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We discussed this question the last week and the microbiology teacher answered that about once or twice in twenty years (concerning diseases causing bacteria). And the moment probably has just turned up as news @ nature is referring - quite new specie Granulobacter bethesdensis has been discovered.

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If I could take a pill preventing me from the need of sleep, would I take it? Despite I love sleeping and enjoy it as much as I can, it seems to me as wasted time in all the busy days. Or I would appreciate a few hours longer days or whatever, nobody has enough time in this world. Now there is such pill which could be used to prevent sleeping like a contraceptive pill prevents pregnancy

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1147796294888215162006-05-16T17:54:00.000+02:002006-05-16T18:21:16.446+02:00

The next proof that nothing we know must be absolutely and forever true are findings that the lactic acid in muscles is actually its fuel, not a waste product. You can find the story in The New York Times and the original news release on the UCBerkeley News site. (Published on 04/19/06) If these new discoveries are really right, I wonder how many years students will learn the wrong old theories

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I finally finished translation of another two articles for the Czech version of Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications yesterday night. I had these articles to translate this time: Urinary creatinine concentration is inversely related to glycaemic control and the presence of some diabetic complications in patients with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes. Periodontal status of diabetics

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1145481758696254132006-04-19T23:22:00.000+02:002006-04-20T20:59:53.776+02:00

Just two links: Goodbye, war on smoking. Hello, war on fat: This stage of the fat war will be a rout. In schools, the audience is young and captive, and the facts are appalling. According to a government report, 75 percent of high schools, 65 percent of middle schools, and 30 percent of elementary schools have contracts with "beverage"?i.e., soda?companies. Fast food healthiest in Denmark,

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Today's class on antibiotics prescription in Basic Treatment of Infectious Diseases has been nearly fascinating. Annual antibiotics expenses are about 3 billion CZK ($120 million) in the Czech Republic and (at least) about 50 % of this amount is just wasted because of improper prescription. For example, most of the patients (70 % or more) with common respiratory diseases simply don't need

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1144699248394726572006-04-10T21:39:00.000+02:002006-04-12T23:58:41.460+02:00

I've enrolled for Basics of treatment of infectious diseases not because I love the subject so much, but because it was probably the last one which wasn't completely full (and therefore isn't very popular) and could be somehow useful. So we had the first class today and it wasn't that bad. Actually, it was even good and exceeded my expectations (which weren't very high, ok). All courses should

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In fact, there isn't a disease of the body causing people to be fat. Whoever is fat eats too much and the only exception from this rule are extremely rare metabolic diseases (glycogenoses etc.) which a doctor might not see once in his or her life. (The most) important cause and risk factor for Type 2 diabetes is obesity, and diabetes treatment expenses cut one third of health care budget.

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I've seen a document about Leonardo da Vinci on TV. They manufactured several Leonardo's inventions exactly as he designed them in his notes and tried whether they'll really work. A parachute, a hang glider (with one minor modification) and a diving suite worked perfectly. Impressive. All Leonardo's inventions were forgotten and when discovered again, all of them were already reinvented by

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Homosexual marriages are now legal in the Czech Republic. Despite the law might not be perfect, I agree. I've never heard any single sensible argument why such same sex partnerships should really harm the traditional family. As though homosexuals married just for the marriage, same sex or not. There won't be less heretosexual families and they won't be even worse from now on. On the contrary,

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1142201924927175982006-03-12T23:04:00.000+01:002006-03-14T00:18:00.380+01:00

Slobodan Milosevic died of heart failure, what a pity, although nobody regrets. The world won't miss him, but the verdict of the justice. Fifty days before the trial's end, hence he died innocent?

