Dr. B's Finest Kind Medical clinic and Fish Market

Finest Kind Clinic is moving to Blogger. Change links please.

We are moving back to the Philippines in two weeks, so I will have to quit my AOL account...

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Collecting stool for occult blood misses most cancers.

Well, there is always this:

Colonoscopy for dummies

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DDT was banned because it weakened bird shells, so caused birds not to reproduce. But does it cause premature births? Personally, I don't know...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1434580.stm

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3532273.stm

They received crucial support from an unexpected quarter - South Africa's Endangered Wildlife Trust.

"Although I personally hate the compound, there was no alternative," the Trust's chairman, Gerhard Verdoorn, said.

The culprit: Mosquitoes spread the disease parasite "If we had said to them 'No, you can't use DDT', I'm quite convinced that we might have lost a couple of thousand people with malaria.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4180185.stm

Dr Sachs singled out malaria, which kills as many people as in the whole Indian Ocean wave disaster every month and could be easily remedied by such measures as the provision of mosquito nets.

"Every month, 150,000 children in Africa, if not more, are dying from the silent tsunami of malaria, a largely preventable and utterly treatable disease," he said.

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http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact

If this doesn't scare you, then you are blind...

Or is it a plant? Bad cop to the European Good cop?

We report, you decide...

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Women think differently than men

Hmmm. physiology matters.Who would'a thought?

However, I was always "odd woman out" because I am better at math.....it's not an absolute difference but a statistical one...

Maria Sklodowska, call your office...

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Rathergate explained...

 On learning this, I don't mind telling you I felt as embarrassed as a Vienna Boys Choir soprano at a $5 cathouse. And, buddy, that is embarrassed.

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