Posted in Arthritis, Healthcare, Medicine, Rheumatology on Tuesday, 28 November 2006 | 1 Comment »
I was browsing Technorati, since I try to keep in touch with arthritis postings this way, and ran across the following:
There is nothing we can do ….
I don’t know if i should laugh or cry ……. getting straight to the point, i have fully blown Osteo-arthritis, the Orthapeadic Surgeon said i have the knees [...]
Posted in Politics, Reasoning on Monday, 27 November 2006 | 1 Comment »
I found myself quite irritated with this post by an anonymous WordPress blogger (link to site). Here’s the relevant part:
As I was watching T.V. tonight and seemingly becoming dumber with each minute that passed by, I saw a commercial that intrigued me. The commercial starred Ashley Judd and was an ‘Aids Awareness’ promotion [...]
Posted in Evolution, Science on Monday, 27 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Just wanted to give a link to this nice article in National Geographic about the evolution of complex structures. It’s written by Carl Zimmer who also blogs over at ScienceBlogs. Check the article, and his blog, out sometime.
Posted in My Mom, Personal on Monday, 27 November 2006 | 2 Comments »
In the last 2 weeks we’ve buried both my mother and my uncle. That’s not literally true, actually, as they both wished to be cremated and we’ll inter/deal with their ashes at a later date, but they both certainly had memorial services. I think we’re all glad that they’re done and over with; I never [...]
Posted in Personal on Wednesday, 22 November 2006 | 2 Comments »
So for my 101st post I just wanted to say a few quick words of thanks to you, gentle reader. My readership is pretty small, but it turns out that I do have a few regulars, and I appreciate your time and comments. It keeps me up and running.
Thanks also for the many words of [...]
Posted in Fun, Miscellaneous on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This is my 100th post. How fitting that it’s something completely silly!
I found this in last week’s British Medical Journal (Sorry – no link. It requires login anyway). I thought it was a joke at first but soon realized that it’s not.
Donald Duck
Donald Duck trained in medicine after a brief foray [...]
Posted in ACR 2006, Arthritis, Glucosamine/Chondroitin, Medicine, Research, Rheumatology, Science on Saturday, 18 November 2006 | 2 Comments »
(Parts 1 and 2. Part 3.)
I’m back at last. I have spent the last few days helping to get my mother buried, in our hearts if not in fact, and only now have time to finish up.
In this post I’ll address the arguments made by David Felson as to the efficacy of glucosamine and [...]
Posted in ACR 2006, Arthritis, Research, Rheumatology, Science on Wednesday, 15 November 2006 | Leave a Comment »
As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a couple of breaks presenting this final 2006 ACR session, and have divided it up amongst a few posts over a few days. There are reasons for this. 1) As I expalined earlier, it is a subject that is near and dear to my heart and [...]
Posted in ACR 2006, Arthritis, Glucosamine/Chondroitin, Research, Rheumatology, Science on Wednesday, 15 November 2006 | 8 Comments »
Part 3 (See here for parts 1 and 2)
Dr. Theodosakis then took the podium to present the case for glucosamine and chondroitin. Let me first say that Dr. T. is a young, charismatic man and appears to be a very nice guy. He is certainly an engaging speaker and certainly believes everything he [...]
Posted in ACR 2006, Arthritis, Glucosamine/Chondroitin, Medicine, Research, Rheumatology, Science on Tuesday, 14 November 2006 | 2 Comments »
This was the last session I attended and concerns a topic of great interest to me, so I’m glad I was able to attend. I expect that this is going to turn into a long post, because it concerns some issues which are close to my heart and that’s I’d like to explore in [...]
