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Year's End, Blog's End: I've been making my annual year end inventory - deciding what to keep and what to toss. It's become...

Thanksgiving Remembrance: Mayflower Medicine .

Any Excuse Will Do: Any excuse to justifying prejudice , or to stir up fear mongering of what may come: At the same time, genetic informat...

In Remembrance: Winged Victory Veteran's Day movie recommendation - Wooden Crosses . Veteran's Day medical reading - the influence ...

A Word About MRSA: I've been fielding a lot of doorknob questions about MRSA lately. (Doorknob questions= questions thrown out just as ...

Trusty Dentist: Not so trusty with music and a drill .

All Saints' Day: A list of medical saints - albeit an incomplete one.

Forever Young, Forever Firm: Lipo-etching - maybe not all it's cracked up to be.

Lies, Damned Lies, and, Well, You Know: The New York Times is parsing Rudy Guiliani's prostate cancer statitistics : "I had prost...

Take Some Tylenol and Call Me in the Morning: What will we do without cough and cold medicine ? I can hear it now, that familiar refrain - ...

I Screen, You Screen: The American Academy of Pediatrics is recommending that all children be screened for autism . They've only press-...

Magnet-Free Europe: For some reason, the EU was proposing severe restrictions on the use of MRI scans, a proposal which has been halted - f...

Spooky Skulls: Spooky brain pictures . Background here .

Of Mice and Mazes: Do high blood pressure medications prevent Alzheimer's ? They do in mouse brains - in test tubes and in mazes: The ...

Errors, Errors: The sad story of a medical error and learning to deal with errors .

Inspiring Lives: Speaking of the supreme champion of eugenics, here's an inspiring story from the days of his reign.

Medical Science Fiction: Late to the party, but here are the winners of Medgadget's Medical Sci-Fi Contest. Enjoy.

Eugenics Past and Present: I've been reading an essay from 1907 by David Starr Jordan, a great mind of his time - scientist, peace act...