This decades-old medical report has received surprisingly little attention from the baseball community. Baseball season is about to begin again, in the USA. Please alert anyone to whom this study could be useful: “An Unusual Foreign Body in the Rectum—A Baseball: Report of a Case,” M.P. McDonald and D. Rosenthal, Diseases of the Colon and […]
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Dead Reckoning at a Top Medical Journal
The BMJ, formerly named The British Medical Journal, published this notice today, in which they regretfully bury a recent new policy: Reversing our decision to charge for placing a BMJ obituary February 23, 2021 At the beginning of February, we introduced a new policy to charge a fee for people wishing to place an obituary […]
Using Hot Coffee to Dislodge Meat in the Throat
If someone has a hunk of meat stuck in their throat, should you advise them to drink a mouthful of hot coffee to dislodge the meat? This study suggests an answer to that question. “Esophageal Hematoma Associated with the Bolus Ingestion of Hot Coffee,” Yorinari Ochiai, Daisuke Kikuchi, and Shu Hoteya, Internal Medicine, epub 2020. […]
International Bat Night is Not Bat Day at Yankee Stadium
Tonight, August 29, 2020, is International Bat Night. The UNEP/Eurobats organization explains: The Bat Night has taken place every year since 1997 in more than 30 countries on the last full weekend of August. Nature conservation agencies and NGOs from across Europe pass on information to the public about the way bats live and their […]