I recall reading, a long time ago, that fingernail striations and
deformities sometimes help in diagnoses of health problems.
 Does anyone here have a reference to this subject?

    India's tourist industry would flourish if they could finish
off the midges and mosquitoes . Giving every one a quota of ten a day
to kill could work .
excerpt sunday times

Fwom:PF Riley (pfriley@watt-not.com)
Subject:Re: Persistent Vomiting, nothing found

In an article I posted here (at least on the sinusitis NG, not sure about
the other two) about Chronic Sinusitis, that I found on Medscape, the author
recommended a course of prednisone, for severe chronic sinusitis, and we had
a discussion about that.

This doc has also written on MMR http://www.whale.to/a/halvorsen_h.html
Prevnar http://www.whale.to/v/prevnar.htm
A JAB TOO FAR
Daily Mail, Jan 1, 2005

I am a second year medical student at a US medical school and I need
some help getting through all of the reading material.  During the
second year of medical school we study primarily pathology with some
biochemistry, histology and pharmacology.  The blocks I have remaining

Interesting. Especially the riddle... Zee
IS HEART DISEASE ALL DUE TO BLOOD CLOTS?
If you want to understand coronary heart disease, you cannot ignore the
role of the humble blood clot.

As actress Melanie Griffins once said "women feels 9 times more pain
than men"
Is it true that woman brain chemistry is much less tolerable than man,
and depression is a heritage trait which happen in a family?

Do statins induce Parkinsons?
The following study and letter in response was published in the German
medical journal Der Nervenarzt.
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Extremely interesting and informative article. Discusses the importance
of fermented soy, estrogen dominance from soy and that flax seed has
components similar to soy.
Source: http://www.drlam.com/opinion/print/soyandestrogen.htm

Group:
I've just pruned back a rather large prickly pear!  Given my experience,
this will be the only time I do this!
I've discovered that I've now got hundreds of tiny hair like micro-spines in

I'm taking a poll to see what type of complaints people have about
their doctor, the office, and the exam rooms.  I've been my fair share
of doctors office and I see definate room for improvement.
I'd love your thoughts and suggestions.  If you'd like some examples,

Just as a checkup.
Recently I had my knees MRIed and discovered to my horror that the cartilage
on the side of each kneecap had worn away.
The orthopaedic surgeon said that my kneecaps had been tracking the wrong

More bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an
"chickenhawk" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers
incredibly cowardly but at the same time demanding others to go fight.
Provoking widespread pusillanimous rightwing hypocrisy among troops

Any docs offer suggestion for diagnosing why feet develop cold/raw
feeling as a direct correlation to physical or mental stress (even
reading or computing)?  (Please assume the cause is not the
obvious, sic, foot disorder or shoes, but rather somehow systemic.)