tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619709235814734222012-02-16T22:45:21.041-04:00MEDICINE AT A GLANCEShivahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704279010617760059noreply@blogger.comBlogger761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-861970923581473422.post-20425622223193575102011-03-06T00:22:00.000-04:002011-03-06T00:22:38.558-04:00

1. They have the tool (stethoscope ) 2. They can give you the gift of "missing them" because they are always at work. 3. They can give you a free medical consultation (everyone's favourite) 4.You save yourself the embarrassment of going to a doctor with an infection!! 5. They are smart!! 6. They know their anatomy well (know what works and where) 7. They are wild party people in the

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1. “Have you ever been in therapy? No? You should try it. It’s like a really easy game show where the correct answer to every question is: ‘Because of my mother.’” - Robin Greenspan 2. “After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, ‘Maybe life isn’t for everyone’.” - Larry Brown. 3. “The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable.” - Paul Dean. 4. “If

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The following are apparently actual, unedited, notes written by doctors on patients' medical charts: 1. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. 2. On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared completely. 3. She has had no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night. 4. The patient has been

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A boy with a totally unique genetic condition has to have a new pint of blood EVERY FORTNIGHT - just to stay alive. Jamie Andrews, four, has a one of a kind chromosome disorder called Diamond Blackfan Anaemia (DBA). He needs the blood every two weeks to increase his red cell count and has used 93 pints of blood from nearly 100 donors so far. He will need to continue having transfusions until

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A woman left infertile by cancer has had a 'miracle' second baby in a world first. Stinne Bergholdt froze tiny strips of ovarian tissue before undergoing gruelling treatment for bone cancer in 2004. After beating the disease, some of the pieces were grafted back into her body and with the help of fertility drugs she gave birth to a baby girl, Aviaja, in 2007. But it has emerged that she then

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A simple picture may have saved a baby's life after his photo revealed a rare and life threatening tumour behind his eye. Auxiliary nurse Samantha Rouse discovered her nine-month-old son Jacob's eye appeared white in a photo she took of him. The glare from the camera revealed light sensitive cells in his eye that could not be seen face-to-face - a sign of the rare eye cancer retinoblastoma, a

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The Haitian girl who had a 16-pound tumor removed and a entire face reconstruction Marlie Casseus is a girl from Haiti, whose life was normal until the age of 14, when her face went completely unrecognizable and frighteningly disfigured because of a strange disease. As a result, not only she suffered physical pain but emotional anguish for being rejected by her friends and neighbors. The

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Joseph Goldberger (b. 1874 d. 1929) A Hungarian-born immigrant to New York City, Goldberger specialized in diseases that commonly afflicted the poor. His best known discovery that pellagra, an illness most common in the Southern United States, was due to dietary deficiencies and was indeed not contagious. When elimination diet experimentation did not convince his fellow pellagra researchers,

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Smallpox We’ve all heard about smallpox, probably more so about the vaccine itself, which today is rarely used unless there is a high-risk of the disease. It is said that smallpox may have been around in as early as 10,000BC. Smallpox is characterized by a high fever, fatigue, and a rash with flat red sores that can eventually cover the entire body. Many believe that smallpox was one of the

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Cotard’s Syndrome Cotard’s Syndrome is a delusion most often present in depressed or suicidal individuals in which they believe that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood and/or internal organs. Progeria Progeria is a fatal genetic disorder that is characterized by the appearance of rapid aging in children. They usually appear normal at birth, but soon show

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TREPANATION This procedure consists of drilling a hole in the brain in order to relieve a disease that may be occurring in the brain. It was believed that the practice would cure epileptic seizures, migraines, and mental disorders. This practice is still used today when swelling of the brain occurs due to a head injury, or when blood appears under the finger nail, they will drill a hole and it

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An American girl who was born with a rare condition often called 'mermaid syndrome' that meant her legs were fused together, has died aged 10. Doctors said Shiloh Pepin was only likely to survive for hours, possibly days after her birth, but she exceeded all expectations. The girl died at Maine Medical Centre on October 23rd, hospital spokesman John Lamb said. She had been hospitalised there

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Here are a few medical myths that may surprise you: 1. Cold weather makes you sick. In studies of cold transmission, people who are chilled are no more likely to get sick than those who were not. It may be that cold weather keeps people indoors, where germs are more likely to catch up with you. 2. Green mucus indicates a sinus infection. The importance of mucus color is a medical myth even

