Answers to Medicine Questions

Why is it that when you look at the sun or a bright light with your eyes closed, your eyelids are red? Is it because of...

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, so how much force is produced by urination? Could it knock someone...

Why is it that, even though I have light brown hair, when I get into the shower or hot spring my hair turns darker?

What's the smallest thing you can detect in the body with an MRI or a CT scan? Is it 10 millimetres or smaller?...

My husband is colour blind and we recently had a baby girl. I know that colour blindness is an X-linked recessive trait...

When you're trying to go to sleep at night, why does your body jump and start twitching when you're about to...

How does something like radiotherapy treat prostate cancer?

At this time of the year you often get cold hands. A quick but painful way of warming them up is by sticking them into...

Why does stress cause palpitations and then anxiety or chest tightness?

Is there a way that I can train myself in advance to avoid the risk of altitude sickness? I'm going to Tibet early...

What's the difference between good fats and bad fats, and are good fats actually good for you or just not as bad?

How do air sacs in the lungs help with gas exchange?

How does my body absorb the morphine in my dry-feeling patch?

Is it dangerous to live 500 metres away from a mobile phone mast?

Is there a reason for cyclic weight loss?

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What causes the tremor seen in heavy coffee drinkers, and is that related to dopamine like with Parkinson's...

It's recommended that we eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. So I'd like to know, if I liquidise...

If we store seasonal fruit and vegetables will they still have all the same nutrients as when they're fresh?

If you don't eat enough cholesterol - does your body not just make it anyway?

If red wine is good for us, is sherry good too?

Does peanut butter help to lower your cholesterol?

Humans spend all our lives one way up. So when we stand on our heads, everything is upside down. Bats spend half their...