If you're having pain in both of your hands, then you may well have a cervical problem (neck). It is very common for cervical diskbulges to present as arma/hand pain, since this is where the sensory nerves to the hands and arms exits from the spinal cord.
Go see a doc orthopaedic (hand or spine) or a neurosurg
I'm an orthopaedic surgery resident and I already have enough to do (working 100-120 hrs/week). The last thing that I want to hear is that the nurse couldn't get an IV in some patient after trying only for 5 minutes. I (and most doctors) already do plenty of nursing chores (start IV's, push meds) and the patients do just fine , thank you. But I realize that we all are a team doctors, nurses, orderlies, techs and housecleaning. If anyone of us slacks -it makes the whole system unmanageable.
Total joints (i.e. total hip and knee replacements) have surfaces which are usually made of some type of steel - the Titanium doesn't have good wear characteristics in the body for total joints. Titanium forms a surface oxide coating which leads to pitting, increased poly wear and further "rusting" of the titanium. Thus most total joints have stainless steel for the plastic metal interface. Steel has been used in the body for years w/o any problems. Titanium has become more popular in the last decade or two because it's modulus of elasticity is closer to bone, and thus it behaves a little better in the body, among other reasons. FYI... new all metal hips and ceramic hips are gaining popularity
Most screw anchors are Titanium - a non magnetic metal. Titanium is also "good" in a MRI cause it doesn't degrade the signal much - unlike steel which causes all sorts of artifacts - making the MRI useless in that area being scanned.
When my car got forced off the road. The telephone pole stopped me in about 2 feet from about 35 MPH.
My fist left an imprint in the windshield - like those nail thingys you see in the joke gift shops. Broke 3 ribs, radius, ulna. I did get to set my own wrist after I noticed it was kinda bending the wrong way. I went and bought the exact same car a week later - I figured it could have gone much worse
"Doesn't it seem weird to have these high-tech computers with little spinning discs inside them. It seems like a hold out of some Victorian technology - like a more modern record player."
Solid state has to be the way to go - no more waiting for your computer to "boot up", just turn it on and it's running your desktop, right where you left it last. Sure solid state SEEMS expensive now, but remember how much a 40 MEG hard drive cost 15 years ago? We just need to throw money at it and the price will drop. I mean come on chips are CHEAP - they're in everything
That old power line thing was disputed a while ago - mostly just a media fad. I was working at the NIH with one of the guys who first noticed the magnetic field effect on celles in culture. It has never been shown to cause any cancers.
Radiat Res 2000 May;153(5 Pt 2):627-36 Related Articles,
Leukemia and lymphoma incidence in rodents exposed to low-frequency magnetic fields.
Boorman GA, Rafferty CN, Ward JM, Sills RC.
The PCB coolants used in/around many of those power stations is another subject.
Just to help hammer the nail home, there are many FDA approved devices that use magnetic or pulsed elctronic field devices to aid in bone healing. No reports of cancer yet in these either. Some increased cell growth yes, but cancer no.
This kinda crap science is usually perpetuated by the media and lawyers hoping to make a few bucks (well, usually they want a few million). Bah!
Now that was funny - even the reply with the toupe.
I'm picturing a 70's Deliverence Burt Reynolds face, complete with the big bushy 'stache and sideburns. Upgrades might feature the Longest yard Burt and even the Boogie nights Burt (No teling what this might generate, though!)
This just encourages your bloods ability to clot faster, but if your blood lacks that inherent quality (clotting factor VII in hemophiliacs), it won't really help that much. Besides most of them are dead They were hit VERY hard from AIDS early on before we caught on that it was transmitted via blood.
Shouldn't be any allergies to it (thrombin/gelatin) - since it's naturally found in everones blood. These thrombin impregnated patches can be used for any blood type. We use them in the OR to stop bleeding.
I saw the article no posts yet I'll think I'll wait out the slashdot effect
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We used to make them out of the old soda (pop for the midwesterners) cans - i.e. NOT aluminum, but steel. I don't think they make theses anymore. We used to solder them together and fire tennis balls sprayed with hairspray - the tennis ball fuzz helps to hold the fuel. We could put a dent in a stop sign at 50 yards. They also kept away kids from other neighborhoods on mischief night...
if you follow the link to the site you'll see that its a Log vs Log plot!! You can just about generate a straight line of anything vs anything on a log-log plot. I'm sure you could almost generate a similar curve by plotting the (log)number of eggs that people eat vs (log) UFO sightings. Anyone with a basic Stats knowlege should know this...
