Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 100: Getting Old
This week, FFFF is getting old – with its hundredth edition. The jokes are starting to sag, the factual reliability gave way long ago, but there is still a glimmer in its ancient roving eye. And this week the funtabulously frivolous focus is on… old things.
Question 1.
What is the world’s oldest surviving medical text?
Reveal the funtabulous answer!
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Even in 1900BC, legal disclaimers were amazingly convoluted.
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus.
The Kahun Papyri were discovered near El-Lahun, Egypt in 1889 By ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - June 5, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Jo Deverill Tags: Arcanum Veritas Education Featured Frivolous Friday Five Health Medical Humor FFFF old Source Type: blogs
Nature: 21 March 2013
This week, how filmmakers represent psychosis, the longest running experiments in science, and the man who studied cholera in nineteenth-century London. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - March 20, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: blogs
USMLE Questions – Characteristic Disease Findings
The United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) is designed to emphasize knowledge of clinical scenarios and clinical pearls, even on Step I. Listed below are some commonly encountered disease findings and characteristics.
Feature
Disease
45, X chromosome
Turner’s syndrome
5-HIAA increased in urine
Carcinoid syndrome
Aganglionic rectum
Hirschsrpung’s disease
Apple-core sign on barium enema
Colon cancer
Arched back (opisthotonos)
Tetanus
Argyll-Robertson pupil
Syphilis
Ash leaf on forehead
Tuberous sclerosis
Auer rods
Acute myelogenous leukemia
Austin Flint murmur
Aortic regurgitation...
Source: Inside Surgery - January 18, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Editor Tags: Surgpedia USMLE diseases findings VMA water hammer pulse Source Type: blogs
Epidemiology and Molecular Biology of Vibrio cholerae
from Shah M. Faruque and John J. Mekalanos writing in Foodborne and Waterborne Bacterial Pathogens: Epidemiology, Evolution and Molecular Biology:Vibrio cholerae belonging to O1 and O139 seropgroups cause cholera, a life-threatening diarrhoeal disease, which spreads through consumption of water and food contaminated with the pathogen. Other serogroups of V. cholerae are also occasionally associated with mild to moderate enteric infections. Although V. cholerae is a human pathogen, the bacteria are part of the normal aquatic flora in estuarine and brackish waters, and thus are able to persist in the environment outside the ...
Source: Microbiology Blog: The weblog for microbiologists. - January 1, 2013 Category: Microbiology Source Type: blogs
