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Envoronment
November 7, 2009
Respectful Insolence
Let's go back to the days of the Founding Fathers... ...back when they believed that humors were responsible for your health. Oh, yes, I know it's now "politically or medically incorrect" now to practice medicine the way they did in the days of our Founding Fathers, but that's because the socialist libero-Nazis took that away from us:
Effect Measure
Barbara Ehrenreich on the swine flu supply problem What caused the supply problem? How about trusting the wrong people.
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
An Open Letter... ...to the guy next to me in seminar yesterday morning. Dear Dr. Hot-Shot, I realize that you thought you were being discrete by turning your phone to vibrate while you texted at a break neck pace during seminar, but when...
November 6, 2009
DrugMonkey
Repost: Preferential Funding for First Submissions of NIH Grants I have a post I'm working on that references a topic I've been talking about on the blog for a long time. I was about to quote extensively from this one but I figured I'd just better repost the whole...
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The Buzz: In Defense of Drug Addiction Research This week, Jessica Palmer of Bioephemera posted an illuminating report on the politics that govern—and often hamper—scientific research for drug abuse treatment. In her post, Jessica points out, "research to help [cigarette] smokers quit is generally portrayed as necessary and...
Respectful Insolence
Desiree Jennings "cured" of her "vaccine-induced dystonia"? Remember how I promised that I'd do my next installment of my blogging Suzanne Somers' pile of idiocy, namely her own book, before the end of the week? Plans change, and neurons melt, which they did in response to reading...
Terra Sigillata
"Stiff Nights" Falls on Hard Times If for nothing else than to chuckle at the product names, it's become great sport to follow FDA's dozens of reports on erectile dysfunction supplements cited for adulteration with prescription drugs or their chemical analogs. However, this is very serious business for supplement users who are also taking prescription vasodilator and/or antianginal drugs.
Effect Measure
Swine flu in a cat and other matters Swine flu in all sorts of animals.
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: The Stuttering Priapism Who would have thought Sci would be running a normal pub-med search, for something COMPLETELY not weird science material, and come across...this? Truly, it was meant to be! This case report is probably one of the weirdest things I've seen...
Respectful Insolence
An Age of Autism commenter destroys yet another irony meter riley'smom is very unhappy with Amy Wallace: I wrote Ms. Wallace a private email. I intentionally wrote it directly to her private email and DID NOT post it in the comments section of Wired Mag. I asked her about her...
November 5, 2009
White Coat Underground
A pox on your house? How fighting one disease brought back another Some were surprised to read that after a pro basketball player swatted a bat out of the air, he had to have rabies vaccinations. This is not a surprise to many medical folks who have had to give rabies prophylaxis...
Greg Laden's Blog
Petition for HCR with Public Option Hurry up and sign this petition demanding health care reform with a public option!!! Thank you very much. Al Franken thanks you as well....
Greg Laden's Blog
Hey kids, it is up to you to avoid getting H1N1 flu, but here's some tips Kids, before we watch the video, I have to tell you: I just got a flu shot the other day and it did not hurt even a tiny little bit. That's because the needle is very small and your neurons .... that feel the pain...
Neuron Culture
Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering -- as is the complacency about same.
Neuron Culture
"No pity party, no macho man." Psychologist Dave Grossman on surviving killing Dave Grossman's take on the psychic toll of killing (and almost being killed) among the most compelling.
Culture Dish
Get a Free Copy of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (aka HeLa) to Consider for Course Adoption, While Supplies Last Calling all academics: If you'd like a free advanced copy of my book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, to consider it for course adoption, get thee to Random House's academic blog and request a copy quick, while supplies last (which probably won't be long at the rate things are going).
Respectful Insolence
The anti-vaccine movement, cranks, and "pseudo-expertise" Over the last week or so, I've been confronted full bore with cranks, staring down the barrel, if you will, of a crank shotgun, one barrel being the anti-vaccine movement in general (with J.B. Handley and his misogyny being the...
Effect Measure
Ron Paul nuttiness on swine flu A principled libertarian uses the wrong principles. Or none.
Respectful Insolence
Has Desiree Jennings' VAERS report been found? The other day, I wrote about an unfortunate young woman named Desiree Jennings, who claimed to have had a rare neurological disorder known as dystonia as a complication of being vaccinated for seasonal flu, when it appears that her condition...
November 4, 2009
bioephemera
Update: Double standards in drug research Since I posted last night, DrugMonkey, Dr. Free-Ride, and the Intersection have also checked in with their POVs on this issue. I particularly liked this comment from Dr. Free-Ride: We get to foot the bill for the effects of other...
Adventures in Ethics and Science
Funding scientific research that people "don't approve of". If you think taking drugs is a moral failing, does that mean you should be against scientific research on drug abuse and treatment?
DrugMonkey
The Politics of Drug Abuse Research Funding That estimated $6 Billion in annual costs to our nation should get your attention.
White Coat Underground
Cruel and unusual No matter how you feel about incarceration, it's a dangerous business. Inmates have high rates of serious transmissible diseases which aren't turned into the warden when they are released. Around 2.5 million people are held in American correctional facilities. HIV...
White Coat Underground
"Mind affects body": what a new Science placebo study tells us As I've written before, the placebo effect is a rather messy phenomenon. It usually refers to the difference in outcomes in a study that are not due to the intervention but to multiple other variables associated with being in a...
Genetic Future
More on return of research data to participants from Genomics Law Report Yesterday I posted a brief rant about the need for researchers to think about the best way to return genetic research data to participants, spinning off an equally brief opinion piece I wrote for the ongoing ELSI series at Genomics...
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