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Violinist having surgery while awake and playing
Roger Frisch, a solo violinist and associate concertmaster for the Minnesota Orchestra, and how he came to Mayo Clinic and Dr. Kendall Lee (neurosurgeon) for relief of a career-threatening tremor.
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Damn Racists
The english organization Marie Stopes International maintains a campaign to alert british citizens on the risks of acquiring venereal diseases or non-wished pregnancies when traveling to Mexico.
“What is more embarrassing, his hat or what he might give you? Make sure don’t come home with any unwanted holiday souvenirs”
This poster is very offensive and annoying. It’s [...]
SurgeXperiences 1.03
Welcome to the third edition of SurgeXperiences, the first carnival of surgery. I’m honored to bring you this surgical carnival.
This will be a practical and concise edition. The objective of blogs (in my point of view) is to answer questions as quickly as possible, so lets start with the HOW-TOs. Enjoy.
How to classify fingertip [...]
Digital manipulation
Artist Koen Hauser is a specialist in digital picture manipulation. This collection is called Modische Atlas der Anatomie.
Lovely work I said.
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B&W twins – One in a million
Kylie Hodgson gave birth to twin daughters by caesarean section, then she realised a difference between them.
This amazing conception happened after two eggs were fertilised at the same time in the womb.
The odds against of a mixed race couple having twins of dramatically different colour are a million to one.
Skin colour is believed to be [...]
Anorexia, Bulimia & Body dysmorphic disorder
Lets think about this disorders.
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Bizarre dermatologic lesions
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A missionary in Eastern Europe recently reported an extremely rare (condylomatosis) skin condition. This disease is called Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia. This missionary wrote:
I found this man, and other than his hands and feet, he looked and seemed in good health. As best as I could gather these growths began when he was 14 years [...]
Brain Disease Museum (rare)
The neuropathologist Diana Rivas from Perú runs a Museum of brains and she states that this show is unique in the World.
This museum has an inventory of 2,998 brains and counting. Rivas studies neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders but, unlike prestigious brain banks around the World, she allows entrance to the general public.
There is a [...]
Mexican scientific work is Worldwide recognized
The British journal The Lancet chose as Paper of the Year an investigation published in January 2006 by Guillermo Ruiz-Palacios y Santos about rotavirus vaccine.
This study, included 63,225 breastfeeded infants and was first published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
With their conclusions, the Mexican government will change the National Vaccination Scheme, and now will [...]
Electrocardiogram on laptop
In a near future we will be able to get an EKG on a laptop.
Read the story in Engadget
A robot gives birth
Medical students practice parturition treatment with a baby-delivery robot at an obstetrician class of Kyung Hee university medical center in Seoul December 27, 2006.
The medical center imported the robot to give more chances of practical delivery treatment for students as South Korea’s birth rates are constantly falling, a professor of the class said.
(By Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)
Mesothelioma brief review
This is a paid review
Mesothelioma Aid
Mesothelioma Aid is a site for practical living with malignant mesothelioma. In addition to medical information, mesothelioma patients, their families, and their caregivers need support with real life and mesothelioma caregiving issues. Mesothelioma Aid’s focus is on providing answers to your questions and helping you best cope with what is [...]
Grand Rounds 3.10
An outstanding edition of this week’s Grand Rounds is up at Notes from Dr. RW.
Sit down and read the best of the medical blogsphere.
Corpus Delicti a nice play
Corpus Delicti refers to crime’s body, not just to the corpse itself but to the related body of evidence.
I would love to see this play wich is a free play that uses real-life ballistig gel cadaver to explore art & science of anatom as practiced in Holland during the Age of Enlightenment, and immortalized in [...]
Grand Rounds 3.9
Great edition of Grand Rounds is up at Doctor Anonymous.
Good work, Dr. A.