One proposed method to save fuel/space costs will be to send FAT astronauts! They'll live off their own body mass supplemented by onboard supplies. A pound of human fat contains approx 3500 calories which will supply the caloric requirements of an astronaut for about 1.5 days. A 6 month round trip caloric req's on a starvation diet will shed the astronauts approx 130 lbs (based on 2500 cal/day requirements) This is essentially what stomach stapled obese people do so the medical consequences are fairly well characterized. Obviously there will be some food, but the space/weight savings from this will be enormous.
One proposed method to save fuel/space costs will be to send FAT astronauts! They'll live off their own body mass supplemented by onboard supplies. A pound of human fat contains approx 3500 calories which will supply the caloric requirements of an astronaut for about 1.5 days. A 6 month round trip caloric req's on a starvation diet will shed the astronauts approx 130 lbs (based on 2500 cal/day requirements) This is essentially what stomach stapled obese people do so the medical consequences are fairly well characterized. Obviously there will be some food, but the space/weight savings from this will be enormous.
That's for relatively pure water, and that works out to be about 39 deg F. OF course adding salts and other things to raise the molarity (ionic concentration) of the water will depress the freezing point - I've forgotten what it'll do tho the density curve something about packing inefficiencies
Some famous vegetarians Charles Manson Adolph Hitler (primarily a veg, but not totally) David Koresh the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya (gave us the Mau Mau massacre) Jeffrey Dalmer (when he wasn't eating people)
I knew I was at a geeky college (Johns Hopkins) when the prof. proved during the first day of advanced inorganic chemistry thant dilitium crystals were chemically and energistically unstable and could not be created. Of course we didn't look into other things which might have made it feasible.
I thought "Wow, this is really funny", and then I was somewhat disapointed that the cyrstals couldn't work. Kinda like being told there was no Santa
Vanco is almost always given thru peripheral IV lines. It is NOT like Chlorox and will not destroy your veins. It can cause Red Man syndrome if a poorly purified batch is given too quickly.
I use it all the time at work, we have patients with bone infections who often need to get it for 6 weeks IV to clear out theinfection, and they're ok.
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I don't know about you guys, but this thing
CREEPED ME OUT! I got the willies just looking at it. The way it moves is so un-human, un-animal..
umm yah it's cool, but brrrrrrrr - gives me the shivers. Anyone else agree?
If you're having pain in both of your hands, then you may well have a cervical problem (neck). It is very common for cervical diskbulges to present as arma/hand pain, since this is where the sensory nerves to the hands and arms exits from the spinal cord.
Go see a doc orthopaedic (hand or spine) or a neurosurg
I'm an orthopaedic surgery resident and I already have enough to do (working 100-120 hrs/week). The last thing that I want to hear is that the nurse couldn't get an IV in some patient after trying only for 5 minutes. I (and most doctors) already do plenty of nursing chores (start IV's, push meds) and the patients do just fine , thank you.
But I realize that we all are a team doctors, nurses, orderlies, techs and housecleaning. If anyone of us slacks -it makes the whole system unmanageable.
Total joints (i.e. total hip and knee replacements) have surfaces which are usually made of some type of steel - the Titanium doesn't have good wear characteristics in the body for total joints. Titanium forms a surface oxide coating which leads to pitting, increased poly wear and further "rusting" of the titanium. Thus most total joints have stainless steel for the plastic metal interface. Steel has been used in the body for years w/o any problems. Titanium has become more popular in the last decade or two because it's modulus of elasticity is closer to bone, and thus it behaves a little better in the body, among other reasons. FYI... new all metal hips and ceramic hips are gaining popularity
Most screw anchors are Titanium - a non magnetic metal. Titanium is also "good" in a MRI cause it doesn't degrade the signal much - unlike steel which causes all sorts of artifacts - making the MRI useless in that area being scanned.
Buy the card if it's over 25
The only use for a peta-watt laser was found to be a really effective garbage disposal unit....
When my car got forced off the road. The telephone pole stopped me in about 2 feet from about 35 MPH.
My fist left an imprint in the windshield - like those nail thingys you see in the joke gift shops.
Broke 3 ribs, radius, ulna. I did get to set my own wrist after I noticed it was kinda bending the wrong way.
I went and bought the exact same car a week later - I figured it could have gone much worse
I'll paraphrase William Gibson
"Doesn't it seem weird to have these high-tech computers with little spinning discs inside them. It seems like a hold out of some Victorian technology - like a more modern record player."
Solid state has to be the way to go - no more waiting for your computer to "boot up", just turn it on and it's running your desktop, right where you left it last. Sure solid state SEEMS expensive now, but remember how much a 40 MEG hard drive cost 15 years ago? We just need to throw money at it and the price will drop. I mean come on chips are CHEAP - they're in everything
That old power line thing was disputed a while ago - mostly just a media fad. I was working at the NIH with one of the guys who first noticed the magnetic field effect on celles in culture.
It has never been shown to cause any cancers.
