Answers to Medicine Questions

How does taking herbal remedies such as St. John's Wort affect giving blood? Should you tell the blood donor...

You were talking earlier about a drug that keeps people awake. The military have been issuing amphetamines for years to...

Why do milk and orange juice or orange juice and toothpaste taste so disgusting together?

When someone meets someone else, is there a special hidden smell that couples have between them, so that if you were...

I know it sounds a bit crude, but I was wondering why farts seem to smell a bit worse and linger longer when we're...

What is the fifth taste you can sense on your tongue?

Why do we get cravings for certain foods, especially when it's for combinations of foods that we normally don...

I understand x-rays and how they work, but a couple of years ago, my son had a very serious eye injury. Over a period,...

My family moved to Chicago from London three years ago and since then, I've lost my accent, yet Mum and Dad still...

My blood group is O-negative, my parents are Group A, and my brother is Group A. I was wondering how I came to be this...

I'm curious about why some people get bitten more than others. In summer I can have some quite good bites on me....

For the last week there have been flies at work and they're more annoying than ever. By this I mean that they...

It's always intrigued me that someone can have an accident, crash into a fence that pierces their body, and...

Why does the addition of bicarbonate of soda to the cooking of cabbage make it much softer and the colour stay much...

Does laughing gas really make you laugh?

My question is about blood. In my medical terminology class, we were told that you can distinguish an old internal...

If someone works out a lot and is in great physical shape but eats foods which are very high in fat or cholesterol, in...

I've always been thin and can eat and drink what I like. Why is this? Linda in Norwich - Why is it that people...

Why can't you tickle yourself?

What is COPD?

When you sneeze, why do you sometimes get a horrible smell?

Why would our eyes have developed to take in more information than our brains can process? Secondly, if we only use...

How and why does your skin get thin when you get older? Does it really get thin or is there something else going on?

If your voice goes croaky, does anything happen to your voice box to make it go all croaky?