Author: Nima Soleimani

If you’ve ever experienced an ultrasound imaging procedure, it can seem a bit silly. In a dark, clinical room, cold gel is put on an area of your body as a radiologist or sonographer solemnly probes at you with a transducer, the component of the ultrasound machine that converts electricity into ultrasound (Mayo Clinic 2024;…

Before the advent of modern medicine, bacterial infections ravaged human society. A lack of treatment options available rendered infections such as bacterial pneumonia deadly. However, an accidental discovery would lead to the development of bug-fighting medications known as antibiotics. In 1928, physician Alexander Fleming was studying the bacterial genus Staphylococcus by cultivating it in petri…