Questions tagged [medical-science]
Use this tag for questions about the science of medicine and its practices. Use [medications] for questions about the actual cures that people take, and use [alternative-medicine] for claims about cures and practices which are claimed to be alternative to official medical science
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Did around 50% of sailors die from scurvy on long voyages?
Wikipedia's article on scurvy asserts:
During the Age of Sail, it was assumed that 50 percent of the sailors
would die of scurvy on a major trip.
This is cited to an article by Catherine Price, who ...
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Does nitrogen asphyxiation (when used as a capital punishment method) cause convulsions?
I was reading this Guardian article about the recent execution of Anthony Boyd by nitrogen asphyxiation, and it explains that the first person subjected to the method, Kenny Smith, was seen "...
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Does allopathy kill 225-783 thousand people in the US per year?
According to the website Before It's News:
With its smorgasbord of synthetic
drugs, vaccines, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, Western medicine
or allopathy has earned the dubious honor of ...
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Does consuming excrement, urine, ashes and clay effectively treat snake bite?
Vinay Pitak is Part I of the Pali Tripitaka (Theravada Buddhist scripture).
In it, Gautam Buddha gave the cure for snake bite. Dhamma Talks quotes it as:
For snakebite: A medicine may be made of the “...
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Will my bladder burst if I hold my pee?
A Man Ruptured His Bladder After Holding in Pee for 18 Hours says a man drank 10 beers, fell asleep, and then woke up with a burst bladder.
I was told it's not possible to hold your pee until your ...
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Did a Chinese football fan die after voluntarily staying awake for 11 days straight?
Daily Mail, 22 June, 2012
A Chinese football fan died after going 11 nights without sleep as he
tried to watch every single kick of the ball of Euro 2012.
Jiang Xiaoshan, said to be supporting ...
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Were X-rays of Gazan children with bullets in their heads faked?
The New York Times has published a guest essay entitled "65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza". The article features three photographs of x-rays showing bullets in the head ...
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Is vegetable oil making us dumber?
In this video, titled "The $212 Billion Dollar Food ingredient poisoning your Brain", Joseph Everett makes the case that vegetable oils are lowering human IQ.
He cites professor Michael A. ...
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Have human infant foreskins been put into commercial cosmetic products?
It's been a thing I've heard for a long time now, but I simply thought it was some sort of slander campaign. I recently read an article in Boston magazine which said
"the active ingredient in an ...
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Did a New Zealand boy start eating normally after being treated by Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine?
In a video broadcast from Iranian TV [Persian, English subtitles for first 1.5m], 7 years ago, it is claimed that a New Zealand boy, Solomon "Solly" Moss, started eating normally (without ...
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Does chromosome 6 deletion cause the patient to not feel pain, hunger, and fatigue?
In this 7-years-old Belfast Telegraph article there's a video posted to Russia Today about a girl called Olivia Farnsworth who has the genetic abnormality "chromosome 6 deletion" which ...
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Does weight loss from Ozempic come mainly from muscle and connectivity tissue loss?
A recent "The Joe Rogan Experience" episode with Bill Maher as the guest discussed weight loss drugs, especially type-2 diabetes GLP-1 agonists. The following interchange took place (J is ...
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Has the absorption of menstrual hygiene products only now been compared using blood for the first time?
A number of articles such as this one or this one were published recently in reaction to this study.
The study is quoted as saying that "no study exists comparing the capacity of currently ...
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Can you fix drooping eyelids with exercises?
I stumbled upon this YouTube video which gives exercises to fix drooping eyelids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYBd6t1k-38
The medical term used to qualify drooping eyelids is ptosis (or ...
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