If you want your plants to thrive — whether they’re daisies, roses, or weed — they’ll probably need fertilizer. However, you should be careful of what you fertilize them with. In the worst case, using the wrong stuff could kill you. These two men from New York found that out the hardest possible way. Both …
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When you’re a parent, you have to teach many things to your child. One of them should be not to bring poop to school — no matter what kind of show and tell they’re having. In this case, however, it turned out alright. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UoIC) has partnered with a local …
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As every cat owner knows, the little furballs can be destructive. They might push glasses off the table, shred your couch, or relentlessly bully the dog. Or they might shatter your skull, snap your spine, and leave you screaming in a pool of your own blood. We’re not exaggerating, either. That’s exactly the nightmare scenario …
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What’s the most horrible situation you can imagine? It may not be this specifically, but waking up as someone is cutting you open and removing your organs must rank pretty high on anybody’s list. That’s a fate that one Kentucky man narrowly avoided. After going into cardiac arrest, Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover was declared brain …
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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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