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In the 89th FFFF we find out how the Spanish health service intends to save 2 billion euros a year, what condition accounts for over 10 million courses of antibiotics each year in the US, as well as learn about a clever Dutch physiologist, ego bias and micromorts.
IN this edition of FFFF we’ve got the snake with the most lethal venom in the world, Southey tubes, blindspot bias, the French gauge and the first cardiac catheterisation.
In this week’s FFFF we have the part of your back that you can’t scratch, a mystery drug in 7-Up and an unusual cause of childhood trauma
This edition of FFFF features Pott’s puffy tumor, someone who ‘owns the anus’, the world’s highest recorded blood alcohol concentration, ectopic pregnancy and the last words spoken to Diderot before he died.
Michelle Johnston tosses away the papyrus and pulls out the parchment in this week’s Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five on the subject of Shakespeare and Medicine.
Got a case of friggatriskaidekaphobia? Then today you should avoid amphibian cataplasms, scenic lakeside picnics and Glaswegian toilet bowls. Here we raise a million pints of beer to the unluckiest victims of trauma and disease.
Fish being traditional fare on Good Friday, this Piscatorial FFFF includes a tray full of pus, a Shakespearean antihero, and YouTube footage of a large salmon being feathered.
Fantastique! Jo Deverill serves up a FFFF to remember… One with a very chic French theme. C’est magnifique, I’m sure you’ll agree. Alors, le French Friday Five
This week’s FFFF features a game of ‘who said what?’ – have you got the necessary funtabulosity to attribute each quotation to the correct medical or literary luminary… or in one case ‘non-luminary’…
Think you know your Tox Tunes? Find out in this FFFF tribute to the Tox Tunes featured in Leon Gussow’s Poison Review.
