Salt and pepper can refer to many things other than the condiments — such as films, an album, a musical group, noise, etc. (Here is a relatively comprehensive list of things salt n’ pepper.) Some of those things are medical. The eye is not an uncommon target for those who think about food while they work. […]
Tag: medicine
Flamingo Stance in Humans — Good and Bad
Another paired entry in the category of “Is a thing good or bad? It Depends”. In this case the thing is people standing on one leg. Here are two studies: “Dynamic flamingo therapy” [Article in Japanese], Sakamoto K., Clinical Calcium. 2008 Nov;18(11):1594-9. (Thanks to investigator Genevieve Jules for bringing this to our attention.) The authors […]
Meth is Nothing to Sneeze At: A Possible Anti-Influenza Agent
Drugs almost always have more than one effect on the body. Witness this new study: “Methamphetamine Reduces Human Influenza A Virus Replication,” Yun-Hsiang Chen, Kuang-Lun Wu, Chia-Hsiang Chen [pictured here], PLoS ONE 7(11): e48335. (Thanks to investigator Ron Josephson for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at the National Health Research Institutes in Zhunan, […]
Seeing carrots under the microscope – hallucination or true perception?
We have previously wondered why some people see food when they look under the microscope. Although the reason(s) for this curious behavior may currently elude full explanation, we report a case of humans seeing carrots under the microscope: The nuclei of a predominantly childhood tumor – medulloblastoma – seem like carrots when seen under the […]