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Feelings of failure, guilt, grief and despair are common, our study shows. But there is support.
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Chronic UTIs come back repeatedly or never fully go away despite treatment.
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Men will go to almost any length to increase their length. Mostly with disastrous consequences.
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Regular erections help to maintain the potency suggests a new study in mice.
Like natural hormones, known as endogenous hormones, the artificial hormones contained in the pill, known as exogenous hormones, can have effects on the brain.
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Oral contraceptives modify the menstrual cycle. What’s less well known is that they also reach the brain, particularly the regions important for regulating emotions.
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An anatomist explains why turbulence on flights makes us feel so ill and disoriented.
Artists reveal what cannot be seen.
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From body snatching to Photoshop and virtual reality, the techniques of medical illustration have evolved. But its essential role in showing clinicians how to care for the body continues today.
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The much understudied fascia – our body’s own version of Spanx – is now coming under increasing scientific scrutiny.
What’s the worst that can happen?
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People have been shot with their own guns inside these giant magnets.
The experimental methods available today allow us to break the brain down into its elementary components in order to understand its functions and dysfunctions.
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Montréal is home to one of the world’s largest brain banks, the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank, where discoveries about different neurological and psychiatric diseases are made.
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An intact fly was recently found inside a man’s colon. It joins a long list of odd things found inside the human body.
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Why the speed of fast bowling in cricket seems to have stalled.
Medical students look at cadaver parts being used for demonstration.
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Most states permit government officials to donate unclaimed bodies to medical schools, with no legal requirement for prior approval from the deceased or their next of kin.
Unlike human eyes, dogs’ eyes are located more to the side of the skull. That gives them a wider field of vision.
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Your faithful companion sees the world differently than you do, but it’s a mistake to assume dogs only see black, white and shades of grey.
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Since the time of Hippocrates, doctors have looked at patients hands for signs of ill health.
Pteranodon was a large-bodied pterosaur.
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Reptiles don’t generally care for their offspring, but some pterosaurs may have bucked the trend.
The handling and disposition of human bodies raises all sorts of ethical and legal questions.
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The short answer: It’s complicated – and depends, in part, where you live.
Donors’ bodies lie covered in an anatomy lab at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
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The lessons students learn from dissecting donor bodies go beyond anatomy – and they try to pay that gift forward.
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To answer this question, we’ll need to look at some different parts of the brain and what they do.
Human evolution is typically depicted with a progressive whitening of the skin, despite a lack of evidence to support it.
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From Aristotle to Darwin, inaccurate and biased narratives in science not only reproduce these biases in future generations but also perpetuate the discrimination they are used to justify.