June 30, 2006
Revenge is a dish best served raw
Category: General biology • Infectious causes of chronic disease • Infectious disease • Various bacteria
Especially in human form.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:15 PM • 2 Comments
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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and 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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Category: General Epidemiology • General biology • Infectious disease • Influenza • Public health • Various bacteria • Various viruses
...of influenza virus transmission, that is.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:15 PM • 3 Comments
June 29, 2006
Emerging Disease and Zoonoses #17--How now, mad cow
Category: General Epidemiology • General biology • Historical studies of disease • Infectious causes of chronic disease • Infectious disease • Outbreak • Public health
People make terrible jokes about "mad cow" disease. ("Why is PMS called PMS? Because mad cow was already taken.") Pundits use it as an example of an over-hyped disease (and to be fair, estimates of total cases due to...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:45 PM • 9 Comments
Question for the medical/pharmaceutical folks
Category: Misc.
I've heard quite a bit about pharmacists who've refused to fill prescriptions for contraceptives due to personal moral stance. But I'd not heard any who refused to fill a prescription for painkillers until yesterday. Here's the story. A relative just...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:15 AM • 44 Comments
June 28, 2006
News flash--condoms do help prevent HPV
Category: General Epidemiology • General biology • Infectious causes of chronic disease • Infectious disease • Politics • Public health • Various viruses
Especially in religious circles, much has been made about the "uselessness" of condoms for the prevention of infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV). This is the virus that is responsible for almost all cases of cervical cancer, against...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments
While I'm out...
Category: General Epidemiology • Infectious disease • Skepticism • Various viruses
One of the things that faculty get to do is go to lots and lots and lots of meetings. Today I'm at a 6-hour retreat focused on distance learning, PubMed, and data repositories. (I know, you're all seething with jealousy)....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:30 AM • 3 Comments
Lepidoptera blogging, Part 2
Category: General biology • Iowa/area news
I mentioned we were out camping over the weekend in central Iowa. After our first close encounter, I figured we might as well make a weekend out of it, so Sunday we headed to the Reiman Gardens at Iowa State...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments
June 27, 2006
Pneumonic plague outbreak
Category: General Epidemiology • General biology • Infectious disease • Outbreak • Public health • Various bacteria
I blogged a few months ago about a case of plague (due to the bacterium, Yersinia pestis) in a woman in California. I'm still doing some reading for the promised post on Black Death, CCR5, and other topics discussed...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 4:50 PM • 4 Comments
More good news for global health
Category: Public health
This is all of 24 hours old, so I know it's already ancient history in the blogosphere, but I did want to mention the news of Warren Buffet's ~$37 billion donation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (As Stephen...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:35 PM • 1 Comments
New Grand Rounds
Category: Blog carnivals
Head over to Medviews to check out this week's Grand Rounds, a weekly round-up of medical blog posts. Some goodies: Genetics and Health's Top 10 reasons you should care about genetics, and Clinical Cases and Images on reasons not to...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:30 AM • 0 Comments
The great American divide
Category: Humor
No, it's not religion. Or politics. What, then?...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:30 AM • 18 Comments
June 26, 2006
The world's scientists support evolution
Category: General biology • Intelligent design/creationism
This is big. The world's leading scientists yesterday urged schools to stop denying the facts of evolution amid controversy over the teaching of creationism. The national science academies of 67 countries - including the UK's Royal Society - issued a...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:45 PM • 22 Comments
My encounter with America's largest moth
Category: General biology
When I mention "bugs", I usually mean the microscopic kind. However, last week and this weekend have put me on a macroscopic "bug" kick. We were out camping this weekend in central Iowa. My kids found this beast by the...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:15 AM • 10 Comments
Magnets "zap" headaches
Category: Clinical trials • General biology • Skepticism
...according to a new Nature News story. Migraine sufferers might soon be able to block an imminent attack using a device that targets the brain with a powerful magnetic field. The technique, called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), triggers activity in...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 8:00 AM • 8 Comments
June 24, 2006
Saturday roundup
Category: General biology • Science education • Skepticism
More interesting topics I didn't mention here this week....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:00 AM • 2 Comments
June 23, 2006
Tattoos and infections
Category: Antibiotic resistance • Infectious disease • Public health • Various bacteria
I have an admission. I am tattooed. Twice. A small thing, but it's pretty incredible at the visceral reactions I sometime receive when people find out. (They're not in oft-seen areas under normal attire, but neither are they anywhere "naughty.")...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:00 PM • 15 Comments
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