Medical Reviews of House
March 12th, 2010
Reviews of House written by people who know something(?) about medical practice.
Archive for the 'medicine' Category
Scott and Scurvy
March 9th, 2010
Great article about how the cure to scurvy was discovered, lost and rediscovered.
Doctors confirm woman’s imaginary third arm
April 11th, 2009
"She does not always perceive the arm but 'retrieves' it when needed, doctors told the Swiss news agency."
Really?
February 11th, 2009
The Times has a column called Really? debunking (or bunking) medical hearsay. Really? Is maybe the best title for anything I've read in a while.
Colonial clue to the rise of HIV
November 11th, 2008
"The arrival of colonial cities in sub-Saharan Africa at the dawn of the 20th Century may have sparked the spread of HIV."
A Better Angel
October 22nd, 2008
"I asked her why she hadn’t warned me about the wasps. 'I’m not that kind of angel,' she said."
In anticipation of Chris Adrian's appearance at the Housing Works Bookstore Café on Nov. 3rd.
MixTape: Top of the songs-to-resuscitate-someone-to Pops
October 17th, 2008
I would totally be into being resuscitated to the beat of Staying Alive, if it came to that.
German farmer Karl Merk gets world’s first double arm transplant
October 17th, 2008
"It was really overwhelming when I saw that I had arms again."
Banjo used in brain surgery
October 15th, 2008
"A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure."
Cloned immune cells cleared patient’s cancer
June 19th, 2008
"Louis Weiner, director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Centre at Georgetown University, Washington, wrote that Yee's work 'underscores the remarkable potential of the immune system to eradicate cancer, even when the disease is widespread'."
The Emerging Supremacy of Artificial legs
May 21st, 2008
Quick rundown of the actual reasoning behind the IAAF's original ruling and the reasoning behind the overturning of that ruling by the CAS. Also makes the point that as prostheses continue to improve, the Paralympics will likely become a superhuman event.
Surgeons give hope to blind with successful ‘bionic eye’ operations
April 29th, 2008
Best part? It's called the Argus II. Argus is the name of several mythic figures, including Argus Panoptes (the hundred-eyed giant), Odysseus' faithful dog, and both the shipwright of the Argo and also a shipwrecked traveller rescued by Jason.
Harm Reduction
March 14th, 2008
Research for a brochure.
Manual of the diseases of the eye
March 12th, 2008
Ok, a) eye diseases, with color plates, cool. But maybe more importantly, b) this is the first Google book I've found where there are scans of fingers holding the pages down. And frequently. Very charming.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
January 10th, 2008
Theoretician of the synapse, and incredible medical illustrator.
Public Health Image Library
November 13th, 2007
Much better than the National Institutes of Health image archive.
Woman visits her own heart at exhibition
September 4th, 2007
Couldn't type "posthuman" into the tag field fast enough.