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The rising popularity of pickleball appears to be increasing the popularity of emergency rooms too. CNN reports that estimated pickleball-related injuries are estimated to cost the U.S. health care system roughly $377 million this year.

Egyptians were known for their cleanliness. Babylonians invented a form of soap; ancient Greeks created a kind of shower. Romans favored public baths. Bathhouses in the late-Middle Ages across Europe provided visitors with a chance to be seen by a “bader,” licensed practitioners skilled at lancing abscesses, pulling teeth, cupping and bloodletting. Steam rooms and mineral baths were touted as ways to alleviate ailments, from scabies and leprosy to migraines and miscarriages. One could buy medicinal herbal concoctions.

By the time those infectious scourges were addressed, baths and showers were appearing in private homes and traipsing off to a public bathhouse was no longer quite so appealing, regardless of the sparkling conversation.Researchers have tested, with success, a self-charging, implantable battery that essentially sucks oxygen from tumors, making them more vulnerable to destruction. Cancerous tumors often outgrow their blood supply, leaving some malignant cells oxygen-deprived.

 

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