Medicine

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Brain and brain waves in epilepsy, computer illustration. This EEG (electroencephalogram) illustration shows generalized epilepsy, affecting the whole...

Metal lungs with cigarette smoke.

Conceptual image of petri dish with E-coli bacteria and a map of North and South America, illustrating the spread of disease.

Conceptual image of petri dish with E-coli bacteria and a map of Asia and Australia, illustrating the spread of disease.

Conceptual image of petri dish with E-coli bacteria and a map of Africa, Europe and Asia, illustrating the spread of disease.

Illustration of a man and a pie chart with a missing piece representing Alzheimer's Disease.

Conceptual illustration depicting the spread of disease throughout the world.

Conceptual illustration depicting the spread of disease throughout the world.

Conceptual image of junk food passing through the arteries into the heart.

Illustration showing pregnant patient with epidural in place for labor pain relief. Evidence of fever on patien'ts face.

An illustration of the key component of the nervous system, the neuron; human brain in the background. Neurons have a large number of extensions calle...

An illustration of the key component of the nervous system, the neuron; human brain in the background. Neurons have a large number of extensions calle...

Illustration depicting the human heart.

This is an illustration of a vertebral compression fracture.

Illustration depicting a technique for treatment of vertebral compression fracture called balloon kyphoplasty. This minimally invasive treatment can r...

Illustration depicting the human heart.

An illustration of the key component of the nervous system, the neuron; human brain in the background. Neurons have a large number of extensions calle...

An illustration of the key component of the nervous system, the neuron. Neurons have a large number of extensions called dendrites; branches of the ne...

An ' stylized depiction of a retrovirus, consisting of a geomic nucleic acid, RNA or DNA (here RNA, in violet), and surrounded by capsid proteins (ora...

This illustration depicts molecular DNA. The cascade of foreground molecules at the top represents the molecular structure of the four nucleotides pre...

This illustration depicts molecular DNA. The cascade of foreground molecules at the top represents the molecular structure of the four nucleotides pre...

This illustration depicts a male figure and molecular DNA. The cascade of foreground molecules at the top represents the molecular structure of the fo...

A stylized depiction of the destruction/alteration of the genetic code by a malignant tumor; also shown are some of the organs that are most affected...

A stylized depiction of the destruction/alteration of the genetic code by a malignant tumor.

Artist's depiction of a targeted radiation beam destroying a malignant tumor.

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up, narrowing and clot, resulting in a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up, narrowing and clot, resulting in a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up, narrowing and clot, resulting in a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up, narrowing and clot, resulting in a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up, narrowing and clot, resulting in a myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up and narrowing. Erythrocytes are squeezing forward and the heart is visible behind the arter...

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up and narrowing. Erythrocytes are squeezing forward and the heart is visible behind the arter...

Cross-section of a coronary artery showing plaque build-up and narrowing. Erythrocytes are squeezing forward and the heart is visible behind the arter...

Illustration of a pediatrician with a child patient.

In an achievement some see as the "holy grail" of nanoscience, an interdisciplinary research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven Nation...

Zeros and ones in center of germ cell

Birth of love desire. Representation of what it happenning in the brain at the birth of love desire. Blue arrows : The hippocampus (memory area, in ye...

Conceptual image representing frequency. Sound byte on a grid moving through an ear.

Two cytotoxic T-cells attack a single cancer cell. T-cells are lymphocytes originating in the thymus. They come in a variety of types and play a role...

Hepatitis C viruses floating in a microscopic space.

An illustration based on an SEM of the aids virus (HIV) infecting T-Lymphocyte.

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/BSIP Recherche d'un vaccin contre le sida. Repr??sentation d'une des recherches pour un vaccin contre le sida. Ce vaccin ?. ADN pr...

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/BSIP Activation et inhibition de la douleur. Repr??sentation du circuit d'activation (?. gauche) de la douleur et de l'inhibition (...