The Path to Success in Science.

Honestly, i will agree with the saying that the world of medicine is quite amazing and frightening.
It thus poses to us questions on how to attain in this competitive and quite challenging world.
It makes every medic question themselves about what next, what choices do we have to make and what is their impact in the future of our professional lives?
In all of this confusion in the life of an everyday medic, a professor of Medical sciences in the Institute of Molecular Medicine  ( Maria Mota) advises that we possess these Characters  to move on:

Initiative
Entrepreneurship
Ideas
Novelty
Creativity
Curiosity
In all, be open to opportunities she said. You have to know what will keep you passionate as a Doctor.

She is a Doctor who trained in Portugal, United Kingdom and United States but still identifies with Malaria.
To know more, check out http://www.imm.fm.ul.pt/web/imm/malaria

LANGERHAN'S CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS 1

This is a long overdue write up. February 28th was the day set aside to celebrate this unique disease.
Its unique because it is rare. Rare enough to be classified as an Orphan disease.
Its highly misdiagnosed by Doctors and you possibly never knew it exist.
Don't worry, it take only about few lines in most text.
Possibly, you are asking yourself then why should i take interest?
Well, it will surprise you to know that its still mainly regarded as rare because it is frequently not diagnosed and because few works are available on it.

Brief History:
Paul Langerhans discovered the cell in skin-----1868
Eosinophilic Granulosa----------------- 1865
Hand schuller christian----------------- 1893
Letter-man Siwes Disease--------------1924
Histiocytosis X-------------------------1953
Langerhan Cell Histiocytosis------------1973
In every continent around the world, there has been at least a record over the last couple of years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqZwAdme_qY

Langerhan’s cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a rare disease of unknown etiology that occurs mainly in children. It is the proliferation of cells of similar phenotypic features as dendritic Langerhan’s cells. Its incidence according to the American Histiocyte Society is 1: 200,000

    In Ukraine, there is no record of National incidence yet but in Lugansk, a city in east of Ukraine, incidence ranged from 1-2 in every 300,000 children.

So come along, as we discuss the peculiarities of this disease in our next Post.