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

Autism

• America's most popular autism therapy may not work - and may seriously harm patients' mental health by Beth Hawkins on The 74 Million

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

Health Insurance

• Find out why your health insurer denied your claim by ProPublica
• Use AI to fight your health insurance denial

Medicare

• Pennsylvania Medicare Education and Decision Insight (PA MEDI)

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)

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

• ALS Facts and Statistics on ALS News Today
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mortality in the United States, 2011–2014 on the National Institute of Health (NIH)

Black Plague / Bubonic Plague / Black Death / Yersinia pestis

• The Black Death was history's most lethal plague. Now scientists say they know where it started by CBC Radio

COVID-19

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

Cystic Fibrosis

• 2021 Patient Registry Annual Data Report (PDF) by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Average life expectancies for cystic fibrosis by Medical News Today
• Burkholderia Cepacia Complex and Cystic Fibrosis on Cystic-Fibrosis.com
• CFTR Gene on Medline Plus
• Cystic Fibrosis at the Mayo Clinic
• FDA approves new breakthrough therapy for Cystic Fibrosis on the FDA website.
• The history, and the future, of cystic fibrosis
• Understanding Changes in Life Expectancy by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Medicare and CF by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
• Ask the attorney - Understanding Medicare Basics for People With CF, Part 1 in CF Roundtable Summer 2024
• CF Compass by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation provides help with making insurance decisions and navigating the insurance industry

Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome(s)

• The Ehlers-Danlos Society
• MUSC researchers announce gene mutation discovery associated with EDS
• New Reserach Identified Potential Biomarkers for Diagnosing Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders

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

Jet lag

• How to fight jet lag with science on Wired
• Time Shifter app to prevent jet lag

Malaria

• Malaria in the Republic of the Philippines. A review on the National Institutes of Health website
• Malaria in World War II by the Army Heritage Center Foundation

Myopia

• The World Is Going Blind. Taiwan Offers a Warning, and a Cure by Amit Katwala on Wired

Syphilis

• A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis by Maryn McKenna on Wired

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

Life Expectancy

• Life Expectancy in the U.S. Dropped for the Second Year in a Row in 2021 by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• Provisional Life Expectancy Estimates for 2021 (PDF) by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• The Median Isn’t the Message by Stephan Jay Gould reposted on the AMA Journal of Ethics

Medical Equipment

• Fancy rollators by By Acre -- I'm told they're not only nice looking but deliver in 48 hours regardless of location

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
• Cocaine
• Penn Institute for RNA Innovation at Penn Medicine
• Sleep -- look, it makes me feel better...
• Smelling Salts on Wikipedia
• Top 10 Medical Advances from the Middle Ages on Medievalists.net

Memory

• Eidetic Memory on Wikipedia

Vision

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