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	Dr Daniel Hale Williams by The Ovi Team July 9th 1893; Dr Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anaesthesia. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (1856-1931) the founder of Provident Hospital was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. His father was a barber who w
	The aspirin by The Ovi Team March 6th; on this day in 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registers Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co. Now the most common drug in househol
	Insulin, first use by The Ovi Team 23rd January, 1922: The first injection of Insulin (called isletin originally) on Leonard Thompson, a

	Vitreous opacity vs. nervous system - Do eye floaters arise from the visual nervous system? by Floco Tausin For centuries, scholars have found different explanation for eye floaters, the mobile, scattered and transparent spheres and strings in our visual field. Early on, the origin was thought to be in the eye and the phenomenon was considered a disorder or
	State of mind by Abigail George The 2010 Soccer World Cup marked the 11th year of my diagnosis of clinical depression.I was diagnosed with it when I was 19 years old; two years out of high school in Port Elizabeth – the windy city. It was also the city where
	Medicine and religion: The spiritual dimension of the migraine aura by Floco Tausin In the 1990s, pracitioners of orthodox scientific medicine engaged in dialogs with much earnest and passion about the unification of religion and medicine. It was shown in more than 100 studies that complaints and illnesses like diabetes, liver