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Urine Therapy he term urine therapy (also urotherapy, urinotherapy or uropathy) refers to various applications of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes, including drinking of one’s own urine and massaging one’s skin with one’s own urine. A practitioner of urine therapy is sometimes called a psychopath. Just kidding, they are actually called uropaths. There is no scientific evidence of a

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10-day-old baby born with his heart outside of his body, has undergone revolutionary life-saving surgery.During the four-hour operation, 13 surgeons created a space for the baby's heart inside his body by shifting his lungs and liver. They did not stop the heart at any point. 'As there was no place for the baby's heart in his chest, we had to create it,' Dr Yogendra Gupta said.The brave youngster

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A teenager in America has left doctors baffled with a mysterious medical condition that sees him regularly crying tears of blood.15-year-old Calvino Inman says that the bleeding happens at least three times a day, with little warning. He told local news station WATE: 'Sometimes, I can feel it coming up, like a tear. I feel my eyes watering. Sometimes, it will burn as it comes out.'The bleeding

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CARROTS EYESSLICE a carrot and it looks just like an eye, right down to the pattern of the iris. Its a clear clue to the importance this everyday veg has for vision. Carrots get their orange colour from a plant chemical called betacarotene, which reduces the risk of developing cataracts. The chemical also protects against macular degeneration an age-related sight problem that affects one in four

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Rene LaennecThe history of the stethoscope begins in 1816 with a French physician, Rene Laennec, who was born February 17th 1781 in Quimper France - the same year as the American Revolution Battle of Yorkshire. He described his stethoscope invention as follows (translated from French):"In 1816 I was consulted by a young woman presenting with general symptoms of disease of the heart. Owing to her

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Some interesting facts about your eyes showing you how powerful and amazing they are, and how delicate too.Uses 65% of your brainpower, the most out of any body partThey can process about 36,000 bits of information an hourThey are number 2 in the most powerful body parts next to the brainOnly 1/6 of the eye if showingThe actual eye is always working and never sleepsControls 85% of all the

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1) Brain imaging studies show that human feelings originate inside the brain. 2) The human brain structure is almost fully developed by age 11, though some higher self-management brain functions continue to develop into the mid 20’s. 3) The diameter of an individual brain neuron is 4 microns, meaning 30,000 could fit on the head of a pin. 4) The human brain has 10 billion neurons, making it the

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1) The Fertility Clinic that used the wrong spermWhen Nancy Andrews, of Commack, N.Y., became pregnant after an in vitro fertilization procedure at a New York fertility clinic, she and her husband expected a beautiful new addition to their family. What they did not expect was a child whose skin was significantly darker than that of either parent. Subsequent DNA tests suggested that doctors at New

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Cna yuo raed tihs? I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm.

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1. Sitting too close to the television will hurt your eyesFalse. There is no evidence that sitting close to the television will damage your eyes. Eyes may become tired from sitting too close for long periods, if the light in the room is too dim, or if the picture screen is out of focus.2. Reading in dim light can damage your eyesFalse. Reading in dim light can cause eye fatigue, but it will not

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AIR CONTROLLERS SYNDROME:Peptic ulcers occurring among air traffic controllers, as a result of job stress. {Illinois Medical Journal, 1972}ALOPECIA WALKMANIA:Loss of hair from prolonged use of personal stereo headphones. {Journal of the American Medical Association, 1984}ANCHORMAN GLAZE:Glazed-eye look of TV anchorman caused by looking at the teleprompter through glaring camera lights. {Syracuse,

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Man Walks Again After Being Chopped in Half Peng Shulin's body was literally cut in half when he was hit by a lorry over a decade ago. It took a team of 20 medical professionals to save Peng's life, a feat which was a miracle in itself. Unfortunately though, Peng was left bedridden. Then, doctors at the China Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing came up with a plan to restore Peng's

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A functioning artificial brain could be built within a decade, scientists claim.Henry Makram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain.He told the TED Global conference in Oxford he is well on his way to developing a synthetic human brain, which could be used to develop treatments for mental illnesses.'It is not impossible to build a human brain. We can

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1. The stomach’s digestive acids are strong enough to dissolve zinc. Fortunately for us, the cells in the stomach lining renew so quickly that the acids don’t have time to dissolve it.2. The lungs contain over 300,000 million capillaries (tiny blood vessels). If they were laid end to end, they would stretch 2400km (1500 miles).3. A man’s testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day –

