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In early modern Europe, around the time when lenses began to bring the world (and heavens) into newfound focus, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson investigates the source and manifestation of this…
From The Public Domain Review
An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.
From The Public Domain Review
Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a participant afterwards, and learn that yeah, actually, doctors are not supposed to give you propophol as a general anesthetic if you have a soy allergy. Which is really good to fucking know. Which is why I…
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To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
Unpredictable appointments can cost you a day’s wages even when you hardly wait.
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I’m still home sick today, along with half the valley from the number of comments on a post in Comox Valley community yesterday! Take your pick – rhinovirus, covid and the flu […]
From Kagi Small Web
Sometimes people say political parties in the U.S. are both corrupt, that it doesn't matter who is in power, that industry holds sway over our politics and our health regardless. Nothing could be more mistaken. Just now, The New York Times exposed how many Americans -- at least 3.3 million people…
From Kagi Small Web
I’ve been in bed all day, unable to function. I had a really bad migraine. It was so painful. I have been eating painkillers. Thankfully, it is gone now. I slept a lot and had weird dreams. Now I am up at 2 AM. Ready to start my day. I put music on and one […]
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