"Medical" Blogs & Blog Posts

A 62-year-old Massachusetts man is the first transplant patient to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig. And so far, his recovery is going well. Richard Slayman, battling end-stage kidney disease, checked into Massachusetts General Hospit...

A man in Florida had been feeling "off" since October, and continued to get worse until a bleeding nose and swollen face prompted him to go to a hospital last Friday. But nobody expected what came next: the doctors pulled out 150 live bugs from his n...

If you have two functioning testes, by the time you finish reading this sentence, you'll have produced around 50,000 sperm cells. That's around 300 million per day. So if you don't ejaculate frequently, where do they all go? And is it healthier to re...

Before the second half of the 19th century, bloodletting was a common medical practice. It was believed to help patients heal from illness and disease through balancing the "humours" of the body.  Most of the time, bloodletting was harmful to...

Visual Capitalist created the US life expectancy chart below based on data from the US Government's Office of Social Security. Of course, the average life expectancy is going up across the board. Back in the 19th century, global life expectancy avera...

A 35-year-old gentleman showed up at Dong Hoi, Vietnam's Cuba Friendship Hospital complaining of terrible headaches. An MRI scan revealed that the fellow was suffering from pneumocephalus, the presence of air in the brain due to a tear in the tissue.

Davey Bauer, 34, was in need of a double lung transplant after years of smoking followed by brutal antibiotic-resistance infections ruined both his lungs. Dr. Ankit Bharat and the medical team at Northwestern Medicine removed Bauer's infected lungs,...