Although an annoying itch may seem simple, it’s anything but. Your body contains hundreds of nerve cells whose only message to your brain is that somewhere on your body is itching. Here’s how a pesky irritation goes more than skin deep.
About 70 people a year are struck dead by lightning each year in the United States. What happens to the hundreds of others who survive a lightning strike?
“The only true way to endure is to accept … the wisdom that we are a species designed to live on- just not literally. We do so by passing on, from generation to generation, what we’ve learned from life. By investing in and connecting with the next generation. That’s how we live forever.”
Can’t get enough of the Dr. Detective columns? You’re not alone. Open the case files on medical mysteries from scurvy to ulcers to the jake leg blues and more…
Sabrina McLaughlin Smith 