Pre-Med Website Coming Soon!

The pre-med website is coming! The site has an entry page, and seperate areas for all the pre-med subjects. All the relevant and up-to-date information will be at your fingertips! Any suggestions to make the site more useful will be gratefully received. I will also be putting all the downloadable stuff (presentations, past exams etc) on this site and posting news articles there. Link to come when it’s reasonably presentable! I’ve also started designing web sites (see other interests) or check out my (still to be finalised!) web site.

Humans can justify almost anything

Cognitive dissonance is the extreme emotional discomfort we feel when two important beliefs, attitudes or perceptions collide. Humans cannot tolerate dissonance for long, so they ease the tension by making a change in belief or attitude—and justifying the change.

read more | digg story

Egypt mufti says female circumcision forbidden

Egypt’s state-appointed Grand Mufti said on Sunday that female genital cutting was forbidden by Islam after an 11-year-old girl died while undergoing the procedure at a private medical clinic in southern Egypt. A 2005 UNICEF report on the practice showed that 97 percent of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 have already been circumcised.

read more | digg story

American medical system is the leading cause of death in the US

Take two of these and die in the morning.

read more | digg story

Amazing – America’s War on Science: Do You Have a License for That Beaker?

There is an unseen war going on in America. It’s part of the war on drugs, part of the war on terror, and part of consumer safety. As an emergent side effect of these, and some additional foolishness, America is waging war on science. While the government targets terrorists, drug makers and illegal fireworks, it’s the arm chair chemists and curious

read more | digg story

Virtual Man Helps Guide Doctors

No need to open up a dead man’s body to see what’s going on with the body system brought about by a disease or ailment.

read more | digg story