Medicine

At the end of the 1800s, one St. Louis company marketed their signature pain-relieving product with a series of macabre calendars.

But we don’t know for sure, because we don’t actually keep track.

“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.

She’s still too young for med school, but she just might transform health care.

It can be programmed to alert loved ones as well.

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Being cold depletes an animal’s energy reserves and immune system.

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Researchers have started a fundraising campaign to sequence the venomous lizard’s genome.

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

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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.

Like superheroes, each pain reliever has its own set of strengths and weaknesses.

Researchers are developing a patch that could monitor glucose levels and administer medicine automatically.

Cultural expectations of “manliness” include not complaining—even to the doctor.

Participants in a clinical trial found that a practice called mindfulness-based stress reduction helped alleviate their lower back pain.

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.

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With his long limbs, big hands, and thin face, our 16th president seems like a good candidate for the condition, but historians and geneticists just aren’t sure.