Category: Medical Myths

An explanation of a passage from Avicenna's Canon of Medicine The Canon of Medicine was the main reference for doctors in the Middle Ages. Today it makes fun reading, because it is so far from the facts and science we know, and its language is hard for modern readers. So we decided to give a […]

Tiny amounts of medicines (such as antibiotics, hormones and others) have been found in drinking water. They get there in several ways: some people flush unwanted medicines down the toilet, people taking medicines pass part of them in their urine or stool, and some medicines stay in water even after waste water is treated. The […]