Behold the gentle interplay of measurement, urology, and psychology: “Penile Size and the ‘Small Penis Syndrome’,” Kevan R. Wylie and Ian Eardley, BJU International, vol. 99, no. 6, June 2007, pp. 1449-55. (Thanks to Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Porterbrook Clinic, Sheffield Care Trust, Sheffield, U.K., explain:
Tag: Review Articles
The Roller-Coaster and the Lens
A cautionary tale for anyone who simultaneously uses intracoular lenses and a roller coaster: “Repositioning of a Dislocated Intraocular Lens During a Roller-Coaster Ride,” M.M. Bosch, K. Landau, and M.A. Thiel, New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 349, no. 11, September 11, 2003, pp. 1094–6. [AIR 15:5] The authors, at the University of Zurich, report: […]
The Case of the Missing Worms
Research work may be glamorous, but… this study is evidence that sometimes it’s not easy: “Hepaticoliasis: a Frequent and Sometimes Fatal Verminous Infestation of the Livers of Rats and Other Rodents,” F.D. Weidman, Journal of Parasitology, vol. 12, no. 1, 1925. pp. 19–25. [AIR 15:4] (Thanks to investigator Wendy Cooper for bringing this to our […]
Coffee and Breast Size: A reply
A reply to the study we mentioned two days ago: “Of cup and bra size: Reply to a prospective study of breast size and premenopausal breast cancer incidence,” Anita Ringberg, Erika Bageman, Carsten Rose, Christian Ingva and Helena Jernstrom, International Journal of Cancer, vol. 119, 2006, pp. 2242–2243. The authors explain: “we found that the […]