Let鈥檚 start with the twins. Aimee and Nancy are identical twins who agreed to take part in an experiment organized by Panorama, an excellent British television documentary that often deals with...
Throughout its lifetime, tuberculosis (or TB) has gone by many names. The ancient Greeks called it 鈥減hthisis鈥�. In the 1700s, it was 鈥渢he white plague鈥�. And in the 1800s, it was 鈥渃onsumption鈥� 鈥�...
If you are a male rat and have to spend two hours every day in a polypropylene tube in which you cannot move, and want to preserve the integrity of your penis, you better stay away from eating...
When I moved to Montreal, it took me a while to get oriented. After a few weeks of constantly checking Google Maps, I developed a mental image of key landmarks and how to navigate between them. I...
They sound like names of creatures that Harry Potter could have encountered in the Forbidden Forest. But no, these are the names of two new drugs that may force the current golden boy of the weight...
Here鈥檚 a tip. If you don鈥檛 like blood, don鈥檛 go into dentistry. Dentists see a lot of blood, and often get their (gloved) hands full of it. Bleeding is common and of little concern during many...
As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy?...
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