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    <title>Kick-Back Friday: #73</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.569</id>

    <published>2009-07-03T19:58:05Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-03T20:19:35Z</updated>

    <summary> Kiss of Death (1947): An armed robber (Victor Mature) sets up a hit on his accomplice through the DA&apos;s office. Mature then proceeds to go after the giggly, psychopathic hitman (a young Richard Widmark).* Karl Malden makes brief, but...</summary>
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         Kiss of Death (1947): An armed robber (Victor Mature) sets up a hit on his accomplice through the DA&apos;s office. Mature then proceeds to go after the giggly, psychopathic hitman (a young Richard Widmark).* Karl Malden makes brief, but...
        
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<entry>
    <title>H1N1 Death Rate Holds Steady</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.568</id>

    <published>2009-07-03T14:44:27Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-03T15:18:18Z</updated>

    <summary> The latest update from the World Health Organization reveals the number of swine flu cases worldwide at 77,201—a nearly 50% increase from the June 22nd update. Deaths total 332 (up from 113) for an unchanged mortality rate of 0.43%....</summary>
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         The latest update from the World Health Organization reveals the number of swine flu cases worldwide at 77,201—a nearly 50% increase from the June 22nd update. Deaths total 332 (up from 113) for an unchanged mortality rate of 0.43%....
        
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<entry>
    <title>And Now...Diprivan</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.567</id>

    <published>2009-07-01T15:28:37Z</published>
    <updated>2009-07-02T02:43:41Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Sources are now&nbsp;implicating propofol (Diprivan; sanofi-aventis) in Michael Jackson's death.&nbsp;TMZ reports that police recovered the anesthesia inducer at Jackson's rented home. And ABC News interviewed Jackson's nutritionist, Cherilyn Lee, who stated that the singer asked her for Diprivan,&nbsp;by trade...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[ Sources are now&nbsp;implicating propofol (Diprivan; sanofi-aventis) in Michael Jackson's death.&nbsp;TMZ reports that police recovered the anesthesia inducer at Jackson's rented home. And ABC News interviewed Jackson's nutritionist, Cherilyn Lee, who stated that the singer asked her for Diprivan,&nbsp;by trade...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Dr. Murray&apos;s CPR Technique Explained by Attorney</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.566</id>

    <published>2009-06-29T14:44:36Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-30T05:02:30Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ The 911 call for Michael Jackson revealed that the singer's hired physician, Conrad Murray,&nbsp;performed CPR (ie, chest compressions)&nbsp;on&nbsp;a bed. Because anybody who's familiar with CPR knows that the procedure&nbsp;should be&nbsp;performed on a hard flat surface (so that chest compressions...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[ The 911 call for Michael Jackson revealed that the singer's hired physician, Conrad Murray,&nbsp;performed CPR (ie, chest compressions)&nbsp;on&nbsp;a bed. Because anybody who's familiar with CPR knows that the procedure&nbsp;should be&nbsp;performed on a hard flat surface (so that chest compressions...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Kick-Back Friday: #72</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://bmartinmd.com/2009/06/kickback-friday-72.html" />
    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.565</id>

    <published>2009-06-27T01:08:07Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-27T01:38:52Z</updated>

    <summary> Middlemarch (1994): If you can&apos;t get through the book (I&apos;m talking to you, English majors), then watch the BBC mini-series—a highly faithful adaptation of George Eliot&apos;s novel (written by Andrew Davies of Pride and Prejudice fame). Dorothea Brooke believes...</summary>
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         Middlemarch (1994): If you can&apos;t get through the book (I&apos;m talking to you, English majors), then watch the BBC mini-series—a highly faithful adaptation of George Eliot&apos;s novel (written by Andrew Davies of Pride and Prejudice fame). Dorothea Brooke believes...
        
