MEDICINE

The best way to get well is staying hydrated and getting plenty of rest. If that’s not proactive enough for you, cold medicine might be able to help.

At the end of the 1800s, one St. Louis company marketed their signature pain-relieving product with a series of macabre calendars.

But we don’t know for sure, because we don’t actually keep track.

“SSRIs are a good thing, but they have an inhibitory effect on osteoblasts, bone cells, which we’ve only known about since 2010,” Sebastiano Andreana tells mental_floss.

It can be programmed to alert loved ones as well.

Being cold depletes an animal’s energy reserves and immune system.

Researchers have started a fundraising campaign to sequence the venomous lizard’s genome.

Thirteen out of 589,306 healthy people studied carried disease-causing genes but remained unaffected.

Like superheroes, each pain reliever has its own set of strengths and weaknesses.

Researchers are developing a patch that could monitor glucose levels and administer medicine automatically.

Cultural expectations of “manliness” include not complaining—even to the doctor.

Participants in a clinical trial found that a practice called mindfulness-based stress reduction helped alleviate their lower back pain.