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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.
Recent Posts
Irresponsible Advice About the Swine Flu Vaccine
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
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!
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
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
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
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...

