Saturday, February 20, 2016

Why Johnny can't make drugs any more ... we need better science from government.

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I think of  In the Pipeline ’s  Derek Lowe  as a small ‘m’ marketarian. He has more confidence in the “invisible hand” of markets than I, bu...
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A peculiar finding of a 2010 RSV infection and transient autoimmune diabetes leads to ... nothing.

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In March of 2012 we learned that a researcher identified a striking relationship between a RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) respiratory inf...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Red Cross Basic Life Support training: avoid the Flash based simulation option

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The American Red Cross runs classes in basic life support (CPR/AED) . I’m doing the professional course.  Historically these courses have b...
Monday, February 15, 2016

Aspirin, NSAIDs, cell death and the treatment of arthritis and interstitial cystitis

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While doing some research on interstitial cystitis  Google uncovered an extraordinary claim by the Cleveland Clinic’s Raymond Rackley : M...

Rebooting medical research - the world needs Canada.

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My mother had a bottle of thalidomide on the shelf. It was her first pregnancy and she was sick. Thalidomide was the hot new treatment for...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Heberden's nodes deserve more respect.

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Wikipedia has the party line description of these buggers. Emphases mine. Heberden's node Heberden’s nodes are hard or bony swellings...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Forget electric or hybrid or mileage. There's only one thing that matters for your next car.

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What are the worst things that happen to us directly? (i.e. not things that happen to our kids) Death and extreme suffering of course. Unfo...
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Deep Burning Butt Ache review: Piriformis syndrome, sciatica, deep gluteal syndrome, sacroiliac syndrome, deep buttock syndrome ...

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One of the more interesting aspects of being an older physician is that we get to experience first hand problems we’ve treated (or mis-treat...
Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Medical knowledge diffusion: The osteoarthritis example

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For personal reasons I’ve been doing a deep dive into current medical knowledge of osteoarthritis — particularly the relatively early and ag...
Monday, February 08, 2016

Google deprecated 'security questions' - in May of 2015.

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How the heck did I miss this? Why wasn’t it all over my feeds? It’s sad Google actually had write a paper to prove the self-evident, but I g...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

Google and RSS: Not unfolding as anticipated

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Google Reader died just 3 years ago . It feels a lot longer, I’m probably thinking of when Google burned Reader Social in favor of their G+ ...
Thursday, January 21, 2016

Inflammatory osteoarthritis treatments: is there anything to watch for?

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See also:  Arthritis - the feeds and queries (reference post) . There’s something problematic about human tendons and cartilage. A wide ran...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Smartphone Calendaring: survey results

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Our family loves our Google Calendars. Today, looking at Calendars 5.app on my iPhone , I see that our 5 (human) family members own 8 calend...
Monday, January 11, 2016

How to probe medical knowledge gaps -- and get a useful pub

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I researched alcoholic myopathy the other day. The results were appalling. There’s been very little research in the past 25-30 years, fundam...
Sunday, January 10, 2016

Medical history: What CT did to neurology, MRI has done to sports medicine

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Few remember this now, but once neurologists were proud of their ability to localize brain injuries based on complex and detailed examinatio...