tag:bmartinmd.com,2007-10-12://1 2008-07-04T14:12:41Z For the love of disease. Movable Type Publishing Platform 4.01 tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.256 2008-07-04T12:00:00Z 2008-07-04T14:12:41Z

What else? Yankee Doodle Dandy starring New York boy, James Cagney, with songs by (who else?) George M. Cohan (along with Rodgers and Hart [see below]). The backstage story of the theatrical Cohan family, told in flashback by George...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com What else? Yankee Doodle Dandy starring New York boy, James Cagney, with songs by (who else?) George M. Cohan (along with Rodgers and Hart [see below]). The backstage story of the theatrical Cohan family, told in flashback by George... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.257 2008-07-03T15:14:27Z 2008-07-03T16:55:46Z

In the current housing market, a seller's serotonin levels may determine just how likely a buyer's low offer will be accepted. Serotonin depletion and the acceptance of unfair offers were recently explored on a smaller scale by researchers at...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com In the current housing market, a seller's serotonin levels may determine just how likely a buyer's low offer will be accepted. Serotonin depletion and the acceptance of unfair offers were recently explored on a smaller scale by researchers at... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.255 2008-07-02T22:43:05Z 2008-07-02T22:54:23Z

Olympic Moments You Missed. If you have some kind of weird, humilating fantasy that you would have to represent your country at Beijing. The video quality is admittedly terrible, but it's still funny....

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com Olympic Moments You Missed. If you have some kind of weird, humilating fantasy that you would have to represent your country at Beijing. The video quality is admittedly terrible, but it's still funny.... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.254 2008-07-02T19:32:25Z 2008-07-02T22:22:09Z

In an unprecedented move, Pfizer is immediately cutting off all CME grants given directly to medical education communications companies (MECCs), according to today's press release from the company. However, Pfizer will honor existing grant committments and will continue to...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com In an unprecedented move, Pfizer is immediately cutting off all CME grants given directly to medical education communications companies (MECCs), according to today's press release from the company. However, Pfizer will honor existing grant committments and will continue to... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.253 2008-07-02T18:09:49Z 2008-07-03T17:31:22Z

By now, pretty much everyone has seen the June 19 videotape of Esmin Green, 49, dying on the waiting room floor of Brooklyn's Kings County psychiatric facility, aka G Building, while others―including security guards―saw the prostrate woman and did...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com By now, pretty much everyone has seen the June 19 videotape of Esmin Green, 49, dying on the waiting room floor of Brooklyn's Kings County psychiatric facility, aka G Building, while others―including security guards―saw the prostrate woman and did... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.252 2008-07-01T17:19:34Z 2008-07-01T18:45:19Z

In its recently released Policy Announcements, the ACCME proposed that the commercial support of CME should only be allowed to continue in the setting of several changes. These proposed changes stipulated that educational needs and CME content should be specified...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com In its recently released Policy Announcements, the ACCME proposed that the commercial support of CME should only be allowed to continue in the setting of several changes. These proposed changes stipulated that educational needs and CME content should be specified... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.251 2008-07-01T15:15:48Z 2008-07-01T17:14:02Z

The World Health Organization (WHO) now recommends a line-probe assay (LiPA) for the rapid, 2-day detection of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis* (MDR-TB), according to yesterday's press release. LiPA (eg, GenoType MTBDRplus; Hain LifeScience) extracts and amplifies sputum-derived Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA, which...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com The World Health Organization (WHO) now recommends a line-probe assay (LiPA) for the rapid, 2-day detection of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis* (MDR-TB), according to yesterday's press release. LiPA (eg, GenoType MTBDRplus; Hain LifeScience) extracts and amplifies sputum-derived Mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA, which... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.250 2008-06-30T18:46:48Z 2008-06-30T19:14:19Z

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.249 2008-06-30T16:40:00Z 2008-06-30T17:08:28Z

With the exceptions of "St. Elsewhere" and "Scrubs," both of which reasonably captured the high-flying absurdities of medical training, I've rarely watched medical dramas. The aversion had been based partly on time constraints but mostly on eye-rolling inaccuracies, like...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com With the exceptions of "St. Elsewhere" and "Scrubs," both of which reasonably captured the high-flying absurdities of medical training, I've rarely watched medical dramas. The aversion had been based partly on time constraints but mostly on eye-rolling inaccuracies, like... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.242 2008-06-27T21:25:59Z 2008-06-27T21:49:47Z

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.248 2008-06-27T19:04:13Z 2008-06-27T19:39:57Z

And the Congressional letters just keep on comin'. This time the target is Murry Kopelow, MD, chief executive of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the organization that bestows accreditation on MECCs, medical societies, and universities to...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com And the Congressional letters just keep on comin'. This time the target is Murry Kopelow, MD, chief executive of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the organization that bestows accreditation on MECCs, medical societies, and universities to... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.247 2008-06-26T16:58:24Z 2008-06-26T17:52:01Z

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.246 2008-06-26T15:38:40Z 2008-06-26T16:57:07Z

In patients with Parkinson's disease, first-time therapy with L-dopa (eg, Sinemet) provides modestly better motor function and health-related quality of life in the long term than the dopamine agonist bromocriptine (Parlodel). The final, 14-year results of the open, randomized,...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com In patients with Parkinson's disease, first-time therapy with L-dopa (eg, Sinemet) provides modestly better motor function and health-related quality of life in the long term than the dopamine agonist bromocriptine (Parlodel). The final, 14-year results of the open, randomized,... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.245 2008-06-26T00:41:23Z 2008-06-26T03:35:39Z

For narish goyim like me, an English-Yiddish dictionary. Pass me the nashvarg, bube....

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com For narish goyim like me, an English-Yiddish dictionary. Pass me the nashvarg, bube.... tag:bmartinmd.com,2008://1.244 2008-06-25T21:58:22Z 2008-06-26T01:05:26Z

America's poor citizens, numbering approximately 36 million, are preferentially affected by more than a dozen ignored infections—including those caused by parasitic worms (left). A review of these "neglected infections of poverty" is provided by Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, in...

bmartin http://www.pathophilia.com America's poor citizens, numbering approximately 36 million, are preferentially affected by more than a dozen ignored infections—including those caused by parasitic worms (left). A review of these "neglected infections of poverty" is provided by Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, in...