health sciences

  • Medical Gels Are the Squishy Innovation Set to Improve Our Health

    Medical Gels Are the Squishy Innovation Set to Improve Our Health

    Medicine comes in all shapes and sizes — from mundane pills to less-pleasant intravenous infusions. But one form of drug delivery that doesn’t get its proper due is gel. We’re talking about the kind of gooey, semi-solid, and viscous material that can get smeared onto our skin or injected into our bodies. To remedy this…


  • The 10 Strangest Medical Cases of 2021

    The 10 Strangest Medical Cases of 2021

    While the covid-19 pandemic has dominated headlines this past year, other maladies continued to trouble humanity — and some of them were extremely bizarre. In a few cases, a person’s own unfortunate decisions landed them in the pages of a medical journal; in others, it was sheer bad luck. Warning: some of the stories here…