An acute abdomen in a man with HIV infection turned out to be a mesenteric vein thrombosis. Early readings suggest an increased risk of venous thromboembolic disease in HIV infection. (1,2)
Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, Chief Medical Examiner of New York, spoke Saturday at the Inaugural Richard M. Smith MD Symposium. Dr. Hirsch has coordinated the identification of 9/11 victims. His office's extensive forensic work has been described in news stories (1,2,3). A local dentist apparently contributed some time to the effort (4). Kelsy, who works at the TriHealth Pavilion, plans to study forensics at New York's Pace University--a school that honored Dr. Hirsch's work (5).
9/11 CitizensWatch news conferences are archived at CSPAN.org (archived for only limited time). Documents of the national 9/11 Commission can be found at 9-11commission.gov.
This article from JAMA came up on rounds. It looks at aspirin vs. ticlopidine (Ticlid) to prevent a recurrent stroke in 1800 black patients (age 29-85).
This autumn the Public Library of Science (PLoS) starts publishing the open access PLoS Medicine. For a listing of other fulltext medical science online, try FreeMedicalJournals.com.