Swallow a tablespoon of ground cinnamon within 60 seconds without drinking any water. Sounds easy enough, but this feat has proven to be so difficult that it’s become an online fad amongst teens and the immature of all ages to record and post YouTube videos (50,000-plus) of people trying and failing miserably. The so-called Cinnamon […]
Think you have a hard time losing weight? At least you’re not Lesley Cusack, a 55-year-old mother of three from Warrington, England, who suffers from a rare condition known as Sleep-Related Eating Disorder (SRED). Known commonly to the average person as “sleep eating,” SRED is a form of sleepwalking (or “somnambulism”) in which the sleeper […]
Being a medical assistant opens up many professional avenues, and one of the most exciting turns out to be in education. After all, someone has to teach medical assistants how to do their jobs, right? Colleges and technical schools all over the country are hiring instructors to lead classes designed to train students to enter […]
In our modern age, technology has contributed immensely to advances in medicine and patient care — from x-rays to defibrillators to artificial hearts — but like everything, there is a downside to technology, and like most technological downsides, social media is involved in some way. Doctors are human, and like other humans, they can become […]
To a certain segment of the male population (say, 90% of it), having two penises sounds like some sort of dream scenario full of functional and sexual possibilities, but the truth behind the very real syndrome is much less glamorous than the high-end porno you’d imagine. It’s called diphallia, and as you can guess, it’s […]
