What do you call it when a grenade is detonated on  a kitchen floor in France?

Linoleum Blownapart.

I (groan) digress……..

The CDC weekly flu surveillance report released today, which covers the week ending Oct 31, revealed:http://omniphysicians.com/2009/11/06/cdc-latest-h1n1-summary/

• Lab-confirmed flu hospitalizations continued to climb.
• Pneumonia and influenza mortality rates increased for the fifth week in a row.
• More than 99% of subtyped flu viruses reported to the CDC were the pandemic H1N1 virus.     Included in this is a number of graphs depiting the number of hospitalizations and deaths so far.                                                                                                       

This is a report about all the pseudo-H1N1 drugs being sold on the Internet and FDA’s attempts to quash them.  The agency has identified 140 different dubious products sold online and has sent letters to 75 manufacturers. It is violation of federal law to market products that claim to prevent or treat H1N1 and that have not been approved by the F.D.A.  The agency has gone after sellers of gloves, inhalers, masks, shampoos, herbal extracts, air fresheners and an array of vitamins that make claims about fighting swine flu. Some of the Web sites were fly-by-night operations that have since closed down.  Some sites, however, are well known. The F.D.A. sent a “cease and desist” to Dr. Andrew Weil, an advocate of alternative medicine who has since removed claims that the dietary supplements he was promoting could help prevent swine flu.  Carpetbaggers, scalawags, and charlatans — everything that has made America great!

http://omniphysicians.com/2009/11/06/watch-out-for-bogus-on-line-h1n1-treatments/

Besides narcs, is there anyhing else we can offer someone who just boke his hip?  Why not an US-guided femoral nerve block?  In this study on clumsy old farts n = 13), the median time to perform the procedure was 8 minutes (range, 7-11 minutes). All procedures required only one attempt; there were no complications. After the procedure, there were 44% and 67% relative decreases in pain scores at 15 minutes and at 30 minutes, respectively. Pain scores were unchanged from 30 minutes to 4 hours after the procedure. 

http://omniphysicians.com/2009/11/06/er-ultrasound-guided-femoral-nerve-blocks/

Paul R