medical

I just had the misfortune to see my first presidential commercial of the season.  It was an Obama commercial, detailing the Grand Plan for Healthcare.
According to Mr. Obama, he would fix everything by allowing people to keep their employer-sponsored healthcare and force the insurers to pay for routine care and other things they don’t want [...]

Sen. Edward Kennedy, who has been in treatment for brain cancer,
that’s a hole so big I could drive a truck through it….it’s just too easy.
is taken to a  hospital near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill.
After extensive examination, it was discovered that blood had infiltrated Ted’s alcohol level.   After  application [...]

I suppose it’s not a total giveaway to begin by stating that this happened in Kentucky.  There is just something inherently funny about Kentucky.  [In the interest of disclosure, I lived there for a few years, but I was only five.  They wanted me to be governor but I was too advanced for the job.]
So [...]

Fourteen brands of dry dog and cat food is being recalled by Mars Petcare.  Two people who may have handled the food became infected with salmonella.  What’s up with this nonsense?  It hasn’t been too long since the last recall, which almost killed Satan, my sometimes beloved cat.  These people should roast right next to [...]

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona   [courtesy thepoliticalspinroom@yahoogroups.com]
Wow, Fountain Hills!   I used to have relatives out there.  Nice place.  Near Scottsdale, where they hide the Jewish people in Arizona :)
(CNN) — A team of doctors from the Mayo Clinic declared Friday that there appears to be no physical reason why Sen. John McCain, the 71-year-old presumed Republican presidential [...]

Interesting article at Wired about a small invertebrate called the water bear.  They shot a bunch of them into space to see how they’d fare, as they’re one of the toughest forms of life on the planet.  They can virtually shut themselves down so as not to be affected by temperature or radiation.  The findings [...]

Two nights ago a neighbor told my wife to keep the dog inside, as the township was spraying for mosquitos.  We got a call an hour later on the same topic.  Yesterday a coworker told me about it.
Isn’t that interesting?  My township is spraying for mosquitos and the citizens apparently don’t have a Need to [...]

Over at the Fun with Tubes group at Yahoogroups, they were discussing ways in which they almost killed themselves with electronics/electricity.
I got to thinking about the ways in which I almost killed myself.  Most of them, oddly enough, didn’t involve electricity, although a few did…
* At 18, I had concurrent hepatitis and mono.  I didn’t [...]

It’s well known that if you break a bone, you’ll be able to predict the weather in the future because the affected area will hurt in advance of rain.  This seems to be even worse with arthritis and fibromyalgia.
The most frequent response I get is that this is due to a change in barometric pressure.
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As the American Psychiatric Association prepares the fifth edition of the DSM—their official guide to what’s making you insane in the membrane—there’s some debate on whether to include compulsive shopping as a disorder, writes Melissa Healy in the Los Angeles Times:
Is [it] a biologically driven disease of the brain, a learned habit run amok, an [...]