illin' : Gothamist Health
House Calls
The City has decided that it was just too cruel to keep sick students from calling home when they really needed to so they're making a teeny-weeny exception to its no-cell-phones-in-school policy (just this one teeny-weeny time). After supplying a doctor's note and convincing the principal that they really need them, sick kiddies will be permitted to bring their mobiles to school. But they'll still have to leave them at the principal's office during the day along with their slingshots and Mad magazines.
Sickamores
Can we really blame the Republicans for every bad thing ever? The trees along Columbia's College Walk apparently have weird growths on them, possibly due to some sort of tree disease, and one University greenhouse worker holds George Bush's presidency responsible (seriously). No word on how the ivy is doing.
PDAches
We've heard about this for a while, but have any Gothamist readers really injured themselves from over- or (somehow) misusing their Blackberries? The number of patients suffering from "Blackberry Thumb," basically a tendonitis caused by the unique angle of its trademark scrollwheel, continues to grow. Some useful tips USA Today provides in combatting this menace include taking a break when your hand hurts and maybe seeing a doctor.
Where to Go
Undergrads listen up, the Washington Square News takes a break from reporting about Play Station 3 to rank the best and worst bathrooms at NYU by odor and cleanliness. No mention of that place where you totally scored that one time.
A Womb With a View
A New York doctor will be performing the country's first human uterus transplant to give one patient the chance to get pregnant. The elective, experimental procedure has only been previously performed on monkeys in this country with little data on how safe and successful it might be in humans. Sounds reasonable to us.
