Changing in Mid-bloodstream
"That's a big decision," replied the doctor. "Have you talked it over with your family?"
"Yes, we took a vote. They're in favor of it 15 to 2."
Observation
"Y O U R F L Y I S O P E N would be a fun chart for an eye doctor." -- Humorist Greg Tamblyn
Medical History
This week in 1993, two articles in the journal Nature solved a mystery in the development of AIDS: Why do many patients exhibit an early outbreak of HIV virus particles in their blood, but then go as many as 10 years before the virus reappears in their blood? The published reports pointed to lymph tissue throughout the whole body acting as a reservoir to hide the virus during this latent period. The significance of the finding is that to be effective, any vaccine must act to block the virus before it takes hold in the lymph system.
Perishable Publications
Many, if not most, published research papers have titles that defy comprehension. They use specialized jargon, complex words and opaque phrases like "nonlinear dynamics." Sometimes they don't, and yet they're still hard to figure out. Here's an actual title of actual published research study: "The nature of navel fluff."
Far from mere belly button gazing, Austrian scientists found that small cloth fibers from clothing migrate down the abdomen, directed by body hair, into the navel, where they mix with dead skin cells and loose hair. Women generally have less navel fluff because they have finer, shorter body hair.
Self-exam
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