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 No one likes to think of a tanning bed as an efficient emitter of radiation, but, well, frankly…it is (UV radiation, but radiation still). And, in terms of causing cancer, that fact has not been a surprise to anyone in the health field for a long, long time. There’s a lot of dry data [...]  There’s a frankly fabulous Grand Rounds up this week over at Captain Atopic! Captain Atopic is a wordsmith, an insightful writer, an amazing illustrator and photographer. And, oh yeah, a (massively overworked) medical student Down Under. Check out this week’s round-up of the best of the healthcare blogosphere – with a Tour de France [...] ![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=d18e725e-1c3d-4389-944d-880cf2030ec5) While participating as faculty at the Book Passage Mystery Writer’s Conference, I had the pleasure of interviewing the award-winning author, Jacqueline Winspear, right after the death of the oldest living man, Henry Allingham, a World War I vet. Today, shortly after Henry Allingham’s passing, the man known as the Last Tommy, Harry Patch, also [...]  In the news coverage of the massive corruption arrests in New Jersey, there was a little medical shocker – “Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of enticing vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 and then selling the organ for $160,000. Mr. Dwek pretended to be soliciting a kidney on [...]  Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 44. A Grand Rounds full of plot twists, drama, melodrama and yes, death (this is a medical blog roundup after all). Just for fun, I am going to group the submissions under acts whose real names you’ll have to guess (pick from: The Hunt Is Afoot, The [...]  Image via Wikipedia Once again, Doc Gurley has fallen sick. No, not the Doc herself, but docgurley.com, the website. All is well again thanks to some rapid action, but the experience was not a good one. Some of you visiting in the past couple of days may have noticed warnings that this site [...]  Image by kwerfeldein via Flickr This week’s fantastic Grand Rounds is up over at the Medicine and Technology blog. Dr Joseph Kim has a fantastic roundup of posts so go check it out. Then prepare for Grand Rounds RIGHT HERE next week. That’s right. Doc Gurley is hosting the next Grand Rounds here [...]  Here’s a nice Medscape review (although, fair warning, you must register to access the article!) of both the existing data, and a well-designed current study that looks at whether or not fish-oils can improve depressive symptoms in perimenopausal women. The problem is, some of the results were…well…kind of fishy. Image via Wikipedia See, the [...]  Image via Wikipedia It used to be that people only thought of vitamin D in relation to your bones – vitamin D and calcium are both crucial to bone health. But all that only-bone-focus has changed in just the last few years. Here’s a nice 4 minute summary of some of the white-hot [...]  There’s a great article in Psychology Today about why and how placebos work, including some amazing facts, such as the fact that there is a “placebo heirarchy”: * Placebo surgery works better than placebo injections * Placebo injections work better than placebo pills * Sham acupuncture treatment works better than a placebo pill * [...] |
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