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Wisdom Teeth: Evolutionary By-Products Going Bye-Bye

By Alexander Germanis A trip to the natural history museum, followed by a trip to the zoo, might illustrate an interesting shift—from the elongated tusks of the woolly mammoth, to the more conservative ivories of the modern elephant. Modern humans and our distant ancestors have likewise shown a curious dental parallel in the growth of […]

Feeling Short of Breath? It Could Be Something Serious

Submitted by David Skillrud, MD Unlike many Americans, Pete Mulliner knew of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) long before he was actually diagnosed with it. His grandfather and an aunt both died from pulmonary fibrosis. He didn’t know it at the time, but his own diagnosis of this deadly disease would come much later. Mulliner first […]