http://bmartinmd.com/ For the love of disease. en Copyright 2008 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/kickback-friday-21.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/kickback-friday-21.html Kick-Back Friday Kick-Back Friday Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/serotonin-and-a-buyers-market.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/serotonin-and-a-buyers-market.html Ethics Neuropsychiatry serotonin Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:14:27 -0600 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.... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/aproposofnothing-wednesday-21.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/aproposofnothing-wednesday-21.html Apropos-of-Nothing Wednesday Olympics Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:43:05 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/pfizer-cuts-off-cme-grants-to.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/pfizer-cuts-off-cme-grants-to.html CME Pharma CME Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:32:25 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/kings-county.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/kings-county.html Ethics Health care Neuropsychiatry mental illness Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:09:49 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/high-prevalence-of-cois-among.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/high-prevalence-of-cois-among.html Ethics Pharma ethics Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:19:34 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/who-recommends-2day-test-for-m.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/07/who-recommends-2day-test-for-m.html Infectious diseases tuberculosis Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:15:48 -0600 http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/more-missed-primary-endpoints.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/more-missed-primary-endpoints.html Neurology Pharma Alzheimer's disease Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:46:48 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/real-medical-drama-made-less-r.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/real-medical-drama-made-less-r.html Popular culture Johns Hopkins Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:40:00 -0600 http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/kickback-friday-20.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/kickback-friday-20.html Kick-Back Friday Kick-Back Friday movies Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:25:59 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/kohl-targets-kopelow-and-the-a.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/kohl-targets-kopelow-and-the-a.html CME Pharma CME Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:04:13 -0600 http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/rotavirus-vaccine-reduces-surp.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/rotavirus-vaccine-reduces-surp.html Infectious diseases Pediatrics Pharma infectious diseases vaccination Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:58:24 -0600 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,... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/initial-treatment-for-parkinso.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/initial-treatment-for-parkinso.html Neurology Parkinson's disease Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:38:40 -0600 For narish goyim like me, an English-Yiddish dictionary. Pass me the nashvarg, bube.... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/aproposofnothing-wednesday-20.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/aproposofnothing-wednesday-20.html Apropos-of-Nothing Wednesday Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:41:23 -0600 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... http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/parasitic-and-other-infectious.html http://bmartinmd.com/2008/06/parasitic-and-other-infectious.html Infectious diseases infectious diseases Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:58:22 -0600