Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 9:00AM
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By Dr. Billy Goldberg and Mark Leyner
Well, here it goes…Our Body Odd podcast is becoming a blog, and now we apparently have to write something logical and organized rather than just rambling on incessantly from one topic to another. Or do we? This is the blogosphere isn’t it? Which always reminds me of that eco-experiment in the Arizona desert or worse the 1996 Pauly Shore movie, Bio-Dome.
Anyway, Leyner and I hope to maintain the same back and forth, free-wheeling, question and answer, educational and entertaining banter that we (and hopefully you, too) enjoy.
Today we’ll try to shed some light on a variety of syndromes with vague, subjective symptoms and how physicians sometimes view them as “dubious diseases.” Don’t expect a clear answer.
Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 5:15PM
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By Linda Dahlstrom, health editor
One can’t help but wonder if the Blue Man Group is feeling threatened.
Sure, they have a good thing going with their sold out shows, percussion prowess and dancing skills. But we all know what really makes them a hit. Their own advertising slogan points out: “They’re dazzling, they’re outrageous and most of all – THEY’RE BLUE!”
Yes, they’ve got a lot riding on it. But we all know it’s just a facade. When the “blue” men go home at night, they strip off their blue latex, paint or whatever it is that makes them azure and become just like everyone else.
Not so for Paul Karason. He’s blue for real. Permanently, deeply, completely, Violet Beaure-garde post-Willy Wonka blue.
He’s so hardcore blue that NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman speculates that even his organs are blue.
Take that, Blue Man Group.
Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 10:50AM
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By Melissa Dahl, health writer
Does the very sound of a Fergie tune make you feel a bit ill? Maybe it’s not all in your head.
For Stacey Gayle, it was hip-hop artist Sean Paul who was making her sick – specifically his 2005 hit “Temperature.” Before the Jamaican rapper could promise to keep her warm, to shelter her from the storm, Paul had sent Gayle into a seizure.
When Gayle collapsed at a barbecue immediately after a Sean Paul song started playing, the 25-year-old started to put the pieces together. She brought her iPod to a medical center and played a Sean Paul song for her doctors – and suffered through three seizures shortly after.
Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:15PM
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By Jane Weaver, health editor
Hardly a week passes without scientists warning about some scary new germ.
Even if bird flu is now being called the pandemic that wasn’t there are plenty of deadly viruses to worry about these days – drug-resistant staph infections, the return of bubonic plague and a new, crippling mosquito-borne virus spreading worldwide that experts think is connected to global warming. There’s even a mutated cold virus that’s been killing young adults – mostly military personnel—over the last 18 months.
All the talk about those nasty bugs may turn you into an obsessive hand-washing germphobe, but what about the infections and bugs that are just more annoying than deadly?
