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Bad and sad and heroic

First the bad news: WHO reports that they have had a case of the new SARS like virus (from the middle East) being spread from a patient to a nurse. LINK-------------------------------------------The sad: A New Mexican Hi…
No more annual physicals and other headlines

It's official. The masters of the medical universe, who for years have been telling us to do useless yearly physicals (and the ones getting them were mainly upper middle class healthy people with good lifestyles) claim…
Bad medical reporting of the day

Keeping American airplanes safe one senator at a time. The War On Terror has resulted in a lot of trivial things being punished, and to prove that they aren't targeting the guilty, a lot of innocent folks have to be in…
Get out the smelling salts!

Save the government's money: Don't do regular mammograms because false positive ones make the poor fragile dears worry too much. The lastest "scientific studies" insist that newer treatments, not early diagnosis, is th…
I heart Coffee and other medical articles in the news

one cup of coffeecuts blood pressure, two stave off dementia... and six reduce your skin cancer risk...and six cups a day cut your risk for prostate cancer. ------------------------------------ does cellphone use l…
Psst: Death panels and Avastin?

ThePolitical commentator describes When you use an "average" as your judge, you include the percentage where a medicine doesn't work, and this percentage negates the percentage who have long term cures.Voila...governm…
The War against Mammograms

more "avoid getting screened" propaganda (and save taxpayer money) at the LATimes.more "avoid getting screened" propaganda (and save taxpayer money) at the LATimes. When I started medical school, and breast cancer…
Medical headlines of the week: Stroke, cancer, and the mentally retarded

Over the counter "natural" weight loss medicines can kill... of course, because they are stimulents, and if you have high blood pressure and don't know it, it can make the pressure go higher and give you a stroke or hea…
Headlines in Medicine

The latest big idea in medicine is Vitamin D... The vitamin D level is low in lots of diseases, but it's unclear if it is the cause of the illnesses, or just a "marker" which results from being sick. The NYTimes articl…
Medical headlines in the news

Junk food "addictive"? More junk science, that can't tell real addiction, that harms society from liking something a lot and want to repeat the pleasure.t…