Category Archives: Medicine

HIV Case Cured?

Posted on 12/14/2010, 10:53 am, by Kevin Featherly

There is no way for a layman to verify this easily, but if this claim in the medical journal Blood is true, it is astonishing. The assertion is that a patient has been cured of HIV infection using stem cell … Continue reading →

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Obama Gets Smashed in the Mouth

Posted on 11/26/2010, 11:32 am, by Kevin Featherly

And we are not talking figuratively here. There is a breaking news item on CNN.com right now indicating that President Obama has taken an elbow to the mouth during a basketball game, requiring 12 stitches to his lip. Wonder how … Continue reading →

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The Most Dangerous Place To Be…

Posted on 11/24/2010, 2:14 pm, by Kevin Featherly

… is still the hospital. A new study of 10 North Carolina hospitals indicates that nothing has changed in the 11 years since an ominous Institute of Medicine report sounded the warning that medical mistakes were responsible for up to … Continue reading →

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Sad. Just Sad…

Posted on 11/19/2010, 7:29 am, by Kevin Featherly

An Apple Valley, Minn., couple has decided to put the question of a fetus’ life up to a popular vote on the Internet, as though the 17-week-old unborn child is Larry the Lobster. “We wanted to give people a chance … Continue reading →

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Jim McMahon: Memory ‘Pretty Much Gone’

Posted on 11/10/2010, 12:05 pm, by Kevin Featherly

ESPN’s Mike Wilbon is among the chorus agitating for the NFL to walk back its increasingly strict helmet-to-helmet collision policy, whereby offending players have been getting fined and might soon see suspensions. But Wilbon is also a Chicago Bears fanatic. … Continue reading →

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