The PLoS Medicine Disease Mongering Collection has for been available for downloading since it was published in 2006. Its makers explain: To mark the first academic meeting on disease mongering (the “selling of sickness” in order to promote drug sales), which was held in Newcastle, Australia in April 2006, and to help provoke and inform a […]
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Instrumental Maladies (part 3: Trumpets)
Another (partial) look at the health dangers to which musicians selflessly submit themselves – for our entertainment, edification and amusement … Part 3 : Trumpets • Cheilitis due to nickel contact allergy in a trumpet player. • Bilateral laryngoceles in a young trumpet player: case report. • Transient ischemic attacks caused by trumpet playing. • […]
When babies smell like food
Babies can smell like maple syrup, ripe cheese or even fish, rancid butter and several other things: Fleisher GR, Ludwig S (eds). Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 6th edition, page 405, 2010 These babies and others that smell like food may have a serious inborn error of metabolism. BONUS: For the hardcore
Bacteria and you (a healthy rant)
Mike the Mad Biologist writes, in his blog: During the last week, I’ve come across a couple sensationalist article about E. coli and Staphylococcus aureus being found on common surfaces. Here’s one article about shopping carts and E. coli… And here’s an article about Staphylococcus aureus (those S. aureus resistant to methicillin–and often other antibiotics–are […]