The Monday Sidebar…
October 6, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Exposed!, Extreme, Historic Health, Humor, Medical History, Obesity, Oddities, The Sunday Sidebar
Ready for some more interesting, fascinating, unusual, strange, and even bizarre news…
Pay patients to go to the doctor? – in England, Health Service Managers are looking at ways to get people in unhealthy people in the lower social economic rankings to visit the doctor. The thinking is that if you can get people to the doctor earlier, before chronic illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease set in, the government health system would save money. It makes sort of makes sense. But the idea is getting flack from politicans and medical experts alike who say that the government shouldn’t be …read more
Me and My Shadow.
Ever feel that you are being followed, that someone is ’shadowing’ every move you make?
Well, instead of being a real person, it could, believe it or not, be your ’shadow person’, the result of unusual activity in a specific region of your brain known as the left temporoparietal junction.
According to a study, published in Nature in 2006 (a British science journal), ‘…stimulation of a site on the brain’s left hemisphere prompts the creepy feeling that somebody is close by.’
Focusing on the case of a 22 year old woman with no psychiatric history who was being evaluated for epilepsy treatment, the …read more
