Today’s Startling Coffee Study of the Day is: “Drinking coffee burns hepatic fat by inducing lipophagy coupled with mitochondrial β‐oxidation,” Wen‐Xing Ding, Hepatology (2013).
Tag: medical
First Reported Case of Laugh-Induced Seizure
This medical case report shows an exception to the old saying that “laughter is the best medicine”: “Laugh-Induced Seizure: A Case Report,” Naba Raj Mainali, Leena Jalota, Madan Aryal, Torrey R Schmidt, Madan Badal, Richard Alweis [pictured here smiling but not laughing], Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2013, 7:123. The authors, at Reading Health System […]
The Puzzling Case of the Presurgical Spray Tan
Yet another mystery presented itself to the medical profession, and yielded to the detective powers thereof. Details are in the study: “Discourage the presurgical spray tan — Physicians were puzzled by the patient’s postoperative skin damage,” Miriam S. Krause, Henry Bohler, Steven T. Nakajima, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, epub April 2, 2013. The […]
Advice: To chew or not to chew
It is not an absolute, inviolable rule that one should always chew one’s food. Whether or not this Time report is accurate, its advice at the end is basic and good: A fishmonger in southern China found a live bomb inside one of his squid. The man — identified only as Mr. Huang by the Guangzhou Daily — said that while […]