Answers to Medicine Questions

You said earlier that you would weigh 13 tonnes if you lived on Jupiter. Would your bones be able to withstand that, or...

I've always wondered what causes your feet to stink. Is it from your feet sweating, or do other things come into...

Why do you sneeze when you look at the sun?

What's the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic?

Why do we cough up phlegm?

What's the longest period someone has had the flu for?

Does the number of virus particles you have in your body affect the severity or duration of an illness?

My wife has had a letter from the doctor about a flu jab. But it also - that if she has an egg allergy, she's not...

Why physical activity and previous sugery may be uneasy bedfellows...

How do we get brain damage?

What's the largest organ in the human body? I think it's the skin but my friend - it's the liver. Can...

How fast can brain cells repair the brain?

When I was at school, they taught us that your ears, your nose and your throat were all connected. Why is it that when...

When you yawn, why do your eyes water? Is it normal?

Why do you close your eyes when you sneeze?

Are bugs that bite the way in which most diseases including HIV are spread?

When she was younger, she went to chicken pox and mumps parties to spread the illness and build up her immune system....

If left handed people are made to write with their right hand, will it cause confusion in the brain? I wondered whether...

I was 35 when I realised that I had synaesthesia but no-one in my family has it. I was wondering if it was the brain...

How many cells are there in the brain, and how powerful is a black hole?

Why do you hear your own voice differently to other people?

If you had a stem cell transplant, would your DNA change?

I was hypnotised and thought I was a Dutch girl from 1815. Was this my former life?

I really need to give up smoking but I just can't seem to do it. I have chronic pain after an operation, chronic...