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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Opening The Gate

April 30, 2009 – 5:43 am

Head on over to SFGate – the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle – for a wide-open Doc Gurley discussion of all things…swine flu! That’s right, there’s now a new forum for Doc Gurley’s unique take on healthcare, with six (count them – six) articles in response to breaking swine flu news. Here are [...]

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A Trifecta of Broken Hearts

April 29, 2009 – 5:00 am

Sad recent news  on the topic of depression and hearts.

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1) The first big news is that depression is signficantly associated with an increased incidence of heart failure after a heart attack. The study showed, first, that depression after heart attacks is very common (10%), and that it is a marker, at least, for [...]

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Six Until Grand Rounds

April 28, 2009 – 5:05 am

Ready for a wonderful round-up of the best of the healthcare blogosphere? Head on over to Six Until Me, where Kerri

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will wow you with the latest and greatest posts. Her site is full of all the key elements of great blogging – unique insight, personal drama, pithy opinions and superb healthcare advice. Stick [...]

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Swine Flu – Ten Tips for Me and You

April 26, 2009 – 6:06 pm

Now that America has declared a state of swine flu public health emergency, you may be asking yourself – what am I supposed to do? Here is a list of ten practical steps you can take to prepare and protect yourself and your family.
1) Know the symptoms – Here are some of the symptoms that sound like [...]

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Free Together

April 26, 2009 – 9:49 am

Roxana Saberi, from Fargo, North Dakota, is spending her birthday in Tehran’s Evin Prison, starving. She’s on a hunger strike. Around the world, people continue to face similar violations of their rights to freedom of expression, free speech, and a free press.
As Scott Simon at NPR so beautifully stated, “This may seem a bad week for Americans [...]

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Do YOU Have A Necklace of Sizzling Brown Fat?

April 24, 2009 – 5:27 am

Whoa! Weird and wonderful medical news this week! The New England Journal of Medicine published three

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simultaneous reports proving the existence of a veritable Loch Ness monster of physiology – the identification, at long last, of “brown fat” in adults. Say what? See, the conventional wisdom for many many years [...]

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News From The Fourth World: Mail Dump

April 22, 2009 – 5:26 am

One of the hardest things about being homeless (and trying to work your way out of homelessness) is that you struggle with things

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that many of us take for granted every day – like a safe, reliable way to get your mail. Not many homeless people can pay for P.O. boxes or [...]

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Celebration Grand Rounds!

April 21, 2009 – 5:01 am

Amy Tenderich over at Diabetes Mine is hosting Grand Rounds on her birthday! Talk about going above and beyond the

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call of duty! The theme, in honor of the glorious occasion, is birthdays and celebrations of all kinds. Feeling like wearing a cone multi-colored hat with a too-tight elastic chin-strap? Want to throw some [...]

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Telemalpractice: The Verdict

April 20, 2009 – 5:31 am

Many of you may remember the January Doc Gurley piece about a doctor in Colorado who prescribed Prozac over the

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internet to a suicidal 19-year-old Stanford student without ever seeing, talking to, or examining him. The student later committed suicide and autopsy results showed Prozac and alcohol in his blood.
Neither the doctor nor the [...]

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Well Worth It: A Giggle

April 19, 2009 – 5:47 am

Welcome to another Well Worth It – articles about proven, data-driven studies that you may not hear much about in

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the main-stream media (usually because of a lack of profit-driven PR). Be sure to forward the Well Worth It information along to anyone you think might benefit!
If you’re a diabetic at [...]

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