Tag Archives: #Medical

#DidYouKnow – Alzheimer’s Disease

Though there are 10 types of dementia, did you know Alzheimer’s disease might be the most common form? This neurodegenerative disease isn’t well understood; why people get it is uncertain and there’s no cure. What’s known is that a failure in normal protein functions causes it. This leads to a disruption of brain cell operation and toxic cascade, which causes

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Jennifer Anne Gordon’s PRETTY/UGLY

PRETTY UGLY Winner of the 2022 Helicon Award for Best Horror Novel By critically acclaimed Literary horror author Jennifer Anne Gordon Released and published by Livre Maison!The book is available worldwide in digital and paperback formats “Pretty/Ugly is a modern gothic filled with sensuality, dread and a dark kind of love that can only exist during an apocalypse…” – SA

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Melissa Yi’s Medical Crime Novel

WHITE LIGHTNING Dr. Hope Sze expected a romantic weekend away at the Rumrunner’s Rest, a Windsor inn once famous for serving the best alcohol and shore dinners during Prohibition. Instead, she finds a set of human bones in the fireplace. As Hope dives into the inn’s history, she discovers the legend of White Lightning, a handsome pilot who would fly

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My Book Review of Pestilence: Breathe If You Dare

Pestilence: Breathe If You Dare by Brian L. Porter My rating: 5 of 5 stars *Smart and Entertaining!* PESTILENCE is a smart and entertaining thriller written by the award-winning author, BRIAN L. PORTER. It is well researched and completely believable! The author’s knowledge of history and medicine are exceptional. Though this isn’t really “historical fiction,” it certainly has it’s roots

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DID YOU KNOW – Karl Landsteiner

The Man Who Discovered The Major Human Blood Groups #DidYouKnow is a Blog Series on www.jmnorthup.com and www.nornstriad.com   Karl Landsteiner was born June 14, 1868, and since he discovered the major groups in human blood in 1901, World Blood Donor Day is celebrated on his birthday.  This is also the achievement for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1930. Though Karl Landsteiner‘s paper

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