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Dear health-conscious friends, That rhythmic whoosh in your ear may actually be the sound of your own blood flowing. Here’s when it’s harmless — and when it deserves a check. Have you ever been lying quietly in bed and suddenly noticed a whoosh, thump, or pulsing sound in your ear? Then you realise something strange: it’s perfectly in time with your heartbeat. This phenomenon has a name: pulsatile tinnitus. Unlike ordinary tinnitus, which is usually described as ringing, buzzing, or hissing,...
Dear health-conscious friends, Medicine has saved billions of lives. But it didn’t get there without making some spectacular mistakes along the way. Some treatments that once seemed perfectly reasonable would horrify a modern doctor. Others were based on ideas that survived for centuries simply because nobody thought to question them. Here are some of the most famous medical mistakes in history — and the lessons they left behind. 1. Bloodletting: When Losing Blood Was Supposed to Make You...
Dear health-conscious friends, This week, we are talking.... fever! When your temperature climbs during an infection, your first instinct may be to bring it down as quickly as possible. But here’s the interesting part: a fever isn’t always the enemy. In many infections, fever is actually part of your immune system’s defence strategy. Your body may deliberately turn up the temperature to make life harder for invading microbes — while helping parts of your immune system work more effectively....