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Announcements Medicine

Pediatric Grand Rounds

The latest Pediatric Grand Rounds has been posted over at Med Journal Watch. There’s lots of good stuff, including some posts about the Autism Omnibus trial.

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History Medicine

Another reminder of how times have changed

I’ve seen ads like this before in issues of LIFE Magazine from the 1940s that I inherited from my uncle, but they never cease to make me cringe when I see them: (Click for a larger image and to read the text of the ad more clearly.) Get a load of the text:

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Entertainment/culture Humor News of the Weird Television

I don’t know what Irn-Bru is, but maybe I should try some

If Irn-Bru can do this, maybe I should try some the next time I manage to make it to the U.K.: (Via Attuworld.)

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Medicine News of the Weird Surgery

Truer words were never spoken…

Via Modern Mechanix, an ad from 1938: Does this make you think of something other than a medical ad? Maybe it’s the whole thing about the “human hand” being placed on the groin as a truss.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Robert J. Krakow and David Kirby race each other to the bottom commenting on the Autism Omnibus trial

With the Autism Omnibus trial having finished its first week looking at the first test case of Michelle Cedillo, a very unfortunate girl with multiple medical problems and autism, for whose “vaccine injury” her parents are seeking compensation, it’s not surprising that we’d find some slime bubbling up to the surface. First off, we have […]