Bill Gates' Ability To Cure PMS
from the well,-at-least-there's-that... dept
Technology can cure lots of problems, but sometimes not in the way you would expect. Salon is running a somewhat amusing article that I'm sure some guys are trying to figure out if they can forward to their significant others without risking too much damage, about how a woman "cured" her PMS by "scheduling" it into her Microsoft Entourage. She initially scheduled her husband in as well (sort of as a warning), but when that failed to work, she started to realize that the notes from her computer warning her of her own impending mood swings helped her to deal with them. This isn't all that surprising. Very simple feedback mechanisms can do wonders in helping people change even very deeply set behaviors, but it is still amusing to see how much credit is being given to a simple piece of Microsoft scheduling software.
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Womyn Take Back The Night
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Because most cases present with a palpable mass, fine needle aspiration cytology is extremely useful. This is performed in the physician�s office. A fine gauge needle is inserted into the mass and cells drawn out for examination under the microscope (6,17,25). Nipple discharge can be smeared on microscope slides and examined microscopically (13,20).
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There is another neat party trick I learned -- if you measure someone's blood pressure at their wrist and ankle, then you can deduce the congestion in their arteries by the difference in blood pressure. i.e. a person with congested arteries will have a bigger difference in blood pressure, because the ankle is further from the heart than the wrist.
Now, I'm not suggesting that you go to a party, tie people up spread-eagle, and measure their BP on all 4 limbs.
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Headline is misleading
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Nice find
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