Food & Drink
What do you call a medical condition that you get from eating a food that is contaminated with bacteria?
Food poisoning
What is the active ingredient in over-the-counter painkillers such as Advil and Nuprin?
Ibuprofen
Alzheimer's disease is the most common diagnosis of what broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember?
Dementia
What is eczema?
An inflammatory skin condition
What two-word magazine, a fixture in waiting rooms, has recurring features called “Humor in Uniform" and "Laughter, the Best Medicine?"
Readers digest
Glycogen is the main way the body stores glucose—better known by what sweet common name?
Sugar
Marketed as a children's fever medicine with the slogan "For little hotheads," which brand of the over-the-counter pain reliever acetaminophen was introduced in 1955?
Tylenol
What is the common name for the medical event that occurs when the brain does not get enough oxygen?
A stroke
What disease of the endocrine system affects 21 million Americans have & 6 million of them don't know it?
Diabetes
Statins are medications given to patients who have high levels of lipids in their blood, otherwise known by what "good or bad" C-name?
Cholesterol
What is the name of the naturally occurring chemicals found in food that slows down the process of cell and tissue damage?
Antioxidant
Broad spectrum antibiotics and carbapenem antibiotics are both used to treat sepsis or septicemia, an infection of what?
Blood
What nerve cells send messages all over your body to allow you to do everything from breathing to talking, eating, walking, and thinking?
Neurons
The varicella-zoster virus causes skin outbreaks in children, and in 1995 the FDA approved a vaccine to prevents its infection. What's the common name for the disease this virus causes?
Chicken pox
Wilma Rudolph was an American medalist in Track and Field at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics, an especially impressive feat considering her childhood was plagued by infantile paralysis caused by what virus?
Polio
If you have a deficiency of calcium and vitamin D, which support bone health, you are risk for developing what medical condition?
Osteoporosis
The Bacillus Calmette–Guérin vaccine (BCG) is the most widely used vaccine in the history of medicine. While it can offer protection against multiple infections, it’s primarily given to prevent which bacterial infection of the lungs?
Tuberculosis (TB)
At approximately what age does the brain finish developing?
Around the age of 25
What is the medical term for a sideways curvature of the spine which most commonly occurs in young adults during a growth spurt?
Scoliosis
Although more well-known for his fiction and character creations, what famous author was also an ophthalmologist?
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in the 1870s, was a determined supporter of compulsory vaccination, and partially based his most famous character on a former university teacher.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If someone is vegan, what foods are they trying to avoid?
Any animal products (meats, eggs, dairy, gelatine, etc)
What was originally marketed as a cough suppressant in 1898 as it was not believed to be addictive. This was quickly realized not to be true as it readily breaks down into morphine in the body. Morphine was already known to be addictive.
Heroin
What part of the brain is responsible for memory and learning?
The hippocampus
What condition is caused by the deposition of salts of uric acid?
Gout
Hyperhidrosis is the medical term for excessive what?
Sweating