A nobel prize winning treatment for syphilis might have a modern day use for treating lyme disease, too. But research stalled in the 1980s when the CDC updated its ethics protocols. Nonetheless, this fascinating deep dive into the history of “pyrotherapy” might give clues about what directions medicine could take should antibiotics stop working.
Read MoreFor the past few months I've been thinking a lot about why people seek out the medical treatments that they do. Today the average would-be patient has at least a dozen (if not hundreds) of potential avenues of medical care to address their ills--from the scientific medicine at hospitals, to specialty doctors, functional and integrative medical practitioners, urgent care, chiropractic, osteopathy, and seemingly endless iterations of alternative medical traditions.
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