Is your hospice group able to provide or at least give you references for in-home aids to sit with her overnight? I know this is sometimes an...
I'm so sorry to hear you're in this situation. I obviously don't know your mom's case, but I can offer a few general suggestions. Depending on...
I'm just a nerd who spent way too much time thinking about this over the last six weeks during my repro and endo blocks. We understand this...
Let's be honest here - Semenya almost certainly has a disease. She has natural physiologic traits in the sense that it is something written into...
I have turned into Ragu. I am so sorry.
Never heard the liver thing, so I went looking for some information. If you want to read fun with scientific research, there's this article Organ...
Hookworms, not tapeworms, but yes. Little bastards bury through the sole of your foot. Tapeworms have a fun (?) recent connection to sports as...
I have my first big licensing test in in a few months, so I'm all about knowing extraordinary detail of uncommon diseases right now. The most...
The transmission is similar, but the diseases are nothing alike and the original post said something to the effect of it being a couple steps away...
So there are a few flavors of typhus, including endemic and epidemic. They're different bacteria and carried by different beasties. The one...
That's fair. I meant that to be taken as "we don't need a boogeyman like CTE because concussion/immediate head trauma in-and-of itself should be...
It's definitely not specious, and it should absolutely be researched more (though the bigger issue isn't that the studies haven't been going on...
As someone who used to be a journalist and is now in medicine, this story is so poorly researched it makes me hurt inside. FWIW, ketamine may not...
Eh, I wouldn't put it that way. Again, suicide or parasuicidal behavior can be caused by a variety of factors, including people that "attempt"...
That could/is definitely be part of it. But suicides are going up across age brackets, including the 15-34. So there are other significant...
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