Match Day is the day graduating seniors at medical schools nationwide find out where they will conduct their residency training, and in which field. In this BlazerCast, The members of the 2008 graduating class of the UAB School of Medicine discover their fate.
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“Akhenaten wasn’t the most manly pharaoh, even though he fathered at least a half-dozen children. In fact, his form was quite feminine, which has puzzled experts for years. And he was a bit of an egghead.
Dr. Irwin Braverman, a Yale University physician who analyzed images of Akhenaten, has a new theory on why. He’ll be presenting his findings at an annual conference Friday at the University of Maryland School of Medicine on the ailments and deaths of historic figures.
The female form was due to a genetic mutation that caused the pharaoh’s body to convert more male hormones to female hormones than needed, Braverman believes. And Akhenaten’s head was misshapen because of a condition in which skull bones fuse at an early age.
The pharaoh had “an androgynous appearance. He had a female physique with wide hips and breasts, but he was male and he was fertile and he had six daughters,” Braverman said. “But nevertheless, he looked like he had a female physique.”
Braverman, who sizes up the health of individuals based on portraits, teaches a class at Yale’s medical school that uses paintings from the university’s Center for British Art to teach observation skills to first-year students. For his study of Akhenaten, he used statues and carvings.
Akhenaten (ah-keh-NAH-ten), best known for introducing a revolutionary form of monotheism to ancient Egypt, reigned in the mid-1300s B.C. He was married to Nefertiti, and Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, may have been his son or half brother.
Egyptologist and archaeologist Donald B. Redford was interested in Braverman’s findings and looked forward to the conference but said he currently supports an older theory. He believes that Akhenaten had Marfan syndrome, a genetic disorder marked by lengthened features, including fingers and the face.
Visiting clinics that treat those with the condition has strengthened that conviction, “but this is very subjective, I must admit,” said Redford, a professor of classic and ancient Mediterranean studies at Penn State University.
Others have theorized Akhenaten and his lineage had Froehlich’s syndrome, which causes feminine fat distribution but also sterility. That doesn’t fit Akhenaten, who had at least six daughters, Braverman said.
Klinefelter syndrome, a genetic condition that can also cause gynecomastia, or male breast enlargement, has also been suggested, but Braverman said he suspects familial gynecomastia, a hereditary condition that leads to the overproduction of estrogen.
The Yale doctor said determining whether he is right can easily be done if Egyptologists can confirm which mummy is Akhenaten’s and if Egyptian government officials agree to DNA analysis.
Braverman hopes his theory will lead them to do just that.
“I’m hoping that after we have this conference and I bring this up, maybe the Egyptologists who work on these things all the time, maybe they will be stimulated to look,” he said.
Previous conferences have examined the deaths of Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander the Great, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Florence Nightingale and others.
(This version corrects that Braverman does not believe pharaoh had Marfan syndrome and clarifies that Akhenaten’s appearance has
has been well known.)
By Alex Dominguez, ociated Press Writer
Fri May 2, 4:12 PM ET”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080502/ap_on_he_me/feminine_pharaoh
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Asiful Islam, Ph.D, is a post doctoral researcher at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital, one of the research hospital of Harvard Medical School. He was skeptical about hypnosis at first, but after speaking with Priya, he decided to go on the show observe a session. He was impressed with the results, and decided to give a hypnosis try.
Asif have many research projects going on, and just like any post doctorial fellow in the medical field, he spend most of his time writing research grant proposals. He find this process extremely stressful, and feel as if his mind was being pulled in many different directions. He came on the show with the hopes that hypnosis can clear his mind from distraction. With his friends and colleague from Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School watching on live TV, this is another pivotal moment in hypnotherapy. Will Hypnotist Bernie be able pull this off?
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Elizabeth is a highly motivated young over achiever. She graduated high school and college with top ranking grades, and commands a graduate degree in her tender age. yet her constant demand on perfection is straining her to emotional exhaustion. At times she would be so stress out about minor details to the point of physical illness. She contacted Hypnotist Bernie to help her with her obsessive tendencies. She is a skeptic of hypnosis, however, having volunteered at a stage hypnosis show in high school and failed to go into trance, she was told that she is “not hypnotizable”.
Elizabeth’s father happens to be a world class physican, whom confessed to being a skeptic of hypnotism. The medical experts are closely watching this live episode!
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Cara Institute of Advanced Hypnosis www.hypnotherapy.org
Original Broadcast: CCTV Channel 9
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As the real axis of evil (AIPAC+NEOCONS+ZIONISTS) worriedly watches the uncertain fate of its 60-year-old apartheid military outpost established by brute force & ethnic cleansing of the native inhabitants in the Western frontiers of Iran (”Land of Aryans”), IRAN announces opening up of its medical schools to foreign students.
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