Doc Gurley» Doc Gurley – This Friday – you can ask questions about Haiti LIVE, to people working there now http://www.docgurley.com Posts from an Insane Healthcare System Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:18:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc This Friday – you can ask questions about Haiti LIVE, to people working there now http://www.docgurley.com/2010/07/21/this-friday-you-can-ask-questions-about-haiti-live-to-people-working-there-now/ http://www.docgurley.com/2010/07/21/this-friday-you-can-ask-questions-about-haiti-live-to-people-working-there-now/#comments Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:18:26 +0000 admin http://www.docgurley.com/?p=2503

Has the recent six-month post-earthquake Haiti coverage got you wondering what’s really up – and if things are slowly getting better or not? We all know Haiti is a complex, evolving situation. The mega-earthquake, a once-in-a-250-year-occurrence, was one of the world’s largest urban implosions, in an area already chronically deprived – but located only [...] Related posts:

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You may be wondering why Stanford Medical School’s new genetic interpretation class – the one that offers medical students the opportunity to study their own genes – has made the news here. After all, what better genes are there to study than your own? And if you were a medical student, wouldn’t you want [...] No related posts.]]> http://www.docgurley.com/2010/07/12/whats-wrong-with-studying-your-own-genes/feed/ 0 When your doctor quits http://www.docgurley.com/2010/06/22/when-your-doctor-quits/ http://www.docgurley.com/2010/06/22/when-your-doctor-quits/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:53:37 +0000 admin http://www.docgurley.com/?p=2321 Forms for the new doctor Image by slambo_42 via Flickr

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It’s hard to look at the mug-shot of the 60-year-old woman charged with tampering with forensic drug evidence (basically, stealing police-confiscated cocaine) without wondering how things got to this point. I mean, surely they weed out the felons, and the known addicts, and do a background check, and then make you pee in a [...] Related posts:

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An antifungal drug, Itraconazole, may turn out to be useful in the fight against some forms of cancer. Researchers at Stanford University have found that Itraconazole slows the growth of tumors in mice. The researchers were specifically looking for existing drugs that were already FDA approved that [...] Related posts:

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