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Zing the Body Electric: Treating high blood pressure, circa 1907 (click images to enlarge and read the text):A close-up view of the blood pressure machine:- from Scientific American, August 24,...
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The Universal Pander: There's nothing like a presidential election to bring out the healthcare crisis. And, since the presidential primary process is stretching into a two year long spectacle, there's...
View ArticleThe Wife Factor
Intrusive Homelife: Does it matter if a candidate is glued to his wife?The fact is that people inside the Giuliani campaign are appalled at the number of times their candidate has felt compelled to...
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Blessed are the Dutiful: Being a conscientious person prevents Alzheimer's dementia:The Rush University Medical Center in Chicago examined nearly 1,000 Catholic nuns, priests and brothers.Those who...
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Talladega Germs: This was some overly cautious and politically foolish advice:NASCAR fans might seem rabid, but are they actually contagious?Getting a hepatitis shot is standard procedure for travelers...
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My Long Absence: I have been away too long from the internets and blogosphere. These forced, long absences always leave me a little depressed. But just as I was leaving for a conference in Chicago...
View ArticleEugenics Past and Present
Eugenics Past and Present: I've been reading an essay from 1907 by David Starr Jordan, a great mind of his time - scientist, peace activist, president of Standford, and eugenicist. The essay is the The...
View ArticleMedical Sci-Fi Contest: Please Meet the Winner! - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
Medical Science Fiction: Late to the party, but here are the winners of Medgadget's Medical Sci-Fi Contest. Enjoy.
View ArticleInspiring Lives
Inspiring Lives: Speaking of the supreme champion of eugenics, here's an inspiring story from the days of his reign.
View ArticleIn Error
Errors, Errors: The sad story of a medical error and learning to deal with errors.
View ArticlePreventing Alzheimer's
Of Mice and Mazes: Do high blood pressure medications prevent Alzheimer's? They do in mouse brains - in test tubes and in mazes:The researchers then tested Diovan in mice that were genetically at risk...
View ArticleMagnet-Free Europe
Magnet-Free Europe: For some reason, the EU was proposing severe restrictions on the use of MRI scans, a proposal which has been halted- for now. Here's the reasoning behind the original...
View ArticleScreening for Autism
I Screen, You Screen: The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending that all children be screened for autism. They've only press-released their recommendations, however, so it's difficult to...
View ArticleEliminating Cold Medicine
Take Some Tylenol and Call Me in the Morning: What will we do without cough and cold medicine? I can hear it now, that familiar refrain - "Tylenol doesn't do anything." And it doesn't, at least not for...
View ArticleStatistics, Politics, and Medicine
Lies, Damned Lies, and, Well, You Know: The New York Times is parsing Rudy Guiliani's prostate cancer statitistics:"I had prostate cancer five, six years ago," Mr. Giuliani, a Republican presidential...
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Forever Young, Forever Firm: Lipo-etching- maybe not all it's cracked up to be.
View ArticleAll Saints Medical
All Saints' Day: A list of medical saints - albeit an incomplete one.
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