medicine

Kidneys: The Innocent Bystanders

When we purchase over-the-counter medicines, there’s often an assumption of their relative safety and harmlessness. After all, most ‘dangerous’ compounds are protected behind a...

A Spotlight on Black Licorice and its Darker Side

Black licorice. You either love it or you hate it. Some delight in the intense spice flavor that comes with a bite of licorice...
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Kevin Wolfe

Badass Biology: Toxoplasma gondii

Look, we humans are awesome. We own this planet. If we really wanted to, we could spill every barrel of oil we have into...
Ivan Pham

Bizzare Medical Treatments: Bayer Heroin

Bayer AG, a multibillion dollar, German pharmaceutical company is regarded as one of the leaders in its sector, producing mild painkillers such as Bayer...
Ivan Pham

Body snatchers: grave robbing for medicine

NOTE: This post is not related in any way to the 1956 sci-fi film that depicts an extraterrestrial invasion where the invaders “steal” human...
Katelyn Sturdivant

Ultraviolet radiation: what you can’t see can still hurt you

A few weeks ago, a friend of mine showed me an article on MSN about a man whose face was obviously more wrinkled on...