Something's Brewing with Nude Mice!
Category: Commentary
Compared to the UVB-exposed control animals, the caffeine drinkers showed an approximately 95 percent increase in UVB-induced apoptosis...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:14 AM • 4 Comments •
Now on ScienceBlogs: Unitary mindfulness in collective action
"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler
My archives are located at Archives of the Cheerful Oncologist, Volume 2
July 31, 2007
Category: Commentary
Compared to the UVB-exposed control animals, the caffeine drinkers showed an approximately 95 percent increase in UVB-induced apoptosis...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:14 AM • 4 Comments •
July 29, 2007
Category: Book Review
If an alien race landed on Earth several million years after we are gone, what would survive from our time on Earth to give them a clue as to who was here, and how did they live?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:55 AM • 4 Comments •
July 27, 2007
Category: Commentary
The lifestyle decisions we make as a teenager and young adult will either come back to reward us or haunt us long before fourscore years have weathered our once cuddly, pristine bodies.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:14 AM • 5 Comments •
July 26, 2007
Category: Blogmeister Incompetence
Is there no more ridiculous sight than that of an overheated middle-aged man chugging along, waving his hands frantically over his head like Stokowski conducting Le Sacre du printemps?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:38 PM • 2 Comments •
July 24, 2007
Category: Commentary
One of our responsibilities as oncologists is to reduce suffering, to do everything in our power to vanquish it, by any means, at any time of the day or night...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:14 AM • 4 Comments •
July 23, 2007
Category: Autobiographical Tidbit
You know, it is remarkable how far laughter carries across these northern glacial lakes.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 5:18 PM • 2 Comments •
July 19, 2007
Category: Humor
One of the proudest traditions in the health care field is the delivery of "good news and bad news." The following examples were culled from Lamplighter's Smile When You Say That: How to Develop a Gentle Bedside Manner, 2nd edition....
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:48 PM • 3 Comments •
July 17, 2007
Category: Commentary
It can no longer be argued, however, that resistance training is unhealthy. Just as we suspected, it is good for heart patients who meet the requirements set by the AHA.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:36 PM • 6 Comments •
July 16, 2007
Category: Patient Advocacy
I honestly don't know how any living human being could ever be proud of earning the right to have the following epitaph carved on their headstone:
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 2:39 PM • 7 Comments •
July 13, 2007
Category: Humor
Near the Dordogne River, Southwest France, 14,207 B.C. - The inhabitants of a new settlement along the river have become ill. Several months ago they settled near the present-day village of Montignac after a long hegira to free themselves from...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:44 AM • 3 Comments •
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