Posted in Headaches on Mar 27th, 2008
The other day I was watching Mystery Diagnosis on TLC. For those who don’t know what it is Mystery Diagnosis tells the stories of patients with medical mysteries.
In each personal story, the patients, doctors and everyone involved discover the importance of being vigilant. Medicine is often more of an art than a science, and the [...]
Posted in Health on Mar 26th, 2008
Stephanie Kuleba is an 18-year-old high school senior, who was headed to college and then medical school, but felt she needed to be even more perfect
Her breasts were asymmetrical and she had an inverted areola, so she went to have cosmetic surgery clinic in Boca Raton, Florida. But now she is dead. She died [...]
Posted in Headaches on Mar 25th, 2008
I found an interesting read on migraines and headaches over at http://www.migraineprevention.com/
It discusses that
“While the current medical models for migraine pathophysiology include afferent input from the meningeal arteries to the trigeminal sensory nucleus, the effect of any other acute or chronic noxious afferent input from the other divisions of the trigeminal, primarily the mandibular (third) [...]
Posted in Health on Mar 19th, 2008
Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world’s most pressing public health problems.
The number of bacteria resistant to antibiotics has increased in the last decade. Nearly all significant bacterial infections in the world are becoming resistant to the most commonly prescribed antibiotic treatments.
Every time a person takes antibiotics, sensitive bacteria are killed, [...]
Posted in Life on Mar 13th, 2008
ScienceDaily (Feb. 29, 2008) — An important discovery has been made with respect to the mystery of “handedness” in biomolecules. Researchers led by Sandra Pizzarello, a research professor at Arizona State University, found that some of the possible abiotic precursors to the origin of life on Earth have been shown to carry “handedness” in a [...]
