A condom snorting challenge

Viral videos posted on social media show teenagers snorting condoms as part of a so-called “condom snorting challenge.” In the videos, teens put an unwrapped condom up one of their nostrils and inhale until the condom comes out of their mouth. Like other viral challenges, the condom snorting challenge has been around for years but recently reemerged on social media. In San Antonio, Stephen Enriquez, who teaches drug and alcohol prevention to parents, has also started to teach parents about dangerous online trends like the condom snorting challenge, KABB-TV reported. “Because these days our teens are doing everything for likes, views, and subscribers,” Enriquez told the station. “As graphic as it is, we have to show parents because teens are going online looking for challenges and recreating them.” While teens may think the condom snorting challenge goes without consequences, it can be dangerous, Bruce Y.

From war to healing technology

The Afghan boy arrived at the US military hospital in Kandahar with severe burns from the chest down. He was about 5. “I knew as soon as I saw him it was just too much surface area,” says Kit Parker, who, at the time, was an Army Civil Affairs officer working with Afghan villagers. “I knew he was going to die.” Even so, Parker and his team sergeant, Aaron Chapman, stayed at the hospital throughout that night in 2003, while military doctors worked to keep the boy alive. “I couldn’t save that kid,” he says. But he assembled a team of young scientists to find a way. The new dressings are made of cellulose and soy protein to heal fetal burns in a better way.

White coats no longer for Hopkins

Generations of first-year residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital have worn a short white coat as they made rounds and treated patients. The coat was different than the the longer style the other residents wore. It was meant to symbolize a year of learning — that residents were not true physicians until they spent some time on the job caring for patients. But starting with the newest class of residents in Hopkins’ Osler Medical Training Program, the short white coat will be retired. A younger generation of residents increasingly found the short coat offensive and said it unnecessarily distinguished them from the other residents.As complaints about the coat length crescendoed each year, the head of the oldest resident program in the country thought it best to give up the tradition.

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