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Dr. Paul Auerbach is the world's leading outdoor health expert. His blog offers tips on outdoor safety and advice on how to handle wilderness emergencies.
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Jan 16 2010
Plasmodium falciparum Malaria and Artemisinin Resistance
Drug resistance is a feared sequel to using drugs to treat infectious diseases. To think about it simplistically, a germ (virus or bacteria) exposed repeatedly to a drug evolves on or more mechanisms to resist the germ-killing effects of the drug....
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Jan 16 2010
Haiti Relief
I am on my way to Haiti now to attempt to assist in the medical relief efforts. For that reason, it may be a few weeks until I am able to offer any new posts, other than the ones I have pre-scheduled. I apologize for the inconvenience to my reader...
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Jan 13 2010
Haiti Earthquake Relief
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) sent me an email today with a link to a list of some of the ways to donate to disaster relief for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.Here is the link: http://www.astmh.org/Content/N...
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Jan 13 2010
Tar on the Skin
Even though its really cold outside in much of the U.S., it's sunny in northern California and with a hooded sweatshirt, every day is a beach day! So, after a couple of nice days in the snowy mountains, I headed for the coast. On my first step ont...
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Jan 13 2010
Thank You to The Covert Rationing Blog for Grand Rounds
Thank you to The Covert Rationing Blog for mentioning my post about proper hydration at high altitude in this week's edition of Grand Rounds. Grand Rounds is a weekly compilation of health care posts from around the web compiled by a host, who goe...
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Jan 09 2010
Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
We're in ski season and so a few unfortunate individuals will suffer few knee injuries. A while back, a reader asked me to describe an uncommon injury, which is a torn posterior cruciate ligament (PCL).This injury usually occurs during a fall. As ...
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Jan 07 2010
Skin cancer and celecoxib
Common anti-inflammatory drug could help prevent skin cancers, researcher saysBY KRISTA CONGER Jean TangA widely-available anti-inflammatory prescription drug can reduce the risk of a common skin cancer in humans, according to a researcher at Stan...
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Jan 06 2010
Proper Hydration at High Altitude
The standard dictum when advising persons who travel to high altitude, and thus expose themselves to a lower atmospheric oxygen concentration, is to stay "well hydrated," which translates into drinking sufficient liquid that they urinate frequentl...
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Jan 02 2010
Wilderness Medicine in a Global Health Care Setting
This is the next post based upon a presentation given at the Wilderness Medical Society Annual Meeting held in Snowmass, Colorado from July 24-29, 2009. The presentation was entitled “Wilderness Medicine in a Global Health Care Setting.” It was de...
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Dec 30 2009
Tamulosin and Kidney Stones
As I mentioned in a previous post, the journal Annals of Emergency Medicine publishes abstracts each year of presentations delivered at the American College of Emergency Physicians Annual Scientific Assembly, which this year was held on Boston. Th...
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