The biggest part of Medicare spending goes to patients who have several chronic illnesses common to old age. But an innovative program tried out in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, aims to help those patients stay out of the ho...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/30/Visiting-Nurses-More-Bang-for-the-Buck/
Once upon a time, and not all that long ago, the medicine you took had more to do with advertising and wish...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/13/8-Cures-That-Did-More-Harm-Than-Good/
Physicians and chemists who formulated drugs began writing of their wonders and publishing them in medical texts and newspapers in the late 1700s. From there, drug advertising took off as both doctors and the public were...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/02/26/From-Quacks-To-Quaaludes-Three-Centuries-Of-Drug-Advertising/
A patient came to Dr. Laennec complaining of chest pains. The doctor knew he should listen to her heart, but that was difficult, as she was fat and had large breasts. After all, this was 1816.“Percussion and the ap...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/26/Morals-Mammaries-and-Medicine/
There used to be an old Russian wive's tale that if a frog jumped in your bucket of milk, it wouldn't go sour. As it turns out, that might be true because the peptides in frog's skin secretions are antibiotic. It also me...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/08/Frogs-Can-Help-Make-Milk-Stay-Fresh-Longer/
Fifty years ago, Dr. Michael Alpers went to Papua New Guinea to investigate kuru, a horrible sickness that killed many of the native Fore people, and no one knew why. He ended up devoting his life to solving the mystery...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/24/The-Last-Laughing-Death/
Yes, these are fleams. What's a fleam, you ask? Why, just step right up, my friend, and I will tell you. Fleams are the latest thing in bloodletting. Are your humours out of balance? Got too much blood in your body? Put...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/15/Fleams/
A hundred years ago, the state of medical knowledg... ...urbing. Link(Image credit: New England Journal of Medicine )
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/27/10-Old-Timey-Medical-Treatments-Inspired-by-Your-Nightmares/
Last year, I was treated to The Physics Book by Cl... ...ern Africa make use of sangomas who employ herbal medicine , divination, and counseling. Thousands of years... ...help the sick and injured. Bodies were dissected, medicines tried, patients suffered and died, and scientists... ...Robot Surgeons, 250 Mi...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/20/The-Medical-Book-by-Clifford-A-Pickover/
The Future hasn't yet made good on that promise of hoverboards, but we do now have the capability to create new blood vessels quickly, thanks to 3D printing and some innovative techniques. It seems 3D printers, while gre...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/17/Scientists-Can-Now-3D-Print-Blood-Vessels-in-Just-a-Few-Seconds/
