Questions tagged [medical-science]
Use this tag for questions about the science of medicine and its practices. Use [medications] for questions about the actual cures that people take, and use [alternative-medicine] for claims about cures and practices which are claimed to be alternative to official medical science
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Is the ozone in the Sharper Image Air Ionizer unhealthy or can it cause asthma?
The Sharper Image Air Ionizer was a hot seller a few years ago, and a few models included an "Ozone" feature. This blue light would create O3, and supposedly were useful for cleaning the air.
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Can popping a pimple in the facial 'danger area' cause brain infection or death?
This story is currently sitting at #13 on Reddit:
TIL that in rare cases, popping a pimple in the so-called "danger
triangle" can lead to facial paralysis, brain infections/meningitis,
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Does chromosome 6 deletion cause the patient to not feel pain, hunger, and fatigue?
In this 7-years-old Belfast Telegraph article there's a video posted to Russia Today about a girl called Olivia Farnsworth who has the genetic abnormality "chromosome 6 deletion" which ...
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Did György Sherfezi fall from the 10th floor on a passing Laszlo Karvasha and both survived?
Some researchers of Coincidence insist on the veracity of the story:
"A resident of Budapest György Sherfezi fell out of the 10th floor
window and landed on a passing Laszlo Karvasha. Exactly one ...
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Has the usage of body mass index caused historical harm and been utilized for racial exclusion?
ama-assn.org (American Medical Association) writes regarding BMI (body mass index)
The House of Delegates adopted new policy recognizing the issues with using BMI as a measurement because:
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Did Bill Gates, via the Gates Foundation, use his influence to prevent Oxford from making the patent for their COVID-19 vaccine open source?
In a Jan. 2023 AMA "Ask Me Anything" post on Reddit by Bill Gates, a user, Sherm199, stated that:
The Gates foundation fought for the Oxford vaccine to NOT be open-source and to instead be ...
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Does drinking water upside-down help cure hiccups?
I was under the impression that drinking water upside-down worked for curing hiccups (when they worked) merely due to a placebo effect, or at the very least didn't work any better than just drinking ...
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Can drinking coconut water harm sperm production?
In a remote rural area of India while traveling, I came to know that the people there believe that
Coconut water should not be drunk by males as it harms sperm production [count?].
Is there truth ...
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Can scaring a person cure hiccups?
There is a popular belief that scaring a hiccuping person would cure the hiccups:
This Straw Is Designed to Instantly Cure Hiccups
Lots of folks will try to scare hiccups away with a shock or ...
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Does hiccuping / hiccoughing have any adverse effect on your health?
I have heard that hiccuping is very bad for you. I've even heard several times that each time you hiccup it shortens your lifespan by one day.
Does an average bout of hiccuping have any adverse ...
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Does weight loss from Ozempic come mainly from muscle and connectivity tissue loss?
A recent "The Joe Rogan Experience" episode with Bill Maher as the guest discussed weight loss drugs, especially type-2 diabetes GLP-1 agonists. The following interchange took place (J is ...
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Has the absorption of menstrual hygiene products only now been compared using blood for the first time?
A number of articles such as this one or this one were published recently in reaction to this study.
The study is quoted as saying that "no study exists comparing the capacity of currently ...
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Do copper jewellery stains indicate illness?
People wearing copper jewellery quite often have black/green/dark blue stains on wrists and fingers. Articles like Copper Jewelry & Green Skin say that these stains are related to a person's ...
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Does drinking after eating fruits cause a belly-ache?
As a child I was always told not to drink after eating lots of fruits, especially cherries, as it would supposedly cause a belly-ache. Not only I never dared to try drinking after eating cherries, I ...
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Did Pope John Paul II perform a miracle?
The catholic church has very recently beatified late Pope John Paul II. As one of the requirements for this, the church required at least one miracle attributed to the candidate. In this case, a nun ...
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Can you fix drooping eyelids with exercises?
I stumbled upon this YouTube video which gives exercises to fix drooping eyelids:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYBd6t1k-38
The medical term used to qualify drooping eyelids is ptosis (or ...
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Is drinking while standing unhealthy?
In Quora there is an answer that states:
Scientifically, drinking while standing lets water hit the lower part of the esophagus strongly, & by time this leads to a dilation and relaxation of ...
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Did Jeffrey Epstein take his own life?
IN 2019, Barbara Sampson, the New York City's Chief Medical Examiner, ruled that Jeffrey Epstein's death was a suicide by hanging.
New York City’s medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s death a ...
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Male circumcision causes eardrum to burst?
I have seen a post circulating Facebook which is also cited by this source: http://joseph4gi.blogspot.com/2017/09/drs-may-ask-if-baby-is-circumcised-for.html (The source is clearly biased against the ...
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Did HHS admit that mandated childhood vaccines had not been tested for safety in pre-licensing inert placebo tests?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 594-595:
Most medicinal products cannot get licensed without first undergoing
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Will bacteria grow in filtered water?
Zero Water makes water filtration systems that they claim remove 99% of total dissolved solids from water.
On the Water is the New Gold blog, a water-filter scientist warns against its use:
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Does massaging a vaccinated arm reduce effectiveness of vaccine?
The Times of India claims that:
With intramuscular vaccines (most of the COVID-19
vaccine shots are delivered through this mean right now), rubbing,
pinching or massaging the injection site may ...
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Do NIAID employees get a share of royalities from drugs that are based on scientific work within NIAID that provides the basis for them?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr claims in his book The Real Anthony Fauci on pages 245-246:
Dr. Fauci’s management style thrives on creating many such
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Are people receiving spontaneous gold dental prostheses without dentist intervention?
