Grassley on the link between docs and big pharma

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126961.900-exposing-the-links-between-doctors-and-big-pharma.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

Chuck Grassley was a sheet-metal shearer, an assembly line worker and a farmer before entering Congress as a Republican in 1974. Since then he has gone on to head the highly influential Senate Finance Committee. With Grassley's backing, the committee has investigated the abuse of tax-exempt status by non-profit organisations and the links between drug companies and physicians.

Acute Abdomen

An excellent writeup of acute abdomen in elders:
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20061101/1537.html

And more on acute abdomen in general:
http://www.emedmag.com/html/pre/cov/covers/011502.asp
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec02/ch011/ch011b.html

An intususseption case, 60 year old female with periumbilical pain:
http://medgenmed.medscape.com/viewarticle/498297_print