Don't try this at home, or anywhere really: a 24-year-old man reportedly injected his penis with Vaseline to increase his manhood. It didn't work.
Fake doctors and grant money for ice machines: The Veteran Affairs Office of Inspector General released 8 years of reports of misconduct at VA hospitals, and it's bad.
"Which is worse – ruining ten million people's sex lives for 1 year, or making one hundred people's livers explode?" asks blogger and psychiatrist Scott Alexander in a post about meds.
MedPage Today's own Coulter Jones travelled to the nation's capital to collect an award at the Annual White House Correspondent's Dinner -- aka the 'nerd prom' -- for work he did with the WSJ on America's rap sheets.
And Propublica's Charles Ornstein interviews John Fauber about the latest MedPage Today/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Slippery Slope report.
A New Jersey doctor died on the base camp of Mount Everest, where she was working, in a harrowing avalanche following the earthquake there.
Elsewhere, a hiker fell and got hematoma. Luckily, he had a knife on him, and the resulting video's gone viral. (Warning: graphic.)
What happens when a robot buys ecstasy pills and other drugs off the so-called deep web -- the part that's not indexed by most search engines? A lawsuit, that's what.
The ultimate organic ice cream is free-range and freshly squeezed, its advocates say -- and it's made from breast milk.
The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. is rising, with a woman giving birth in the U.S. twice as likely to die as a woman giving birth in Saudi Arabia, the Washington Post reports.
Barbara Taylor did what any miserable successful person might have done in the early '80s: She entered psychoanalysis. Now, she's written a book about it, and she's not exactly keen on psychiatry.
What is Darwinian medicine? All compounds -- and that includes arsenic -- are beneficial if given in small enough doses. Or so this evolutionary biologist believed.
The fast-casual restaurant chain Chipotle says adios to GMOs, Pepsi announces it is getting rid of aspartame, and Nestle is dumping artificial coloring, reports NPR in a look at how the food industry is trying to meet consumer expectations.
A doctor in the house? You bet, when the house is New York's Metropolitan Opera where a cadre of physicians rotate as house docs (NYT).
The blogger known as Skeptical Scalpel had a patient whose urine output had been mysteriously increasing over several days. He called the resident to ask him about it, and found out the resident was increasing the IV fluid rate to keep up with all of those losses in urine.
CNET reports on the look (and anatomy) of taste.
Are there two distinct childhood obesity epidemics -- one for infants and one for adolescents? BBC reports.
The U.S. updated its water fluoridation guidelines for the first time in more than 50 years.
Some hospitals are trying a new approach by treating patients in their homes, reports the New York Times. Also, the calorie amounts on nutrition labels are often way off.
Heavy drinking has risen over the last decade or so, largely because women are binge drinking more, says Newsweek.
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