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We’ve all been told we need antibiotics from time-to-time. But sometimes, that advice gets taken a bit too far into overuse.
So much so that not only do we now have antibiotic-resistant superbugs, but many strains of old annoyances are on the verge of turning antibiotic-resistant, too.
Well now we can chalk up another issue to watch out for: Long-Term Collateral-Damage…
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Drug researchers have been trying for at least as long as regular Viagra for men to make a version of the same for women.
Sometimes, they’ve even gone as far as testing regular Viagra on women for the same effects.
And of course, results were inconsistent.
Well, just a few days ago, the FDA approved the newest drug-salvo in that pleasure war, Addyi.
But unfortunately, if it’s a victory at all, it’s a Pyrrhic one…
Thus far in human history, wearing a man-skirt seemed only good for making a guy look like a trainspotting soccer hooligan to be avoided at all costs.
Well now SCIENCE! has come to the rescue and theorized an actual benefit to the traditional garb, besides winning your FREEEDOM! from the English.
The Kilt-loving Dr. Erwin Kompanje from Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands has done a meta-analysis of the sparsely-available literature.
And his conclusions are that regimental-style kilt-wearing provides perhaps the perfect environment to boost male fertility…
First it was our old friend Vioxx that caused about 140,000 heart attacks in the early 2000s.
As a result, the FDA began warning people about the risk of heart attack and stroke with this class of meds as far back as 2005.
Still further, it seems biotech researchers suspected those risks for as-long-as 15 years; at least in high-dose cases.
Well Now: The FDA is putting its foot down still further and ramping up warnings on even garden variety…
So I guess the old guys kicking around back 1,000+ years ago weren’t so dumb after-all.
First Plato, Seneca, Pythagoras, DaVinci, Hasselhoff, and now a guy named Bald. -Who wrote something called a Leechbook. One of the earliest medical textbooks known.
I know, I know, whenever you hear about old remedies you think of alchemy, bloodletting, witches & Monty-Python. -But not so fast…
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Somehow the wizards at Merck or their original researchers like CSL Ltd. have made the already-impressive Gardasil even more effective.
The new Gardasil-9 protects against even more strains of HPV than before.
The old vaccine protected against 4 varieties & had a 97% prevention rate. And those 4 strains covered 70% of all potentially-lethal HPV.
Mystifyingly, even though it covers more than twice as many strains,…
On the sillier end of things, another pheromone study has come out.
And it says, somehow mystifyingly, that people can more-or-less smell each-others’ political beliefs.
Whatever the influence is, it’s got to be extremely-subtle given all possible environmental variables (if this study is not completely BS, of-course).
SO: What the researchers did was to set things up similar to the er, ~somewhat-proven Immune-System…
Though not as cutely-illustrated as ASAPScience’s stuff, Michael Stevens of VSauce goes into some interesting depth and detours here about the science and evolution of kissing.
Some of what he covers in this vid include: Kissing is healthy for us, it’s probably been used as a “Taste Test” part of mate-selection for well; -ever, Don’t go all Silverstone but Kissing was probably used for the world’s first and maybe healthiest baby-food, and into the darker areas of science,…
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