The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) regularly issues recommendations on how to deal with developing health risks. Typically, those recommendations are what you’d expect. They might ask you to throw away contaminated food items, maybe get vaccinated, shake people’s hands instead of licking them… You know, doctor stuff. For an emerging parasitic threat, …
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Getting hit in the head is generally not very good for your health. Yet, many sports from boxing to football put the athletes at serious risk of getting bonked on the noggin. That’s why the athletes and contestants wear protective gear. Football players take to the field while fairly heavily armored and even boxers use …
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Are you familiar with the term “never event?” It’s medical jargon used to describe events that should never, ever happen during professionally performed surgeries. You know, things like performing surgery with filthy hands or losing your watch in the patient’s chest cavity. Or perhaps cutting out the wrong organ. That latter “never event” is what …
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Not enough people are dying in Scotland. Hmm, maybe we should phrase that better… Alright, so, Scotland’s hospitals are struggling with a bizarre problem. They simply don’t have enough corpses. While that is generally very positive news, it does put Scotland’s medical students in a difficult spot. After all, nothing helps you learn the anatomy …
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Have you ever wondered why people bless each other after sneezing? It might have something to do with how dangerous sneezing can be. Case in point, a man recently literally sneezed his guts out. Although sneezing is an important reaction for clearing debris and dust out of our windpipes, it can lead to serious injuries. …
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A forceful sneeze can be a painful experience. Your abs might cramp or you may even rupture blood vessels in your eyes or lungs. But that’s nothing compared to what the gentleman in our story went through. A 63-year-old man had just undergone an operation to treat his recurring prostate cancer. He had been recently …
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So many of us have braces, but do you know these fun facts about braces? Million Of Americans Are Currently In Braces According to the American Association of Orthodontics, there are 4 million people that currently wearing braces. There are about 1 million orthodontics patients that are over the age of 18. Did you know …
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Imagine an Amazon package containing a seemingly random item showing up at your door. How nice — someone must’ve bought you a present! But then you check your Amazon account and credit card statement to find that you bought the item. Only, you have zero memory of doing so. What happened? Did you buy the …
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A rare steak or a few pieces of sushi can be a real treat. But eating undercooked meat always carries with it the risk of catching something nasty. The family of our story found that out the hard way. Eight members of the family had gathered in South Dakota for a get-together. One of them …
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Parasites are awful, awful things. Nobody wants them, but here’s a little secret for you. You have them. Don’t worry, though, since the most common parasites are typically harmless. That said, there are some rarer and very strange (and awful) things out there that would love to live in your body. Here are seven examples …
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