New Grand Rounds at GruntDoc : Aetiology

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Tara C. Smith is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.

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New Grand Rounds at GruntDoc

Category: Blog carnivals
Posted on: January 17, 2006 10:38 AM, by Tara C. Smith

For anyone unfamiliar with Grand Rounds in the blogosphere, it's a medical blog carnival. With posts submitted by doctors, patients, and generally medically-interested readers, there's usually a little something for everyone. This week's edition is located over at GruntDoc (you can read some background on GruntDoc at "Pre-Rounds" here--requires free registration.) Lots of good posts this week as usual. A few that caught my eye: a post a Parallel Universes discussing a recent Lancet paper on iron supplementation and malaria; some commentary at Red State Moron on prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy: are patients getting the right information, and are they pressured one way or another by their OB/GYN?; and a discussion of the hedgehog pathway in obesity and osteoporosis over at The Biotech Weblog (which was also mentioned here at afarensis).