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September 16 – Heart To Heart

Today’s factismal: The technical name for a blood pressure cuff is sphygmomanometer. Every time you go to a doctor’s office, you meet a nurse carrying one. Most drugstores have an automatic one. And...

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September 30 – Open Season

Today’s factismal: Flu season starts tomorrow – are you protected? Every year about this time two things happen: malls start blaring Christmas carols and doctors start urging people to get flu shots....

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November 1 – Sweet!

Today’s factismal: November is National Diabetes Awareness Month Diabetes mellitus (its name means “passing through sweet”, a reference to the increased sugar levels in the urine of diabetics) is one...

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November 18 – Would you like to play a game?

Today’s factismal: The first video game was invented in 1947, 1951, 1958, 1961, or 1977. Invention is a hard thing to define. Though we may think that we’ll know it when we see it, it is more common...

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May 12 – I Feel For You

Today’s Factismal: Nearly ten million people in the US suffer from fibromyalgia. Imagine that your skin is wrapped in razor-sharp barbed wire coated in acid, so that the slightest pressure causes you...

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May 14 – Controversy

Today’s factismal: Vaccines were invented 220 years ago. In 1796, Edward Jenner performed a desperate experiment. A smallpox epidemic was sweeping through England and people were dying by the score....

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May 27 – The Beautiful Ones

Today’s Factismal: The Friendship Oak in Long Beach, Mississippi, is 500 years old. Everyone knows that oaks live for a long time. But what many do not realize is how long that time might be. One...

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August 1 – A Real Shot In The Arm

Today’s factismal: August is National Immunization Awareness Month. If you want to be thankful for modern medicine, all you have to do is look at what used to kill us. In 1900, influenza was the...

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September 8 – Something’s In The Water

Today’s factismal: 162 years ago, a cholera epidemic was stopped by removing a pump handle. Cholera is one of those disgusting diseases that nobody likes. Princesses never die of it in fairy tales and...

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September 12 – One Small Pox

Today’s factismal: The last death due to smallpox happened thirty-eight years ago. Normally, extinction is not something that we’d celebrate. It means that something is gone forever, taking its unique...

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October 7 – A Real Shot In The Arm

Today’s factismal: In 1900, influenza was the leading cause of death in the USA; thanks to vaccines, it is the ninth most common cause today. Flu season officially started this week. Of course, there...

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November 1 – Not-So-Sweet

Today’s factismal: November is National Diabetes Awareness Month Diabetes mellitus (its name means “passing through sweet”, a reference to the increased sugar levels in the urine of diabetics) is one...

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December 7 – Who Flu There?

Today’s factismal: Just 2,500 Americans have had the flu thus far this season. Every year, the influenza virus strikes (actually, a couple of them strike). And every year, millions of Americans and...

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August 26 – Cough, Cough

Today’s factismal: Fears of the DTaP vaccine in the 1970s and 1980s have led to the rise of vaccine-resistant whooping cough today. This year’s Disneyland measles outbreak has shown what happens when a...

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