Good Bye Wisdom Teeth

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I wanted to take a second to discuss my dislike towards a website, blog, and forum that is awfully similar in structure to this website however is sending the exact opposite message. I am not going to link to them because I don’t want to help out their sites rating but the link is hxxp://www.goodbyewisdomteeth.com/ just remove the xx and replace with tt. Anyway the message of the site is the following “Wonderful! As this site is completely dedicated to helping others, the most important thing you can do is post to the forums of the site–especially before AND after your dental surgery. Help other people understand your situation. In marketing, they say 80% of all first-person stories are because of negative experiences. I really want to capture the truth, not just the bad experiences–so when your procedure is over, … Read more

Winning the Web Contest

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So I just wanted to give everyone an update on how the winning the web contest ended up going for me. I did not win the Hummer H2. It turned out to be an April Fools joke, but I still made out incredibly well. I would like to thank Gyutae Park and all of the sponsors for helping make the contest such a success. I am not sure if I was supposed to win 3 prizes and if I will get to keep them, but I am  excited about winning. 6 Month Membership to SEOmoz Pro ($249 value) 8 PSD Custom Banner Designs from Banners Mall ($275 value) Custom Blog Design from Pixel Jig ($500 value)

Tegretol Use and Asian Ancestry

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A few days ago Health Canada advised Canadians about new safety information for carbamazepine, a drug used to treat epilepsy, mania, bipolar disorder and trigeminal neuralgia. Carbamazepine is sold under the more common brand name Tegretol as well as other generic names. Serious and sometimes deadly skin reactions known as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN) have been known to occur with carbamazepine. This applies to ALL patients treated with carbamazepine. However the risk is approximately 10 times higher in Asian countries than in Western countries. Further, studies have suggested that patients of Asian ancestry may also be at increased risk if they take carbamazepine. There is a genetic test that may be useful in identifying a particular genetic marker in patients.  Patients of Asian ancestry, particularly Han Chinese, may wish to discuss this test with their doctors … Read more

Crazy Internet Marketing Conest – Win a Hummer H2 valued at over $50,000

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It appears that the largest internet marketing contest I have ever seen is just about to close. You will want to head over to Winning the Web immediately (before Tuesday at 9 PM ET) to win a chance to win prizes valued at over $70,000. In case you have not heard of this contest Winning the Web is an Internet Marketing Strategies blog maintained by a recent Northwestern Industrial Engineering Graduate. Again you are going to want to head over to winning the web for a chance to claim these prizes.

Mystery Diagnosis

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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 journey to diagnosis can be a twisted path full of many surprises. Recently I saw an episode that featured a middle age women develop a new daily headache. She had an MRI done which showed a few dots of white matter, but besides that everything was normal.  It was eventually found by a cardiologist that the aura she was also experiencing was due to a Patent Foramen Ovale. She had a hole in her heart that never fully closed. Eventually surgery was done and … Read more