Archive for March, 2008:

1.2 Million Year Old Human Bones Found in Europe

Friday 28 March 2008

Reuters reports in the video below that archaeologists have discovered bones, fossils and stone tools from the earliest known humans, or hominids, in Europe.
Archaeologists have discovered evidence that humans were active in Europe about 1 million years ago but they had never found any human remains - until now.


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The primary care bottleneck to health care reform

Friday 28 March 2008

Benjamin Brewer, a family physician who writes for the Wall Street Journal, points out that the supply of primary care physicians is not up to the task of handling a surge of new patients unleashed by proposals for universal health care. (See Primary Health Care Needs Fixing Before Universal Care Can Work.) In fact, primary care can’t even handle the load it’s under today, and things will get worse anyway as the population ages and the number of primary care docs fails to keep up.

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What is EDTA Chelation Therapy

Thursday 27 March 2008

I heard about EDTA chelation therapy often. I was not knowing about it previously but then I read about it on internet and found that it is used in the treatment of coronary artery diseases. (CAD)

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“I’m not a neurologist but I play one in the hospital”

Thursday 27 March 2008

From MSNBC (Pronounced dead, man takes ‘miraculous’ turn; Doctors can’t explain why 21-year-old Zack Dunlap recovered from accident)

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Cavalcade of Risk is up at InsuranceYak

Thursday 27 March 2008

Check out the Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival at InsuranceYak.

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