You might think that an Israeli Medical Association report called Combining Kangaroo Care and Live Harp Music Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Setting is the first medical study of the combined effects, on newborns, of kangaroo care and music therapy. Not so. The invention of kangaroo care (also called kangaroo therapy) is widely attributed to […]
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Mozart dies yet another way: Darkness
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [pictured here] has died a hundred deaths, more or less. Here’s a new one: darkness. Doctors over the years have resurrected the story of Mozart’s death again and again, each time proposing some alternative horrifying medical reason why the 18th century’s most celebrated and prolific composer keeled over at age 35. A […]
Medical acronyms & jargon, amassed
If you crave medical jargon, most especially in the form of acronyms, binge on the collections found, amassed and/or celebrated by Ivan Oransky (“HALT: Help acronyms leave (medical) trials“) and Alice Bell (“Four page jargon buster, for a SCIENCE COMMUNICATION conference“).
Surgical journal’s surgical exploration of medical ads
Many medical journals sport attractive ads. Many of these ads supply information to back up their claims (or will supply information, if you ask the advertiser for it). To what extent does that info actually support what the ad says? This study took a bit of a look into the question: “Claim Validity of Print […]