MEDICINE

“SSRIs are a good thing, but they have an inhibitory effect on osteoblasts, bone cells, which we’ve only known about since 2010,” Sebastiano Andreana tells mental_floss.

You don't need to look any farther than the picnic table at your backyard barbecue for some natural health remedies.

It takes exactly 90 days to get used to a new face.

Oncologist Katie Deming was determined to make radiation treatment less painful.

When a fish needs a surgical procedure, veterinarians are there to take up the challenge.

42-year-old Carlos Mariotti will regain partial use of the limb once it heals.

If it makes it into therapeutic form, Pro-Tx II won’t be the first commercially viable toxin-derived pain reliever; an existing drug called Prialt, designed from the venom of marine snails, is often used as a last resort when morphine doesn’t stop chronic

One cell of this fish can express one of 5000 possible shades.

This research is the first step in creating a predictive test.

Scientists want to use it to grow human tissue and tendons.

Could you imagine rubbing poisonous lead on someone to cure their rectal cancer? Welcome to just one of the remedies in 'The Book of Phisick,' a remarkably legible, handwritten recipe book of natural remedies.

Disease terminology can tell us a lot about the (sometimes-misguided) history of medicine.