Canadian Patient Bleeds Dark Green Blood

A team of Canadian surgeons got a shock when the patient they were operating on began shedding dark greenish-black blood, the Lancet reports.
The patient had been taking large doses of sumatriptan - 200 milligrams a day.
This had caused a rare condition called sulfhaemoglobinaemia, where sulphur is incorporated into the oxygen-carrying compound haemoglobin in red […]

Hukilau This Weekend

Another Hukilau right around the corner and wouldn’t you know it, I can’t go AGAIN.
For whatever reason, something always comes up that prevents me from going.  One year was a hurricane (good reason).  Another year was that I couldn’t get any of my buddies to go (they didn’t have good reasons).  This year it is […]