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Meet Natalie Cooper, a 17-year-old teenager who has a mystery illness that makes her sick every time she eats anything. Well, almost anything. She can eat one thing that doesn’t make her sick: Tic tac mint! For reasons that doctors are unable to explain, Tic tacs are the only thing she can stomach, meaning she has to get the rest of her sustenance from a specially formulated feed through a

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There is only one known case of a person having immortal cells (cells that can divide indefinitely outside of the human body, defying the Hayflick Limit) and that is of a woman named Henrietta Lacks. In 1951, 31 year old Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer, which she died from within the year. Unknown to her and her family (i.e. without informed consent) a surgeon took a

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Diprospus (sometimes called Craniofacial duplication) is a rare disorder in which the face is duplicated on the head (as in the picture above). This is not to be confused with fetus in fetuwhich is a joining of two separate fetuses; diprosopus is caused by a protein called “sonic hedgehog homolog”. The odd name is due to a controversial tradition in molecular biology to use unusual names for

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Wim Hof, 49, of the Netherlands, possesses such a strong resistance to cold that scientists remain baffled as to how he endures many of the tests to which he exposes his body. The Guinness world record holder has immersed himself, nearly naked, in ice for one hour and 12 minutes.In January 1999, he traveled 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle to run a half marathon in his bare feet. Three years

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Natalie Adler, 21, of Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia, said she can sense the onset of her unusual condition -- and when she should start preparing for three days of darkness. "The night before it sets in, my eyes get quite heavy and that is how I know it is coming," said Adler. Invariably, the next morning Adler finds herself unable to open her tightly shut eyes. The bouts generally last

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A 16 year old girl who has the body of a toddler and weighs just over a stone has baffled doctors. Although Brooke Greenberg's birth certificate says she was born in 1993 she is unable to talk, still has her baby teeth and has to be wheeled everywhere in a push chair. Her nails and her hair are the only parts of her body that have grown since she was about four years old.Brooke sleeps in a

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According to a new study, even doctors fall prey to common medical misconceptions. Here's the straight story on everything from postmortem hair growth to Halloween candy hazards.1. Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight. While this is one myth that parents around the world have loved for generations, it has very little scientific backing. Reading in the dark can cause a temporary strain on

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These amazing X-rays show how a man arrived with a tap and 16 inches of pipework stuck in his eye at a hospital's casualty unit. But the terrified patient was forced to pull the tap out himself - because surgeons took three hours to send for a plumber to get it out. Yi Zhao, 57, had slipped in the bath impaling his left eye on the tap at his home.This 2.5lb and 17 cm in diameter kidney stone was

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1) Blaschko's lines: strange stripes all over the bodyAn extremely rare and unexplained phenomenon of human anatomy, Blaschko's lines were first presented in 1901 by German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko. Neither a specific disease nor a predictable symptom of a disease, Blaschko's lines are an invisible pattern built into human DNA. Many inherited and acquired diseases of the skin or mucosa

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1) Chen Zongtao: 154 pound (70kg) tumor on his right leg Victim Chen Zongtao, 29, lives in a remote Chinese village and hasn't been able to afford medical help. The growth first started on his left foot when he was two years old. But it soon spread across to his right leg and engulfed it. Over the years, it has ballooned in size to weigh more than 70KG or 154 pounds. Doctors at the hospital in

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1) Frog-like Baby (unidentified baby - Nepal)The baby weighed 2kg atdied after half an hour of its birth birth and was born after the normal nine-month gestation period. The baby has a condition called anencephaly, a neural tube defect (like the cyclops baby), with no proper brain formation. The baby would have died a few days later. That's why women are advised to take folate in early pregnancy.

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One year old child found Pregnant in Saudi Arabia. Doctors says it’s a unique case for this world!Medical Science Report says : “When the mother of this child was pregnant, she had 2 foetuses inside her. But one of the foetus grew inside the other, this why this girl was born with the other foetus inside her womb.”

