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In another egg-on-our-face medical moment, researchers have shown that giving anti-psychotic medicine to prevent aggressive behavior in patients with severe intellectual impairment is actually (drumroll please) worse than placebo. That’s right. The infamous, low-cost, no-side-effect sugar pill waayy out-performed new, expensive (or old) anti-psychotics in a true double-blind test that included the caregiver’s impression as […] More heartbreak. The New York City Coroner announced today that Heath Ledger’s death was an accidental overdose. The word accidental is insider code for the fact that none of the blood levels of any one of his medicines was high enough to mean that Heath Ledger tried to kill himself–they were all in the range […] You wouldn’t think that watching burly guys with plastic bubbles on their heads slamming together would have a lot of impact on your health, would you? Au contraire–the world of health science is mesmerized by what I call the Super Bowl Effect. Almost every year a new finding is released by researchers that shows just […] If you grew up in the rural South like Doc Gurley, your childhood memories include such everyday events as peeling all the epithelium off both knees and elbows, stubbing the entire top off both big toes, and then sliding into so much dirt with said injuries that the injured skin looked like a new, high-tech […] Ever feel like even your skin is exhausted? Like your feet are seeping tiredness into the floor? Well, there may be some truth to your sensations. BBC health news today reports on a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) article where researchers discovered that each cell of your body has its own internal […] You’d almost think this article was a follow-up to a Doc Gurley post titled 10 Creative Ways To Get Your Doctor To Wash His Hands. Read the article if you want a review of the issue of doctors and handwashing (or lack thereof). Read the Doc Gurley November 16 post if you want a quirky […] |
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