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<entry>
    <title>Michael Jackson: Rampant, But Consistent, Speculation on Cause of Death</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.564</id>

    <published>2009-06-26T14:11:05Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-26T14:51:09Z</updated>

    <summary>Michael Jackson overdosed on Demerol (meperidine), according to numerous posts on the web, including those at TMZ—the go-to site for bottom-feeders of entertainment news. The web site also reports that Jackson received daily shots of the morphine analog, possibly for...</summary>
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        Michael Jackson overdosed on Demerol (meperidine), according to numerous posts on the web, including those at TMZ—the go-to site for bottom-feeders of entertainment news. The web site also reports that Jackson received daily shots of the morphine analog, possibly for...
        
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<entry>
    <title>Duke Engineers Test Catheter Prototype for Brain Tumors</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.563</id>

    <published>2009-06-23T14:21:40Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-23T15:23:25Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Delivering chemotherapy to brain tumors is particularly challenging because of the blood-brain barrier (BBB),&nbsp;the collection of&nbsp;tight junctions between endothelial cells in cerebral blood vessels. When intact, these protective junctions prevent the passage of a number of substances—including chemotherapeutic molecules—from...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[ Delivering chemotherapy to brain tumors is particularly challenging because of the blood-brain barrier (BBB),&nbsp;the collection of&nbsp;tight junctions between endothelial cells in cerebral blood vessels. When intact, these protective junctions prevent the passage of a number of substances—including chemotherapeutic molecules—from...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>WHO: H1N1 Update</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.562</id>

    <published>2009-06-22T14:45:09Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-22T15:14:44Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Thanks to&nbsp;vigilant laboratory testing&nbsp;(at least in part)&nbsp;for H1N1, the number of swine flu cases worldwide has increased by nearly 90% in the last 11 days. The World Health Organization reports a total of 52,160 cases of H1N1 disease (up...]]></summary>
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        <name>bmartin</name>
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        <![CDATA[ Thanks to&nbsp;vigilant laboratory testing&nbsp;(at least in part)&nbsp;for H1N1, the number of swine flu cases worldwide has increased by nearly 90% in the last 11 days. The World Health Organization reports a total of 52,160 cases of H1N1 disease (up...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Kick-Back Friday: #71</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.561</id>

    <published>2009-06-19T20:57:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-22T15:18:33Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[The Damned Don't Cry!&nbsp;(1950): A 40-something Joan Crawford still rocks a body as a ruthless, faux socialite. Nothing—and I mean nothing—detracts from Crawford, thanks mostly&nbsp;to&nbsp;a B-movie supporting cast. Still it's a brave star who's willing to receive an on-camera beating...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[The Damned Don't Cry!&nbsp;(1950): A 40-something Joan Crawford still rocks a body as a ruthless, faux socialite. Nothing—and I mean nothing—detracts from Crawford, thanks mostly&nbsp;to&nbsp;a B-movie supporting cast. Still it's a brave star who's willing to receive an on-camera beating...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Kick-Back Friday: #70</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://bmartinmd.com/2009/06/kickback-friday-70.html" />
    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.560</id>

    <published>2009-06-12T20:14:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-13T21:15:32Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ When it debuted in 1991, Billy Bathgate—based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow—was generally faintly praised (Vincent Canby)&nbsp;or soundly panned (Roger Ebert). Perhaps the lukewarm reception had something to do with overblown expectations and rumors of production troubles...]]></summary>
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        <name>bmartin</name>
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        <![CDATA[ When it debuted in 1991, Billy Bathgate—based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow—was generally faintly praised (Vincent Canby)&nbsp;or soundly panned (Roger Ebert). Perhaps the lukewarm reception had something to do with overblown expectations and rumors of production troubles...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Caution for Today: GBS Risk With Old Swine-Flu Vaccine</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.559</id>

