Yeah, you read that right. Overweight and obesity in urban Africa: A problem of the rich or the poor?:
Descriptive results showed that the prevalence of urban overweight/obesity increased by nearly 35% during the period covered. The increase was higher among the poorest (+50%) than among the richest (+7%). Importantly, there was an increase of 45-50% [...]

Our case of massive renal angiomyolipomas is featured on Pediatric Nephrology Site.
Nephrorad Case Files. Check out the site for many more updates in Pediatric Nephrology.
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After posting Extormity’s challenge to Dr. David Blumenthal a couple of weeks ago, I neglected to post this follow-up message from the fictional vendor:
Extormity Issues Hasty Retraction
Just 48 hours after challenging National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal to a rumble, behemoth EMR vendor Extormity has issued a retraction.
“It seems that provoking a [...]

The fake doctors at HuffPo are at it again. This time, Patricia Fitzgerald is writing about the “Top 10 Healing Foods of the Decade.” The article has just enough correct information in it to be exceptionally wrong.
One of the more ironic aspects to this is her quoting Michael Pollan. I [...]

Here’s the CMS proposal for meaningful use: http://www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2009-31217_PI.pdf
There is a companion interim final rule related to standards and certification: http://www.federalregister.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2009-31216_PI.pdf
There’s a public conference call at 5:15 p.m. EST. From ONC:
On Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will [...]

Source: Scripps Research InstituteDate: December 29, 2009
Summary:
An international team of scientists led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a straightforward technique to determine the ethnic origin of stem cells. The Scripps Research scientists initiated the study—published in the January 2010 edition of the prestigious journal Nature Methods—because the availability of genetically [...]

Many of us have just spent the Christmas season with a persistent and irritating ringing noise in our ears. But now that the relatives have gone home for the year, it’s worth remembering that a large proportion of the population suffers from a more persistent ringing sensation – tinnitus. It happens in the absence of [...]

Small airway disease is manifested by mosaic appearance on inspiratory film with areas of low attenuation and patchy ground glass haze. These low attenuation areas become more prominent on expiration indicating air trapping because of underlying small airway disease. This is a 40 year old female with tuberculosis.
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In discussing the Christmas birth of a son to ScienceBlogs launcher and science journalist Christopher Mims and his wife, I neglected to note another addition to our tribe of science, from a science blogger specifically.
ChemicalBiLOLogy blogger, Arlenna, gave birth on Christmas Eve to a beautiful girl, pictured here with Mr. Arlenna. In her brief post, [...]

The os styloideum is an ununited bony protuberance, located on the dorsum of the wrist at the base of the second and third metacarpals. The association between dorsal wrist pain or fatigability and an os styloideum is known as carpal bossing (carpe bossu disease). There is an accessory ossicle between capitate and trapezoid with marrow [...]