1. A small study (n=50) found that facial plastic surgery (facelift/brow lift/neck lift) recipients looked, when evaluated by anonymous viewers, only 3 years younger and no more attractive than they were before. c/o NPR shots blog. http://archfaci.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1722859
2. "Gentamicin is a vestibulotoxin, and can cause permanent loss of equilibrioception, caused by damage to the vestibular apparatus of the inner ear, usually if taken at high doses or for prolonged periods of time.....However, gentamicin is sometimes used intentionally for this purpose in severe Ménière's disease, to disable the vestibular apparatus. These side effects are most common when the drug is administered via drops directly to the eye." -Wikipedia
3. Good website for antibiotics and their coverage: http://www.erwize.com/Quick_Reference/Professionatls/ID/Antibiotics/body_antibiotics.html
4. Wounds of all sorts that are frequently debrided heal faster than wounds that aren't. For diabetic foot ulcers: weekly debridement led to wound healing in 21 days, debridement done once every 2 weeks led to wound healing every 64-76 days. For traumatic wounds, frequent debriding: 14 days, once every 2 weeks: 42-49 days. (c/o PodMed podcast out of Johns Hopkins). The paper in JAMA dermatology (n>300,000)
http://archderm.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1720508
5. GDF-11 is a protein found in the blood that may be associated with reversal of age-related cardiac hypertophy http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(13)00456-X?switch=standard. Researchers injected blood from younger mice into older mice and were able to significantly decrease cardiac size. (c/o Radiolab blood)
6. "A significant association between maternal smoking during pregnancy and offspring conduct problems was observed among children reared by genetically related mothers and genetically unrelated mothers." (c/o PodMed podcast) http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1716166
7. Glioblastoma multiforme tumor burden is thought to double every 9 days.
8. The (common) differential for a pelvic mass
-Benign: corpus luteum cyst (clear cystic), hemorraghic cyst/endometrioma (homogenous cyst), fibroma/fibroid (solid), dermoid cyst (complex cyst), serous/mucinous cystadenoma
-Malignant: serous/mucinous cystadnenocarcinoma, malignant dermoid
Any solid mass >8cm should be removed, since they tend not to regress and are at risk of torsion or progression to malignancy.
9. Genetic screens for breast cancer: BRCA1/2, BART, BreastNext (which includes 15 genes, including rare ones like NBN- nibrin)
10. Lithium use in utero is associated with ebstein's anomaly.
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