October 2011
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EDGE OF THE WORD: LOADED ON PILLS: How North... →
theedgeoftheword:
We wobbled over beers, but the old red table remained stiff. He shot the eight ball right into the left corner, beating me into friendship. Smiling sparse teeth, he looked up in victory over the pool table, with a shaved head, black framed glasses, silver earrings, and a tattooed arm that read…
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Abraham Verghese: A doctor's touch
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A few months ago, a 40 year-old woman came to an emergency room in a hospital close to where I live, and she was brought in confused. Her blood pressure was an alarming 230 over 170. Within a few minutes, she went into cardiac collapse. She was resuscitated, stabilized, whisked over to a CAT scan suite right next to the emergency room, because they were concerned about blood clots in...
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Miss MD To Be: CV Risk Profile Varies Among NSAIDs →
missmd2be:
“Although there is an established cardiovascular risk associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), two of them — naproxen and low-dose ibuprofen — carry a lower risk than the others, an analysis of observational studies found.
The highest overall risks among the most…
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Miss MD To Be: Stephen Wiltshire: Autistic... →
missmd2be:
In 1987, 12 year old Stephen Wiltshire was featured on an unfortunately titled BBC special on savant syndrome called “The Foolish Wise Ones.” The child was remarkably able to draw an accurate sketch of St. Pancras station, visited only once in astonishing detail. After a huge public response,…
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Biomedical Ephemera, or: A Frog for Your Boils:... →
biomedicalephemera:
Putting aside the major strides forward the Egyptians made in establishing medicine, some of their cures were still pretty wild, even without the mysticism aspect. A few of them (from the writings of Herodotus, the Kahun Gynecological papyrus, and the Ebers and Edwin Smith papyri):
For cure…
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Diagnosing dementia: Advance warning →
jfs1:
ALZHEIMER’S disease has no cure. There are, however, five drugs—known and approved—that can slow down the development of its symptoms. The earlier such drugs are administered, the better. Unfortunately, the disease is usually first noticed when people complain to their doctors of memory problems. That is normally too late for the drugs to do much good. A simple and reliable test for...
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Today has been okay.: Also sometimes referred to... →
wrecktangled:
Also sometimes referred to as Stendhal Syndrome, Florence syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single…
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Brain Matters: Keep Your Chin Up...Just Like in... →
brainmtters:
Self-Rating of Health As Poor, Fair Ups Risk of Dementia
Last Updated: October 05, 2011.
The risk of incident dementia is significantly higher in individuals who rate their health as poor or fair, especially in those with no cognitive complaints or with functional disability,…
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Miss MD To Be: Colds, Stomach Flu NOT Linked to... →
missmd2be:
“Despite concerns that a mother’s infections during pregnancy may raise her baby’s risk of cerebral palsy, common colds and stomach flu were not tied to the birth defect in a new study.
Other more serious infections, and factors like a woman’s history of miscarriage or family history of cerebral…
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OCPD plus NPD: Aneurysms →
cladelainedisorder:
An aneurysm is a bulge or “ballooning” in the wall of an artery. Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood from the heart to other parts of the body. If an aneurysm grows large, it can burst and cause dangerous bleeding or even death.
Most aneurysms occur in the aorta, the main…
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Universoul Mind: Psychoneuroimmunology →
universoul:
To be coming from a hypnotherapist’s point of view, lately I’ve been filtering my experiences through the lenses of a hypnotist, how each and every one of us flows through the constructs of our surrounding environmental and social terrain, which invariably affects our psyche, and in turn…
