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How is that for a research

Admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:48:42 -0500

Ok check this out:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/06/health/women-drinking-daily-health/index.html

and now this one:

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/01/a-drink-a-day-increases-breast-cancer-risk/

Nice research ...

Qackademics invade the American Cancer Society

Admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:19:15 -0500

Complementary medicine for fatigue and cortisol variability in breast cancer survivors. A randomised trial.

Shamini Jain PhD^1,2,*, Desiree Pavlik BA², Janet Distefan PhD², Reverend Rosalyn L.ruyere³, Julia Acer MBA², Rosalie Garcia BA², Ian Coulter PhD⁴, John Ives PhD¹, Scott C. Roesch PhD⁴,Wayne Jonas MD¹,Paul J. Mills PhD²[LINK to Article]The question is since when the American Cancer Society started accepting a quackademics for publication. How did this article passed the peer review?
I would also want to know the names of the reviewers who have accepted this article for publication.
Allow me to clarify.
My daughter is 6 year old and she already lost few teeth. The question she asked was if the Tooth Fairy will give more money if she wraps the tooth in foil so its shiny.
Well we can design study about this a randomized double blind by having many kids at the same age half of which will use foil the other half paper. Who knows may be we will be able to even learn something about it. The main problem however is to prove that the Tooth Fairy exists.
I have to admit I started reading the article and quit after I saw the following paragraph:
" The purpose of this study is to examine within a blinded randomized controlled trial design whether a biofield therapy (hands-on-healing) would significantly reduce fatigue.."
Well how about the Tooth Fairy... obviously the "researchers" have accepted the "fact" that bioenery does exists and can "heal" or "affect" human physiology. Really? The authors list 42 reference none dialing with the effectiveness of the mumbo-jumbo quackery. Did the authors control for placebo; yes by "mock healing". Why didn’t they include other forms of healing like , hand shake, pat on the back, frequent smiling..etc. How would you evaluate the effects providing that fatigue is subjective, waxes and wanes and cortisol variability is diurnal? All of this is the typical example of quackademics and by publishing this bullshit Cancer have lost all credibility.
EPIC FAIL.

Pathology Web Site

Admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:18:17 -0500

Just found a great pathology web site check it out: http://www.humpath.com/

I recommend that for a 1 year residents..the gross pathology images are great.

Unusual case (updated)

Admin — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:24:34 -0600

Clnical Hx: 42 year old man with chronic back pain.

FaceBook group page

Admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:23:34 -0600

Here it is the FaceBook group page . I am planning of closing the forum as well as the front page for blogging. I will move the Gallery on the frontpage. The disscussions if any will move to FaceBook.
Also I will start doing mostly videos case presentation over YouTube and you may find this videos in the Gallery, video folder. Well I hope that would bring some life to this place. Its been 4 years of hard work on the backend and really there is no activity besides myself and occasional post here and there. See ya over FaceBook.

New Video Category in the gallery

Admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:42:11 -0600

In Media Gallery I just opened a new Youtube subcategry. I will be posting a short case reviews as movies. The link to my chanell on Youtube is:

www.youtube.com/user/savcob

Would be nice to hear some feedback.

Practical Issues for Surgical and Cytopathologists

Admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:04:37 -0600

January 16-18, 2010
Laguna Cliffs Resort & Spa
Dana Point, California

USCAP Practical Pathology Seminars in NYC

Admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:59:11 -0600

April 29 - May 2, 2010
The Westin New York at Times Square
New York, NY

Course Director: John R. Goldblum, M.D.
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

39 year old female with breast biopsy

Admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:33:07 -0600

This is the case of a 39 yo female who was found to have a microcalcifications in the breast. She underwent a core biopsy.

Image Stacking experiment

Admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:20:46 -0600

The biggest problem when obtaining microscopic images in cytology is the fact that the cells are positioned in different view planes. This is especially annoying in tumor cases when you need to show a good detail. As you expect half of the cells will be off focus. In this small experiment I used a free (for now) version of Zerene Stacker to stack multiple images of the same cluster of cells but with different view planes. In the example bellow the image on the left is a regular single plane image and the one on the right is multidimensional image using DMAP stacking option in Zarene Stacker. Both images are processed with Deep Zoom composer for interactive viewing.

RESULTS.