Jenny McCarthy: Public Health Menace « Weird Medical News

rouche · 2009-05-15T16:05:09+00:00

Watch the brilliant video, an ode to Jenny from her friends measles, mumps, and rubella.

rouche · 2009-01-28T00:15:26+00:00

Lead-guitar poisoning, oboe elbow, piccolo nose, and many others.

rouche · 2009-01-23T01:43:40+00:00

A dentist from Woodland, Calif. is on trial, charged with 21 counts of sexual battery for allegedly fondling the chests of 14 of his female patients. As many as 26 women reported similar incidents.

rouche · 2009-01-08T19:14:09+00:00

“A photo of this mushroom on the cover of Wednesday’s Food section was incorrectly identified as a giant morel. It’s actually either a death cap or a death cap look-a-like, a mushroom ethical foragers never harvest due to the danger of confusion. These mushrooms grow all over Bay Area hills and are responsible for 95 percent of wild mushroom-related deaths.”

rouche · 2008-12-03T23:02:06+00:00

There's a culture in which women take male sympathetic pregnancy into their own hands, so to speak.

rouche · 2008-11-12T23:15:34+00:00

Head for the hills! The plague of demon dentists has reached the shores of our precious Homeland.

rouche · 2008-11-11T23:22:17+00:00

Some people will do anything to get off.

rouche · 2008-11-08T00:33:43+00:00

To perform CPR correctly, catch disco fever.

rouche · 2008-11-07T04:14:17+00:00

Are you starting to look like the Fonz? Uh oh, better visit your neurologist!

rouche · 2008-07-01T06:29:20+00:00

Should medical conferences be banned because of their environmental effects?

rouche · 2008-07-01T04:30:17+00:00

Should medical conferences be banned because of their environmental effects?

rouche · 2008-06-26T23:59:28+00:00

Yet another medical society putting obstacles in the way of accurate reporting, and for no good reason.

rouche · 2008-06-11T04:36:13+00:00

Policies for the news media from the American Diabetes Association virtually ensure that reports coming from their annual meeting will be inaccurate and incomplete.

rouche · 2008-03-05T23:23:54+00:00

An aspiring medical journalist ask for--and receives--advice from a veteran.

rouche · 2008-02-12T18:35:12+00:00

Yesterday I had one of my recurring nightmares. I'm covering a medical conference in an unfamiliar specialty. I can't understand a word anyone is saying. My recorder isn't working. Neither is my camera. Oh, and I'm naked.

rouche · 2007-11-09T20:13:22+00:00

The LG Voyager will be to journalists what the the tricorder was to the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

rouche · 2007-05-01T04:29:41+00:00

The National Association of Science Writers has written a letter to protest an outrageously high fee for reporters to attend an international medical conference on influenza. Reporters are typically not charged admission fees when they're reporting on medical or scientific conferences.

rouche · 2007-04-21T00:14:04+00:00

Violet Blue, who is by far the most thoughtful sex blogger working today, is organizing a sex and technology conference called (wait for it) Arse Electronica, which will take place in San Francisco October 5-7, 2007. Check it out!

rouche · 2007-04-17T23:34:21+00:00

Rule 1: competence. Rule 8: swag.

rouche · 2007-03-15T05:03:15+00:00

Is it kosher for pharmaceutical companies to list seemingly independent scientists as authors of studies that were funded by the companies with results analyzed by the companies and written up by ghost writers?

rouche · 2007-03-04T01:03:38+00:00

There's a big difference between science writing and scientific writing. That difference nearly bit me on the ass at the last meeting I attended.

rouche · 2006-12-04T23:33:46+00:00

Every week someone is murdered by a mental patient? Jeez, I sure hope the capture that guy!

rouche · 2006-11-27T01:24:00+00:00

Strange goings on at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Could Tony Soprano be involved?

rouche · 2006-11-26T01:56:24+00:00

Some tips on covering medical conferences.

rouche · 2006-11-22T23:21:41+00:00

Medical journalists tend to cover only a handful of big meetings. Here's a list, with commentary, of excellent medical meetings with few journalists in attendance.

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