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A four-year-old boy is courageously defying the meningitis that left him with just one limb - by taking up ballet.Surgeons were forced to amputate Harvey Phillips' legs below the knees as well as his right arm and the fingers on his left hand when he was nine months' old.Harvey contracted meningitis in June 2005 in Sheffield while on a family visit. At Sheffield Children's Hospital he was put

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This is the family picture that may have saved the sight of an eight-month-old boy.Thomas Hale has a rare form of cancer, which was diagnosed after his mother took a picture of him on her new camera phone.The glare from the camera revealed light sensitive cells in the youngster's eye which could not be seen in face-to-face contact.Thomas had the rare form of eye cancer retinoblastoma, which

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With WHO already having declared the current Swine flu to have reached Stage four Pandemic, it’s quintessential for each one of us to get cautious.Though the virus still hasn’t been declared to have arrived in the Indian territory but the rapidity with which is spreading is a raiser for alarm for sure. The problem can no way be prevented from occurring but it’s containment is possible by some

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British researchers claim that hormone kisspeptin shows promise as a potential new treatment for infertility.Giving kisspeptin to women with infertility can activate the release of sex hormones, which control the menstrual cycle. According to researchers, the study could lead to a new fertility therapy for women with low sex hormone levels.Kisspeptin is a product of the KISS-1 gene and is a key

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A woman with two wombs has given birth to twin daughters - one from each uterus.The 21-year-old Sarah Reinfelder has a condition known as uterus didelphys, in which the womb develops in two parts, each with its own fallopian tube. Sarah Reinfelder's two babies Kaylin Joy and Valerie Marie were delivered seven weeks premature by two Caesarean sections.Kaylin Joy, 3lb 15oz, was the first of the

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Are you a frequent visitor to social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace? Then there is some bad news for you.The habit can increase the risk of health problems as serious as cancer. A report in a science journal has claimed that logging on these sites frequently could increase the risk of cancer and other major illness such as strokes, heart disease and dementia."Emailing people rather

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Men in Sydney are all set to become the first in the world to try a contraceptive which can give them control over their own fertility.ANZAC Research Institute, at Concord Hospital, is starting the trial of a new two-monthly male contraceptive injection. It shuts down the reproductive function just like the female contraceptive pill does. It works by tricking the brain into thinking that it has

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Like a female Peter Pan, this 23-year-old woman is so terrified of ageing she has chosen not to grow up.Vikki Hensley has frozen her body in time to that of a 12-year-old girl through extreme dieting.As the science graduate became anorexic before she hit puberty, she has never had a period, needed to wear a bra or had a proper boyfriend.To stop herself growing 'older' she sticks to a diet of

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1) Don't smoke- Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).2) Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.3) Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid.

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A pediatric neurosurgeon says a tumor which he removed from the brain of a Colorado Springs infant contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts. Paul Grabb said he operated on Sam Esquibel at Memorial Hospital for Children after an MRI showed a microscopic tumour on the newborn’s brain. Sam was only 3 days old and was otherwise born a healthy baby. Grabb said that while removing

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Little Declan Stringer was able to eat for the first time in his life yesterday - as he tucked into a slice of birthday cake.The three-year-old has had to feed through a tube ever since he has born with a rare feeding disorder.Stumped doctors have been unable to diagnose the condition, which left him unable to swallow normally.Declan underwent the first of two operations last summer to insert a

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CLEVELAND, OHIO: Doctors hailed a groundbreaking transplant to replace 80 percent of a woman's face, saying on Wednesday it is a means for the severely disfigured to "face the world" without humiliation. It was the world's first near-total facial transplant and the fourth known facial transplant to have been successfully performed to date. Doctors released few details about the patient, save to

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WASHINGTON: Don’t be too committed in romantic relationships or might boomerang, leaving you depressed, warn experts.When one or both partners place too much emotional weight on their relationship, they tend to evaluate their self-worth solely based on the outcomes of their romantic interactions.This is what psychologists call relationship-contingent self-esteem (RCSE) and, according to

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Whether you are the adventurous type or one of those who sticks to what you know is all down to how your brain is wired, say scientists.They have found that the strength of links between two key parts of the brain affect how we respond to new experiences.German researchers asked 20 young men and women to gauge their attitudes to change or ' novelty seeking'.Scans showed the easily bored

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Brave Millie Smith can still break into a beaming smile despite suffering from a medical condition which is so rare that it has no name and affects just four people in the world.She was diagnosed at 16 months when tests revealed she had strands missing from her eighth chromosome.The condition has left the seven-year-old with severe learning difficulties, low muscle tone and visual problems.But

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A toddler with one of the world's rarest medical conditions has undergone a life-saving operation to repair her damaged brain - with medical superglue.Ella-Grace Honeyman was born with Vein of Galen Malformation, which causes tiny holes in the brain's main blood vessels and affects just a few hundred people worldwide.She had just months to live after blood seeped through the openings and flooded

