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Where do gods go when they die ?

Martin, you have neglected one of the lesser appreciated but most important of deities STURCULINUS who by happy coincidence is God Checkers God of the Day.http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/roman-mythology.php?deity=STURCULINUS A bit about him: To put it politely he is the God of Fertilizer. We have stated before that the Romans had Gods for everything — and this is […]

CT Scans are rarely needed after Paediatric head trauma

I’m a bit surprised by a new study published today in the Journal Paediatrics. Called “The effect of observation on cranial computed tomography utilization for children after blunt head trauma”, this was a large multi-center study done in the US, to look at the need for CT scans after paediatric head trauma. What astonishes me […]

New insights into factors that could trigger subarachnoid hemorrhages

A cerebral aneurysm is a sac- or balloon-like area of weakness in one of the blood vessels in the brain, and when they rupture, bleeding occurs that can lead to severe headache, unconsciousness and even death. We call this kind of bleed a subarachnoid bleed or hemorrhage, because of the specific location and distribution of […]