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I'm not quite sure about attending a Ph.D. fellowship next year, therefore I've to consider a clinical specialisation to focus on eventually. But there are too many fields of medicine I like and too few I like more than others. Finally, I made a list of specialisations I'm able to imagine I could ever do: gastroenterology, cardiology, oncology, surgery, gynecology, psychiatry, neurology,

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The Czech socialists (CSSD) have showed who they really are today. They've voted down a law prohibiting communist, nazi and other extreme propaganda together with the communist party (KSCM). The same day British PM Tony Blair has come to Prague to European socialist parties meeting to show his support for CSSD in forthcoming general elections which will take place in July. He rented them an

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Clark W. Heath describes eight community clusters of leukemia and lymphoma, which are very suggestive for infectious causation of the disease. In these clusters malignities occured often in several children attending same school or parish or in children with siblings enrolled in a same school. All that usually, but not necessarily, in areas with recent population abruption. I might be

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1137935750880456852006-01-22T14:06:00.000+01:002006-03-10T20:50:02.200+01:00

There've been suggestions that ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) occurs in space and time clusters, which should show to infectious origin of the disease at least in a certain part of causes. I've data of ALL diagnoses in the Czech Republic in years 1997 - 2004 (and there should be more if we found significant results here) and I'm trying to find out whether there are some traces of clustering

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1138045860127500302006-01-23T20:32:00.000+01:002006-03-10T20:48:45.913+01:00

It was a very cold day today, about -20°C. I was waiting on a tram stop and watching the river. There was a boat anchoring at the bank and in the bay between the boat and the bank, there you could see, when you looked carefully against the sunshine, how the water was becoming ice. Small islets of ice crystals slowly merged together, more and more.

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French scientists discovered Plasmodium Malariae in lymph nodes, despite until now generally accepted fact, that it can only develop in the liver. However, the parasites were quickly destroyed there. More on this findings will be reported in the February issue of Nature Medicine.

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1138136823488105392006-01-24T22:02:00.000+01:002006-03-10T20:47:20.336+01:00

Jirka, a friend of mine told me he was concerned with data clustering some time ago. I'm looking forward to a little data clustering session :-) but he has to pass an exam first :-| And I still have to read something about it myself :-)

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I thought I'll read all papers I printed on the ALL clustering thing this weekend, but I've read only one not very optimistic article on ALL and leukaemias in north-west England. "Not very optimistic" means that there could be something but might not, who knows... and one must wonder whether what the hell is trying to do. But seems that science actually is and always will be like this and we have

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1138818687931451472006-02-01T18:59:00.000+01:002006-03-10T20:45:44.366+01:00

Miriam Merad et al., Mount Sinai School of Medicine found precursors of Langerhans cells and identidied a protein essential for their transformation. These cells transport antigens from skin to lymph nodes to present them and are replaced by Gr-1 monocytes, as they report. This discovery could improve immunotherapy treatment: "Now that we know which cells are the precursors to Langerhans cells

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NYT reports excellent results of dogs trained to smell lung cancer. There are some minor objections, there certainly must be further investigation on larger groups of patients and healthy individuals published in respected journals, nevertheless, everybody admits that it worths closer attention. However, when dogs can search for drugs, bombs and who knows what else, why couldn't they actually

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I like "what's the world going to be in 25 years" articles as I don't belive them much, because they remind me those written in '70 on the year 2000. When we read them today, we usually find them riduculous, so I prefer to laugh at "world 2030" stories yet now. Some things they predict will be as far in the future as far they are in these days, others, much more importatnt will be much more usual

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I've found many interesting articles today, but it's not possible to read them all if one doesn't want to spend all the day with papers. But there are three abstracts in the current issue of Nature Reviews Genetics which tempt me to read full texts as soon as I've possibility to open them at my faculty: Structural variation in the human genome Literature mining for the biologist: from

Davidhttp://dm.denicek.nettag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21315325.post-1141921438981581052006-03-09T17:15:00.000+01:002006-03-09T17:27:52.370+01:00

Freedom of my speech isn't determined by authorities or outer circumstances, but I define it for myself by what I want to say yet. I hope this will last.

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I'm in the last but one year of my medical school at Charles University and I'm strongly considering to continue in Ph.D, probably in immunology. Becouse I'd like to do my Ph.D. somewhere abroad, I'm looking for a suitable programme. I've to learn a lot also before I begin my postgraduate studies and I hope this weblog will help me organize it all - what's the science all about.

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