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A teenager survived for nearly four months without a heart until she was able to have a transplant.D'Zhana Simmons, 14, was kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device. It is the first time a child has survived for so long in this manner.Miss Simmons suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the patient's heart becomes weakened and enlarged and does not pump

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A 56-year-old woman has become the oldest woman to give birth to triplets – but they are actually her grandchildren.Jaci Dalenberg acted as a surrogate mother for her daughter, Kim, who battled with infertility after a hysterectomy, and has given birth to three babies, each weighing less than 3lbs, a minute apart.The three girls - Ellie, Gabriella and Carmina - were delivered by emergency

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At first, his interest was medical. He wrote papers about the feelings associated with the substance, saying that it provided exhilaration and euphoria just minutes after taking cocaine. His buddy, Ernest von Fleischl, had a pretty bad morphine habit – to help him kick it, Freud prescribed cocaine and said it was a safe alternative. Fleischl became addicted, of course, and started spending more

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A wife has been forced to banish her loving husband from their marital bed - because he has developed a rare condition causing him to attack her in his sleep.Gentle Derek Barfoot, 75, has got 'parasomnia', a rare medical condition which means he acts out violent dreams while asleep.His wife Elaine has had to secure all her kitchen knives in the garden shed over fears he could stab her in her

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Scientists have reported the first known case of a woman who is unable to recognise any voices apart from one - that of James Bond star Sean Connery.The British mum - identified in the study by University College London only as KH - struggles to recall even the sound of her own daughter's voice.Bizarrely, the only voice she can seem to remember properly belongs to James Bond star Sean

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He was such a special delivery, and such incredibly fragile goods, that the usual sort of wrapping just wouldn't do.The little mite swaddled in bubble wrap is Gregor Craig, who was born at just 24 weeks weighing a tiny 1lb 14oz - so small that his father's wedding ring fitted over his arm.His chances of survival were slim.So they wrapped him in the bubble wrap to keep him warm. Hospitals often

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A smidgen of sunshine could be beneficial for men’s sperm. Australian researchers found that one-third of 794 men visiting an infertility clinic had a vitamin D deficiency. Since getting only 10–15 minutes of sunshine a day can boost vitamin D levels, 123 men tried to do just that—along with taking vitamins and living a healthier lifestyle in general. The payoff? A 75% drop in sperm

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A new research claims that our brain is fastest at 39 and afterwards, it declines “at an accelerating rate.”The loss of a fatty skin that coats the nerve cells, called neurons, during middle age causes the slowdown, experts say.The coating acts as insulation, similar to the plastic covering on an electrical cable, and allows for fast bursts of signals around the body and brain.When the sheath

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According to a new research, people are at their most creative late at night with 10.04pm the most likely time for a eureka moment.The new survey reveals, brainwaves are least likely to strike in the afternoon. The least creative time in the day is 4.33pm, with 92% of people admitting to feeling uninspired in the afternoon, the survey found. The poll of 1,426 people showed that a quarter of us

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LONDON: In a bid to fight economic doom and gloom, scientists have claimed to created the world's most relaxing room to calm nerves and escape from the daily grind.the room features soft green lighting,artificial blue skies,the scent of lavender in the breeze,and the dulcet tones of a low frequency lullaby capable of soothing the most savage of beasts.The pace of modern-day life, credit crunch

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Her name was Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl from the Andean village of Ticrapo who made medical history when she gave birth to a boy by caesarean section in May 1939 at the age of five years, seven months and 21 days. Lina's parents initially thought their daughter had a large abdominal tumor, but after they took her to a hospital in the town of Pisco physicians confirmed that her abdominal

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2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

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Dr.Guyton is perhaps best known for his book 'Textbook of medical physiology', of which the first edition was published in 1956. Since then, 11 editions of it have appeared (10 of which have appeared before Guyton's death). 'Textbook of medical physiology' is the world's best-selling physiology book and has been translated in more than 10 languages. Large parts of the book were dictated by

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DO U KNOW1)Histamine causes constriction of large arteries2)PAF induces vasodilation and increased vascular permeability at extremely low concentrations3)Kallikrein directly converts C5 to the chemoattractant product C5aMCQs1) A 54 year-old woman has a seevere hedache. A lumbar puncture is performed,and the cerebro spinal fluid obtained has a cell count of 910WBCs/mm with differential count of

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