Health and Medicine
15-11-2024
Women on the verge of hysteria: the story of a vibrator
From a medical device to a "personal back massager" — the vibrator has experienced a rich and eventful history. It is now that he ...
15-11-2024
The story of a head transplant that was never meant to happen
One night in 1971, in the American city of Cleveland, Ohio, a historic event occurred. Lying on the surgical table, the small, ...
15-11-2024
What happens if you drink a liter of strong coffee in one sitting
The fact that coffee invigorates has long been a universally recognized fact. Many are also sure that a fragrant drink is useful, ...
14-11-2024
How venereal diseases were treated in the old days: lead ...
Despite the fact that sexually transmitted diseases have been known for more than one century, they were effectively treated ...
13-11-2024
Adam Rainer: the story of an unfortunate guy who managed to ...
The human body is an amazing creation of nature. He can present the most incredible surprises, which are not only difficult for ...
12-11-2024
Why you shouldn't drink coffee when you're sick
Coffee is a drink that is an integral part of the morning ritual for many people. However, during periods of illness, many doctors ...
11-11-2024
Why are the usual medicines from the home medicine cabinet ...
Self-medication for people in the post-Soviet space is the most common thing. Most of us believe that before going to the doctor, ...
11-11-2024
10 facts, knowledge of which may one day save your life
It is not 100% to say that tomorrow is with us nothing bad will happen, because often life throws up surprises when least expected. ...
10-11-2024
Scientists have proven that drinking water is just as ...
There is an old Odessa joke that talks about a sign at the entrance to the synagogue. It read: "To enter here bareheaded is as ...
10-11-2024
Anatomical Venus, on whom pathologists of the XVIII century ...
Anatomical Venus is a life—size female wax figure, usually with real human hair and glass eyes. It was made specifically for ...
10-11-2024
7 Scientifically Proven Ways to Increase Happiness
What is "happiness"? It is quite difficult to describe the meaning of this word in detail, as well as to explain what "love" is. ...
09-11-2024
History of leprosy: why humanity has conquered, but not ...
Leprosy for thousands of years has existed with the man, causing a chilling fear his unpredictability and ruthlessness. Only in the ...
09-11-2024
How fat Rosalie Bradford got into the Guinness Book of ...
Throughout her life, Rosalie Bradford came close to death many times. She says that she is even used to balancing between the world ...
08-11-2024
From arthritis to melanoma: 10 signs of serious diseases that ...
Our body constantly gives signals about the state of health. If you are attentive to the changes that occur with the body, you can ...
08-11-2024
You can see right through the story: the first patients on X-ray
November 8, 1895 is considered the day of the discovery of X-rays by professor and physicist Wilhelm Roentgen. However, few people ...
08-11-2024
The life story of Virginia Apgar, a professor, musician and ...
Every woman who gave birth in the maternity hospital knows about the existence of the Apgar scale. In the world, the indicator on ...
07-11-2024
What will happen to you if you have 5 extra kilograms at the ...
When you are thirty, you are young and healthy, being overweight brings only aesthetic dissatisfaction and some tolerable ...
07-11-2024
The story of Jeanie Wiley, a wild girl who spent 13 years in ...
It is the social environment that teaches us such seemingly primitive things as the ability to express our thoughts, distinguish ...
07-11-2024
Front-line venereology, or How they fought with the ...
War is always death, pain, suffering and deprivation. It is quite clear that no one wants these already terrible things to be ...
06-11-2024
Why he took his own life Dr. Botox, cosmetologist Madonna and ...
Today, Botox injections and collagen no surprise — is available to all the procedures that make in ordinary beauty salons. ...
06-11-2024
18 of the masterpieces of the anti-tobacco advertising from ...
November 6, 1492 Christopher Columbus on the island of Cuba for the first time got acquainted with a strange custom of the Indians ...
05-11-2024
Why does weight return after a diet, and how to avoid it?
If you have ever been on a diet, then you probably noticed how after a long cut in the diet and weight loss, the weight returns to ...
05-11-2024
5 habits that negatively affect the skin and impending old age
Women have made many efforts to save the youth and freshness of the skin. But even the most carefully protecting the face from ...
05-11-2024
Why do men suffer from colds and flu more severely than women?
Everyone is well aware of purely feminine jokes about men “dying” at a temperature of 37.2. They are perceived as a hint at the ...
05-11-2024
12 Mental Disorders Named After Famous People and Characters
Although the human psyche has been studied for centuries, it is still far from fully unraveling its secrets. However, scientists ...
04-11-2024
Bottled water: the biggest scam in the history of mankind
Bottled water is in great demand all over the world. Its sales are growing by an average of 10% per year and by the next 2020, the ...