Tag: medicine
member name: Firoze H.
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January 28, 2007 10:03 AM EST --
Mozart has a very unusual medical problem – the kind that would women giggle and wannabe studs green with envy. Mozart has an erection that has lasted for over a week; it just won’t go down. . . .
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May 18, 2007 05:47 AM EDT --
January 25, 2007 is a day that Shannon Malloy of Nebraska will remember for the rest of her life. In fact, the real surprise is that she still has a ‘rest of her life’. On that awful winter’s . . .
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October 19, 2007 06:36 AM EDT --
I must admit up front that I feel a little bit contemptuous of people who blame everything bad that happens to them on fate. I have equal scorn for those who keep asking God for material favors; and . . .
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October 23, 2006 12:35 AM EDT --
From 'soda glasses' to no glasses, a revolutionary surgery spells hope for thousands who are on the verge of being officially deemed blind.
Unable to recognize a friend standing a foot away, . . .
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November 10, 2006 01:46 AM EST --
If, like me, you have a dread of being poked by doctors' needles, this is going to come as very welcome news. In the near future, dreaded vaccinations could be as simple as sticking a Band-Aid—painless . . .
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November 17, 2006 10:43 AM EST --
On the occasion of World Epilepsy Day, here is an interesting piece of medical information.
The flashing strobe lights, the zig-zagging bands of illumination on the dance floor - they definitely . . .
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December 28, 2006 11:01 AM EST --
A few months before he died, my father started exhibiting signs of Alzheimer’s disease. It seems like a terrible thing to say, but I believe his passing away before the disease really took hold was . . .
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April 11, 2007 04:13 AM EDT --
I’ve always been a bit skeptical about all the hype over Viagra. I mean to say, isn’t it a common complaint of women that their significant others usually think with their flagpoles, anyway? . . .
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November 08, 2006 04:00 AM EST --
Can killing, taking a human life, ever be a mercy for the victim? This is one concept where, try as we might, logic flies out the window and emotions take over. After all, we are talking about the top . . .
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November 11, 2006 07:52 AM EST --
A newspaper article, about plans by surgeons in New York to transplant an entire womb from a brain-dead donor into a living woman, set me thinking. Is modern medicine playing God? Think about it. Doctors . . .
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December 15, 2006 04:56 AM EST --
The human body is the ultimate machine; crafted by a master whose skills we cannot even begin to fathom. Then why are we tinkering with it so much? Some of it – like breast implants or Botox – . . .
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June 05, 2007 02:06 AM EDT --
Recently, CNN showed a clip about a 60 year old woman who gave birth to twins. This event was rare enough to be featured on prime time. However, if Carl Djerassi is to be believed, by 2050, women in their . . .
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April 12, 2007 12:20 PM EDT --
9/11 is a date will remain seared forever in the collective memory of Americans. For Londoners, their doomsday date arrived on 7th July 2005, when a series of explosions in the subway and on a bus caused . . .
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June 06, 2009 09:27 AM EDT --
If there is one dish Indians love to eat, it's curry - and the spicier the better. People in many South-East Asian countries eat a lot of it too and, surprisingly, so do the British - although . . .
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April 21, 2007 09:04 AM EDT --
A woman in Montreal, Canada, has a seven year-old daughter who, because of a genetic condition, will be unable to have children when she grows up. Most ladies in her situation would resign themselves to . . .
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May 23, 2007 06:14 AM EDT --
Spiders give most folks – even macho men – the heebie jeebies. So a bite from one cannot be fun, can it? Well, actually, it can. A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria Nigriventer . . .
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November 19, 2009 10:39 AM EST --
Back in the 1970’s, one of my favorite television shows was “The Six Million Dollar Man”. It was about some sort of government agent who had his body crushed in a horrible accident; . . .
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