Top 10 21st Century Addictive Street Drugs
Drug addiction and the use of illegal substances is nothing new to many areas throughout the world, but each year addicts and drug dealers desperately search for new recipes and different way to create addictive substances that will inevitably “be in high demand”, leaving communities in both suburban and rural areas left to deal with [...]
Top 10 Man-Made Diseases
There is something almost contradictory around the idea of man-made diseases. It could easily create images of mad scientists or evil terrorists creating the ultimate in biological weaponry. At this point the conspiracy theorist in all of us starts to wonder about the origin of any number of diseases and we look over our shoulders [...]
Top 10 Forms of Psychiatric Institution Abuse
The validation of my sanity may well be dependent on labeling the other insane. As society has evolved, so have the definitions of sanity and in turn, madness. While at one time, even political disobedience was a good enough reason for someone to be sent to an asylum, today, we revere the rebel and praise [...]
Top 10 Dangerous Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
The CDC estimates over 19 million new STD infections are diagnosed every year in the U.S., almost half of them in men and women 15 to 24 years old. Doctors say there anywhere from 25-50 different kinds of STD, though you have probably only heard of the 7-10 most common ones. Most sexually transmitted infections [...]
Top 10 Medical Emergency Techniques you Should Know
The problem with emergencies is that they catch us unaware, yet they require us to take immediate action to deal with them. We have gotten so used to being able to call for help that few of us take into account that there may be situations where even emergency service personnel may not respond fast [...]
Top 10 Highly Controversial Medical Issues
Medicine is one of the earliest practices and one of the most ancient sciences that humans apply in their lives. In its root, medicine opposes natural processes of selection and adaptation; thus, it puts people above other living creatures in their intelligent attempts to be influential for a healthy outcome. Various medical approaches are highly [...]
Top 10 Famous Blind People
Of all of the disabilities in the world, blindness can be one of the most difficult ones to deal with. Whether a person is born blind or loses their sight at some later point in their lifetime, the inability to see can make everything a person does more challenging. Of course, challenges are meant to [...]
Top 10 Harmful Teratogens
The meaning of Teratogens has come from two Greek root words. Terata stands for an abnormally developed and unusually looking fetus, and “-gen” means production. Teratogens are chemical, biological or physical factors that might cause an abnormal development of a fetus in the mother’s womb. Remarkably, during the pregnancy there are a few periods when [...]
Top 10 Most Dangerous Germs
It would be easy to think that in today’s modern world dying from germs would be near impossible. However, the widespread use of antibiotics has caused many germs and viruses to become unresponsive to the use of most antibiotics. For many years too many physicians prescribed antibiotics for the common cold and other mild illnesses [...]
Top 10 Interesting Cognitive Biases
People like to assume they are logical creatures that make decisions that are well thought out and untainted by extraneous elements. This assumption is true to an extent but all human beings regardless of age, intelligence, sex or nationality are affected by judgement and memory errors. These glitches are called cognitive biases and they often [...]
9 Reasons to Avoid Perms and Relaxers
Perms and relaxers have been a long-time favorite of African American women promising silky straight hair for difficult to manage locks, but this beauty regimen comes at a high price – hair breakage, scalp irritation, stunted hair growth, and even permanent hair loss. Discover the top 10 reasons to avoid perms and relaxers and why [...]
Top 20 Weirdest Phobias
We’re all scared of something. It’s human nature to be afraid, but when that fear is unfounded, or so intense that it interferes with our ordinary lives, it becomes a phobia. Phobia sufferers experience physical symptoms when confronted with the source of their dread, including sweating, shivering, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, rapid breathing and [...]
