Archives for the 'medicine' Category

Blackwater Fever

Published on 26 Mar 2008 at 9:41 pm. 17 Comments.
Filed under Iraq, moronocy, medicine.

It’s new, it’s so bad they named it after the hated American mercenaries, because it kills the innocent just like they do. Slamming Blackwater is always fun and really adds some zing to this story suggesting that an Iraqi malaria epidemic is being kept secret. Too bad these moron reporters not only don’t know their […]

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Get Snipped, Watch Hoops

Published on 9 Mar 2008 at 9:33 pm. No Comments.
Filed under sex, shameless opportunism, medicine, sports.

It’s a win-win, if you plan on spending March Madness on the couch anyway. That’s the Oregon Urology Institute’s advice.

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She Can’t Testify …

Published on 28 Feb 2008 at 9:26 am. 1 Comment.
Filed under crime, punishment, medicine.

Because of the brain damage he’s accused of inflicting.  That’s the stepfather’s legal argument in the Haleigh Poutre beating case. Boston Herald: 

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Lancet Botches Another One

Published on 18 Jan 2008 at 10:19 am. 9 Comments.
Filed under science, medicine.

According to Medecins Sans Frontieres, which judges a malnutrition study in Lancet to be deeply, dangerously flawed in its methodology and conclusions. MSF:

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First, Do No Harm

Published on 3 Dec 2007 at 11:20 pm. 2 Comments.
Filed under medicine.

To another doc. That’s how 45 percent responded, anyway.

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