MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'graves'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:35:36 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4207472&cid=t_347252_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FQ9RYKhc-qF0%2F Image via Wikipedia But not too big of a lull. Last night, after a marathon not-quite-all-day bout of reading, I finished Robert Graves‘ I, Claudius. Not only did the action and characters in the book carry me along quite effortlessly, I was also refreshed by reading about a political climate that is even more poisonous (literally) than ours today — the one that existed two thousand years ago in Rome. Therefore, our political climate is not, in fact, devolving into some kind of sub-civilized mosh pit, but is quite a normal one, judging by every single other society we know of since recorded history began. I suppose that this is all a great relief to me; we have been like this before, and survived it. I am turning now to a re-reading of A. S. Byatt‘s The Children’s Book... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4207472 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:53:50 +0100 4207472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155353&cid=t_347252_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F11%2Fi-remember-how-grandmas-memories-stung-her%2F Although I have never been in Perth to mark Remembrance Day, my grandmother felt the loss of her brother deeply, year-round, decades after the fact when I was a kid.  My Great-Uncle Tom was killed in 1917 on the World War One battlefields of France roughly five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. My [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155353 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:04:43 +0100 4155353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595520&cid=t_347252_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fhopkins-transplant-surgeon-dr-robert-montgomery-profiled%2F Johns Hopkins University transplant surgeon Dr. Robert Montgomery is profiled by the Baltimore Sun. Among other things he is known for his mustache, opera star wife Denyce Graves, and his method of arranging for kidney transplants. Disclosure: the editor is a former Hopkins colleague of Montgomery. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595520 Tue, 25 May 2010 03:11:10 +0100 3595520 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3447512&cid=t_347252_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F04%2F08%2Fsouth-africa-5%2F Cape Town – February 2010 Graves are seen through the empty window of an abandoned cemetery care taker’s hut in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township. Many of those buried in the cemetery died from AIDS or related complications such as tuberculosis (TB). Some 5.5 million people live with HIV/AIDS in South Africa – more per capita than any other country – while 33 million people live with the disease worldwide. Despite having the world’s highest number of people receiving anti-retroviral therapy there are millions more who cannot access the life-saving drugs they need, either because they are too expensive or simply not available. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3447512 Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:35:30 +0100 3447512 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645272&cid=t_347252_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQe18rsRHyBs%2F The 20th Century featured many examples of genocide, mass murder, brutality, and other forms of human horror at the hands of totalitarian governments.  Perhaps none was worse — at least in terms of the proportion of the population slaughtered and resulting impact on the survivors — than Cambodia. The commandant of the notorious S-21, or Tuol Sleng, is currently on trial.  The proceedings offer a stark reminder of what monstrosities cruel social engineers with guns can wreak.  Reports Reuters: A senior Khmer Rouge prison guard on Thursday told a war crimes tribunal he was forced to send thousands of detainees to an execution site, where they were brutally killed and their bodies thrown into mass graves. Him Huy, 54, a guard at Phnom Penh’s notorious S-21 prison, said ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645272 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:21:57 +0100 2645272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2306795&cid=t_347252_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fbreastfeeding123%2Fpostpartum-thyroiditis%2F Up to 10% of women experience thyroid problems after giving birth. Postpartum thyroiditis causes fluctuating thyroid hormone levels, first with a period of hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid with excess thyroid hormone) which might then resolve back to normal or dip into a period of hypothyroidism (low thyroid function). Note that this is different from postpartum Graves’ Disease, which is autoimmune hyperthyroidism in which antibodies attack the thyroid and cause it to overproduce thyroid hormone. Photo by Jyn Meyer Symptoms of Postpartum Thyroiditis Symptoms of hyperthyroidism include anxiety, insomnia, weight loss, increased heart rate, fatigue, and weakness. Hypothryoidism causes fatigue, unexplained weight gain or inability to lose weight, coarse and dry skin and hair, constip... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2306795 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:48:24 +0100 2306795