Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Water Safety at the Jersey Shore

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As the summer season winds down, we’re heading away from the many beaches, and toward drier fall activities. Although we’re heading away f...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

The Woman Who Claimed She Urinated a Bullet

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While urinating a worm is physically possible as described in a recent blog post , there is an early medical report from 1668 of a woman u...

How a Flower Can Kill a Rattlesnake: The Medical Dangers of Pennyroyal Oil

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While doing some historical medical research from the 1600s, I recently came across a fascinating account of how people in Virginia used a...
Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Worms in the Urine: Strange Facts

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Many people have heard of parasitic worm infections in their animals and even in humans. In those cases, people generally are familiar wit...
Monday, September 08, 2014

Babies that Turn to Stone: Meet the Lithopedions

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Stone Baby from 1897 Earlier this year, an 84-year old woman in Brazil was found to have a 44-year-old fetus inside her (of 22 to 28 we...

What Was It? The "Monstrous Birth" from 1677

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Conjoined twins are identical twins who are joined together in the uterus. They have the appearance of one body with two heads.  If the f...
Friday, August 08, 2014

Why Exercising Outdoors is Better

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Gyms are awesome. They’re climate-controlled environments with machines that can work every body part, and a place to shower at the end of...
Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Anorexia Nervosa and Treatment

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Anorexia nervosa is a type of eating disorder in which purposely restricted food intake causes significantly low body weight compared to w...
Monday, July 21, 2014

Choosing the Right Hospital

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Depending on several factors, including your geographic area and your insurance plan, you could have a broad or narrow number of hospitals...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Vital Signs and the Brain

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Vital signs are an important measure of basic bodily functions and are part of most physical examinations. The main vital signs typically...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Barriers to Healthcare: Difference in Disease Mortality Rates Between Social Groups

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While it is understood that, by and large, diseases don’t differentiate between hosts – that is, one warm body is about the same as anothe...
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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Women Favoring Permanent Hair Removal Over Home Kits

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Scorching summer weather and the call of the beach or the pool has many women considering their options for hair removal. Generally speaki...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The Health Benefits Associated With Massage Therapy

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Massage therapy has long since been considered a luxury therapy: one designed to soothe, but not provide any substantial health benefits. ...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Is There Any Treatment For Optic Nerve Atrophy?

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Optic Nerve Atrophy results from damage or degeneration to the optic nerve. The nerve is responsible for transporting visual information f...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

How to Help a Drug Addict

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Drug addiction is unfortunately a very real and serious problem in our society today. Whether it be alcohol, prescription medication or il...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

10 Recent Inspirational Cancer (and Other) Survival Stories

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Recently, a 15-year-old boy survived as a stowaway in a wheel well during a 5-hour flight from California to Hawaii, despite being expose...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Weight Loss: 10 Recent Scientific Findings

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Below is a summary of 10 of the most recent scientific findings on weight loss. The numbered references at the end correspond to the numbe...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Mothers Who Kill: 10 Scientific Facts about Infanticide

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On April 13, 2014, Megan Huntsman from Utah was arrested after admitting to killing 6 newborns, placing them in plastic bags, and storing ...