Radiat Res 2000 May;153(5 Pt 2):627-36 Related Articles,
Leukemia and lymphoma incidence in rodents exposed to low-frequency magnetic fields.
Boorman GA, Rafferty CN, Ward JM, Sills RC.
The PCB coolants used in/around many of those power stations is another subject.
Just to help hammer the nail home, there are many FDA approved devices that use magnetic or pulsed elctronic field devices to aid in bone healing. No reports of cancer yet in these either. Some increased cell growth yes, but cancer no.
This kinda crap science is usually perpetuated by the media and lawyers hoping to make a few bucks (well, usually they want a few million).
Bah!
Now that was funny - even the reply with the toupe.
I'm picturing a 70's Deliverence Burt Reynolds face, complete with the big bushy 'stache and sideburns.
Upgrades might feature the Longest yard Burt and even the Boogie nights Burt (No teling what this might generate, though!)
As long as they use their one special effect (launching the fighters out of the tube) at least 30 times an episode, I'll be happy.
No, really.
This just encourages your bloods ability to clot faster, but if your blood lacks that inherent quality (clotting factor VII in hemophiliacs), it won't really help that much.
Besides most of them are dead
They were hit VERY hard from AIDS early on before we caught on that it was transmitted via blood.
Shouldn't be any allergies to it (thrombin/gelatin) - since it's naturally found in everones blood. These thrombin impregnated patches can be used for any blood type. We use them in the OR to stop bleeding.
I saw the article
no posts yet
I'll think I'll wait out
the slashdot effect
We used to make them out of the old soda (pop for the midwesterners) cans - i.e. NOT aluminum, but steel. I don't think they make theses anymore. We used to solder them together and fire tennis balls sprayed with hairspray - the tennis ball fuzz helps to hold the fuel.
We could put a dent in a stop sign at 50 yards.
They also kept away kids from other neighborhoods on mischief night...
if you follow the link to the site you'll see that its a Log vs Log plot!! You can just about generate a straight line of anything vs anything on a log-log plot. I'm sure you could almost generate a similar curve by plotting the (log)number of eggs that people eat vs (log) UFO sightings. Anyone with a basic Stats knowlege should know this...
But it is funny..
One proposed method to save fuel/space costs will be to send FAT astronauts! They'll live off their own body mass supplemented by onboard supplies. A pound of human fat contains approx 3500 calories which will supply the caloric requirements of an astronaut for about 1.5 days. A 6 month round trip caloric req's on a starvation diet will shed the astronauts approx 130 lbs (based on 2500 cal/day requirements)
This is essentially what stomach stapled obese people do so the medical consequences are fairly well characterized.
Obviously there will be some food, but the space/weight savings from this will be enormous.
This will be a sure bet - just wait.
One proposed method to save fuel/space costs will be to send FAT astronauts! They'll live off their own body mass supplemented by onboard supplies. A pound of human fat contains approx 3500 calories which will supply the caloric requirements of an astronaut for about 1.5 days. A 6 month round trip caloric req's on a starvation diet will shed the astronauts approx 130 lbs (based on 2500 cal/day requirements)
This is essentially what stomach stapled obese people do so the medical consequences are fairly well characterized.
Obviously there will be some food, but the space/weight savings from this will be enormous.
This will be a sure bet - just wait.
That's for relatively pure water, and that works out to be about 39 deg F. OF course adding salts and other things to raise the molarity (ionic concentration) of the water will depress the freezing point - I've forgotten what it'll do tho the density curve something about packing inefficiencies
Some famous vegetarians
Charles Manson
Adolph Hitler (primarily a veg, but not totally)
David Koresh
the Kikuyu tribe in Kenya (gave us the Mau Mau massacre)
Jeffrey Dalmer (when he wasn't eating people)
and the Spice Girls
Clearly some very disturbed people in this group
Divide 555,000,000,000,000 by 555 and
you get 1,000,000,000,000
I didn't want to type out a number 500 digits long, but you get the point
I knew I was at a geeky college (Johns Hopkins) when the prof. proved during the first day of advanced inorganic chemistry thant dilitium crystals were chemically and energistically unstable and could not be created. Of course we didn't look into other things which might have made it feasible.
I thought "Wow, this is really funny", and then I was somewhat disapointed that the cyrstals couldn't work. Kinda like being told there was no Santa
Vanco is almost always given thru peripheral IV lines. It is NOT like Chlorox and will not destroy your veins. It can cause Red Man syndrome if a poorly purified batch is given too quickly.
I use it all the time at work, we have patients with bone infections who often need to get it for 6 weeks IV to clear out theinfection, and they're ok.
LOL -that was funny, not too many things make me laugh out loud
I prefer to think that my new-fangled computer keyboard keys "were sticking" as opposed to my inability to spell :-)