Dr. Science, et al., have just published a new medical study: “Zinc for the treatment of the common cold: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials,” Michelle Science, Jennie Johnstone, Daniel E. Roth, Gordon Guyatt, Mark Loeb, Canadian Medical Association Journal, epub May 7, 2012. Dr. Science, at the Hospital for Sick Children, […]
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Faces that look like dishes
Kitchen utensils are not infrequent medical metaphors. When some people look at other people’s facies, they see dishes – the dishes used for dining. From as early as the 1950s faces like dishes were already in the medical literature: “The nasomaxillary epithelial inlay for dish face deformity. Converse JM, Jeffreys FE. J Oral Surg (Chic), 1951 9(3):183-7.” […]
Medical Reaction to Bats in Flight in an Airplane
Bats can present a medical hazard even while they are in flight — even flying at altitudes far higher than bats normally attain. The Centers for Disease Control explains how and why: “Rabies Risk Assessment of Exposures to a Bat on a Commercial Airliner — United States, August 2011,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), […]
Medical pop-up book vids, with silent organs!
These are pop-up medical books, or rather videos of some of those books being flipped-through. Whitney Trettien, Rachel Ingold, and Meg Brown of Duke University created the videos. The videos, being silent*, feature silent organs. (Thanks to Laughing Squid and @JenLucPiquant for bringing them to our attention.) *Well, not entirely silent. You can hear some unexciting […]