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Image by kwerfeldein via Flickr This week’s fantastic Grand Rounds is up over at the Medicine and Technology blog. Dr Joseph Kim has a fantastic roundup of posts so go check it out. Then prepare for Grand Rounds RIGHT HERE next week. That’s right. Doc Gurley is hosting the next Grand Rounds here on […] Here’s a nice Medscape review (although, fair warning, you must register to access the article!) of both the existing data, and a well-designed current study that looks at whether or not fish-oils can improve depressive symptoms in perimenopausal women. The problem is, some of the results were…well…kind of fishy. Image via Wikipedia See, the authors […] Image via Wikipedia It used to be that people only thought of vitamin D in relation to your bones – vitamin D and calcium are both crucial to bone health. But all that only-bone-focus has changed in just the last few years. Here’s a nice 4 minute summary of some of the white-hot research […] There’s a great article in Psychology Today about why and how placebos work, including some amazing facts, such as the fact that there is a “placebo heirarchy”: * Placebo surgery works better than placebo injections * Placebo injections work better than placebo pills * Sham acupuncture treatment works better than a placebo pill * Capsules […] Male scientists claim to have created sperm. Men the world over are left wondering, um, dude, haven’t I been doing this for years – like 400 million a pop? In a move that calls to mind the worst of Victorian horror-novels gone awry, British scientists used embryos to “create” what they say are actual sperm. […] It’s time for another great Grand Rounds – a round-up of all the best health posts in the blogosphere. This week’s host is down under at Pharmamotion – a very unique website in Argentina. Pharmamotion is a repository of audiovisual demonstrations of pharmacokinetics and other health topics. Way cool! This week’s Grand Rounds has a […] |
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