Category: Medicine
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Gout in Humans and Animals
Here’s an interesting post by a relatively new rheumatologist-blogger. Apparently diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) also known as Voltaren – of the same class as ibuprofen, A.K.A. Motrin and Advil – is toxic in birds. How do birds ingest it? Well obviously they feed on dead cows! Vulture populations crashed in the nineties and…
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Gout in Humans and Animals
Here’s an interesting post by a relatively new rheumatologist-blogger. Apparently diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) also known as Voltaren – of the same class as ibuprofen, A.K.A. Motrin and Advil – is toxic in birds. How do birds ingest it? Well obviously they feed on dead cows! Vulture populations crashed in the nineties and…
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Dec A&R Roundup – Kind Of
I’m forgoing the A&R Roundup this month. I went through the Dec. issue last weekend, and you know, nothing caught my eye. How many hundred pages, but not one article that grabbed my attention. There were three articles that I flagged for my own reading, and maybe to review, but more because I feel like…
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Nov A&R Roundup
I have to admit that I don’t do these summaries of Arthritis & Rheumatism just for my readers. It’s also a way of forcing myself to at least glance through the journal every month and see what’s going on in the arthritis research world. I’m more likely to do it and remember it if I…
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Do You Cough Hygienically?
I ran across this at Neatorama. You know, there’s nothing I won’t do for the cause of good hygeine, and after all my goal is medical education: Hit Play or go to Link [Google Video] | Coughsafe website
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Treatment Options for Osteoarthritis
I was browsing Technorati, since I try to keep in touch with arthritis postings this way, and ran across the following: There is nothing we can do …. I don’t know if i should laugh or cry ……. getting straight to the point, i have fully blown Osteo-arthritis, the Orthapeadic Surgeon said i have the…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Part 4
(Parts 1 and 2. Part 3.) I’m back at last. I have spent the last few days helping to get my mother buried, in our hearts if not in fact, and only now have time to finish up. In this post I’ll address the arguments made by David Felson as to the efficacy of glucosamine…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Parts 1 and 2
This was the last session I attended and concerns a topic of great interest to me, so I’m glad I was able to attend. I expect that this is going to turn into a long post, because it concerns some issues which are close to my heart and that’s I’d like to explore in a…
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Concurrent Abstracts – Complications of Pharmacotherapy
The abstracts I saw presented today tended to have a common theme: they all looked at the risks of therapy with medications we use frequently. You might think that figuring out whether a medication or group of medications cause, say, cancer would just be a matter of following some people and seeing whether they develop…
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2006 ACR Conference: Day 5 and Heading Home
Well, actually I’m heading to my parents’. I’ll get back home sometime this weekend. But it was my 5th day at the ACR Conference, the 3rd day of the conference proper. I managed to get to two sessions before I had to head to the airport, and they were two good ones. The other thing…
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