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Ready, Set, Go鈥�. for Ozempic. That鈥檚 what the incessant television ads suggest. 鈥淎sk your doctor about Ozempic,鈥� the ads advise, without mentioning what the drug is for. The marketer鈥檚 hope is that...
Have you ever heard that you should tilt your head backwards during a nosebleed? Or that you should urinate on a jellyfish sting? Or that in case of a seizure you should put a spoon into the victim...
Sir Percival Pott took an interest in the scrota of men. Particularly chimney sweeps. Pott was an eminent surgeon who in 1775 published a seminal paper that for the first time identified an...
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