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April 2008
Fats Domino has classic performance anxiety,” says a local physician who asked to remain nameless. “I have never treated Fats Domino and have never talked to anyone who has. My diagnosis is based on newspaper accounts of Domino’s failure to appear for gigs over the years,” adds the physician who’s...
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March 2008
Ochsner Health System has announced the release of a series of online video-casts called “Ochsner Healthlinks” that will be available on their Web site, www.ochsner.org. The three- to five-minute-long videos are intended to educate and inform patients on subjects such as disease and prevention,...
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March 2008
In June I’m going on a mission trip to Nicaragua. About 40 of us from school will be visiting orphanages and building houses. We will be in a really rural area with malaria and all sorts of things,” says Jamantha Karlin, a sophomore at the Uptown Academy of the Sacred Heart.
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December 2007
Like Mardi Gras, medicine is vivid with seasonal colors of Carnival – the golden glow of jaundice, the green discharge of gonorrhea and the purple hue of hemorrhagic skin lesions.Carnival’s colors have medical significance.
Many Carnival revelers have memories of awakening with an easily...
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November 2007
Kindred Hospital New Orleans (3601 Coliseum St.) has re-opened and expanded its Intensive Care Unit. The hospital has invested $1.5 million in its re-construction and expansion, and specializes in treating medically complex patients, including ventilator dependent and pulmonary patients.
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October 2007
Understanding Diverticulitis
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October 2007
Dr. Ronald Lee Nichols has spent his career studying what many would prefer to hide – a profession’s dirty laundry. A transplant to New Orleans from the North, Nichols is the Emeril Lagasse of surgical infections. His entertaining presentations to medical students at Tulane and to medical audiences...
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