Caffeine (C8H10N4O2) is the natural pesticide of coffee beans, paralyzing and killing insects that try to feed on them
According to Forbes.com:
03
09 2010
Michael Douglas on Having Throat Cancer – Late Show with David Letterman (video)
Oropharyngeal cancer is increasing at a “dramatic” rate, particularly in the male population http://goo.gl/JAko
Related:
Michael Douglas Has Stage IV Throat Cancer; Experts Weigh In. WebMD.
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09 2010
For people with congestive heart failure, a hot dog can trigger a trip to the hospital due to excessive salt
Doctors blends cardiology and country music
Listen to the Doctor: Cleve Francis, cardiologist and country singer.
Dr. Francis, who recently turned 65, is a genteel singer of country and pop songs. He favors vintage ballads.
A man inching up the line in a walker can’t believe it. “You want his autograph? I get it on a prescription every three weeks,” he says.
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08 2010
When was the earliest journal club?
The earliest references to journal clubs are in the memoirs and letters of Sir James Paget, a British surgeon, who described a group at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in the mid-1800s as “a kind of club … a small room over a baker’s shop near the Hospital-gate where we could sit and read the journals.”
Sir William Osler established the first formal medical journal club at McGill University in Montreal in 1875. The original purpose of Osler’s journal club was “for
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08 2010
Gene test decreases warfarin-related hospitalizations by 28%
Patients who received a test of two genes connected to warfarin sensitivity were 28 percent less likely to be hospitalized for a bleeding episode or blood clot than those whose safe and effective warfarin dosing was determined by traditional trial and error method.
The genetic tests, which are easily done with a cheek swab or blood sample, need only be performed once ever for each patient and cost somewhere between $200 and $400 – far less than even a brief hospital
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08 2010
Women in US academic medicine earn $13,000 less than male peers
Lancet: Nephrology is not for normal doctors – it is for exceptionally skilled specialist physicians
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08 2010
Ed Goljan, M.D., professor of pathology and top notch arm wrestler
Goljan, professor and chairman of pathology, says that as the smallest kid in his class “I got picked on and so I started exercising.” It worked. By age 11, he was able to pin his dad in arm wrestling. Now 61, he’s still a contender.
Goljan likes to say that his arm wrestling is “just a ‘Y’ chromosome thing.” It’s a sport where size doesn’t mean much, he says. “When I weighed 175 pounds, I defeated a 275-pound super heavy weight.” In high school, college and
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08 2010
Clinical Pearls in Men’s Health – Mayo Clinic Proceedings Video
Dr. Thomas Beckman discusses his July 2010 Mayo Clinic Proceedings concise review on 3 cases involving men’s health.


