Coffee and Danish
Tomorrow I leave for a two-week trip to Denmark, which starts with some holiday* in a small, beach village and ends in Copenhagen for the Association for Cultural Economics conference. This morning Matt Yglesias points us to a book review in this morning’s Times of the third book in Steig Larsson′s trilogy (a review I [...]
Clean your Kidneys using herbal medicine
Years pass by and our kidneys are filtering the blood by removing salt, poison and other unwanted solutes entering our body. With time, the salt accumulates and this needs to be removed. How to achieve this ? It is very easy, first take a bunch of parsley (Petroselinum Crispum, also known as MALLI, KOTHIMBIR, DHANIYA) [...]
Breathing more easily
Do you remember this post from 2009, where I praised Children’s Hospital Boston for an asthma intervention program that provided advice and assistance to families? The summary: Using a combination of interventions (e.g., counseling about drug dosages, HEPA filters for vacuum cleaners, rodent control measures), they dramatically reduced the number of asthmatic incidents for the [...]
The Tea Baggers Just May Have a Point About Health Care…..
Back in the 1960s, the Twilight Zone regaled television viewers with fantastic stories from a place between ‘science and superstition,’ that lay ‘between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge.’ Approximately thirty years later, popular culture was introduced to an even more surreal place in the 1979 film The Black Hole. [...]
Sleep apnea—what the hospitalist needs to know
This article in Today’s Hospitalist is a compilation of links to primary literature and pearls from HM 2010 sessions.
