Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicine. Show all posts
Thursday, July 8, 2010

It may not be autism

›
Almost 50% of the children previously diagnosed with autism are found to be suffering from some degree of brain seizure activity that is und...
Sunday, June 6, 2010

“The meaning of life is that it ends”- Kafka

›
Just finished reading the book ' How Doctors Think ' by Jerome Groopman. Came across two moving stories from the NYT- I recommend ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Memo to Self- Exercise gluteus maximus

›
“Ancient humans exploited the fact that humans are good runners in the heat,” Dr. Bramble said. “We have such a great cooling system” — man...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Costs and Benefits of Friends

›
A 10-year Australian study found that older people with a large circle of friends were 22 percent less likely to die during the study period...
1 comment:
Friday, March 27, 2009

Nassim Taleb on the History of Medicine

›
What's Taleb upto now; History of medicine, anti-academic, anti-knowledge. Medicine: whenever we use knowledge as a driver instead of t...
1 comment:
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

HOT from Singapore

›
THE controversial legislation which allows reimbursement of living kidney donors was passed in Parliament yesterday after a heated debate. E...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Before you go to the Doctor

›
Assorted on In Search of a Good Doctor ; familydoctor.org Health Calculators Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making Cardiac Risk Ca...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Market for Medical Tourism

›
New figures from Deloitte LLP, an international consulting firm, show how popular the practice has become with an estimated 750,000 American...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The field of telomere research

›
the emergence of a new field of scientific research on the specialized ends of chromosomes and the telomerase enzyme that extends them.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Trading on the female body

›
handsoffourovaries Confessions of a Serial Egg Donor by Julia Derek
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Force feeding little girls

›
A deeply disturbing habit from Mauritania; Big is often regarded as beautiful in Mauritania, but the controversial act of force-feeding is ...
Saturday, August 9, 2008

Female is nature's default gender setting

›
A must see talk for all parents; The Female Brain ; We, meaning doctors and scientists, used to think that gender was culturally created for...
Thursday, August 7, 2008

Book recommendation

›
My Stroke of Insight
Saturday, July 19, 2008

Markets in Everything- The G-Shot

›
These services add up to what he calls a “ boutique cosmetic gynaecological laser surgery programme ”, because customers will often have sev...
Friday, May 30, 2008

The Drukard's Walk

›
A great talk from Authors@Google; The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow Related; Numbers Guy Interview...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Terminally ill bloggers

›
Baldy's Blog ; Adrian Sudbury has been a reporter for both the Huddersfield Express and Chronicle Series and the Huddersfield Examiner. ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Predict and Prevent

›
Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Owners Manual to your Health

›
YOU: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide to the Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger by Michael F. Roizen , Mehmet Oz Hi...
Saturday, May 10, 2008

E. Coli sex

›
Sex In A Blender: The Microcosm Edition of Bloggingheads Related; Expressing Our Individuality, the Way E. Coli Do A colony of genetically i...
2 comments:

Movie recommendation- a stroke of insight

›
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is excellent. If, like me, you find it hard to believe that the average quadriplegic is fairly happy, thi...
2 comments: