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Raising the (Apparently) Dead

Raising the (Apparently) Dead

A partial and eclectic history of resuscitation techniques.
by Meera Lee Sethi
Long before CPR or the appropriate application of defibrillators, medical experts were doing their damnedest to bring back the dead. In celebration of Inkling’s own revival, the approach of Halloween and—of…

Stress Everlasting: The Cautionary Tale of Stressed-Out Bunnies
Stress Everlasting: The Cautionary Tale of Stressed-Out Bunnies
Could the seminal life cycle of snowshoe hares be explained by shell shock?
by Momoko Price
How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to Death
How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to Death
Looks like the messy and deadly river of blood that flows from some trauma patients can be staunched.
by Lucas Rizoli
The Pros and Cons of Sushi
The Pros and Cons of Sushi
Bursting with happy fats and squirming with paralyzing pathogens, sushi has a little something for everyone.
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (British) Week
Your Health This (British) Week
An ode to my former home country.
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Superficial) Week
Your Health This (Superficial) Week
Advice for a long life: don't get boob implants, keep kids away from McDonald's, don't murder whites, and consider pit lipo
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Delusional) Week
Your Health This (Delusional) Week
Advice for a long life: smoke cigarettes instead of weed, eat blue corn tortillas, ditch lite beer and go straight for whisky
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This Economical Week
Your Health This Economical Week
Advice for a long life: be rich, live in a nice 'hood, get health insurance, leave Missouri, and use the trampoline with care.
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (No Shit Sherlock) Week
Your Health This (No Shit Sherlock) Week
Advice for a long life: Don't over-retire, give your doctor the afternoon off and sleep late during the week, too
by Anne Casselman
Your Health This (Sinful) Week
Your Health This (Sinful) Week
Advice for a long pre-afterlife: steer clear of wrath, lust, and sharkfin soup -and get thee to a wine carafe instead
by Anna Gosline
New Tricks for the Little White Pill
New Tricks for the Little White Pill
Add colon cancer to the list of maladies that aspirin keeps at bay - but how much is too much?
by Jennifer Taylor
Your Health This (Evil) Week
Your Health This (Evil) Week
Advice for a long life: check if you Doc is a phony and avoid grease when on ecstacy.
by Anne Casselman
Your Health This (Experienced) Week
Your Health This (Experienced) Week
Advice for a long life: read your proctologist's resume, give birth early in mega-hospitals, and use a daycare with benefits
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Emotional) Week
Your Health This (Emotional) Week
Advice for a long life: quit your thankless job (as U.S. Press Secretary), cheer up granny and mend your broken heart
by Anna Gosline
Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?
Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat?
You're not a hopeless dieter, you're a precision evolutionary famine-surviving machine
by Mason Inman
Your Health This (Beautiful) Week
Your Health This (Beautiful) Week
Advice for a long life: Botox your pits, celebrate your tresses, and read the literature before your circumcision
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Alternative) Week
Your Health This (Alternative) Week
Advice for a long life: Do yoga! Go herbal! Switch hands! Conform!
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week
Your Health This (Alcoholic and Obese) Week
Advice for a long life: Drink hard, cut the carbs, get migraines and don't believe everything they tell you in Texas
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Obvi) Week
Your Health This (Obvi) Week
A special Your Health This Week focuses on news you thought you knew already, but needed major research dollars to be sure about
by Anna Gosline
The Skinny on Size Zero and the Real Dangers of BMI
The Skinny on Size Zero and the Real Dangers of BMI
What does it take to keep the beautiful healthy, and let the healthy be beautiful?
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Insanely Stupid and Religious) Week
Your Health This (Insanely Stupid and Religious) Week
Advice for a long life: fight HIV with God, cut the Vitamin B and keep your babies out of the dorm
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Caffeinated) Week
Your Health This (Caffeinated) Week
Advice for a long life: give in to coffee, beware of philosophy and stand clear of your television
by Anna Gosline
Your Health this (Teenaged) Week
Your Health this (Teenaged) Week
Advice for a long life: talk on the phone, eat some steak at the mall, then talk on the phone and take some fish oil. Whatever
by Anna Gosline
Thanks for All the Lice Times
Thanks for All the Lice Times
Gorilla friends…without the benefits: Gorilla-human liaisons millions of years ago left us with pubic lice
by Vanessa Gardos
Your Health this (Bananas) Week
Your Health this (Bananas) Week
Advice for a long life: put down the shampoo, eat guerrilla bananas and go play some ball
by Anna Gosline
Introducing the At-Work Workout
Introducing the At-Work Workout
Constant, gentle exercise at work - with a healthy dose of procrastination - can keep you trim
by Kathy Hawkins
Your Health This Week
Your Health This Week
Advice for a Long Life: Avoid festering babies, stop tanning before you're hooked and never say diet to a teenage girl
by Anna Gosline
Your Health this Week
Your Health this Week
Advice for a long life: get a flu shot, brush your teeth, investigate your plastic surgeon and don't have sex with boys.
by Anna Gosline
One Blockbuster Drug, Many Uses.
One Blockbuster Drug, Many Uses.
That's not a side effect, it's another $100 million in sales.
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This Week
Your Health This Week
Advice for a long (offspring's) life: Breast milk, soy protein and fatty acids trump booze, meth and mouthwash
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This (Romantic) Week
Your Health This (Romantic) Week
Advice for a long (sex) life: Work up a sweat, re-read those contraception myths and get your grandma off drugs
by Anna Gosline
How Safe Are Microwaveable Plastics For That “Bun in the Oven”?
How Safe Are Microwaveable Plastics For That “Bun in the Oven”?
You shouldn't get hormonal surges from your Tupperware. But endocrine disrupting hormones are getting into our bodies anyway
by Stephanie Gower
Old Bromides for New Molecules: Bush’s New Health Man Gets Preachy and Hormonal
Old Bromides for New Molecules: Bush’s New Health Man Gets Preachy and Hormonal
The President's new chief of “Population Affairs” isn't the only one who can misappropriate the power of hormones.
by Anne Casselman
Your Health This Week
Your Health This Week
Advice for a long life: sweat moderately, don't drink the hand gel – and boys, be careful with the tea-tree oil
by Anna Gosline
Clinical Trials Go Shopping for Subjects
Clinical Trials Go Shopping for Subjects
Just remember, if they break it, you still own it
by Katie Law
Your Health This Week
Your Health This Week
Advice for a long life: Sled with a helmet, avoid the evil man-made trans fat alternative, and go get a mammogram already
by Anna Gosline
Your Health This Week
Your Health This Week
Advice for a long life: swim safely, stay in prison, drink cranberry juice and keep a lid on your anger
by Anna Gosline
Fighting Malaria with Mosquitoes
Fighting Malaria with Mosquitoes
Malaria researchers learn to hijack mosquitoes' immune tricks for good
by Kurt Wong
The Indelicate Art of Gender Testing
The Indelicate Art of Gender Testing
A failed gender test cost Santhi Soundarajan her silver medal. Did her chromosomes let her down?
by Katie Law
Tea Time for Scorched Skin
Tea Time for Scorched Skin
A wonderful beverage that also heals the injuries caused by radiotherapy
by Katie Law
My Persona
My Persona
The most nerdalicious birth control method ever, ironically Pope approved!
by Suzanne Franks
A Dose of Vampire’s Medicine
A Dose of Vampire’s Medicine
Disfigured blood cell enzymes may explain away the vampire myth and inspire revolutionary new treatments
by Susan Bustos