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  1. Regarding Martin Shkreli: Dec 2, 2016 - "Martin Shkreli: Australian Boys Recreate Life-Saving Drug" by Greg Dunlop on bbc.com And this Tweet says all that I care to say. And this one. --- Console yourself, Dagny - he's alive and well: and Phaëthon is in full control of the chariot. ALMS - Ragnar, do something to get rid of them - unless people produce, they deserve nothing. BTW, are you *sure* you're from Oslo (OSL) and not Amsterdam? Sharp, and cutting with a ruthless efficiency, like a well-honed knife without a single fingerprint on it - Thanksgiving sucks when you're the turkey.
  2. To all nurses: You are more important than doctors. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. And thank you.
  3. "The same nerve that can cause pain in the anus, vagina, and clitoris is also responsible for the sensation of an orgasm." -- A. Lee Dellon, Towson, MD "The reason I don't operate on the pudendal nerve is because I can't find anyone drunk enough to sign the disclaimer." -- Ivaca Ducic, McLean, VA Dec 5, 2012 - "Florida Woman Gretchen Molannen Afflicted with Rare Sexual Arousal Disorder Commits Suicide" by Erik Ortiz on nydailynews.com
  4. I was literally just reading this article: "Sudden Cardiac Arrest May Have Warning Signs After All" by Mary Brophy Marcus on cbsnews.com Sudden Cardiac Arrest results in death 90% of the time it occurs. 100% of people who ever died, died from hypoxia, i.e. lack of oxygen to the brain (that is essentially the definition of death). Right now, CPR is the method we use to desperately try and pump recycled oxygen to the brain. It just popped into my head whether or not it's possible to forget the heart while it's not working, and directly inject oxygen into the brain. Okay, now before you start laughing, I understand that it's not as simple as sticking a valve into somebody's ear and blowing oxygen in - the capillaries send blood (and therefore oxygen) into the tiny recesses of the brain, keeping it alive, but I wonder if there is some possible "method" to deliver oxygen into vital portions of the brain *other* than via our vascular system - some sort of injection that can keep critical components of the brain living long enough to get to the hospital. Sort of like immersing someone in ice after they've received serious spinal trauma to prevent swelling from killing them in the first 24 hours (I'm a big proponent of this theory, by the way - lowering body temperature can do near-miraculous things). Maybe there's some type of delayed-release "oxygen canister" that can be connected to the vessels that lead to the brain, and when the heart stops working, you push a button, and oxygen starts flowing through those vessels into vital portions of the brain, long enough to keep it alive until help can be found. Alternatively, I'm thinking of a Hot Wheels Turbo Charger (remember those things from the 1960s?) - a needle blowing out high-pressured oxygen can be inserted into the toughest artery in the human body, and activated with a canister of oxygen when needed, using the concepts of fluid dynamics (both oxygen and blood are fluids) to "turbo-charge" the (now oxygen-enriched) blood through the vascular system. This wouldn't need to be directly below the brain, but anywhere in the body where the artery is least likely to rupture, i.e., whichever one has the most durable walls. I don't even know if it would make it through the heart valves (that's how little I know about the human heart). I have no answers, and I don't even know if any of this stuff is physically possible, but I'm wondering if anyone has even thought about it before. Maybe there's some "alternate path" to the brain, like performing an emergency tracheotomy with a steak knife when someone's throat swells shut. Okay, you can start calling me crazy now, but this doesn't sound any loonier to me than laser eye surgery when I first heard about some Russian doctor "curing" people of being nearsighted about thirty years ago on "60 Minutes" - operating on several patients per *hour* - and quite often, nothing in this world gets done until someone thinks of something disruptive.
  5. A couple points way off-topic before hopefully circling back to the bamboo fish et al ... How can the American Phamacists Association rent that building on Constitution Avenue? (I suppose I could take one look at our medical landscape and answer that question on my own.) I suspect most people don't know which building it is, but it's one of the most extraordinary little hideaways on the north side of Constitution Avenue. There is precedent for a real restaurant occupying this side of East-West Highway with Old Homestead Steakhouse (even though it was technically on Wisconsin Avenue, it may as well have been on East-West Highway).
  6. One point of clarification. We (don't know why I say "we" as I'm not a pharmacist) are actually the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP). The American pharmacists Association (APhA) is downtown renting space in a State Department Building. We're very different associations (some may say friendly rivals). ASHP has been a fixture in Bethesda for decades - even before we bought the building at 7272 we had rented space on Montgomery, I think. Food Wine & Co was the default restaurant for ASHP to hold business lunches at. I suspect Q will be the same.
  7. I find the whole idea of homeopathy ludicrous. Yet some people swear by it. Can anyone cite information supporting the efficacy of little bottles of water? "Homeopathy Effective for 0 out of 68 Illnesses, Study Finds" by Siobhan Fenton on independent.co.uk
  8. Evidently Ozzy is a freak of nature when it comes to the drugs part of sex, drugs and rock & roll. "Ozzy Osbourne is a Genetic Mutant" by Courtney Hutchison on abcnews.go.com They should map Keith Richards' genes next.
  9. The Rockwell ALS Challenge And just to save people some trouble: osis = "Pertaining to a disease" Sclero = "Pertaining to hardening" Sclerosis = "A disease that hardens tissue" Lateral = "Pertaining to the side" trophic = "Pertaining to nourishment" myo = "Pertaining to muscle" myotrophic = "Nourishment of the muscle" A = "Without" Amyotrophic "Without nourishment of the muscle" Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis = "A disease which damages nerve cells (*), affecting the side of the spinal cord, which hardens, and becomes unable to nourish muscles." 1) Stephen Hawking 2) Jim "Catfish" Hunter 3) David Niven 4) Dmitri Shostakovich 5) Mao Tse Tung ... and now you know six. (*) If you want to dig deeper, please reference the following websites (I've linked directly to the ALS sections): NIH ALSA (1) ALSA (2) ALS Hope Foundation Wikipedia Johns Hopkins
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