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Thalidomide is back in the news

These nodules, a form of Erythema Nodosum, can occur with other diseases (I’ve seen a couple of cases, usually from a common strep infections, but in the US it is also seen with Tuberculosis and sarcoidosis), but in patients with Hansen’s disease, they ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  23 Nov 2009

Mama Mary one, Modern Theologians Zero

All Catholic Filipinos have a devotion to “Mama  Mary”. It’s a cultural thing. Americans tend to be individualistic in their approch to religion, so tend to parse Bible verses.  But the Philippines, until recently, was still a country of peasants, ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Virgin Mary

The “We” Factor: when Journalists Assume They are Us

Time magazine has an article about overprotective parents. The Title is appropriate: My problem is how the article is framed: …we just wanted what was best for our kids. We bought macrobiotic cupcakes and hypoallergenic socks, hired tutors to correct a ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wikipedia,  Inez Tenenbaum,  Consumer Product Safety Commission,  Salvation Army

Mammography Guidelines are a Preview of Cost Control

When I was working as a physician in the US, our Federal clinic’s policy was to order mammograms on all women starting at age 4o. Why was this important? Because there is some indications that mammogram and early diagnosis increases the cure rate for ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: American Cancer Society

Ignoring PC Terrorists in the US

Quick. Name the most dangerous terrorist organization in the US, organizations that are responsible for  47 of the53 most destructive terrorist attacks in the US. … between 2000 and 2005, 43 of the 57 reported terrorist attacks committed on American ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Greenpeace,  Peter Singer

Politicizing STD’s

“Chlamydia and gonorrhea are stable at unacceptably high levels and syphilis is resurgent after almost being eliminated,” said John Douglas, director of the division of sexually transmitted diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Douglas,  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush

Would the Mullahs approve of Birth Control? Many of them have…

One of the frustrating things when working in child maternal health in poor countries is trying to integrate medical aims into the cultural background of the people, without destroying it. This NYTimes story, about trying to get the Mullahs in ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban

President Obama’s Cynical Photo op at Arlington

There were over 1000 articles on Google news about the President’s visit to Arlington Cemetery on Veteran’s day this year. No problem. Such ceremonies are part of the job, after all. Even those of us only mildly knowledgeable about security matters ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Google Inc.,  Secret Service

Is your Bottled Water affecting your love life?

Compared to the other workers, men with high BPA exposure were about four times as likely to report trouble achieving erections, about seven times as likely to say they had difficulty ejaculating, and about four times as likely to report low sex drive ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Consumer Reports,  NPR,  Food and Drug Administration

Stressing Psychobabble or Heroism in the Fort Hood murders

Right now we are seeing a slew of articles on stress, the military and the shootings at Fort Hood. Most of those articles  seem to miss the point: Doctor Hasan may have had pre existing psychological problems that had little or nothing to do with his ...

From NANCY REYES, Blogger News,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

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