In case you are unaware of the potentially sexually charged atmosphere of an orthopaedic clinic, we point you in the direction of the erotic tome that is Advanced Examination Techniques in Orthopaedics. It was brought to Twitter’s attention by Kate Ahmad, a neurologist in Sydney who tweeted “If you don’t think women in medicine have… Read More: A textbook case of sexism in medicine? – The Guardian »
Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression. “I was so depressed,” Petersen, 29, said… Read More: Can psychedelics treat anorexia, depression? U.S. scientists get millions to… »
One of the most unbearable migraine symptoms is nausea, and impacts 80% of migraine sufferers in the US. A headache physician showed in a study that pressure with an acupressure wristband to the P6 antiemetic point located on the inside of the wrist is an effective and also quick remedy for relief of migraine nausea.[1]… Read More: Acupressure Wristband Effective For Relieving Migraine Nausea »
Illustration: Benjamin Currie (Gizmodo) Thousands of medicines have made it to market in the last century or so. Some of these medicines have single-handedly eradicated illnesses that have plagued humanity from the dawn of time; some have made chronic conditions at least somewhat more tolerable; others have plunged people into sleepless hallucinatory hell-worlds from which… Read More: What’s the Best Medicine? – Gizmodo »