Difference between revisions of "Category:Medicine"

See also Category:Science for medicine in space. If you're currently pregnant get your ass off this page. I use this stuff to write horror stories.

Category: Behavior - Humans: the manual

Birth

• What no one tells new moms about what childbirth can do to their bodies
• How to Safely Deliver a Baby In Case of Emergency
• A Man's Guide to Pregnancy: How to Deliver a Baby in a Pinch
• What is a Placental Abruption?
• Is it safe to be at a high altitude during pregnancy?
• Water breaking: what it feels like
• How to cut the umbilical cord of a baby
• What’s Killing America’s Black Infants? by Zoë Carpenter on The Nation

Disaster (Personal)

• Hypovolemia aka "bleeding out" (Wikipedia)
• Tachypnea aka abnormally fast breathing (Wikipedia)
• Thready Pulse

Disease and Disaster (Population)

• Epidemics and Pandemics in the U.S.
• Epidemics in Colonial Philadelphia from 1699-1799 and The Risk of Dying
• The Language of Infectious Disease: A Light-Hearted Review
• Pain Scales

Disease and Disaster (Specific)

COVID-19

• COVID-19 History and Resources because shit, sometimes history's happening right the fuck now

Cystic Fibrosis

• The history, and the future, of cystic fibrosis

Hiccups

• The Hiccup Cure by Diane Duane

Hypothermia

• cold weather tips from someone who lives where it's cold

Irish Potato Famine

• Great Famine (Ireland) (Wikipedia)

Influenza

• People at high risk for flu complications by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• 100 years ago, 'Spanish flu' shut down Philadelphia – and wiped out thousands by Jon Kopp and Bob McGovern on Philly Voice September 27, 2018
• Influenza (“Spanish Flu” Pandemic, 1918-19) by Thomas Wirth on The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

This disease protects you from that disease

• How Sickle Cell Protects Against Malaria: A Sticky Connection by Mia Rozenbaum at Understanding Animal Research
• CF Patients Could Survive Cholera, Researcher Suggests by Cystic Fibrosis News Today
• Genetic twist: Medieval plague may have molded our immunity by The Associated Press

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Symptoms and Causes by the Mayo Clinic

Medication and Treatment

• Botanical Sexism Cultivates Home-Grown Allergies by Thomas Leo Ogren on Scientific American explains how just planting male trees and shrubs contributes to asthma and allergies
• Sleep -- look, it makes me feel better...
• Cocaine
• Smelling Salts on Wikipedia
• Top 10 Medical Advances from the Middle Ages on Medievalists.net

Vision

• How far can we see if unobstructed? Hint: usually 12 miles.