The medical mystery giving doctors a dose of humility

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Thousands of people every year confound the world's medical community with medical symptoms that are apparently inexplicable, leaving the majority of doctors with a diagnostic nightmare and patients with a sense of despair. The work of Mike Sharpe, a reader in psychological medicine at Edinburgh University, into these sorts of disorders has drawn a group of like-minded researchers around him. Sharpe believes that these sorts of cases have been largely ignored in the past because they fall into a no-mans land between psychiatry and medicine, with the patients being shunted around between the two disciplines without actually getting their symptoms treated. Work done by the Edinburgh group has found that there is discernable improvement generated by giving the patients and explanation, followed by a prescription of drugs normally used to tackle depression, plus cognitive therapy.

Scotland, Care and treatment, Physiological aspects, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Sharpe, Mike

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Is this the earliest image of a gay couple?

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An analysis of an academic debate in the field of Egyptology surrounding imagery of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep, manicurists to the pharaoh Niuserre, found in the necropolis of Saqqara in Memphis, Egypt. The imagery portrays the two men in an intimate embrace and some Egyptologists argue that this shows that they were a gay couple. Other Egyptologists argue that the evidence is not there to support this contention and that it is just as likely that the two men were twin brothers.

History, Portrayals, Homosexuality, Egyptology

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