EXPLAINED: Asthma - The Real Truth

What Actually Happens During Triage in an Indian Emergency Room

The nurse who meets you at the emergency room door is not being rude when she ignores your explanation and reaches for your wrist instead. She is measuring your pulse, counting your breaths, checking whether your skin is warm or clammy, and running a mental calculation that will determine where…

Times Life · 22h ago

38 Times Lawyers Witnessed A Moment When Someone Messed Up So Bad, It Was Impossible To Save Them

As a legal professional, there are so many things that you can’t control. Especially how your client might act or what they’ll say. No matter how intelligent, talented, charismatic, and capable you are, you can’t plan for every situation. But if you’re lucky, it’s the other side’s client that will…

Bored Panda · Oct 23

Mosquito coils and agarbatti smoke: what they do to your pet's lungs

A mosquito coil burns for six to eight hours and releases a concentrated mix of particulate matter, carbon monoxide, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and pyrethroid insecticide compounds into the air. Agarbatti sticks produce a similar cocktail: fine particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, benzene, and formaldehyde, at levels that, in a small closed…

Times Pets · Oct 23

7 Ramlila Ground Health Risks That Have Nothing to Do With the Food Stalls

The Smoke Is Not Just AtmosphereThe effigy fire at a large Ramlila ground can release particulate matter at levels comparable to a moderate industrial event. Burning bamboo, cloth, paper mache, and chemical-based paints produce fine particles, PM2.5 and coarser PM10, that travel deep into the lungs. People with asthma, chronic…

Times Life · Oct 19

What Ravana Effigy Smoke Does to the Air You Breathe in October

The air in October is already under pressureBy mid-October, the air over most north Indian cities is caught between two seasons. The monsoon's cleaning effect is gone. Cold air has not yet arrived to flush pollutants upward. What stays near the ground is a thickening mix of vehicle exhaust, construction…

Times Life · Oct 18

Benjamin Satterley cause of death: How can bronchial asthma turn fatal? Understanding the condition behind AEW Wrestler Pac's death

Benjamin Satterley, renowned in wrestling as Pac, passed away on September 27 at 40 years old. His death was attributed to bronchial asthma, ruled natural by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Satterley was discovered unconscious in a rental car after competing in an AEW match against Andrade El Idolo.…

The Economic Times · Oct 17

How a False Medical Claim Turned the Tokay Gecko Into a Trafficking Target

A Lizard That Announces ItselfThe Tokay gecko does not hide. At up to 35 centimetres long and coloured a vivid blue-grey spotted with orange-red, Gekko gecko is built to be noticed. Its call, a loud, two-syllable bark that sounds like its own name, carries across rooftops and through walls on…

Times Life · Oct 17

Woman suffering an asthma attack was locked inside urgent care as staff all left for the day

‘I knew that they were slammed at the end of the day so I was trying to give them some grace,’ the woman says

The Independent UK · Oct 14

Each Nostril Holds About 120 Hairs, and That Odd Cadaver Count Matters for People Losing Their Nose Hair

UC Irvine scientists counted nose hairs in 20 cadavers and found about 120 per nostril, a baseline that matters for people with alopecia areata.

Medical Daily · Oct 14

Allergic to Your Own Cat? The Fel d 1 Protein Explains Everything

The Protein, Not the FurFel d 1 is a small, unusually stable glycoprotein secreted primarily in a cat's sebaceous glands, salivary glands, and anal glands. When a cat grooms itself, saliva loaded with Fel d 1 coats every strand of fur. As that saliva dries, it breaks into microscopic particles…

Times Life · Oct 11