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Dilantin Backlash - Articles
Dilantin….Day 1
by
Carrie D.
Posted
Tue 05 May 2009 12:00am
Velma is due tomorrow and I’m taking her down to Lesley’s to deliver the litter (long story). While I’m there, I’ll breed Ava to Thomas (the Danish boy). Raising puppies is one thing that I can do while I’m stuck at home!
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Coffee, Tea or Dilantin….
by
Carrie D.
Posted
Mon 04 May 2009 12:00am
that we would. Unmedicated, my seizures will just increase in frequency so he’s starting me out on Dilantin…..ten of them today and three each night at bedtime thereafter. The pharmacist said that I’d be pretty out of it today so I’m trying to get this post done before the medication takes effect (perhaps its too late). I’ll continue on Dilantin
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A second look at dilantin
by
Matt S.
Posted
Sun 27 Dec 2009 12:00am
The first time phenytoin was addressed as a blog on this site was on the one year anniversary of the inauguration of the RFN. I'd just like to bring it up again, because a question pertaining to phenytoin and its effect on serum calcium levels recently showed up on the nephrology boards. The aim of the question was to highlight the association ...
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Backlash.
by
Emily Malone
Posted
Wed 11 Feb 2009 12:00am
Due to excessive (and I might add unnecessary) oatmeal backlash, the "What I Love" series originally planned for this week has been indefinitely postponed.
Listen up haters - it's my blog and I'll talk about oatmeal if I want to.
Humph.
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Backlash
by
stipeygirl75
Posted
Fri 07 Aug 2009 12:11pm
Now I want to talk to something that is common with fibromyalgia and EDS: BACKLASH! That is my term I'm using for the "after effects" of my activities. It's a very strange... which I have been putting off due to all the special activites - this also created severe backlash! It's so frustrating - I only have so many "spoons" to use each day.
The Spoon
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Backlash at bills for medical mistakes | Chicago Tribune
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Dr. Aniruddha M.
Posted
Tue 18 Nov 2008 12:16am
Backlash at bills for medical mistakes: " If you go to a restaurant and get a bad meal you probably won't have to pay for it. And lemon laws allow consumers who buy cars that never work right to get their money back.
But in health care there is no tradition of rebates--even when a hospital surgical team leaves a sponge in a patient's chest cavity
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Bottled water backlash hits Pepsi
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Dr. Marion Nestle
Posted
Thu 16 Oct 2008 7:48pm
Andrew Martin begins his account of the latest Pepsi quarterly report like this: “Tap water is making a comeback. That’s bad news for PepsiCo’s profits.” Sales are down 10%. Why? People aren’t buying as much soda or bottled water. Score one for the environmental movement.
The Environmental Working Group says the plastic bottles are bad fo ...
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The Backlash Against Pharma and The Role of Disease Management
by
JaanS
Posted
Sat 04 Apr 2009 12:17am
should be, but thinks the proposed funding ban described in JAMA won’t be the final word on the matter. It thinks there’s a backlash underway. Once passions cool, a new equilibrium... that are reasonable and free of backlash politics. Given its pedigree, the DMCB thinks it could develop a more balanced approach that could help the rest of health care out of this morass.
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Easter Backlash
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Gretchen S.
Posted
Thu 15 Apr 2010 7:34pm
Charlie has discovered a new Guy in his life: Eggy. After dyeing a couple dozen eggs green for Easter, he now considers each and every oblong spheroid to be his nearest and dearest friend.
Tonight, I cruelly stood in the kitchen and cracked Eggy after Eggy after Eggy, viciously sloshing his innards from one half of his shattered former exterio ...
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Ex Myriad Backlash
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Dr. Steve Murphy
Posted
Wed 22 Oct 2008 6:18pm
OMG,
Today I was called a genetic elitist. SeeBeware Doctors
Let me state equivocally. I am not a genetics elitist, I am simple man from the US who has seen his share of genetics tragedies. I would like to give you an example here.
A 45 year old man in my ICU dies after aWhipple. Why? He had let his weight loss go for s ...
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