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American Thyroid Association Requests Potassium Iodide for AntiTerrorism
The American Thyroid Association (ATA) has sent a letter to the White House requesting that potassium iodide (KI) be included as part of the antiterrorism response of the nation. The ATA is a professional society of over 900 health professionals ...
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The Warrior Archetype and Violence
The Warrior archetype is a fundamental aspect of the human psyche. The Warrior is trained to regulate aggression and violence inherent in our species to defend any threat against his/her safety and well-being and those he/she vows to defend. Phy...
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Do You Practice Safe Rx?: It's "Talk about Prescriptions Month"
Prescription medicines have been a lifesaver for many people, people with type 1 diabetes (and some with type 2 diabetes too) can't live without insulin, lithium has transformed the treatment of certain mental illnesses, and warfarin has blood clo...
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How Sweet it Is? Valentine's Day Grand Rounds Thanks to HealthBlawg
Thank you David C. Harlow at HealthBlawg, the Health Care Law Blog, for including my post Preventable Tragedies: Pimp C & Heath Ledger in his Grand Rounds 4.21. With a nod to both Chaucer and Shakespeare, he makes this week's wrap-up of medic...
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Thank You, Dr. Keagirl
This week's installment of Medical Grand Rounds (v. 3.28) is hosted by Dr. Keagirl, an attending Urologist from "Big City, U.S.A."We at Healthline would like to thank her for shining the spotlight on our medical bloggers in this issue. Several Hea...
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Ted Kennedy Diagnosed with a Glioma (Malignant BrainTumor)
I was only twelve at the time, but I’ve always remembered Senator Ted Kennedy’s concession speech from the 1980 Democratic Convention in NYC. He had entered the hall trailing incumbent Jimmy Carter’s number of pledged delegate votes by a whopping ...
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Big Leap Forward in Understanding Genetics Underlying Prevalent Diseases
The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (WTCCC), a collaboration of 24 leading human geneticists analyzing thousands of DNA samples from patients suffering prevalent human diseases, have announced breakthrough research findings. Hailed as a "....
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Watch HBO Tuesday - Baghdad Hospital: Inside the Red Zone
Fulbright scholar Dr. Omer Salih Mahdi filmed inside the ER where he works at Al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, revealing the terrible wounds suffered by Iraqi civilians in the ongoing fighting. As an ER nurse, I got emotional watching as the staff...
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Obesity Called a "Pandemic"
At the opening of the International Congress on Obesity on Sunday, obesity was called a "pandemic", with the chairman, Paul Zimmet, calling it "as big a threat as global warming and bird flu". He went on to cite the statistic that, "there are now...
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Want to Lose Weight? Eat a Big Breakfast
We keep hearing that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz, a clinical professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and an endocrinologist at the Hospital de Clinicas Caracas in Venezuela reported to the Endocri...
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