British pair found murdered on Thai resort.
“It was the first time this has happened on the island. I have never seen anything like this,” the staff member added, requesting anonymity.
No, it is not the first time. See second article.
Their deaths take to 13 the number of British visitors to Thailand murdered in the past five years in what the Foreign Office calls “vicious, unprovoked attacks by gangs”.
HT – Helen Vangikar and Jim Wigmore.
A whole bunch of winos in France and Italy.
FDA Approves Bupropion/Naltrexone Contrave for Obesity.
If I’m understanding this correctly we now have an anti-depressant combined with a drug originally approved for treating opioid, then alcohol addiction, approved by the FDA to treat obesity.
This will be interesting.
UPDATE
Obesity drugs have side effects. The reason it’s taken three years for the FDA to approve NB32/Contrave is that obesity drugs have serious side effects. So serious, in fact, that several major diet drugs have been yanked from the market, making doctors, regulators and yes, investors shy away. Cardiovascular disease and mood problems are just two of the potentially serious side effects associated with Qsymia and Belviq. Older drugs Xenical and Alli carry a risk of permanent liver and kidney damage. And those weight loss supplements you buy over the counter? Some are deadly.
via Contrave: Is This The Weight Loss Drug We’ve Been Waiting For?.
Like I said, this will be interesting.
Priceless.
Even paranoids have enemies [citation needed]* and even hypochondriacs get sick.
I have a patient who is a full blown hypochondriac sufferer of health anxiety. He firmly believes he has full-blown AIDS after a single extramarital sexual contact (non-genital) one month prior with a woman not known to have HIV. (Reality check: the other person didn’t have HIV, the specific contact as described was ridiculously unlikely to have transmitted the virus had it been present, and AIDS takes months to years to develop after actual HIV infection.) He once believed his kitchen counters were radioactive because of a news reports of toxic spillage into a creek next to his housing development. He was also concerned about having inhaled particles of styrofoam doing a project with his kid, which then made their way through through his body and were coming out in his saliva. In short, he has it bad.
But he called a few weeks…
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Researchers analyzed registry data from some 800 patients with liver injury either from medications excluding acetaminophen or herbal and dietary supplements. In the first 2 years of the registry, 7% of cases were due to herbal and dietary supplements, a proportion that increased to 20% a decade later. Hepatotoxicity from non-bodybuilding-related supplements required liver transplantation more often than injury from conventional drugs 13% vs. 3%; there were no cases of liver transplantation associated with bodybuilding supplements.
via Increases in Liver Injury Related to Herbal and Dietary Supplements — Physician’s First Watch.
Melanoma Risk Appears Doubled in Airline Pilots, Cabin Crew — Physician’s First Watch.
Researchers analyzed data from 19 trials comprising over 250,000 participants. They found that pilots and cabin crew workers had roughly twice the risk for melanoma as the general population — a finding that held true for both men and women. Pilots and cabin crew members also had a 42% increased risk for melanoma mortality. – See more at: http://www.jwatch.org//fw109248/2014/09/04/melanoma-risk-appears-doubled-airline-pilots-cabin-crew#sthash.q9tTZsuy.dpuf
In Bariatric Surgery, Sleeve Gastrectomy Now More Common than Bypass — Physician’s First Watch.
The authors examined data on some 44,000 patients undergoing surgery in a 39-hospital Michigan collaborative. From 2008 to 2013, the prevalence of sleeve gastrectomy rose from about 6% to 67% of bariatric procedures. The Roux-en-Y approach dropped from 58% to 27%; adjustable banding fell from 35% to 5%. – See more at: http://www.jwatch.org//fw109242/2014/09/03/bariatric-surgery-sleeve-gastrectomy-now-more-common#sthash.4m9BIpud.dpuf
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