From Tiffany earrings to mobile phones – this is what happens when you swallow something you shouldn’t
Just as problematic are prisoners who swallow mobile phones, as these are too large to progress beyond the stomach, so they get stuck. The only way to remove the phone in these instances is by ...
Researchers Uncover 500 Million-Year-Old Origins of Human Appetite Hormone
A human appetite hormone, bombesin, also controls feeding in starfish, showing it evolved over 500 million years ago. A team of biologists at Queen Mary University of London has discovered that a ...
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First Dissection Of The World’s Rarest Whale Reveals They Have 9 Stomach Chambers
Now, the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale has returned some novel insights about their anatomy. “Not only was this tohorā ... Another curious feature of the spade-toothed whale was its ...
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Medical schools are eliminating the use of cadavers, and that’s a shame
What will be lost when medical students are no longer made to uncomfortably face death to learn from what a real human body ...
‘Strawberry nose’ to ‘flat-cake’: Why some illnesses are named after food
Ever wondered why some medical conditions are named after food? Strawberry nose or milky leg syndrome? This is because early ...