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A family on a pilgrimage were involved in an accident. The van they were travelling in hit a tree. Everyone in the van sustained injuries, ranging from pelvic fractures to broken teeth.
A 15-year-old boy had lost two of his front teeth (upper incisors). His father sustained severe facial injuries with a large lacerated wound in [...]

I got a poster in support of the Indian Government’s law prohibiting prenatal sex determination (PNDT Act 1994) from Kodak’s Health Imaging Division in India.
I had it put up in the waiting area in front of our hospital’s ultrasound scan room…

Technorati Tags: posters, prenatal sex determination, female feticide, Government of India, PNDT Act

A CT scanogram of the chest and abdomen of a neonate with breathing distress reveals a fairly straightforward diagnosis.

Findings:
Stomach and multiple bowel loops are seen in the left side of the chest.
Severe mediastinal shift with the heart and trachea seen on the right side.
No bowel gas in the abdomen.
Diagnosis:
Left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia (Bochdalek hernia)
Discussion:
Congenital [...]

Dr. Laughlin C. Dawes is a Radiology Registrar at Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, Sydney.
He has a new site: “Radiology Picture of the Day,” where he is
..posting a new image every day. It’s hard work, but it’s also a lot of fun.
Looking through his archives I found a nice mix of cases representing all [...]

I came across an amazing video at Kidneynotes last night.1

You can see the same 8 minute animation video on ‘The Inner Life of a Cell‘ with a better resolution here.
Though the video was spellbinding, I did not really understand what was going on. Some link chasing and Googling got some results.
This is from an article [...]

I know I should have resisted the temptation, but I could not.
I had to go check out the other Quizzes on the site that had the Star Trek Quiz.
Here are the results for the next one that I took……
You are Obi-Wan Kenobi

Obi-Wan Kenobi

65%

Han Solo

64%

Qui-Gon Jinn

64%

Chewbacca

63%

C-3PO

61%

Lando Calrissian

58%

Luke Skywalker

57%

Emperor Palpatine

57%

Yoda

56%

Mace Windu

54%

You are civilized, calm, and
have a good [...]

I have already confessed that I cannot resist these things.
So when I came across Dr. Rob’s latest discovery I had to give it a go.
I mean, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, right?
Well here are the results (Hitting too close to the truth for comfort)…
You are Chekov

Chekov

75%

Leonard McCoy (Bones)

75%

Spock

72%

Beverly Crusher

70%

Jean-Luc Picard

60%

Deanna Troi

50%

Mr. [...]

There are tons of things about which it can be said “It happens only in India.”
Here is another classical case which also proves the old aphorism of the cure being worse than the disease.
More people need to know how our Government makes money while expending our tax money supposedly for our benefit.
Here is a reproduction [...]