    <published>2009-06-12T15:15:41Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-12T16:08:54Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[While drugmakers&nbsp;create a vaccine against the currently pandemic swine-flu virus (H1N1 S-OIV 2009), neurologists are advised to monitor the safety of such inoculations, should&nbsp;they be implemented. The caution is founded on&nbsp;a higher-than-expected&nbsp;rate of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)&nbsp;in vaccine recipients during the...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[While drugmakers&nbsp;create a vaccine against the currently pandemic swine-flu virus (H1N1 S-OIV 2009), neurologists are advised to monitor the safety of such inoculations, should&nbsp;they be implemented. The caution is founded on&nbsp;a higher-than-expected&nbsp;rate of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS)&nbsp;in vaccine recipients during the...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>WHO: Not-So-Deadly Swine Flu Now Pandemic</title>
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    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.558</id>

    <published>2009-06-11T14:45:52Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-11T15:41:45Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ After&nbsp;forecasting a swine flu pandemic for a good month or so, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now given the&nbsp;H1N1 virus official&nbsp;level 6&nbsp;status. What this means is nothing particularly new: A pandemic occurs when a novel influenza virus causes...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[ After&nbsp;forecasting a swine flu pandemic for a good month or so, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now given the&nbsp;H1N1 virus official&nbsp;level 6&nbsp;status. What this means is nothing particularly new: A pandemic occurs when a novel influenza virus causes...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Kick-Back Friday: #69</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://bmartinmd.com/2009/06/kickback-friday-69.html" />
    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.557</id>

    <published>2009-06-05T21:08:08Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-05T22:01:27Z</updated>

    <summary> The comedy and gravity of global espionage are explored in Our Man in Havana (1959), Carol Reed&apos;s adaption of the Graham Greene novel. A humble vacuum cleaner salesman in prerevolutionary Cuba, Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) adds to his income...</summary>
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         The comedy and gravity of global espionage are explored in Our Man in Havana (1959), Carol Reed&apos;s adaption of the Graham Greene novel. A humble vacuum cleaner salesman in prerevolutionary Cuba, Jim Wormold (Alec Guinness) adds to his income...
        
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<entry>
    <title>Neurospecific Protein Key to Brain Degeneration in Huntington&apos;s</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://bmartinmd.com/2009/06/rhes-protein-key-to-hd.html" />
    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.556</id>

    <published>2009-06-05T15:49:49Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-05T17:19:14Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Although the gene responsible&nbsp;for&nbsp;Huntington's disease (HD), a&nbsp;dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder, was detected more than 10 years ago, the mechanism of its brain-specific pathology has remained elusive. Now investigators at Johns Hopkins&nbsp;reveal, in&nbsp;an elegant series of cell-line experiments, how the...]]></summary>
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        <name>bmartin</name>
        <uri>http://www.pathophilia.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[ Although the gene responsible&nbsp;for&nbsp;Huntington's disease (HD), a&nbsp;dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disorder, was detected more than 10 years ago, the mechanism of its brain-specific pathology has remained elusive. Now investigators at Johns Hopkins&nbsp;reveal, in&nbsp;an elegant series of cell-line experiments, how the...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>National Review Investigates Macy Foundation and IOM</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://bmartinmd.com/2009/06/national-review-macy-iom.html" />
    <id>tag:bmartinmd.com,2009://1.555</id>

    <published>2009-06-03T13:50:51Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-03T23:26:27Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ In the National Review, conservative journalist Mary Claire Kendall questions the influence that the private Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation&nbsp;has on&nbsp;the&nbsp;nonprofit Institute of Medicine&nbsp;(IOM). At stake, evidently, is the Foundation's interest in removing all sources of commercial funding for physicians'...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[ In the National Review, conservative journalist Mary Claire Kendall questions the influence that the private Josiah Macy, Jr, Foundation&nbsp;has on&nbsp;the&nbsp;nonprofit Institute of Medicine&nbsp;(IOM). At stake, evidently, is the Foundation's interest in removing all sources of commercial funding for physicians'...]]>
        
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