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Most of us know the importance of being familiar with our family’s health history. In fact, there is nary a doctor’s office visit where we’re not grilled on the diseases/afflictions that run through our gene pool.
But sometimes it’s hard to remember it all, and sometimes we just don’t know all there is to know about […]
From stomach sized hairballs to a giant hamster wheel for energetic patients, medical museums offer a chance to explore medicines colorful history and discover the bizarre, the offbeat, and the extreme treatments of days gone by.
So if you’re on the road this summer and don’t mind a little ’shock and gore’, stop by a medical […]
In this vast virtual world of ours, more and more clinicians are inviting patients to email them, rather than calling them on the telly. But is this a good plan?
This article on New York Times.com shares the experience of a doc dabbling in the world of patient email. What’s described are instances of near-misses, frustrated […]
Wait. I’m Not Dead!
This guy in France has created renewed debate about when is a person really dead. Seems that his heart stopped for an hour and a half, giving doctors cause to believe he was dead. But just before they started the prep to remove his organs for transplants, his breathing and heartbeat resumed […]
If you think drugs are scary now, take a look at what was on offer in the 1800’s and 1900’s…
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The Nearly Genuine and Truly Marvelous
Psychoneuropharmacological Mental Medicine Show
It must have been some hit to force a paintbrush, bristles first, into a man’s head. Stranger still, the victim didn’t even realise it was there. Seems he turned up at the emergency room some 6 hours after the assault complaining of a headache and left cheek and eye soreness.
Even the medics couldn’t see the […]
There are only two things that are guaranteed in this world - you are born and you will die. Just how long you have between the two events depends on a multitude of factors. Longevity is possible, and for most of us highly probable (so says the Vitality Compass).
Death and dealing with the dead might […]
Some people photograph landscapes. Others like cityscapes. And still others like to photograph wildlife. But New York based photographer Joanna Ebenstein likes to photograph medical artifacts. She took a month long pilgrimage to famed medical museums of the Western World, photographing everything from real human remains to wax, ivory, and paper mâché models.
According to Ebenstein, […]
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Happy Earth Day, everyone!
We’ve been reminded quite a bit today about being green and caring for our Earth. So here’s my question: Can the Earth continue to care for us?!?
Over the weekend, Edna Parker of Illinois (the oldest known currently-living person) celebrated her […]
“…one may take a walk up & down Broadway & scare meet a soul.”
Almost impossible to imagine these days but apparently that was the way it was back in 1832 when New York City was in the middle of a cholera epidemic.
By the time it had ended, over 3000 people had died out a population […]
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