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Monthly Archives: May 2008

I’m NOT going to suck it up

May 30, 2008 – 12:36 pm

AP News issued a warning to consumers to switch to the new kind of inhalers before the end of the year. In Understatement Of The Year Award-winning fashion, the article states that the new inhalers “tend to cost more.” If you, like me, are appalled at the FDA’s decision to ban generic production of asthma [...]

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Fidget Fitness

May 28, 2008 – 10:44 am

Here’s my kind of weight loss – and a nice, pragmatic follow-up to the Annual Bikini Bamboozle. Prevention magazine noticed that a lot of medical literature about weight deals with the way our daily lives prevent us from moving around. It’s not hard to spend entire days doing nothing more than a series of “sits” [...]

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International Grand Rounds!

May 27, 2008 – 6:00 am

Grand Rounds is coming to us this week from the Phillipines! Take at look – Grand Rounds, the best of the medical blogosphere, is being hosted at Parallel Universe, a site run by Dr. Emer from the Phillipines. Check out the selections and then poke around the site to see healthcare from a new perspective.

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We Did Something. But We Won’t Tell You What.

May 26, 2008 – 11:33 am

This is why reasonable people tear their hair out. Reuters has announced that the World Health Organization did something HUGE about the high cost of patented drugs for developing countries – we’re talking a major breakthrough, baby, this is the Godzilla of international agreements, crushing special interests underfoot, but heart-warming too, you know? It’s like [...]

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The Annual Bikini Bamboozle Begins

May 25, 2008 – 6:22 am

Everywhere you look, photoshopped thighs prance along pristine beaches in ads. Weight loss supplements promise you the ability to sport a string bikini in only weeks. Some of us have gotten resistant to the annual bikini con (heck, without lighting crews, spray-on foundation, and post-photo pixelated perfecting, no one looks good in a string bikini), [...]

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WARNING: This Will Give You Nightmares

May 22, 2008 – 12:16 pm

It sure did me. I was working at the Schweitzer hospital in Africa when a mother brought her two-year-old child to us. Even wrapped in a sheet, it was obvious that he was unnaturally thin, his elbows too pointy, his back too bony. The odd thing was that she had a sheet over his head. [...]

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Yes, You ARE A Lemming

May 21, 2008 – 3:29 pm

Raise your hand if your mother ever asked teenaged-you “Just because everyone else is doing it, doesn’t mean you have to – what if everyone was running off a cliff – would you?”
Is there anyone who didn’t raise their hand? Well, much as it sticks in the craw (or is that beak?) the fact is, [...]

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Dino Grand Rounds

May 20, 2008 – 6:50 am

If you closed your eyes and imagined the voice of last living dinosaur, how would he sound? Witty (because how else could he have survived this long?), insightful (given all the changes he’s seen), and cranky (nuff said). In other words, entertaining. You get all this and more at Musings of A Dinosaur – subtitled [...]

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Dog Lost – Dog Found

May 19, 2008 – 9:06 am

Ever stand in front of the bulletin board at the local coffee shop and see two side by side notes tacked up with pushpins? Dog Lost. Dog Found. Makes you want to call both and let them know things would work out much better if they just got together and compared info. Similar things happen [...]

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The Greatest Drug In the World Is…FREE!

May 18, 2008 – 1:26 pm

More exciting news on the cancer front. How would you like it if someone told you there is a drug available to you free – and this drug is not just any drug. This drug is associated with a massive decrease in breast cancer, prostate cancer, autoimmune diseases (including juvenile diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, and [...]

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