medicine

Viagra Linked to Hearing Loss

Ravi Somaiya · 05/22/10 12:04PM

A new study claims Viagra, and other erectile dysfunction drugs, may cause hearing loss by sending blood rushing to the... ears. Men over 40 who take the drugs are twice as likely to report a loss of hearing. [USA Today]

First 'Total Face Transplant' A Success

Ravi Somaiya · 04/23/10 09:39AM

A shooting victim in Spain received the face and the underlying muscles of a donor "including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth." The operation took 30 Spanish doctors 22 hours to perform. [BBC]

Spanish Doctors Perform First Full Face Transplant

Adrian Chen · 04/22/10 09:42PM

Barcelona doctors have performed the world's first full face transplant on a man injured in a shooting accident. There had been partial face transplants before, but this was the whole thing. Like a pancake on a bowling ball. [Telegraph]

The Medicinal Potential of Hallucinogenic Drugs: An Assessment

Hamilton Nolan · 04/12/10 09:08AM

The whole hallucinogens-as-medicine thing is back! Scientist are conducting very strict scientific tests on psychedelic drugs as a treatment for depression. Allow us to save the doctors some trouble. We present our own research findings on this important topic below.

Creativity Folded Into Ad Age

Hamilton Nolan · 09/11/09 02:01PM

In your unforgettable Friday media column: Creativity magazine folds, a high school paper bravely outs its school's Jesus-tainted food supply, medical journals are full of ghostwriters, and the WaPo's most infamous marketer resigns.

The New York Times Discovers Penis Pumps

Foster Kamer · 08/29/09 04:30PM

While America's medical debates rage on, many of its significant members, of all colors and sizes, limply, quietly weep to themselves: penises. But! This is one health care package making serious progress: flaccid penises demand innovation, as the Times discovered.

Michael Jackson's Doctor Is A Bankrupting Sketchball

Foster Kamer · 06/27/09 01:30PM

Bankruptcy documents of Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician who attempted to revive Jackson at the scene of his death, have emerged. The picture painted: Murray was a financially strained doctor who had liens on child support, among other things.