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On Burying
In the last 2 weeks we’ve buried both my mother and my uncle. That’s not literally true, actually, as they both wished to be cremated and we’ll inter/deal with their ashes at a later date, but they both certainly had memorial services. I think we’re all glad that they’re done and over with; I never…
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#101 – Thanks
So for my 101st post I just wanted to say a few quick words of thanks to you, gentle reader. My readership is pretty small, but it turns out that I do have a few regulars, and I appreciate your time and comments. It keeps me up and running. Thanks also for the many words…
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Donald Duck, RIP
This is my 100th post. How fitting that it’s something completely silly! I found this in last week’s British Medical Journal (Sorry – no link. It requires login anyway). I thought it was a joke at first but soon realized that it’s not. Donald Duck Donald Duck trained in medicine after a brief foray into…
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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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A Quick Aside
As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a couple of breaks presenting this final 2006 ACR session, and have divided it up amongst a few posts over a few days. There are reasons for this. 1) As I expalined earlier, it is a subject that is near and dear to my heart and…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Part 3
Part 3 (See here for parts 1 and 2) Dr. Theodosakis then took the podium to present the case for glucosamine and chondroitin. Let me first say that Dr. T. is a young, charismatic man and appears to be a very nice guy. He is certainly an engaging speaker and certainly believes everything he says.…
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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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Concurrent Abstracts – Epidemiology and Health Services
I went to another session that was supposed to help young investigators get a research career established, but I’m not going to talk about it at all. I will talk quickly about the epidemiology abstract session though. Dr. Kwoh confirmed something that has been suspected for a while now; namely that African Americans think differently…
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