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Envoronment
November 22, 2009
Respectful Insolence
"Politics is always intruding into the world of breast cancer" Before I try to leave this topic for a while (which, like so may topics in the past, has temporarily taken over the blog for the last few days), one of the comments I've kept hearing since I started blogging...
November 21, 2009
White Coat Underground
Skeptics' Circle #124 is up The latest Skeptics' Circle is up at Beyond the Short Coat. The Giants' Shoulders #17 is also up at scibling Eric Michael Johnson's place. Go and read!\...
Respectful Insolence
DrugMonkey
Here we go again. Ecstasy, death...unsubstantiated claims. Canada. Again. This time in Whistler: A 20-year-old male had been found unconscious by friends. When police arrived, Whistler Fire Rescue Service and Emergency Health Services personnel were performing CPR, but failed to revive the victim, who was pronounced dead...
White Coat Underground
Science-based medicine: we are not automatons Opponents of science-based medicine like to accuse the rest of us of failing to be "holisitc", of failing to see the whole individual who comes to us for health care. I've argued many times that this is not only wrong,...
Effect Measure
Trying to understand the Norwegian swine flu mutations What kind of team player is the mutation and will it make it in the Big Leagues?
November 20, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
Medical Matters: H1N1, Science Ignorance and Cancer Screening I have a few non-authoritative comments regarding recent and current medical developments. This concerns the flu (esp. the H1N1 Swine Pandemic Flu), and the two recent changes in screening recommendations, for breast and cervical cancer and related issues....
Thus Spake Zuska
Death of a Bridge When my mother was a little girl, my grandfather would drive her - almost all the way - to the dentist in Point Marion, PA. They would stop and park on the Greene County side of this bridge, and walk...
Terra Sigillata
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center takes legal action against Evolv water Continued misuse of the M.D. Anderson name by bottled water multilevel-marketing companies draws legal action this week in US District Court. I found at least some of the data on the "testing" of their water on in vitro release of pro-inflammatory lipids from cultured cancer cells - guess what might happen if one puts cultured cells into water or 50/50 water and media?
DrugMonkey
Continuous submission of NIH grants for reviewers: Something is odd. Anything that encourages scientists to help with NIH grant review is a GoodThing.
Respectful Insolence
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama": The USPSTF recommendations for mammography used as a political weapon Nooooo! Not one of the seemingly rational ones too!
Terra Sigillata
Sir John Crofton, TB combination therapy pioneer - a long and admirable life Denise Gellene in the New York Times is reporting this morning that Scottish physician, Sir John Crofton, passed away on 3 November at age 97. Crofton is best known for implementing a combination drug regimen to treat tuberculosis, the insidious...
Effect Measure
The uninsured and surviving an accident The uninsured are more likely to die in the hospital after an accident. Why?
On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess
Friday Morning Jams... Last night one of you wrote: Dear Dr. Isis, Have you seen the Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" video? I cannot get this song out of my head and thought I might suggest it to Your Hot Scientistness. I have a...
Neurotopia
Friday Weird Science: Oxytocin in your Cavernosa This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake... ( So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post...
November 19, 2009
erv
Turning 'crazy' into learnin-- XMRV from contaminated vaccines? *shrug* I cant think of a way it could have done it.
Genetic Future
My Gene Profile: the lamest genetic testing scam on the internet? Pharyngula, via a reader, points me to the most aggressively bad attempt at a genetic testing product I have ever encountered, coupled with a truly horrific attitude to parenting.The tag line alone is hilariously inept:"Our Technology Spawned from Human Genome Project...
The World's Fair
H1N1: fastest freaking science ever (plus a bit about sequencing all the poo in the world) I actually mentioned this video earlier, but you know, I don't think I did the pitch justice. So... Basically a TEDx talk by Jennifer Gardy, who outlines just how freaking fast that H1N1 information has been obtained. And all because...
Good Math, Bad Math
The Balance of Screening Tests As you've no doubt heard by now, there's been a new recommendation issues which proposes changing the breast-cancer screening protocol for women under 50, by eliminating mammograms for women who don't have significant risk factos. While Orac has done...
White Coat Underground
Why I won't be prescribing medical marijuana In November, the citizens of my home state approved a medical marijuana law. The very next day, I started getting calls from patients (often not may own) asking how they could get it. I'm not fan of draconian laws that...
The World's Fair
Saying hello to Carl Zimmer Carl is currently in Vancouver, and he was gracious enough to come out for drinks with us last night. This was after a great talk he gave on the how scientists have been following the evolutionary tracks of the H1N1...
White Coat Underground
"I'm not getting a flu shot because I never get the flu" Basing medical practice on science helps us avoid the pitfalls of relying on our own reasoning and experience. If I want to start a patient on a new medicine, the individual characteristics of the patient are important (Is the drug...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS ONE There are 25 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services...
Respectful Insolence
"Obama's fixin' death panels for your mama," the misogyny gambit, and other idiotic responses to the updated USPSTF mammography recommendations Oh, noes! The new breast cancer screening guidelines are misogynistic, primitive, and part of Obama death panels!
Terra Sigillata
The new NHS sexual health hub: Could you imagine this happening in the US? Sex for socialists?
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