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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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Has anyone ever died because they went swimming to soon after eating? [duplicate]
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Is it true that bathing after having eaten can make you drown?
There seem to be a widespread belief that going swimming after eating is really bad. How stuff works has a …
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Will you get pimples if you don't remove your makeup?
Someone I know was powdering her face and decided to do me the favor of applying some to my face as well. She then laughed and said I will get pimples because I don't have something to remove the make …
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Is popping your knuckles bad for you?
It seems to me like the concern about the negative impact of knuckle cracking brought up in the literature is if it leads to arthritis. Which of course isn't the only harmful thing it could cause.
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Does the idea of vampires come from rabies?
The first thing I did was look up just how old and widespread the disease of Rabies is, to figure out if it's even reasonable for the myth to originate from it. According to a paper titled Rabies in B …
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Do weather changes affect arthritis?
Finally a question where there is a ton of research that I can dig through, I'm sorry if this is a bit long winded. There appear to have been a great deal of different results, heres a few examples:
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Do you need to twist a tick out counter-clockwise?
I was told many times when I was little that if you don't twist ticks counter-clockwise and instead just jerk them out, the head goes into your bloodstream and can be dangerous. It wasn't until recent …
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Does circumcision lead to a net increase in quality of life?
I was recently surprised to learn that many Americans have been circumcised even though their parents had no religious motivation to go through with it. This in strong contrast with my home country wh …
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Is the use of parachutes supported by peer-reviewed papers?
The author of that comment is probably referencing Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials
which is point …
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Does putting warm food in the refrigerator make it more likely to give you food poisoning th...
My boss was arguing that this is true and that it's a well known fact amongst culinary professionals that you should never put hot food in the refrigerator (he used to be a baker and had restaurants a …
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Does eating carrots improve your eyesight?
A common belief in Sweden is that carrot improve your eyesight and I was told many times when I was little to eat carrots. Although anecdotaly I have perfect vision without carrot-gluttony.
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Is it harmful to your eyes to read in dim light?
Is there any scientific backing to the claim that reading in dim light damages your eyes?
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Does watching television damage the eyes?
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Has yoga been shown to have a healing effect?
In a comment to one of the answers of Is there any scientific evidence that prayer can help to heal? Konerak wrote:
That's for intercessory prayer. Praying for yourself has been correlated to incr …
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Do mobile phones have anything to do with brain cancer?
The Local (Swedish news in English) reported in 2009 on a study that has gone over 30 years of brain tumor history in Scandinavia offering the following summary (in a more readable format than the act …
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Does soursop cure cancer?
I was linked a website about the effect soursop has in fighting cancer. The website heavily implies that soursop is an effective cancer treatment similar to chemo.
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Chemotherapy is a widel …
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