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The disease syphilis has been called a laundry list of names throughout history. It's been known as the great pox and the French disease after an epidemic among French soldiers. But modern science settled on syphilis in honor of a shepherd in ancient Greek mythology who was cursed by the gods to suffer from a horrible disease. Physicians have dubbed it " the great imitator" be..

In 1944, the Austrian pediatricion Hans Asperger (1906-1980) described a puzzling tendency he noted among certain children in his practice. These children displayed impressive vocabularies and formal patterns of speech―but encountered difficulties in carrying out basic social interactions. "Little professors," Asperger called them. Asperger's syndrome (AS), as this pattern o..

Black cohosh, also known as both Actaea racemosa and Cimicifuga racemosa, is a member of the buttercup family(미나리아재비과) that is used to alleviate the symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes. Preparations of black cohosh are made from its roots and underground stems, called rhizomes. Black cohoshs 는 아메리칸 인디언들에게 광범위하게 사용되어..

간단한 동작 즉 앞으로 숙이거나 심지어 기침할 때 너의 뼈 중의 하나가 부러진다고 상상해보라. 골다공증을 갖고 있는 천만명 정도의 미국인들에게 일어나는 실제 이야기이다. 이 상태가 진행되면서 뼈들은 연약해지고, 부숴지기 쉽게 되는데, 심지어 작은 정도의 압박에도 위험할 수 ..

A pea-shaped gland located at the base of the brain, the pituitary gland has a crucial job in the body: It secretes growth hormone, which stimulates cells in the body to grow and reproduce. 성장호르몬이 어떤 세포들에 부착이 되면 그에 반응하여 세포들이 자라거나 분열된다. 성장호르몬은 단백질의 합성을 촉진하거나 저장된 지..

As the body ages, our joints suffer and arthritis can develop. Protective cartilage wears away and bones rub together, causing pain and loss of motion―most commonly in the knees and hips. One of the doctors working to devise an artificial joint was Boston surgeon Marius Smith-Petreson (1886-1953), whose first design was a molded glass replacemen. The glass joint failed to wo..

There are 13 vitamins that your body needs. They are vitamins A, C, D E, and K, and the vitamins known as the B complex : biotin, folate, niacin, pantothenic acid, riboflavin, thiamin, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12. Each vitamin has specific jobs. Without enough of certain vitamins, you could develop a deficiency disease. For example, if you don't take in enough vitamin D, you c..

John Money (1921-2006), a New Zealand-born psychologist, devoted much of his career to researching everything about the sexes and the various states in between. During his career as the director of Johns Hopkins University's Psychohormonal Research Unit in Baltimore, Money coined the terms gender idenitity (a person's self-classification as male, female, or in between) and gen..

Loss of the ability to smell is called anosmia, a sensation that almost everyone experience when suffering from a cold, allergies, or a sinus infection. But occasionally, anosmia can be a long-term or permanent disorder in which a person either is born without or leses the sense of smell as a result of head trauma, medication side effects, a brain tumor, or enlarged structures..

For as long as 5,000 years, people have consumed tea leaves steeped in boiling water. But tea―and green tea, especially―is much more than just a beverage : Studies suggest that it may aid in weight loss, reduce cholesterol levels, and even help treat or prevent cancer. Green tea is made from the same plant, Camellia sinensis, as white, black, and oolong teas. The differenc..