Pizza is dangerous. Pizza is beneficial. If you hold either of these opinions, published research agrees with you, especially research in England and Italy. Two British studies highlight, darkly, some dangers that accompany pizza that’s served too speedily or too heartily. One, a monograph in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, explains that, whatever the good […]
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The original planetary medical stars
Behold an all-star team of physicians with planetary family names (thanks to investigator Adrianne Appel for suggesting the idea), announced in the May 2010 issue of mini-AIR: Joseph Venus, MD, Concord, New Hampshire, USA P.G. Earth, MD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Audrey Mars, MD, Flemington, New Jersey Jesse B. Jupiter, MD, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Selman Uranus, […]
New straw reaches into quasi-stomach
Investigator Alan Dove reports: The world’s leading manufacturer of artificial laboratory stomachs has just introduced a line of special pipettes designed to reach all the way to the bottom of said stomachs. They posted the news yesterday: The Simplette Straw has been designed specifically to reach the bottom of all Stomacher® bags. This means that […]
The case of the Xerox repairman
A Xerox repairman supplied a clue — indeed was a clue — in detecting a medical hazard. Mark Pendergrast‘s book Inside Outbreaks explains: In April 1973 the New York State epidemiologist, EIS alum Alan Hinman, called the CDC for help. In early March, a second-year resident in radiation therapy at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, […]