Health

Senator Kennedy Airlifted To Help For … A Seizure??

Edward Kennedy was transported a short distance from his home in Hyannis Port, MA to Cape Cod Hospital after apparently having a seizure, which was initially [...]

WhiteCoat Rants
Life Hacks for Doctors: Slideshow

Joshua Schwimmer, the author of the Efficient MD Blog and the Efficient MD wiki, came up with a fantastic slideshow about life hacks for physicians. According to Wikipedia:
The [...]

ScienceRoll
update to: rock - me - hard place

A few days ago I wrote about the impossible situation I would be in, having to take two weeks off without pay before I could borrow sick leave donations because I had run out of [...]

Just Enjoy Him: Ramblings of a Mid-Life Mom
'Werewolf boy' begs for cure

Pruthviraj Patil, an 11yr old boy, has suffered from hypertrichosis since he was born. Hypertrichosis is a rare genetic condition known as Werewolf Syndrome and it’s believed only [...]

The Klog
What you think is healthy may not be so...

Check it out here…

Found these items which form part of our daily diet and we think they are healthy, but is that completely true?

Here is the list of 10 items we think [...]

The World as I see it
People power prevails in the Philippines

by Shally Vitan, Advocacy Coordinator, Oxfam GB Philippines Office

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16 May 2008
Some of the issues Oxfam works [...]

Oxfam International's blog
Can't Keep Up

I can’t seem to keep up with “health” issues these days.  First they tell you that chocolate is bad for you, now it’s good for you.  Then they say that drinking wine is not good [...]

More for Your Life
Frank's poem for me

Good Chemo Report

The toxic stuff makes her tired, and sick,
but it is also doing what it is supposed to,
shrinking tumors, which, at the very least
buys us time, [...]

Just Enjoy Him: Ramblings of a Mid-Life Mom
Virtual networking for microbiologists

MicrobiologyBytes
Sneakin' and geekin'...

Two steps forward, one step backward today in the cardiac ICU with Mom. Pneumonia threat has backed off - whew! That’s the scary one… And the intestinal problems have been [...]

Trailer Park Refugee