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Envoronment
July 3, 2009
Brazillion Thoughts
The subsidiary patient Many times, in my practice, I am required to explain some statistical concepts to my patients in order to make them avoid some frequent pitfalls. The most common concept I explain is what is "normal" in lab exams. Let's suppose...
White Coat Underground
ER, homeopath style Yes, every skeptic on the web has posted this, but it is irresistible. Remember, yanks, that A&E in the UK is not a boring cable TV channel but what they call an ER....
Neuron Culture
CJR: The health-care reform debate as Groundhog Day It's been 26 years since health-care reform failed. Does the debate reflect anything that's happened since?
Greg Laden's Blog
Morning Sickness is an Adaptation, not a ... Sickness Symptoms of illnesses may be adaptive. Indeed, this may be true to the extent that we should not call certain things illnesses. Like "morning sickness."
The Scientific Indian
You are synesthetic, I am too, everyone is. Listened to an interview at All In the Mind[link corrected] with David Eagleman, Neuroscientist, novelist. David Eagleman: ...if I were to take a piano and I were to hit the high note and then I would hit the low note...
Neuron Culture
Will government involvement drive up health-care costs? As with squabbles about the problems with our educational (non)system, the picture on health-care reform gets clearer if we step back and test this argument against the larger world.
Respectful Insolence
The Homeopathic A & E Mitchell and Webb, they totally get homeopathy.
Effect Measure
Swine flu animal experiments Swine flu tested in ferrets and compared to seasonal flu.
Respectful Insolence
ScienceBlogs' ads are going to be the death of me (or at least my reputation) I may be a little late to the party, but that's because my laptop happens to have ad blocking software installed. However, blog bud PalMD rubbed my nose into a little kerfuffle that's been going on here the last couple...
July 2, 2009
Neuron Culture
Swine flu digs in Though the swine flu virus is missing at least two features thought necessary for ready trasnimssion, it's spreading easily anyway -- and may displace 'ordinary' seasonal flu.
Neuron Culture
Loss aversion and the rough road for health care reform An article from the Standard ponders why, despite widespread recognition that the country needs health care reform, we may not get it: Though it's clear we need reform, it's easier to scare people about what they MIGHT supposedly lose (their present coverage) than to see how a new system will improve things.
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Ferreting out swine flu - virus causes slightly more severe disease than seasonal flu According to two studies on ferrets, swine flu causes slightly more severe disease than seasonal flu, infecting the gut and lungs to a much greater extent. However, the two disagree on how transmissible it is.
DrugMonkey
AstroTurfing the PharmaShill Gambit Sorry, just a linky-lurve but you have to see this. Stephanie Z and a minion or two over at Almost Diamonds are giving hell to operatives of some homeopath supply house over the Zicam/Zinc/anosmia debacle. An example of the antiFDA,...
Respectful Insolence
They don't call it "cheat-lation" for nothing (updated) The Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT): Even felons and sites engaging in insurance fraud can participate!
Effect Measure
Testing for swine flu Why don't we test everyone for swine flu anymore?
Respectful Insolence
Senator Tom Harkin pulls a fast one: Alternative medical practitioners will be part of the "healthcare workforce" under health care reform Senator Harkin pulls a fast one. Get ready for alternative medicine practitioners to be officially part of the "healthcare workforce" under health care reform.
July 1, 2009
White Coat Underground
Happy New (Medical) Year! The medical education calendar begins and ends on the first of July each year, and in the hospital, that means a brand spanking new crop of young doctors. While this may sound a bit scary, the facts are a bit...
Respectful Insolence
CBS News' resident anti-vaccine propagandist Sharyl Attkisson dives into breast cancer crankery Remember Sharyl Attkisson? She's the CBS reporter who can really bring home the crazy when it comes to vaccines and autism. Now she's tackling breast cancer. Oh, joy.
Neuron Culture
DIY circumcision with nail clippers "This is something we would advise men never to attempt," said a medic.
Terra Sigillata
Michael Jackson: Cherilyn Lee, Diprivan® (propofol), and Myers' Cocktail The late pop icon now appears to have requested a common, normally-safe intravenous anesthetic drug employed daily in outpatient surgical procedures. While not a common drug of abuse, Diprivan (propofol) can provide euphoric and anti-anxiety effects. Most relevant to the Jackson case, it can cause a rare side effect called "propofol-infusion syndrome" characterized by potentially fatal disturbances to cardiac pacing and rhythm.
Effect Measure
Tamiflu and adverse effects Figuring out side effects of Tamiflu is not as easy as it might seem.
June 30, 2009
Greg Laden's Blog
FDA: Limits on Acetaminophen Acetaminophen dose recommendations will be lowered significantly by the FDA, and some products will be pulled off the market, because of concerns over liver damage. If you look up "Tylenol" on Wikipedia as I write this, you see the following: Indeed. From MSNBC: Despite years...
Greg Laden's Blog
Swine Flu Edumavideo for Kids Hat Tip It's Alive...
A Blog Around The Clock
New and Exciting in PLoS this week Just because I am galivanting in Lindau does not mean I could not take a look at the brand new papers published in PLoS ONE, PLoS Biology, PLoS Medicine and PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases last night. A few titles caught...
White Coat Underground
Depression---an online discussion Major depressive disorder (hereafter referred to as "depression") is a prevalent and disabling illness. According to the National Institute of Mental Health: Major Depressive Disorder is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15-44...[and]...affects approximately 14.8 million...
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Avian Flu
The recent swine influenza outbreak has brought the fear of a global pandemic to the forefront of the public consciousness. But before pigs, the suspected carriers of the next pandemic were of the avian species. But what does it mean to have swine or avian influenza and how do they differ from the regular flu? Can you be vaccinated against it? How do these viruses spread from animals to humans? Read the ScienceBlogs posts below to find out!
Effect Measure December 28, 2008
Another flu paper that "unlocks the secret" of 1918 virus virulence
We're learning important things. This evidence strongly suggests that some feature of the polymerase complex allowed the virus to invade the lower respiratory tract and lung tissue of ferrets. Understanding that is a big step forward, a direction different than we have been looking up to now, where much work has gone into the difference between bird and human receptors in the upper and lower respiratory tracts.
Not Exactly Rocket Science June 21, 2008
Round peg, square hole - why our bird flu drugs are a fluke
The world's nations are stockpiling two drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, to counter the threat of a bird flu pandemic. These drugs work by blocking a key protein that allows the virus to spread. But two years ago, a study revealed the structure of this protein and in doing so, shown that both Tamiflu and Relenza only work through a fortunate fluke.
Effect Measure August 6, 2008
What killed people in the 1918 flu?
Most people in 1918 who got flu didn't die of it and the ones that did probably died mostly from secondary bacterial pneumonias. But now we have to ask what this has to do with today's pandemic planning assumptions.
Aetiology January 26, 2006
Pandemic Influenza Series
Day 1: History of Pandemic Influenza. Day 2: Our adventures with avian flu. Day 3: Challenges to pandemic preparedness. Day 4: 1918 influenza virus reconstructed. Day 5: How ready are we, and what can YOU do?
