Grand Rounds at MGH: Physiology lessons from the rough-and-tumble tactical world.

Traveling through space and time should have been a blast. But that’s not how it worked out. Night after night, the three friends are thrust into the worst times and the worst places on Earth … and sometimes beyond Earth. Tuk, Cleo, and Fig can change the past and they can rescue the future, but only if they stick together. A man-eating leopard in India. A deadly plague on the Moon. Sea terrors in ancient Greece. Murder in the South Pacific. Spies escaping through the snowy m

Just Enough Physiology takes you on a guided tour of cardiopulmonary physiology. You will discover how the heart, lungs, and circulation work in extreme environments so that you are better equipped to understand how they function - or malfunction - at the bedside, in the operating room, or in the intensive care unit. Just Enough Physiology will prepare all students and physicians-in-training for Board Exams while also teaching you how to think like a physiologist. Click on Co

In 1628 William Harvey demonstrated that the cardiovascular system is a closed loop. In the same century Blaise Pascal described the effects of gravity on fluids. It's been almost 400 years since these pioneering scientists laid the foundation for an understanding of how our heart and blood vessels work in the real world, under normal conditions at the surface of the Earth. As we have ventured into space and accelerated our pilots and astronauts into new and more dangerous re

Looking at CV Function the way the Body looks at CV Function. Click on the image above to download PPT (view in Slide Show Mode after...

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It's been 400 years. Maybe it's time to take Harvey and his circle seriously. Download and read the Editorial by clicking on the 1st page...

A first-person account for those who have asked about Ukraine.

A Lightning Fast Primer for Those at the Front Lines of Ventilation and Oxygenation.