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Watch, Listen and Learn – Medical Tourism in India

October 16, 2010October 16, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

The video is less than four minutes long and gives you a sense of the current state of medical tourism.

Fascinating stuff.

BBC News – Medical tourism in India booming

You Are What You Are

October 16, 2010October 16, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

BBC News – ‘Pear-shaped’ genes uncovered

Look AHEAD Clinical Trial

October 15, 2010October 15, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Arch Intern Med — Abstract: Long-term Effects of a Lifestyle Intervention on Weight and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Four-Year Results of the Look AHEAD Trial, September 27, 2010, The Look AHEAD Research Group 170 (17): 1566

Pine Bark Extract for CHD – FAIL

October 15, 2010October 15, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Arch Intern Med — Abstract: No Beneficial Effects of Pine Bark Extract on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors, September 27, 2010, Drieling et al. 170 (17): 1541

Thinking Differently About Medications in the Elderly

October 15, 2010October 15, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Arch Intern Med — Abstract: Feasibility Study of a Systematic Approach for Discontinuation of Multiple Medications in Older Adults: Addressing Polypharmacy, October 11, 2010, Garfinkel and Mangin 170 (18): 1648

Prostate Cancer Biomarker

October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

The results, published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE journal, showed that MSMB is found at significantly lower levels in the urine of men diagnosed with prostate cancer than those without the disease. They also showed men with aggressive tumors were also likely to have lower levels of the protein in their urine.

Protein urine test may signal prostate cancer | Reuters

Lehman’s Blog 10.11.2010

October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 11 October 2010

Most medical research is clinically useless, and so, sadly, are most systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

The quote is from Lehman, not me.

 

A Record 79 Americans Killed in Mexico – 2009

October 14, 2010October 14, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Falcon Lake ‘pirate’ murder: Is beheading ‘message to the Americans’? – CSMonitor.com

Yes We Get Earthquakes in Oklahoma

October 13, 2010October 13, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

Magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Oklahoma this morning | NewsOK.com

When I travel and tell people stories about the weather in Oklahoma, most find it hard to believe earthquakes occur in the state.

This post is further evidence that I am not joking about earthquakes in Oklahoma.

I think the “big one” is coming.

Thought for Today – 10.9.10

October 9, 2010October 9, 2010 / SupremeCmdr / Leave a comment

A Desk Exercise, of Sorts | Business Pundit

I tried this exercise and the results were most interesting.

Ask your Medical Director or MD why.

I am flummoxed.

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