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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 […] Welcome to Grand Rounds Vol. 5 No. 44. A Grand Rounds full of plot twists, drama, melodrama and yes, death (this is a medical blog roundup after all). Just for fun, I am going to group the submissions under acts whose real names you’ll have to guess (pick from: The Hunt Is Afoot, The Law […] Image via Wikipedia Once again, Doc Gurley has fallen sick. No, not the Doc herself, but docgurley.com, the website. All is well again thanks to some rapid action, but the experience was not a good one. Some of you visiting in the past couple of days may have noticed warnings that this site is […] 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 […] |
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