House-isms
http://wwww.fox.com/house
Adding to his unique bedside manner, Dr. Gregory House sometimes makes
comments that leave his patients and fellow doctors shaking their

Found more info about William Sargant, Arnie Lerma's source of "wisdom"
"Religious feelings in man may be destroyed if too extensive an
operation is performed on the frontal lobes."
-William Sargant, British psychiatrist

Is there another word or phrase for "healing by first intent"?

Redox Rep. 2005;10(1):52-60. Links
Dietary supplementation with (R)-alpha-lipoic acid reverses the
age-related accumulation of iron and depletion of antioxidants in the
rat cerebral cortex.

The Canadian heart guidelines have been severely criticized in the
latest edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The
guidelines are being revised to recommend greater numbers of patients
receive statin therapy.

Recently, I woke up in a posture that bothered me. My arm was under my
neck and I felt woozy (there again, I usually feel woozy when I wake up
regardless :)
I wonder if I may have occluded the important blood vessels in my neck!

New York Times
April 14, 2005
Study Cautions Runners to Limit Their Water Intake
By GINA KOLATA

My son was out playing with his friends today when somehow he managed
to get close enough to a seagull to grab it by the leg as it tried to
fly away (silly I know, but he's only 10 and boys will be boys - he
likes birds and said he just wanted to hold and stroke it).

Did you know that almost 10% of people who spend time in United-Kingdom
hospitals contact a nosocomial infection? (443,166 cases for 60,270,708
inhabitants)
Would you like to risk such a drama, for you, for your kids? NO

    Ever since I got back from the Philippines (accidentally drank
the water a few times), I have been experiencing diarrhea multiple
times a day.  I have been back for about 2 months now, and I'm still
getting diarrhea.  How do I know if it is "water fluke" afflicting me?

My doctor recently determined (by blood test) that I have a dust mite
allergy (both species).
Aside from medical solutions (my doctor gave me a nasal steroid spray
and told me to take Claritin), I've been told the most important thing

In 2003, George W. Bush signed a law that explicitly FORBIDS Medicare
from NEGOTIATING with pharmaceutical companies for lower prescription
drug prices.
April 15, 2005

When I'm out shopping for groceries, I see lots of people purchasing
bottles of Ensure. Typically they are older people, and they are buying
it by the cartload, it seems. The front label of the product says
'Complete, balanced nutrition to help stay healthy, active and

Please help.
My wife, mid 30's and otherwise healthy, was prescribed dexamethasone
(oral) to treat an inflammation related to a dental procedure. The dose
was 4mg taken 4 times daily and tapering through the week given by the

Here is a new book on Female Longevity:
Grandmotherhood
The Evolutionary Significance of the Second Half of Female Life
Edited By Eckart Voland, Athanasios Chasiotis, Wulf Schiefenhoevel