In the wake of the accords with the European Union on the free movement of people, many EU physicians have been flocking to Switzerland, attracted by entrepreneurial freedom and well-paid positions – and the country has come to rely on them. At the end of 2011, about a quarter of Switzerland’s 30,849 doctors had a […]

Passing gas, farts, toots, flatus, intestinal gas, or whatever you prefer to call it, are a natural part of your digestive process. When you eat, you don’t just swallow food but you also swallow air, which contains nitrogen and oxygen. These small bubbles of gas, according to Chemist Anne Marie Helmenstine, make their way through […]

Awake Craniotomy – General Information When a tumor is near critical speech areas of the brain, it may be important to determine the exact location of these speech-related areas. Although functional MRI (fMRI) can show the various areas of activation during speech functions, it does not pinpoint the most important areas. These critical areas must […]

The salary of a sushi chef varies depending on experience, job location and employer. Self-employed sushi chefs who have formal training, are knowledgeable in different Asian cuisines and have a reputation earn considerably more than chefs who work for a franchise. Yearly Salary Including bonuses, a sushi chef earns an average yearly salary of $20,907 […]

The Internet has no shortage of various objects being extracted from a person’s body, but this one may take the cake as the weirdest. Doctors at Hospital Universitário in Londrina removed a South American lungfish from an unidentified Brazilian man’s bowels, and even that description does not do the video justice. A warning to all […]