Archive for the 'Medicine' Category

The quotidian side of Baron Von Frankenstein, MD.

Monday, July 5th, 2010

A home office is not all it is cracked up to be.

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Image: (laboratory) aycyas.com via Frankenstein 1931

Human Heads Found in Boxes at Arkansas Airport–Washington Post headline. 6/18/2010

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

My pal, Patapsco Jack, added: “Senor Wences, call your office.”
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The Associated Press
Friday, June 18, 2010; 9:07 PM
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials say a Southwest Airlines worker stumbled across a few boxes of human heads at the Little Rock, Ark., airport.
It turns out the heads found June 9 were bound for a medical laboratory in Fort […]

The Most Stressful Jobs in America–Yahoo headline

Monday, April 26th, 2010

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TODAY - April 26, 2010
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Photo via Yahoo.com

Workers in these careers face erratic hours and
even life-or-death situations.
Five (SIX) worst-ranked professions

America’s Most Stressful Jobs 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
provided by
CNBC
With unemployment high, many people with jobs are grateful to get their weekly paychecks, but that feeling alone doesn’t take the stress out of the daily grind.
To get a […]

When will this topic receive its desrved scrutiny?

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

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Nice title…

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Tough subject.
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Images: (window) etmv.com; (doctors) kbvetcenter.com; (ICU) amgh.org;

A terrible irony pushes all other feelings out of its way.

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

HRT Users Who Get Breast Cancer Less Likely to Die
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter
Friday, December 12, 2008; 12:00 AM
FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Taking hormone therapy after menopause is known to increase the risk of getting breast cancer, but women who take hormone therapy and then develop breast cancer have a lower risk of […]

Vincenzo Kolchak ponders the infinite.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

NOVEMBER 7, 2008
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS
The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new hope that gene-therapy strategies on the […]

It’s Halloween-time and the living is grisly…

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

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Associated Press

Former UCLA exec pleads guilty to body trafficking
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By ROBERT JABLON – 11 hours ago

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This is a UCLA Police booking photo of Henry Reid, the director of the University of California, Los Angeles willed body program, released Monday, March 8, 2004, after his arrest for allegedly selling body parts. Reid pleaded guilty, Friday Oct. 17, […]

I wonder what the Emory board is going to do?

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Could there also be a relationship between big oil, coal and gas
and a few of the nay-saying scientists of Global Warming?

N’ahhh!!

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Emory acknowledges past issues with professor, launches investigation
By CRAIG SCHNEIDER, ALISON YOUNG
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Saturday, October 04, 2008
Emory University officials said Saturday that a prominent psychiatric researcher has been accused several times in […]

Caution: Reading McCain’s idea will make you feel like Michael Ironside in Cronenberg’s SCANNERS.

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

The Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman
The New York Times

September 19, 2008,  7:24 pm
McCain on banking and health
OK, a correspondent directs me to John McCain’s article, Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American, in the Sept./Oct. issue of Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries. You might want to be seated before […]

How can a doctor be ethically-correct while exposing his patients to a national audience. They signed releases?

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

They are unfortunate addicts. Jeesh!

While he may not be in any way involved, his style of practice leaves much to be desired and if one wishes to have publicity, one should be cognizant of that same publicity’s down-side.

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‘Celeb Rehab’ Doc’s Facility Has 3 Deaths in 5 Months
Dr. Drew of VH1’s ‘Celebrity Rehab’ Denies Involvement […]