Why are there so very few medical journal reports about parking-gate injuries? Such injuries — which happen when a parking lot gate encounters a human body — are reported to be frequent and expensive. Yet PubMed, the preeminent database of medical studies and other medical reports, seems to include almost no medical reports about this […]
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It’s just an incidentaloma
What’s an incidentaloma? “Incidentaloma” is a medical term. These two papers are among the many that try to explain: “Benign anatomical mistakes: Incidentaloma,” Mirilas, Petros; Skandalakis, J E., The American Surgeon, 68.11 (Nov 2002): 1026-8. “Screening using whole-body magnetic resonance imaging scanning: who wants an incidentaloma?” Rustam Al-Shahi Salman,William N Whiteley, Charles Warlow, J Med Screen, 2007;14:2–4 (Thanks […]
Coffee and Cancer: A Bad News Burp for Modern Science Journalism
A newly published study is bad news for news organizations — it’s a burp in the stream of guaranteed-attention-getting medical reports that suggest coffee-drinking might cause cancer. The study is: “Coffee and Cancer Risk: A Summary Overview,” Gianfranco Alicandro [pictured here], Alessandra Tavani, and Carlo La Vecchia, European Journal of Cancer Prevention, epub March 2017. The authors, at the University of […]
Textilomas, Gossypibomas, Gauzomas, or Muslinomas are Not Tumors
Woven fabrics occasionally turn up inside human bodies, where they can be mistaken for tumors. This study looks for and at some of them, and gives them colorful names: “Textiloma (Gossypiboma) Mimicking Recurrent Intracranial Tumor,” Teresa Ribalta, Ian E. McCutcheon, Antonio G. Neto, Deepali Gupta, A. J. Kumar, David A. Biddle, Lauren A. Langford, Janet […]