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Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.

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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. 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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Infectious Disease Series

September 30, 2007

The futile quest for the "perfect" breast

Category: Misc.

Perfect breasts are to die for, apparently.

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September 29, 2007

Attack of the killer amoebae

Category: General Epidemiology

Deaths from rare amoeba increase this year.

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September 28, 2007

Introducing Correlations

Category: Blogging news

A new blog, a new TV show...what's not to like?

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September 27, 2007

Not again...

Category: AIDS/HIV

Superstition trumps science once again.

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"Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World"

Category: Historical studies of disease

Learning from history to avoid repeating it. Ideally.

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September 26, 2007

Carnivals!

Category: Blog carnivals

This week's anniversary edition of Grand Rounds is up over at Kevin, M.D., while a new Tangled Bank is up today at Aardvarchaelogy....

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What have been the most significant diseases in history?

Category: Historical studies of disease

What would you pick?

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September 25, 2007

Where's the Discovery Institute when you need a defender of academic freedom?

Category: Academia

Teaching Adam and Eve as mythology apparently cost a professor his job...

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September 24, 2007

'Round the tubes...

Category: General Epidemiology

Busy week; working on getting a grant and a manuscript revision out the door. In the meantime, Jake has a post on abstinence-only versus "abstinence-plus" education, and why neither is working that well, and Orac discusses a topic I want...

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September 20, 2007

Group B Streptococcus: an introduction

Category: General Epidemiology

Infants are still dying from this largely preventable infection.

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