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Hooray for Atkins? Nope.
In a recent head-to-head test of four fad diets, apparently the Atkins diet resulted in the participants losing the most weight. The Atkins diet relies on the elimination of carbs in your diet, and...
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Aaaachoooo: Anatomy of a Sinus Infection
I’ve probably had dozens of sinus infections. This is partially related to my genes; I got some good ones, but sinus problems and severe allergies run in my family. I ended up with both, with the...
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Science Finally Discovers My 3rd Grade Science Fair Project
Sooooo, turns out that pop/soda/Coke *does* rot your teeth. Um, now they listen? Where was this press release during the 1989 school year when a burgeoning nerdlet conducted (not so) scientific...
View ArticleUM Study Explores Reason For Low Rate of Breast Reconstruction
UM Hospital has an excellent cancer facility, and as breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women, many cases of breast cancer are treated here at UM. However, many post-operative women...
View ArticleLengthy Low Carb-High Protein Diet Increases Mortality
It really was only a matter of time until a longitudinal study on a massive scale, such as this one in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, came out to back up what common sense told us was...
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Get Inside the Body, in Four Dimensions
Surgeons may have a new tool at their disposal to aid in planning surgeries: an interactive “4-dimensional” model of the human body called CAVEman which describes in live-sized detail over 3000...
View ArticleWhen Mental Patients Get Lost in the System
There’s an interesting article up at CNN today regarding families who have “lost” loved ones in mental institutions over the years. One in particular is making a movie about the little sister he...
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Bariatric Surgery: Types of Obesity Surgery, Explained
A fantastic, and open-access, review paper just came out on the subject of surgical solutions to obesity which answered a lot of my questions regarding this growing area of treatment. Written by Kral...
View ArticleGene Therapy Patient Wasn’t Killed By the Therapy
Gene therapy is the isolation of a gene, which is then packaged into a vector for introduction into the body in hopes that it can correct some aspect of genetic disease. Often this “vector” is a type...
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Is Honey As Effective As Cough Syrup in Children?
Some interesting research is being reported in the mainstream media: that buckwheat honey can reduce coughing and soothe sore throats as well as over-the-counter cough syrup (dextromethorphan), in...
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