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Men actually experience respiratory viral illnesses differently than women. Men are reported to take longer to recover from flu-like illnesses than women. Researchers have long known that men and women experience pain differently. After all each woman has a billion cells different from a man. They have X chromosome in each cell in place ofContinue reading “Man flu”

Women have a primeval urge to hang on to wealthy men to provide for their children during the long period of pregnancy and childrearing.    In one Danish study, husbands whose wives out-earned them were found to suffer from erectile dysfunction more.    Reason: the loss of breadwinner status somehow is related to impotence.  …Continue reading “Future of Male Chauvinism”

Is beauty only skin deep ? Certainly not says, Nancy Etcoff of Harvard Medical School. Beauty is indicative of health, youth and fertility. The ability to detect beauty is a survival mechanism. That is what evolution needs for propagation of species. We’ve evolved to recognize traits like tender skin, large eyes, baby noses and chubbyContinue reading “Evolution of Beauty”

Alexander (the Great) & the Gymnosophists*. Two different mythologies. Two different ways of looking at the world. One believes this is the one and only life. The other believes this is one of many lives. So the story goes: Alexander met a person in India whom Plutarch refers to be a Gymnosophist, which means aContinue reading “Naked Power and the Power of Nakedness.”

 The ninth edition of the WHO’s classification of diseases, details: 1.  more than thirteen thousand different diseases, syndromes, and types of injury, 2. six thousand drugs and 3.  four thousand medical and surgical procedures. _ Atul Gawande In the good old days, when I was studying medicine, a single physician could cover all cases medicine-Continue reading “A job well done”