How Your Chicken Dinner Is Creating a Drug-Resistant Superbug
If you’ve ever suffered from a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI), you know how painful and unpleasant it can be. But if antibiotics weren’t able to cure it, the infection could spread to one’s kidneys and the rest of the body, and could even be fatal. Which is why doctors are very concerned to find that [...]
The Tonsillectomy: A Massive Pain in the Neck
by David Zax
Tonsils, those oval-shaped masses of tissue in the back of your throat, have been the targets of surgeons from the earliest days of medicine. Around 1000 BC, doctors in India practiced partial tonsillectomies. In the days of Jesus, a Roman physician named Aulus Cornelius Celsus recorded performing tonsillectomies by holding on to the [...]
Sharing the Bed with Fido Can Make You Sick
Do you love your pets so much that they sleep in your bed? Well, being close with your animals may feel good, but being too close may kill you:
Although they are not common, documented cases show people contracting infections by getting too cozy with their animals, according to work by researchers in California.
These so-called [...]
Woman With Largest Breasts Fights For Life
A MODEL with the world’s largest breasts is fighting for her life after suffering complications following her latest surgery.Brazilian Sheyla Hershey, who lives in Houston, Texas, contracted a severe staph infection following her most recent breast augmentation procedure in June, myFOXhouston.com reported today.The infection reached both of Ms Hershey’s breasts.Doctors took the 30-year-old into
8% of Human DNA Comes from a 40 Million Year-Old Virus
A team of scientists led by Keizo Tomonaga of Osaka University determined that a virus dating from 40 million years ago is embedded in human DNA. This infection, known as the bornavirus, might be the cause of schizophrenia and passes from generation to generation inside human cellular nuclei, filling out 8% of human genetic code:
The [...]
