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Surgeons have to be stricter on 'rogues'
A triple puzzle This week's medical query comes courtesy of Mr WF from Bristol, who reports that, for the past few weeks, he has been troubled by a trio of puzzling symptoms - a runny nose that has not developed into a cold, sensitivity of his hair follicles and pain on the bridge of the nose - \"as if someone has hit it with a tennis racquet\" - such that he can no longer wear...
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Medical miracles in jungles of the war
More impressive still is the (truly astonishing) description by medical historian Dr Meg Parkes in her recently published Captive Memories (Palatine Books, Pounds 12.99) of the ingenuity in combating the lifethreatening illnesses - dysentery, cholera, diphtheria, tropical ulcers - experienced by the tens of thousands of prisoners constructing the Thailand-Burma railway.
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Sick of food
Next, while chemotherapy inevitably causes nausea, its persistence and failure to respond to anti-sickness drugs in a woman being treated for a relapse of her breast cancer suggested another explanation that, as reported in the British Medical Journal, proved elusive despite the most thorough of investigations.
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Too many allergies
[...]to the recent comments about the overdiagnosis of allergies in children, my thanks to James Cockerill of Sense About Science for drawing attention to a recent publication that clarifies the central difficulty of interpreting the significance of allergy testing: the body's immune system can generate a response to an allergen without it causing any symptoms - more than half of positive results for peanuts occur in people who are not allergic.
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Memory loss has many causes
When psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland in the US interviewed 200 healthy adults about the nature of their memory lapses, names came way out in front, followed in descending order of frequency by recalling phone numbers, where things had been placed, all the way down to losing the thread of a conversation.
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Prophets of doom change their tune
The most striking feature perhaps of the past 30 years is how, reassuringly, the predictions by medical experts of the dire consequences of, variously, Chickengate (salmonella poisoning from eggs), BSE (''mad cow disease''), Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome), swine flu and several others, have consistently failed to materialise.
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