Health & Body

How Did Dr. John H. Kellogg Improve Administering Enemas? August 16, 2021

Why Does Drowning Not Look Like Drowning? July 26, 2021

What is Dr. William C. Minor Known For? June 13, 2021

Was Michael Jackson Having Sleeping Problems? May 31, 2021

You were more likely to get a job if you had smallpox scars in the 18th century. The scars proved that you already had smallpox and could not pass it on to your employers. April 24, 2021

Our own stomach has to constantly secrete mucus to stop itself from being digested by our own stomach acid. Without that mucus, our stomach acid would eat through our stomach's lining. April 21, 2021

"morning wood" is medically important to penile health, and that not having it over extend periods of time is a possible sign of a health issue. April 4, 2021

A woman who successfully underwent a lung transplant went into anaphylactic shock after eating peanut butter. Prior to her transplant she never had problems eating peanuts. She learned the 12 yr.old who had donated the lungs had had a peanut allergy, and had died from an anaphylactic shock. March 16, 2021

Many Chinese medical tourists who go to South Korea for inexpensive and high quality plastic surgery have difficulty re-entering China due to their passports photos not matching their new face post op. March 8, 2021

The oldest method for pregnancy detection dated back 3500 years ago. Woman peed on barley and wheat seeds. If the seeds grew, she was pregnant. If the barley seed grew first it was a boy, otherwise a girl. If nothing grew she wasn't pregnant. The method turns out it's accurate 70% of the time! February 11, 2021

At least 9 med schools in Japan manipulated exam results by females so fewer women could enter. January 24, 2021

In 1896, a bubоnіc plаgue epіdеmic struck Bombay, and the government asked Waldemar Haffkine, developer of the first chоlera vаccіne, to help. After 3 months of persistent work (1 assistant had a nervous breakdown and 2 others quit), a vаccіne was ready, with Haffkine tеsting it on himself first December 11, 2020

Our brains do not necessarily process everything as that would be an overload of information, a study from 2016 found that under the influence of LSD, the brain recruited many more regions for visual processing than normal, enriching the images people saw even when their eyes were shut. November 22, 2020

The rise in non-traditional sexual relations that marked the "swinging '60s" actually began during the '50s. Recent analysis indicates that widespread use of penicillin, leading to a 75% decline in syphilis deaths during the 1950s, launched the modern sexual era, and not the birth control pill October 24, 2020

Purse makers didn't want Snooki From "Jersey Shore" carrying their purses, so they sent her new purses, from their competitors, for free. June 13, 2019

Meet a new disorder "Orthosomnia," wherein someone is so obsessed with getting good sleep that they actually lose sleep over it. June 11, 2019

Meet Continuum, a pseudoscientific magazine that denied the existence of HIV/AIDS. It ran from 1992 until 2001 and ceased publication because the editors had died of AIDS-defining clinical conditions. June 3, 2019

During WWII, Russian soldiers took "heat pills" that kept them warm in the winter; however, they would also lose weight despite eating well. 2,4-dinitrophenol spikes metabolic rate as potential energy is lost as heat-it is banned as a weight loss aid (U.S.) as overdose can cook people to death. May 20, 2019

In 1981, a California doctor worked around the clock to save the life of a (3.2 lb) premature baby boy. Exactly 30 years later, that baby (now a Paramedic/Firefighter) saved the life of the doctor when a semi struck his car. May 3, 2019

In a Johns Hopkins Survey, 90 percent of doctors said they'd rather die by cardiac arrest than be resuscitated. Only a quarter of the public feels the same way. April 26, 2019