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Medicana

http://www.medicana.blogspot.com

"The Medical Site for Hypochondriacs!" A wealth of information about diseases and conditions written in an informal, easy to read manner.

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  • Irresponsible Advice About the Swine Flu Vaccine

    Posted on Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 16:28 in flu, influenza, bill maher, swine flu, h1n1

    Bill Maher should stick to politics. He's been Twittering that people who get swine flu shots are idiots and also mouthed off on his "Real Time With Bill Maher" show about the vaccine, implying that getting the vaccine was the same thing as being in...

  • Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

    Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 17:03 in neurological

    Well, I'm finally back here. The excitement of the election and the inauguration of Barack Obama has finally died down a bit and I'm able to tear my brain away from politics enough to concentrate on doing some medical research.It also helps that I re...

  • Help for Hypochondriacs!

    Posted on Saturday April 12th, 2008 at 12:39 in hypochondria

    A friend found a handy tool for us hypochondriacs on the "Real Simple" website. It's called the:Hypochondriac's Handbook.The "handbook," which is a 12-page web article, deals with such diverse subjects as chronic thirst (not necessarily diabetes), b...

  • Updates on Alzheimer's Disease

    Posted on Saturday March 29th, 2008 at 15:56 in drugs, alzheimer's disease, eldercare

    Alzheimer's Disease is of particular interest to me, since my mother-in-law has it, and my father did too in his last years, although we never had a specific diagnosis.Those of you who follow my other blog may be aware that in February we had a famil...

  • Medical Sabbatical

    Posted on Saturday March 22nd, 2008 at 22:20 in hypochondria

    Hello fellow hypochondriacs! I just wanted to pop in and apologize for my long absence. I had been intending to write another information-laden post about, of all things, appendix cancer. (Yes, there is such a thing - and a friend of mine was rece...

  • Colon Cancer

    Posted on Saturday January 5th, 2008 at 22:03 in Cancer, colon cancer, colorectal cancer

    Unfortunately, many of the subjects I choose to write about in Medicana are driven by the diagnosis of someone I know with the condition in question.In the case of colon cancer, I am sorry to report that a friend of mine was just diagnosed with it. I...

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