If the NFL doesn't work out, I guess he can go back to his pre-med training:
The Nigerian-born Gado started only two games in college at Division I-AA Liberty, where he was a premed major and planned to become a doctor. His medical career is on hold while he plays for the Packers, who promoted him from the practice squad two weeks ago.
For one week at least, Gado ...
Think we have it tough here? In Japan, they want a doctor who missed a fatal diagnosis to go to jail:
A doctor who failed to notice that a chopstick had pierced the brain of a 4-year-old boy brought to him and sent the boy home should be jailed for one year for his death, prosecutors told the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
The 37-year-old doctor, Hideki Nemoto, ...
Teledoc Medical Services: A lawsuit waiting to happen. "Earlier this year, TelaDoc Medical Services, a Dallas-based company, began providing over-the-phone medical care, including prescriptions, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The company, which has treated 40,000 patients so far, is trying to appeal to two groups of people: those who don't have the time to see a doctor and those who don't have the money.
The ...
Why take a four-hour CPR course, when a 20-minute class works just as well?
The miracle man cured of HIV is under pressure to undergo more testing:
A man who claims to be the first in the world whose immune system has been able to beat the HIV virus was facing mounting pressure yesterday to submit to further vital medical tests. Health experts, Aids campaigners and gay rights activists urged Andrew Stimpson to come forward following claims that he has been able to ...
TV doctors break bad news better than the real ones. "Medics in hospital soaps always seem to get this unpleasant task just right, drawing the curtains round the bed, talking in hushed tones with a sympathetic hand on the knee and the suggestion of a tear in the eye. In reality, bad news may be conveyed more hurriedly and more publicly - and by someone who has had no ...
Was this man "cured" of HIV? "A hospital in London is to carry out tests on a British man reported to become the first person to be cured of HIV."
Some are stopping Fosamax and other osteoporosis drugs because of the risk of "jaw death". "While bisphosphonate-related jaw death is still a rare phenomenon since first reported in 2003, researchers have documented more than 1,500 cases, most often triggered by having teeth pulled.
Less invasive dental work, such as the filling of cavities, the placing of crowns and root canals do not spawn the condition.
Why some ...
Cold medicines will be harder to find next year. "Starting Jan. 1, some owners of minimarkets in the state are expected to stop selling popular medications such as Sudafed, Actifed and Claritin because a new state law requires them to log each sale and obtain the signature of every buyer."
A reader sends me this tip: Newt Gingrich speaks out against specialty hospitals.
The Well-Timed Period talks about the FDA warning on Ortho Evra.
A girl is planning to undergo surgery to remove a 16-pound facial tumor.
"Doctors said when Marlie Casseus was born, she looked like any other girl. But a tumor formed and as she grew so did the tumor. She was recently diagnosed with Polyostotic Fibrous Dysplasia.
Polyostotic Fibrous Dysplasia has not only deformed ...
A nursing aide is convicted of sucking medication from a patient's pain patch. "According to the attorney general's office, Oglesbee was working as a nursing assistant at Moran Manor Nursing Home in Westernport on Oct. 15, 2004. A patient in her care had been prescribed a 72-hour transdermal pain patch. The day after the patch was applied, Oglesbee removed it, stuck a pin in the patch and sucked out ...
News flash: CT scans are better than plain films at detecting lung cancer.
Orac on Pat Robertson's threat to Dover, PA. "This sort of absolutist thinking is a hallmark of fundamentalists. There's no room for rational disagreement. If you don't agree with the religious position, you have "rejected God," and are therefore shunned by believers. And just what was it that Michael Behe and all the Discovery Institute drones are always saying that the "intelligent designer"is not necessarily God, that "intelligent design" ...
Ted Frank looks at the "Dodgeball Vioxx" documents. "It says something about the litigation system's creative cherry-picking of documents that a camaraderie-building educational exercise can be characterized as one that 'taught representatives to play'Dodgeball' when doctors voiced concerns.'"
More on pediatricians "firing" families for refusing vaccines. "More surprising to the authors were two findings: 39 percent of those surveyed said they would consider turning away a family that refused all shots -- researchers had expected the number to be about 20 percent -- while 28 percent said they'd think about severing a relationship with a family that refused some shots."
Consider the ramifications of this:
If ...
Restating the obvious: Supermarkets have flu shots, doctors' offices don't. "Meanwhile, large drugstores and supermarket chains in many cities are offering vaccinations while doctors' offices go without supplies. 'People who place large orders for vaccine tend to get preferential treatment from distributors.'"
A look at the center that gives intravenous vitamin C for cancer. "There's lots of questions about vitamin C, David Rosen, a pediatric oncologist in Wichita, said Thursday, noting that he'd seen no studies showing vitamin C's benefit in cancer patients."
Ortho Evra receives a warning. "The Food and Drug Administration warned users of the popular Ortho Evra birth control patch that they are being exposed to more hormones, and are therefore at higher risk of blood clots and other serious side effects, than previously disclosed.
Until now, regulators and patch-maker Ortho McNeil, a Johnson and Johnson subsidiary, had maintained the patch was expected to be associated with similar ...
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