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Update on Swine Influenza

by Paul Auerbach, M.D. reposted with permission from the Medicine for the Outdoors Blog From the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) : Interim Guidance on Antiviral Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus...

Published 04-28-2009 8:28 PM by Paul Auerbach

Filed under: Auerbach, swin flu
Autoinjector Skills

There is an interesting article in April 13th edition of the Austin Statesman on whether ambulance and fire dispatchers should instruct people over the phone on use of an autoinjector of epinephrine. It’s another spin on this epinephrine tale. 1...

Published 04-20-2009 12:01 PM by Tod Schimelpfenig

Filed under: wilderness medicine, autoinjector, epinephrine
Brown Fat

This week’s New England Journal of Medicine has 3 articles on brown fat, which have spawned a number of newspaper articles, and this blog. A high concentration of mitochondria color the fat brown, burn huge numbers of calories and produce lots of...

Published 04-09-2009 10:44 AM by Tod Schimelpfenig