"Doctor, what medicine do I take for this disease?"
"Ice cream."
You heard that right, ice cream can cure diseases, and it is very effective. This is the research content of the 2022 Medicine Ig Nobel Prize. The winners are Marcin Jasiński, Martyna Maciejewska and Anna Brodziak et al. from the Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. [1]
References
- “Ice-Cream Used as Cryotherapy During High-Dose Melphalan Conditioning Reduces Oral Mucositis After Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation,” Marcin Jasiński, Martyna Maciejewska, Anna Brodziak, Michał Górka, Kamila Skwierawska, Wiesław W. Jędrzejczak, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Grzegorz W. Basak, and Emilian Snarski, Scientific Reports, vol. 11, no. 22507, 2021.
