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Stroke Awareness Month — enacting better protocols can save lives

The reality when it comes to strokes? The closest hospital is not always the best option.

How To Find The Best Dentist In My Area

How To Find The Best Dentist In My Area - Start by asking yourself a few questions, Is the dentist a member of the ADA, what is their philosophy and more.

What to Order (and What to Avoid!) With Restaurant Food

What to Order and What to AVOID With Restaurant Food. If you’re aiming to eat healthily, you don’t need to fear eating out (or even ordering to-go or delivery). Restaurants today have more healthy options than ever before and are more accommodating to customers’ requests. Eating restaurant food doesn’t have to cancel out the...

Gene-editing technology worth keeping an eye on

An April 29 segment on the TV news show "60 minutes" underscores why doctors of optometry need to take the time to keep tabs on technological innovation"The impact on optometry depends a lot on the mode of delivery and a state’s scope of practice."In the segment , a researcher injects a gene-editing technology called CRISPR into a mouse and monkey, both blind from retinitis…

Can You Naturally Remove Skin Tags?

Skin tags start off small and fairly insignificant but they can quickly grow and become a problem both because of their appearance and the fact that they can get in the way.The good news about skin tags is that they are harmless and benign - made up of fibrous connective tissues. Find out more about getting rid of them...

Is It Indigestion or A Heart Attack?

The holiday season can sometimes lead to unhealthy behaviors. We indulge at holiday buffets, enjoy an extra cocktail, skip our regular exercise and stress about everything that needs to be done. Perhaps that’s why there’s an increase in heart-related deaths during the holiday season. After analyzing 25 years of data and 53-million U.S. death certificates, researchers discovered the correlation, with heart-breaking numbers peaking on Christmas, the…

6 Heart Health Mistakes Made by Women—and How to Avoid Them

Even though you think you’re being careful, it’s still easy to slip up when it comes to keeping your heart healthy. Johns Hopkins experts give tips on how to stay on trackResearch ShowsTake Diabetes SeriouslyWomen under 60 who have diabetes have up to four times the risk of developing coronary artery disease as women without diabetes, Johns Hopkins research has shown—much higher than…

14 accidentally filthy optical illusions that prove your mind is in the gutter.

An optical illusion is just an image that appears to be something it isn't. And because "optical illusion" sounds a lot more mature than "haha, these things trick your brain into seeing genitals," that's what...

20 Amazing Optical Illusions

An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the

11 optical illusions your brain simply can't handle

Is the ball going up? Or is it going down? Humanity may never have answers to these questions.

There are 12 black dots in this optical illusion

This mind-bending optical illusion is bound hurt your eyes and brain – can you see all the dots at the same time?

What you see in this optical illusion will reveal if you trust people or not

What you see first in this optical illusion tells a lot about how you love

This optical illusion could reveal a lot about how you love in a romantic relationship depending on what you see first.

How the Brain Processes the Optical Illusion of Reading

Dr. Joe Hanson spoke with Dr. Erica Brozovsky to explain how the human brain processes the optical illusion that is reading.

Cool Optical Illusions That Make You Look Twice 

Believe it: These photographs of cool optical illusions and perspective definitely aren't what they seem to be at first.

AI Still Sucks at Optical Illusions, So at Least We Have That Going for Us

Optical illusions take advantage of shortcomings in the visual system. Certain special designs can trick our brain as it’s trying to process the information that’s coming in. Learning more about what can trick our minds would help us learn more about the human mind itself.

Neural networks don’t understand what optical illusions are

Machine-vision systems can match humans at recognizing faces and can even create realistic synthetic faces. But researchers have discovered that the same systems cannot recognize optical illusions, which means they also can’t create new ones.