While some researchers urge the public, especially children, to come in more contact with common dirt — and thus presumably boost their immune systems by exercising them against a wide range of threatening thisandthat — other researchers point adults towards the opposite direction. At present, it seems unlikely that these two research camps will soon join hands. […]
Tag: medical
For Burns Night: Til All the Drip Dries Up
For Burns Night, again this year, we remind you about this song: “Till All the Drip Dries Up (The Doctor’s Woeful, Skinny Spouse)“: Till All the Drip Dries Up (The Doctor’s Woeful, Skinny Spouse) by A.S. Kaswell (with apologies to Robert Burns) (NOTE: this can be sung to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne“) O, my love’s got […]
Ballet Dancers doing splits in an MRI scanner [hip study]
Quite a number of professional ballet dancers suffer from medical conditions brought about by their requirement to perform very extreme leg movements. To accurately evaluate such problems physicians would, ideally, like to be able to carry out MRI scans of ballet dancers whilst performing the splits. [that’s the dancers, not the physicians] And, impractical as […]
Improbable medical research about Christmas
A revisit to the medical literature: A Collection of Christmas Science, Part 1 and Part 2. (Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for reminding us about our own files, which we are all too prone to forget. There’s more buried in those files…)