Fish Skin Heals Burns
STAT A Brazilian doctor is spearheading this unusual new treatment. Burns are some of the most horrific wounds doctors deal with. The World Health Organization estimates that around 265,000 people…
Will Sitting Too Close To The TV Make You Go Blind?
Ines Vuckovic/Dose Fact-checking your mom’s favorite scare tactic. Our Middle School Mysteries series investigates childhood rumors you never bothered to fact-check yourself. The last time I was home I caught my…
Music Gets You As High As Drugs & Sex
Unsplash I love this record, baby, but I can’t see straight anymore. In the movie “Almost Famous,” Penny Lane famously says, “I always tell the girls: Never take it seriously. If…
How A Glass Of Bad Wine Saved Millions Of Lives
Louis Pasteur spent much of his time studying alcohol. | Hulton Archive/Getty You owe your life to Louis Pasteur’s obsession with alcohol. When you order wine in a restaurant, the waiter…
Rampant Murder Created The Pharmacy Business
R.S. Cheers, pharmacist at London’s St. George’s Hospital, 1921. | A. R. Coster/Stringer The people who fill your prescriptions used to sell poison. Henry Marchant came back from drinking with his…
How Stoned College Kids Invented Modern Anesthesia
Scottish doctor Sir James Young Simpson experiments with another knock-out gas, chloroform. He’d already given it to mothers in childbirth. | Hulton Archive/Getty It’s all fun and games until someone…
Your Mom Will Live Longer If You Hang With Her, Study Finds
thelifesquare.com Read this, then call her. A year after my grandmother — a gem with a penchant for crafting needlepoint pillowcases and Afghan blankets — passed away from a gnarly bout with cancer, my grandfather…
This Anti-Smoking Ad Shames Smokers In The Most Brutal Way
Apotek Hjärtat/YouTube Just another day in Scandinavia. After Denmark, Sweden taxes its citizens more than any nation in the world: The average worker gives 40% of their salary to the…
Your Body Wash Is Killing Your Sex Drive
Stop soaping up before you get down. If you spend hours grooming before a date, I have bad news: Your soap is actually hurting your sex drive. Same with your toothpaste,…
Can You Really Get Herpes From A Toilet Seat?
Holla at my germaphobes! As much as I hated high school, I’ll never forget what happened to me on the last day. My classmates and I signed each others’ yearbooks. At…