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Lazarus Effect-Someone on death's door can be brought back to life with treatment costing around 40 cents a day! #WorldAIDSday

3800 people die everyday froma preventable and treatable disease- HIV/AIDS...Treatment costs around 40 cents a day.The results are nothing short of miraculous.Someone on death's door can be brought back to life. In as little as 90 days.This transformation is called the Lazarus Effect.

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God is Geeky!Really funny!

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What disease does this picture speak about?

Young male presented with history of cough and hemoptysis.Connect the two images and give the diagnosis.

Correlate history with the histopath specimen and Chest X-ray and give the diagnosis..

Newly approved drugs(FDA September-October 2009)

• Ofatumumab
• CD20-directed cytolytic monoclonal antibody indicated for the treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
• Pazopanib
• kinase inhibitor indicated for the treatment of patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
• Cervarix
  
• human papillomavirus bivalent (types 16 and 18)
• preventative cervical cancer vaccine for the prevention of cervical pre-cancers
  and cervical cancer associated with oncogenic human papillomavirus
  (HPV) types 16 and 18 in girls and young women (aged 10-25)
• Berinert (C1-esterase inhibitor (human)
• plasma derived C1 Esterase Inhibitor indicated for the treatment of acute abdominal or facial attacks of hereditary angioedema (HAE) in adult and adolescent patients.
• Ustekinumab
• human monoclonal antibody for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.
• Pralatrexate
• folate analogue metabolic inhibitor indicated for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL)
• Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine
•  is an inactivated influenza virus vaccine indicated for active immunization of persons ages 18 years of age and older against influenza disease caused by pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus
• Telavancin
• bactericidal, once-daily injectable antibiotic for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI) caused by susceptible Gram-positive bacteria, including Staphylococcus aureus, both methicillin-resistant (MRSA) and methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) strains.
• Bepotastine
• antihistamine and mast cell stabilizer for treatment of the symptoms of allergic conjunctivitis.
• Guanfacine
• a nonstimulant selective alpha-2A-receptor agonist for the treatment of children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Source- www.drugs.com

Histopathological picture of mature Ovarian cystic teratoma-Identify what the arrow is pointing at (#quiz #medtweeps)

This is a histopathological slide of a biopsy from Mature Ovarian cytic teratoma from a young female. Identify what the arrow is pointing at.

Identify the abnormality-Hematology

Personalized search(Preferred sites from Google experimental)- Search from sites that you want.

Nobody can disagree that Google search has become a very important part of the way we use information from the web. Although its very good and gives the most appropriate results if given the right inputs, it will be more awesome if u can search from your favourite sites, the ones you think will have the infrmation you are looking for. Well, interested in making your search more personal? Heres the answer- 'Preferred sites' from 'Google experimental'

Heres what you gotta do-

Go to http://www.google.com/experimental/

After you join the experiment, you will be asked to give some preferred sites, which will be given high priority next time when you search.

I recommend these sites for medical students or if you are interested in medical/health related search

en.wikipedia.org, emedicine.medscape.com, aafp.org, annals.org, drugs.com, content.nejm.org, digg.com

You can give any site address which matches your interests.The more sites you add the better chances of hitting the results you want.

After you are done, just search and see...Your Search is Personalized!

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What is the radiological abnormality in this T2-weighted MRI of Cervical spine?