Worldwide, one in eight people have a mental disorder such as depression, schizophrenia, and anxiety. In the US, major depressive disorder affects around 7.1% of the population, and around 18.1% of Americans have anxiety disorders. There is much money to be made from giving out medication for these mental health issues. Without insurance, a 30-day …
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Examining Randomized Controlled Trials for Surgery
We have all heard of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) being used for pharmaceutical products, where one group receives the actual drug and the other receives a placebo. The results of the trial indicate whether the true medicine has a positive effect that is greater than the one potentially caused by the placebo. But what are …
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Fighting Against Dogma: Ignaz Semmelweis & the Study of Antisepsis
In a modern hospital, great care is taken to sterilize medical instruments and not to transfer infections between surgical patients. At one time, however, such antiseptic measures were not simply unknown to doctors, but actively fought against. The story of the man who tried to implement life-saving cleansing procedures at hospitals – encountering insurmountable resistance …
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New York Makes Vegan Meals Mandatory at Hospitals
Hospital food is never viewed as the pinnacle of culinary experience. Furthermore, if you are a vegan or vegetarian that has to stay at a hospital for whatever reason, you might find that there are no available meals that fit your dietary requirements or preferences. Frequently hospitals only offer patients meals that have some type …
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Mesmerism: the Man, the Word, the Pseudoscience
To be mesmerized is to be fascinated, obsessed, and so attentive to something that you appear to be under a spell. Of the words in the English language, “mesmerized” has a relatively recent origin. In fact, it was produced s a result of a fascinating (mesmerizing?) type of pseudoscience that was popular in the 18th …
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