分类目录归档：health
Have you ever tried to picture an ideal world?
One without war, poverty, or crime?
If so, you're not alone.
Plato imagined an enlightened republic ruled by philosopher kings,
many religions promise b
Nothing stuck to Mafia boss John Gotti
who evaded justice for years by bribing and threatening jurors and witnesses.
That earned him the name the Teflon Don
after one of the slipperiest materials on
What is bipolar disorder?
The word bipolar means two extremes.
For the many millions experiencing bipolar disorder around the world,
life is split between two different realities -
elation and depres
You're standing at the ready inside the goal
when suddenly, you feel an intense itch on the back of your head.
We've all experienced the annoyance of an inconvenient itch,
but have you ever pondered
Each year in the United States,
players of sports and recreational activities
receive between 2.5 and 4 million concussions.
How dangerous are all those concussions?
The answer is complicated,
and l
All year long, researchers at hundreds of hospitals around the world
collect samples from flu patients
and send them to top virology experts with one goal:
to design the vaccine for the next flu seas
In 1963, a 21-year-old physicist named Stephen Hawking
was diagnosed with a rare neuromuscular disorder
called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Gradually, he lost the ability to walk,
use his
Over the course of our lifetimes,
our bodies undergo a series of extraordinary metamorphoses:
we grow,
experience puberty,
and many of us reproduce.
Behind the scenes,
the endocrine system works con
Even after writing eleven books and winning several prestigious awards,
Maya Angelou couldn’t escape the nagging doubt
that she hadn’t really earned her accomplishments.
Albert Einstein experienced
In 1917, doctors proposed an outlandish treatment for syphilis,
the incurable bacterial infection that had ravaged Europe for centuries.
Step 1: Infect patients suffering from the later stages of s