“Severe Weight Loss Caused by Chewing Gum,” Juergen Bauditz, Kristina Norman, Henrik Biering, Herbert Lochs, and Matthias Pirlich, British Medical Journal, vol. 336,no. 96–7, 2008, DOI:10.1136/bmj. 39280.657350.BE. (Thanks to Erwin Kompanje for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Charite Universitatsmedizin in Berlin, Germany, report: Both our patients consumed large amounts of sorbitol, which […]
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Blood, Fingers, and Genes
Researchers are delving into the blood, fingers, and genes of financial traders. Here are some of the studies that may give us insights into the success or failure of the traders, and of the researchers who study the financiers’ digits and chemical composition. Here, too, are a few earlier studies that probe the mysteries of […]
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“Endoscopic Removal of Sharp Foreign Bodies Impacted in the Esophagus,” Y.T. Jeen et al., Endoscopy, vol. 33, no. 6, June 2001, pp. 518—22 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2001-15090). The authors, who are at Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, explain that: The types of foreign body removed were fish bones (n = 9), press-through packages (n = 8), chicken […]