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In a recent TV ad, Candidate Kerry discusses medical coverage in the United States and says he thinks medical coverage for all Americans should be a right. I assume he means 'right' in a constitutionally or legally guaranteed sense. I disagree, but what do you think? Does it even matter to...

Medical aspects of the world is not my thing. I'm down right squimish when things, that ought to be in the body, aren't, so I've spent my life avoiding learning about such things. However, now my father has taken a flip off his bicycle and landed on his head. I need help and/or resources for...

Childless couple told to try sex A German couple who went to a fertility clinic after eight years of marriage have found out why they are still childless - they weren't having sex. The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went...

I have been somewhat amazed at the amount of discussion over the two candidate's Viet Nam war records during this campaign. The Left has had a field day with Bush and his National Guard service and accusations of "desertion." They demanded he release his service record, with Michael Moore...

I woke up this morning an my arm was "dead". I had slept on it wrong and cut off the blood supply so it was non functioning. I rolled over and function came back after ca. two minutes of "pins and needles" can someone explain what is is going on thanks Virgil

http://etmedical.com/ As they say, Woo, Woo.

Let's face the truth of it; namely, that with proper diet, and regular exercise, your body can last a lifetime. -- Rouser

I'm looking for some books on neuroscience aka stupid brain tricks. I heard a radio bit on npr about the brain cycling and re-seting ones brain by breathing through one nostril for a given time and then the other one. I'd like to know more about things the brain can do like this. thanks for...

I got this one from Joe Bob Briggs site, and thought they were funny enough to pass on. Dr. Adam Fox, a specialist registrar at the Child Allergy Unit at St. Mary's Hospital in London, has been compiling a dictionary of the medical terms doctors don't want you to know about. For example, your...

As many of you are already aware, Rush Limbaugh is fighting to keep his medical records out of court. The police and prosecutor want to use them to make a case of "doctor shopping," in which Limbaugh is alleged to have gone to multiple docs for the same perscriptions of pain killers (euphonism...

On page 61 of the latest issue of Skeptical Inquirer, Kimball Atwood responds to a reader's letter defending alternative medicine by (among other things) asking the writer "to name a single example, since the era of scientific medicine began in the second half of the twentieth century, of a...

I was hospitalized last year for about 3 weeks. I was relesed and did outpatient IV therapy everyday (2Gm Vancomycin if you can believe that). I was always freaked out about the air gaps in the IV drip line and would wounder as they were so many and so large ( even tho the radius of the IV line...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3193902.stm [/B] They discuss how this contradicts the earlier study mentioned often here, and examined in skeptical enquirer which was most likely flawed and actually demonstrated "retro-active" prayer benefit.

While discussing people's attitude towards enterprises that their owners advertise their religious beliefs in a thread started by Tricky here , a very interesting topic came on the surface that we agreed that deserves a thread of its own: the relation between Religious beliefs and Medical...

I thought Doogie Howser MD was just a TV show? http://www.nbc5.com/news/2172234/detail.html I dont care how smart he is, I wouldnt want some teenager as my doctor. Are they really going to let this kid do gynecological exams on adult women?

A survey of CNN's health articles reveals: Light, aromatherapy may help dementia patients Yet another useless article with a misleading title and misinterpreted results from tiny, irrelevant studies. How sad that the non-medical public will actually greet this with welcome validation of the...

Is there any medical condition which causes red eyes for the rest of someone's life? I'm talking about the white of the eye turning red and the iris keeping its color. I'm writing a short story in which a character needs to have red eyes, but it needs to be scientifically explained. Thanks.

There are quite a few threads of a medical/drug nature particularly in the Science forum. Would a separate forum be worthwhile or are there enough forums already?

I'm going through some medical literature that I have to summarize, and found dosages listed in "mg/m^2." It's not that critical to my work, but I figure the more I know the better. What exactly is that unit? Milligrams per meter squared? Kinda weird (and wrong, too, I'd think: wouldn't it be...

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Preventive_Medicine/diabetes.html Raodtoad, this info was sourced from the Physicians for Responsible Medicine website. These people are doctors, you're welcome to reject the info, but how do you explain disagreement between scientists....is it possible YOUR current...