Claims of unexpected and spontaneous fillings or full restorations of teeth with gold are not unheard of in many faith healing services and other religious gatherings. For example, in a video recorded ...
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Can mold cause GERD (acid reflux)?
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) is more commonly known as acid reflux.
According to Metabolic Healing is can be triggered by mold spores:
This is a little known but potentially major cause ...
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Are vaccinated children significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated, as recent study claims?
In their 2020 study termed "Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination" [full text], appearing in the International Journal of ...
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Does reported alcohol intake, according to population surveys, only account for half of the alcohol sold?
A recent book by the House of Commons Library statistician Georgina Sturge, criticises an over reliance on data collected by self-reporting surveys in areas where there may be an incentive to minimise ...
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Was a study of uterine cancer conducted solely on male subjects?
According to a 1986 article in the Chicago Tribune:
Researchers [at Rockefeller University] are studying the effects of obesity on estrogen activity and the tendency for women to develop breast and ...
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Does reggaeton generate greater brain activity than classical music?
A 2021 Exploring Your Mind article claims:
A group of neurosurgeons conducted a study that demonstrated intense brain activation when participants listened to reggaeton. In fact, it even surpassed ...
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Is the Fukushima disaster causing an increase in infant mortality on the west coast of North America?
Here we've got a claim that infant mortality in select US cities on the west coast has increased by 35% since the nuclear meltdown. This claim is based on two data points:
4 weeks ending March 19, ...
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Is the foreskin of a baby connected to the glans in a similar way to a fingernail on a finger?
Seen on Facebook.
I'm not so interested in the "steel rod" claim. I'm interested in the anatomy claim: that the foreskin of a baby is attached to the glans by a membrane, in a similar way to the that ...
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Is there a scientific consensus that "no level of [ionizing] radiation is safe"?
This video criticizes Scott Pruit's EPA's proposed 10-fold increase of the maximum allowed radiation dose in water. It also claims scientists agree "no level of radiation is safe"; apparently, this ...
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Is the Marie Kondo tuning fork effective for healing?
The KonMari (Marie Kondo) website sells a shaped piece of solid aluminium, making the following claims for it:
Tuning Fork
Regular price $50.00
Marie uses a tuning fork in her everyday ...
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Does ultrasound reduce joint inflammation?
I read a 2011 paper, Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound reduces the inflammatory activity of synovitis. that mention that ultrasound can help reduce inflammation.
However, Save Yourself article states:
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Do we lose 7 pounds when we die?
I often hear people claim that it is a fact that humans lose seven pounds when they die. Some people believe that this is 'proof' of the existence of the 'soul'. Is there any truth to this claim? I ...
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Can a cat's purr heal injuries?
I've read it on Wikipedia's article about purring (in French), which I will paraphrase as follows:
Veterinarians think that cats heal fractures etc. more rapidly than dogs. [citation]
A hypothesis ...
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases ...
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Is the eye-movement aspect of EMDR therapy more effective than other available therapies for treating trauma survivors?
A recent BBC article discussed the use of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) therapy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It makes the claim, "Some are still sceptical ...
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Did over 1000 people in the US die of cannabis overdose in 2021?
According to the National Safety Council, in 2021 in the US, 1159 people died of cannabis overdose, of which 1130 of the deaths were preventable:
Is this true?
I'm skeptical because the drug ...
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Does looking at a monitor screen in a room with very low light source damage your eyes?
Suppose a person wants to play computer games at night without turning on the room lights. The only light source in the room is that monitor screen that the person is looking at -- with normal ...
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Does chewing gum increase attention span?
Below is the abstract of a study titled Effects of chewing gum and time-on-task on alertness and attention
RATIONALE: Chewing gum has been shown to reliably increase subjective
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Can avoiding certain foods reduce inflammation? (Gluten, sugar...)
Lots of articles and books claim from moderate (help reduce inflammation) to miraculous (cure or completely eliminate symptoms of autoimmune disorders) claims about doing strict diets that avoid ...
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Does Havana Syndrome exist?
The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill to help diplomats and officials that have been impacted by 'Havana Syndrome'. This legislation has already passed the Senate, and since signed ...
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Do THC or other cannabis compounds cure/slow cancer?
I see this popping up on my Facebook feed quite a lot (to be fair, it's usually the same 3 people): Claims that evidence has shown that marijuana/cannabis/THC/other cannabinoids can have a positive ...
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Can an experiment done on casual cannabis users provide evidence for the risk of psychosis in long term users?
There is an episode of BBC Horizon with the title Cannabis: Miracle Medicine or Dangerous Drug?, presented by Dr Javid Abdelmoneim.
During the documentary Abdelmoneim meets Dr Amir Englund, a ...
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Do scar gel products work to reduce or soften the appearance of scars?
Products like Mederma Scar Gel claim that they are "clinically proven to improve the softness, texture and overall appearance of scars." Mederma in particular promises to improve both old ...
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Does acetaminophen use during pregnancy lead to children developing autism?
There are apparently a bunch of law groups recruiting for potential class action lawsuits happening right now targeting medicines that contain acetaminophen, most notable Tylenol. The lawsuits allege ...
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Is there a scientific explanation for these two cases of healing after intercessory prayer?
I recently found two remarkable case reports of healings after intercessory prayer:
Case report of instantaneous resolution of juvenile macular degeneration blindness after proximal intercessory ...
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Are fat people who intentionally lose weight at a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease?
The Health at Any Size movement, which promotes "body positivity" and de-emphasizes body weight and obesity (among other things), claims that intentionally losing weight increases risk of ...
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Is this study on the dangers of vaccines peer reviewed?
When discussing vaccines with a friend, they brought up a study:
Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal ...
