What drugs can astronauts take in space?
It is really, really inconvenient to get sick in space. At least, that’s what I took away from some recent reporting on astronaut microbiomes and zero-gravity…
Woman’s Life: A Pen Picture of Woman’s Functions, Frailties, and Follies
I found a medical book for women from 1879 and it’s amazing.
Throwback Thursday: The Dick Test
We don’t hear much about the treatments that preceded penicillin, so let’s take time to remember the Dick Test.
Top 12 Ways Scientists Can Study Your Brain
Neuroscientists wanna get inside your head. Here’s how they might do it.
Saving Clifford Johnson
Scroll slowly. You have decisions to make. Your name is Clifford A. Johnson. You are 21 years old, Missouri-grown, a Coast Guardsman. The year is 1942.…
Maybe this time: What we’ve learned in the decade since SARS
Almost exactly a decade after the first SARS patient, a new and similar illness emerges in the Middle East. This virus may not be the next epidemic, but it begs the question of whether something like SARS could happen to us again.
