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No one likes to think of a tanning bed as an efficient emitter of radiation, but, well, frankly…it is (UV radiation, but radiation still). And, in terms of causing cancer, that fact has not been a surprise to anyone in the health field for a long, long time. There’s a lot of dry data that’s […] There’s a frankly fabulous Grand Rounds up this week over at Captain Atopic! Captain Atopic is a wordsmith, an insightful writer, an amazing illustrator and photographer. And, oh yeah, a (massively overworked) medical student Down Under. Check out this week’s round-up of the best of the healthcare blogosphere – with a Tour de France theme. […] While participating as faculty at the Book Passage Mystery Writer’s Conference, I had the pleasure of interviewing the award-winning author, Jacqueline Winspear, right after the death of the oldest living man, Henry Allingham, a World War I vet. Today, shortly after Henry Allingham’s passing, the man known as the Last Tommy, Harry Patch, also passed […] In the news coverage of the massive corruption arrests in New Jersey, there was a little medical shocker – “Another man in Brooklyn, Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of enticing vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 and then selling the organ for $160,000. Mr. Dwek pretended to be soliciting a kidney on behalf […] 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 […] |
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