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Santa’s Sleighful of Problems
Think you’ve got problems? They ain’t nothin’ compared to Santa’s problems. Bella English of Boston.com outlines the sleighful of problems that the jolly Saint Nick has got: Just the other day, the...
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If You Walk Fast, You’ll (Probably) Live a Long Life
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a useful predictor of how long older adults live is how fast they walk. According to the report, people who walked 1 meter...
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How Dead Is a Doornail?
by Mike Dubik, MD Brian Wood, MD For hundreds, if not thousands, of years it has been accepted as an axiom that inanimate objects, such as nails, are dead. This self-evident truth has been expressed in...
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What Do Snakes and Sticks Have to Do With Doctors?
If you’ve ever seen the World Health Organization or American Medical Association logo, or the “star of life” on the side of an ambulance, you might have wondered what a snake wrapped around a stick...
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11 Memories of Not-So-Modern Medicine
Medicines and medical practices have come a long way. Here are some items that have vanished from medicine cabinets in the last few decades. 1. Mercurochrome Most folks over the age of 30 have never...
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