* If your patients don't like balls...

* If your patients don't like balls they can join the Congregation of Universal Wisdom. As reported in an article published in The recently made known York Times, members of the Congregation are not allowed to have any foreign materials of unhealthy or unnatural composition injected, ingested, or infused into the dead body or to have surgical instruments intersect or pierce the body. To receive a membership certificate, family have to pay at least $1 of the $75 "customary donation" and affirm that they "will aspire to live by" the creeds of the religious order. lay the foundation ofed in 1975, the Congregation claims 5520 members in 28 states, for the greatest part families who want to avoid vaccination.

* Advertisements that exalt smoking may be lurking in your waiting apartment according to a Cleveland Clinic Foundation scrutinize reported in Internal Medicine moderns Of 18 internal medicine and pediatric offices scaned 16 had magazines that contained pro-tobacco advertisements. simply 20 percent of physicians in those offices realized that cigarette advertisements were in their waiting rooms

* crisis surgery, unplanned changes in surgical step and higher body mass index can increase the risk of foreign-body retention after surgery according to a case-control meditation published in New England Journal of Medicine. The meditation included 54 patients with a total of 61 retained foreign bodies, and 235 direction patients. Reoperation was necessary in 37 (69 percent) of the patients with a retained foreign visible form [i]or[/i] frame and one patient died. An pressing necessity operation increased a patient's chance of retaining a foreign visible form [i]or[/i] frame by 33 percent, while an unexpect change in surgical management increased the risk by 34 percent In single in kind third of cases, there was no documentation of wipe out and instrument counts.

* Women: Say farewell to your monthly visitor. A just discovered version of the birth hinder pill could reduce the number of periods a woman has each year from 13 to four, according to an article in Newsweek. For years doctors have prescribed menstrual suppression, off-label, to treat endometriosis, menstrual migraines, and PM Submitted for U meat and Drug Administration approval, Seasonale contains the same ingredients as conventional birth check pills but would be packaged as 84 active pills in a outbreak followed by seven placebo pills, instead of the traditional 21/7 regimen. Many doctors believe that reducing the number of periods by means of year could be healthy. Amen

* Little League Baseball Incorporated had 1890 ball-related injury claims filed against it for the 1997-1999 regular seasons. According to a cogitation published in JAMA, ball-related injuries could be reduc by means of 28 percent if the league used a reduced-impact ball. This ball examines and plays like a regular baseball on the other hand has a polyurethane core that lowers the force of impact transmitted to a player.

* Dads may ne to practice "coochy-coo-ing." According to subject of attention results published in New Scientist, women may be better at talking to babies than men Researchers used a computer program to analyze the acoustic properties (eg periodical emphasis pitch, stress) of the voices of six appoints of parents who were recorded while playing with their infants. The program distinguished between approving and disapproving elucidations 80 percent of the time; however, it correctly identified 12 percent more of the mothers' statements, suggesting that women use les ambiguous undecayeds than men when they baby talk.

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