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SIDS = Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. It is a "wastebasket diagnosis" for any infant death not pegged to some other cause. Based on this study we can say that many cases of SIDS are due to parental discombobulation. You know what discombobulation is, right?
Expandrisks of sudden death much higher for babies of parents who have been hospitalized for any psychiatric reason, and when parents abuse alcohol or drugs )
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Notes from Lecture by Gerber
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The other night Suz and I watched Supersize Me. It was more interesting than I expected. If you haven't seen it, basically the movie tracks a healthy young man (Morgan Spurlock) who decides to experiment on himself by eating only McDonald's food for an entire month. His girlfriend is a vegan chef, so he normally eats mainly vegetables. But it becomes apparent that part of his motivation is a certain relish for big greasy burgers.
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What is the most common primary tumor of the heart?
--atrial myxoma (rare, pedunculated tumor that can occlude valves, cause murmurs)
--congenital, assoc w/ Carney's syndrome

More common than the myxoma is a metastasis to the heart from what malignancy?
--melanoma
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New Cigs

Mar. 2nd, 2009 09:23 pm
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We have now officially lost the original sacrament of tobacco. The new product is an electronic device that emits a "nicotene-infused mist", coming to you from Beijing, so that you can quit smoking. Yeah. It even looks like a cigarette.

SOURCE:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29435175/

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It appears that the researchers might have expected an increased risk of stroke among coffee drinkers, but the surprise finding was that it can be protective against stroke. As long as the women in the study were non-smokers, and drank 2-4 cups a day long term, there was a reduction in the incidence of stroke. Other caffeinated drinks (tea, soda) did not have the same effect. Decaf DID show the same effect. So it's probably something other than the caffeine causing the protective effect.
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Quiz: Where else is there a linea alba in human anatomy, besides the midline of the anterior abdomen?
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