with people, ie, examining the human body.

"With this project we make it easier to access information by combining medical data with visual representation. This will make the process much simpler to interact with data for health care," said Andre Elisseeff, who leads the research health in the IBM laboratory in Zurich.

Medical history in a 'click'.
According to IBM in a statement, the new technology uses an "avatar" (a character created in three dimensions) in the form of a human body to show the clinical records. When a citizen goes to consultation at present due to, eg back pain, the doctor questioned the patient about the details of your medical history you can remember, tests and performs a physical exam. The doctor may also consider documents from previous consultations, but you may not have access to the full history of the patient and at the same time, information on similar cases.

So with technology ASME, the doctor stuck with the mouse on the back of the "avatar" and then, eg on the spine, getting all the medical records and information related to the spine of the patient (including diagnosis, laboratory results and medical images such as radiographs).
Also, if the doctor is only interested in information on a particular section of the column, you can expand this area to define the search parameters.

Nacional of Medellin in the first laboratory to measure radioactive contamination of the human body

The Laboratory of Bio-analysis of the Universidad Nacional (UN) in Medellín, which has all the installed systems for assessment of internal contamination, is the first of its kind in the country. Furthermore, the patterns and protocols established by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an autonomous entity of the UN.

According to Anselmo Puerta, a teacher at the Faculty of Science, with the internal dosimetry can be determined by what route he joined the substance and how much, and you can set the dose to the exposed individual. This happens mainly with those working in nuclear medicine.

"The analysis for determining the amount of radioactive material incorporated and whether such incorporation is within range, and in this case, keep a record of the individual and the dose received during their working lives. If the amount of incorporated radioactive material exceeds the range of registration, the operator enters in the research stage to perform corrective action in this regard, "he added.

At the UN, through other projects of national character and the Directorate for Research in Medellin (Dime), procedures have been developed to determine the activity of radioactive material emitting gamma and alpha in the urine, including the evaluation of Polonium 210, which is a good indicator of incorporation of naturally occurring radioactive materials.

The internal dosimetry is a way to evaluate the dose received by the person who incorporates radioactive material and can occur through direct contact. This integration can occur through inhalation, ingestion or through the skin. According to experts, nuclear medicine is one of the applications where there is such a risk because it is handled radioactive material in liquid form and some of them are volatile as iodine 131.

Other forms of incorporation of radioactive material, such as through food, where the concentration is usually very small. However, in Colombia there have been no studies on concentrations of naturally occurring radioactive material in food.

Other possibilities of incorporating these radioactive materials can be natural in factories storage of mineral water or beer, mines, construction materials and quarries, which could contain uranium or thorium, which should be evaluated to see if there radiation risk, said Anselmo Gate.

According to Jorge Ignacio Mejía Vallejo, coordinator of Nuclear Affairs of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, for people who are exposed because of their occupation, should not exceed 20 millisievert per year, but may receive up to 50 in one year without 100 millisievert exceed a period of five years. Overcome these parameters, the substance would cause serious damage to health.

The Radiation Physics Group, School of Physics, National University of Colombia in Medellin and has international recognition in internal dosimetry. This follows from the teaching of Professor Anselmo Door in the course Assessment of occupational exposure due to intake of radionuclides', organized by the IAEA and held in the Institute of Radioprotection and Dosimetry in the city of Rio de Janeiro 2004.

Door announced that the IAEA has already approved a project proposal for evaluation of natural radioactivity in water consumption, at least in the cities of Medellin and Bogota. This project is expected to analyze water samples from distribution systems in primary and secondary.

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is a cancer of the tumor has been known since ancient times. The oldest description of cancer (but without using the word 'cancer') comes from Egypt from 1600 BC or so. The Edwin Smith papyrus describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of cancer who were treated with cauterization with a tool called "orquilla the fire." The writing says about the disease: "There is no treatment. At least one case is a man. For centuries, physicians described similar cases, all with a sad conclusion. It was only that medical science was greater understanding of the circulatory system in the seventeenth century that progress was made happy. In this century it was possible to determine the relationship between breast cancer and axillary lymph nodes. The French surgeon Jean Louis Petit (1674 - 1750) and later the surgeon Benjamin Bell (1749 - 1806) were the first to remove the lymph nodes, breast tissue and muscles pectoral (radical mastectomy). His path to understanding and progress was followed by William Stewart Halsted who invented the operation known as the Halsted radical mastectomy "procedure that has been popular until the last years of the seventies.

Unexpected finding on Alzheimer .- (Alzheimer III)

The discovery was made during an operation with an experimental technique for treating a patient with morbid obesity. The goal of treatment, called deep brain stimulation (DBS in its English acronym), to suppress the appetite of the individual.
But instead, the patient began to experience vivid memories.
The discovery, says the study published in the journal Annals of Neurology, could lead to a form of electrical stimulation to treat brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
"It's a very striking finding," said a BBC Science Dr. Melchor Lemp, vice president of the Society of Neurosurgery of Chile and head of the department of Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital, University of Chile. "Perhaps the research will now have to move towards this area," adds the expert. The study opens this discovery is now know exactly what area of the brain should be stimulated by electrodes in order to treat a disease or other brain and its possible side effects. There is still much work, but this discovery allows the relatives of affected persons to restore the dream that one day it was.

Sociedad Chilena Historia Medicine

Founded in 1955 the Chilean Society of History of Medicine since its inception, has aimed to serve as the central body meeting for all those linked to the medical field and from their respective professional fields, have sought to express their interest to know the different historiographical issues arising from the development of medicine in all its varied facets.

After his legal refoundation in 2005, our Company has sought to pursue its original research work on the History of Medicine and their advocacy. These tasks are waiting to be revitalized and supplemented, whether through the implementation of the new looks that arise from the circumstances affecting the contemporary world of medicine, as well as contributions from other fields of knowledge, from the mid-twentieth century, have Health made the object of his gaze and analysis.

The invitation is extended to all who wish to add their interest and work with us.