i read somewhere that mcdonald's toilets in china are cleaner than the ones people have at their homes. perhaps that's the secret of chinese medicine, people become exposed to all sorts of bacteria and infections, by the time they get sick they are strong enough to make it through with or without the chinese medicine..

The focus of medicine is to improve physical and mental health, but I was thinking whether there might be value in coming up with new medicine that improves short-term, bad character behavior. Arrogance, know-it-all attitude, rudeness etc etc are some examples (read more)

I don't understand how new viruses come across so often , especially related to animals when medicine is so much developed. Could someone explain this to me?

Please invent a new medicine that makes noisy hiccups mute! Have you ever been in a situation where you got hiccups just when you started kissing someone? Depending on the sense of humor of the kissee, it can be funny or it can totally ruin your first date...

why medical care is so expensive is because we forgot about preventive medicine. in ancient china a doctor is fired when someone gets sick. then the doctor is interested in keeping you healthy. why not apply same system again? now we pay doctors when we get sick but if we pay doctor when he stops us from doing something that will make us sick, then we won't get sick and that's definitely better.

We all know there is no such medicine you can take that will cause selective local paralysis for a limited time in your body. But if it could be invented, I think it could be a useful training tool. Neutralize for a week your left brain and train yourself to think with the right one. If you're an athlete, paralyze temporarily your right hand or leg and learn to shoot the ball or dribble with your left. Blind yourself for a week and increase your capacity to use your other senses, smell, hear, touch etc. The concept is to train by tricking your innate survival skills to come to the fore.

I think it would be great to have a device similar to a simple wristwatch that monitors our health for us, and lets us know if we're putting the right kinds of food into our systems, and gives tips on what kinds of foods would balance out whatever kind of junk we've been eating. It might give a reading on your probability of having a heart attack or it might also tell you even how strongly your immune system is functioning and give tips on what actions to take in order to make your body feel healthier (i.e. cardiovascular exercise, anarobic exercise, more sleep, or taking some specific kind of medicine to doctor illness)..

The quest of medicine and science is to find cures against diseases resulting in extending, on average, the number of years we live. Science fiction and literature excite our imagination with the discovery of cures and magic formulas that offer immortality or serve as the ultimate elixir. Yet within every man's lifetime 1/3 of it is wasted on sleep. Perhaps a better way to live life is not to add more years at the end of one's life but add more life time within the existing life span by eliminating the need for sleep. Do we really need sleep? Shouldn't science do something about it? :)

The allergy season is around the corner in Japan. Hay fever allergy affects millions of people every year. It is caused by cedar pollen and pollen from the Japanese cypress or the white birch trees. What if air-condition systems in every building could spray anti-allergy medicine especially during the allergy season? (read more)

Medicine and technology have improved so much that it's possible to go to the dentist and if the dentist is good not feel a drop of pain, something that was not possible years ago. That kind of medical treatment, however, assumes that all patients like to avoid pain. What if a patient is a masochist? What if the patient actually prefers treatment with pain over one without? Asking this question to a patient would be the politically correct thing to do and for patients who are masochists it would mean respect and more satisfaction. If we establish the right of the masochist for a treatment with pain, does the doctor have the right to refuse such treatment to a patient who asks for it? On what grounds? The treatment will heal the patient.