At the risk of muscling in on Bronze Dog‘s territory, I’ve encountered a phenomenon that ought to be in his list of doggerel but doesn’t appear to be. It appeared in the comments of my post about the Arthur Allen-David Kirby debate and my discussion of how the human tendency to see patterns where none […]
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Via Kevin, MD, a picture of a complication I hope I never have: A description of the complication: A 40-year-old man with Crohn’s disease underwent an uncomplicated operation involving lysis of adhesions that were causing intestinal obstruction. After surgery, a cardiologist inserted a central venous catheter through the left subclavian vein. No problems with catheterization […]
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The commentary on the Arthur Allen-David Kirby debate is coming in fast and furious. The latest is this excellent deconstruction of Kirby’s parroting of the claim that autistic children are “poor excretor’s” of mercury. I guess I can say that Dad of Cameron took this one on so that I don’t have to…
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I came across an interesting tidbit about dichloroacetate (DCA), the compound that the media and all too many bloggers are touting as some sort of cheap “cure” for cancer whose development is being ignored or suppressed by big pharma because it wouldn’t be profitable enough. I poured a bit of cold water on all of […]
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Grand Rounds
The latest Grand Rounds has been posted over at Signout. It has a theme this time that, as any regular reader of this blog is aware, is near and dear to my heart: the interface of scientific evidence with health and health care; so I’m expecting that it will be of more than usual interest […]
