Breast Health and Rembrandt’s Mistress
Now take a look at this bathing beauty. It’s Rembrandt’s Bathsheba (Louvre, Paris). If you look a little closer (stare at her left breast) you will see what caught the attention of some Australian researchers Braithwaite and Shugg in 1983.1 They found peau d’orange (orange peel skin) – a clinical sign of breast cancer. Rembrandt [...]
A curious case of the breathless fashion designer…
À bout de souffle – Breathless Two years ago, a very French and extravagantly charming designer called Anais presented with a very curious case. She indicated that she had problems with her breathing and that she had to yawn to get a deep breath in. Anais had previously consulted with her GP and a [...]
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A curious case…actresses and nanoparticles
Following is a curious case of a 19 year old drama student. For the sake of anonymity, let’s call her Julianne. Julianne presented with excruciating ovulation and period pain; her period had been a source of ongoing distress since she was twelve years old. At ovulation she experienced extreme pain in the right ovary [...]
