1960 Medical batch, Colombo, Sri Lanka.: 2014

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Saved By A Bad Taste, The Last 'Radium Girl' Dies At 107

Please click on the web-link below :-

http ://www.npr.org /2014/12/28/373510029/saved -by -a-bad -taste -the-last -radium -girl -dies -at-107

PS
In the early 1960s I remember Ms. Daphne Attygalla, later Professor in Pathology at the Colombo Medical Faculty, gave us a lecture about radiation damage to cells. She referred about the incidence of lip cancer among workers painting watch dials with radium salts. We were advised not to buy watches with dials glowing in the dark - a fashion those days.

Old as time: What we can learn from past attempts to treat ageing.

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/Tu33BjbBa6k/nm1214-1362

There was a persistent rumour in Siddha Ayurvedic Medicine, in Sri Lanka, that the powdered form of dried flowers, dried seeds, part of the dried bark, part of a dried stem and part of the dried roots of a Margosa tree which was more than 100 years old, if taken daily in small doses, would increase longevity. Was it another 'Sympathatic magic' concoction?

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Drugs that made headlines in 2014

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/ZNkEPtm9-xg/nm1214-1370

Response to Ebola

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/KP_vFQuuZPE/nm.3756

Monday, December 29, 2014

Tee-shirt slogan.

Sign on a Tee-shirt seen at the Majestic City Plaza, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

I DO NOT USE GOOGLE.

MY WIFE IS ALWAYS BY MY SIDE.

The captions are priceless.. and the photography is amazing!

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai.

I hate it when he plays "Mount Everest."

Menopause sucks.

FOR GOODNESS' SAKE-------NOOOO

There's a ringer competing in the Hogtown Olympics.

I'm not Over-Weight, I'm Under-Height!!

You do have an odd perspective on things.

Okay, I caught him, now what do I do with him?

I hate this game.

Just act natural and blend in.

Where's my Coffee?

Who the heck is "Sugar Lips?"

Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.

Email from Daya Jayasinghe

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

For more quotes please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martin_Luther_King_Jr./

Sunday, December 28, 2014

A primer on Haemophilia – Scientific American

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/health-and-medicine/~3/cbpui90yJEE/

Anaesthesia with no Oxygen cylinders and no electric power

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2014/11/23/363113747/anesthesia-miracle-no-power-no-oxygen-tanks-no-problem?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=health

Electronic mind control device

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/nov/11/mind-control-device-alter-genes-mice

Saturday, December 27, 2014

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/indias-shame

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/indias-shame

In another era - the Eighteenth Century and another continent - Africa, the great Scottish medical missionary/ explorer, Dr David Livingstone, referring to the Slave trade then prevalent in Africa lamented, ' This is the world's non-healing sore'. The same could be said for Present day India which prides itself as having sent a rocket to the planet Mars.

Using your 'tablet' at bed-time leads to sleep disturbances.

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://rss.sciam.com/~r/sciam/health-and-medicine/~3/tZDVt6E51UU/

Is the 'Glycaemic index' irrelevent?

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.livescience.com/49156-should-you-ignore-foods-glycemic-index.html

Neanderthals - Homo sapiens neanderthalensis and Homo Sapiens sapiens.

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.livescience.com/48399-when-neanderthals-humans-first-interbred.html

Friday, December 26, 2014

The Pope and The Poor Beggar

email from Lesley Sirimane

11:33 AM (19 hours ago)

Too funny not to repeat!

Pope and The Poor Beggar

Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome, Italy.

One has a Cross in front of him; the other one is holding the Star of David.

Many people go by, look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the Cross.

The Pope comes by.

He stops to watch the throngs of people giving money to the beggar who holds the Cross while none give to the beggar holding the Star of David.

Finally, the Pope approaches the beggar with the Star of David and says:

"My poor fellow, don't you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat of Catholicism. People aren't going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you're sitting beside a beggar who is holding a Cross. In fact, they would probably give more money to him just out of spite!"

The beggar with the Star of David listened to the Pope, smiled, and turned to the beggar with the Cross and said:

"Moishe, would you look who's trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing!"

10 rules of photo composition

(and why they work) | Digital Camera World

http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2012/04/12/10-rules-of-photo-composition-and-why-they-work/

Cuban doctors and Ebola.

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/03/cuba-global-medical-record-shames-us-blockade-ebola

Better outcomes when the Carddiologist is away.

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/12/22/372508398/is-your-heart-doctor-in-if-not-you-might-not-be-any-worse-off?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=health

Reminds me of the 'Foreign Examiner' from UK at the Master of Surgery exam finals held in Sri Lanka.

I asked him who looks after his patients in his wards while he is away in Sri Lanka. He replied . 'By the doctors who ALWAYS look after my patients'.

Thursday, December 25, 2014

1930's XP Paivas recipe book, Ceylon.

email from Lesley Sirimane

Have a look at the attached items sold in Ceylon in the 1930's . I was just fascinated by them. Surely just cannot be imagined in this day and age

Hiranthi and I wish you all the Peace and Joy of Christmas, and every success in 2015.

Thank you for your friendship and love.

God's Richest Blessings on each and every one of you.

Hiranthi and Travis.

3. A Merry Christmas 2014.

victor gnanadurai

25 Dec (1 day ago)

Happy Christmas!

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Seasons Greetings

email from

Sarojini Manikarajah

20:40 (8 hours ago)

To all my batch mates & their family,

" WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY, PEACEFUL & PROSPEROUS 2015"

Saro Manikarajah

from Swansea, Wales, UK

POPE FRANCIS IS MY MAN!

email from Buddy Reid

Forwarded by Sujeewa Ratnayake

NO WONDER THAT PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS ADMIRE HIM.

Gallege De Silva

20 Dec (4 days ago)

Only 5% of Stanford University graduates

Figured it out!

Can you answer all seven of the following questions

With the same word?

1. The word has seven letters....

2. Preceded God...

3. Greater than God...

4. More Evil than the devil...

5. All poor people have it...

6. Wealthy people need it....

7. If you eat it, you will eventually die.

Did you figure it out?

Try hard before looking at the answers

Did you get it yet?

Give up?

Brace yourself for the answer....

The Answer is:

NOTHING!

NOTHING has 7 letters.

NOTHING preceded God.

NOTHING is greater than God.

NOTHING is more Evil than the devil.

All poor people have NOTHING.

Wealthy people need NOTHING.

If you eat NOTHING, you will die.

Send this brain-teaser to your smart friends And see if they can answer ...

If you didn't get it ..Don't feel too bad, I didn't get it either!