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Hohler’s Quick Medical Reference is a quick reference source for medical students, residents, and medical providers. It contains quick and easy templates and values for commonly used lab, admission notes, history and physicals, OBGYN, ACLS, and Neurology and more.

The app contains ACLS algorithm, EKG Values, Cardiopulmonary values, Acute MI procedure, Labe values (including CBC, Hematology, Chemistries, ABG, Urine, CSF, Endocrinology), admission orders, progress note writing, discharge notes, procedure notes, SOAP Note writing, APGAR score, delivery date, milestones, immunization schedule, H&P, and neurological exams.

Hohler’s Quick Medical Reference an alternative to Maxwell Quick Reference which is used world wide and not available on the app store.

It is available now on the Apple App Store for 99 cents.

Researchers in California believe they have hit the jackpot in modern medical breakthroughs. The cure for AIDS.

The researchers have published a study in the journal Science,demonstrating two powerful new antibodies which could hold the key to achieving a viable AIDS vaccine. It has been well known for several years that a very small percentage of people are immune to the HIV virus, but it was never discovered quite how. Now, researchers were able to isolate the antibodies that neutralize a high percentage of the virus’s different forms currently in circulation worldwide.

Now that these antibodies have been discovered, it is only a matter of finding out if people at large can produce these antibodies themselves after exposure to the vaccine. The antibodies, described as “broadly neutralizing,” have isolated a new target on the HIV virus that has not been utilized by other vaccine attempts. Just four other broadly neutralizing antibodies have been found to date, and they functioned by binding to places on the virus that have proven difficult to exploit.

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For years and years, humans considered themselves the one and only makers of tools. Homo sapien literally means “wise man” because we were so intelligent that it was us humans, and us humans alone, who could even have the brain capacity to create a tool. It was considered the key feature of the genus Homo.

Well, that was until people actually decided to carefully look at other animal’s social behavior. It was not until the mid to late 1900’s that people realized “oops us humans are not the only ones to use tools.” Primatologists discovered chimpanzees creating tools for fishing termites out of their mounds, and stones for crushing nuts from their hard shell. Other researchers discovered that gorillas make beds from foliage, as well as sponges out of chewed up leaves.

These revelations eroded away our human arrogance just a tad. But surely, tools are the domain of only the highest order of primates. Well, no. We soon saw other lower order primates, and even non-primates use tools.  Sea otters use rock tools to smash open shells many times a day.

Now medical tools? Maybe we humans need to find a new name?

It was recently observed that spider monkeys are chewing up a special kind of plant and using it as a scratcher. The spider monkeys chew up the tip and rub it on themselves. Scientists believe by modifying the scratcher tip, the monkeys could be providing “more relief and comfort during scratching.” The chewing alteration could “also be related to the chemical properties of the plant to alleviate the itch.” For some time it has been believed that primates use plants for medicinal purposes, but mostly by ingestion.

Oh yeah, spider monkeys, no opposable thumbs either. Not too shabby.

Source: Discovery News

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