Medical Urban Legends

Medical Myths: When Urban Legends Kill | Live Science

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Myths and urban legends not only keep many from getting vaccines and medical help, but they can also decrease participation in …

10 Urban Medical Legends: True or False? - Wonderslist

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This is largely because of the effort to find cures for the incurable diseases, the fear in their mind about new, more complex ones and the ignorance about the new products that hit …

Medical Urban Legends: Fact or Fiction? - TheStreet

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Bad Medicine As far as medical science has progressed, there’s still plenty of misinformation floating around out there. While the Internet has made it easier to get to …

Were Lobotomies Performed with Ice Picks in the 1950s?

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Claim: In the 1950s, at least 50,000 lobotomies were performed in the United States by hammering an ice pick into patients' brains through their eye sockets.

5 Medical Urban Legends (That Actually Came True)

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25 Medical Myths That Just Won't Go Away | Live Science

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A report published in 2016 found that a man in Pennsylvania who took Ayurvedic herbal supplement developed lead poisoning. Another report, also published in 2016, showed that a 4-year-old boy in...

10 Urban Legends About Health and Safety That Caused …

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Many urban legends or conspiracies that are spread around cause people to try to self treat problems for which they should really see a doctor, distrust medicine in …

25 Popular Urban Legends Explained | Stacker

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Urban legends are also a version of modern mythology - a vessel for the inexplicable and unproven. Their place in society draws from a fundamental judicial principle: innocent until proven guilty. If it is …

30 Urban Legends That Are Totally True — Best Life

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Though it may read like an urban legend, the corpse of Elmer McCurdy, an early 20th century bank and train robber, somehow became a frightening staple of the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit …

15 Medical Myths You Probably Believe Are True

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Learning from these medical myths can save you a lot of time, effort and, in some cases, physical stress. 1) Humans use only 10% of their brains. Brain scanning technology has …