medicine
Patients Are Finding Big Problems with Their Medical Weed
We spoke to medicinal cannabis patients in the UK who say their prescriptions are arriving contaminated.
In Breakthrough, Scientists Resurrect Prehistoric Molecules in Search of Modern Medicine
The antibiotics of tomorrow might just have their origins in the deep past thanks to a new class of compounds called "paleofurans."
The Wildest Things Junior Doctors Have Seen in the Hospital
"The wife is screaming; he’s screaming; I’m basically screaming while I just hold this man’s dick and wait for help"
A Concierge Online Hair-Loss Clinic? Yes, My Balding King
With Happy Head, your transition from Vin Diesel to Jason Momoa is only a few clicks away.
Scientists Begin Trials for Transfusions of Lab-Grown Blood Cells
The ability to grow blood cells of any needed type in a lab could be a game-changer.
A Short List of ‘Fun Facts’ Dr. Karl Has Taught Me Against My Will
Until 2022, I had never heard of a “Dr. Karl”. Nor had I considered the concept of “poo particles”, or contemplated the existence of “cubical poo”.
Why Does This Keep Happening: Another Teen Got a USB Cord Stuck Up His Penis
There are a surprising amount of medical cases involving cords threaded into urethras, for "sexual curiosity" purposes.
White People Who Got Placebo From White Doctors Felt Better, Study Says
The placebo effect appeared to line up with the unconscious biases that pervade the world around us.
Researchers Flip Pharmaceutical AI to Create 40,000 Biowarfare Agents
Researchers from a medical startup demonstrated in a new study how even tools designed for good can be tweaked to produce dire results.
Junior Doctors Are Burnt Out, Anxious and Thinking of Quitting the NHS
"The shit hit the fan and the support just wasn’t there."
Doctors Declared This Man Dead. He Came Out Alive From a Freezer 6 Hours Later.
“I touched his cheeks. To my happiness and horror, it was warm. He was breathing,” says a relative who came to identify the body at the morgue.