The futile quest for the "perfect" breast
Category: Misc.
Perfect breasts are to die for, apparently.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:00 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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
September 29, 2007
Attack of the killer amoebae
Category: General Epidemiology
Deaths from rare amoeba increase this year.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:00 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2007
Introducing Correlations
Category: Blogging news
A new blog, a new TV show...what's not to like?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 11:50 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 27, 2007
Not again...
Category: AIDS/HIV
Superstition trumps science once again.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:17 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Twelve Diseases that Changed Our World"
Category: Historical studies of disease
Learning from history to avoid repeating it. Ideally.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:30 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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....
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What have been the most significant diseases in history?
Category: Historical studies of disease
What would you pick?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:55 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 20, 2007
Group B Streptococcus: an introduction
Category: General Epidemiology
Infants are still dying from this largely preventable infection.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 12:15 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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