Welcome back to the Parasite Case of the Week! I post a new case every Monday, along with the answer to the previous week’s case. Here is our new case for this week: The following is an hematoxylin and eosin stained skin biopsy taken from a mission worker who just returned from the Middle East. [...]
Parasite Case of the Week 6 can be found HERE. Answer: Acanthamoeba species. The arrow points to 4 classic cysts with 2 walls each – a wrinkled outer wall (exocyst) and inner star-shaped or polygonal wall (endocyst). The trophozoites contain a single nucleus with a large karyosome (arrow head). Acanthamoeba spp. and Balamuthia mandrillaris can [...]
This weekend I’m joining my wife for an academic retreat in rural Wisconsin. The topic is geriatric medicine and training of rising chief residents in all specialties how to incorporate geriatric medicine into their curricula. While I was stumped at first how incorporating care of older adults could fit in to my Pathology practice, I [...]
An 8-year-old girl presented with lack of coordination of the right arm and leg progressing over the course of six months. Occasionally, the girl would hold her right arm in a postured decorticate position when she would run; and she would suffer frequent falls when playing. Physical examination showed right-sided hemidystonia and rigidity. An MRI [...]
Yesterday I posted a short note with reference to a story involving an ACLU lawsuit against Myriad Genetics which has re-opened the discussion about patenting genes, that is human DNA. The company of course went through this discussion to obtain the patent as others have and are no doubt prepared for this action to protect [...]
ACLU Challenges Patents on Breast Cancer Genes On May 12, 2009, the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (PUBPAT) filed a lawsuit charging that patents on two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer are unconstitutional and invalid. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of four scientific [...]
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