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Category: Medicine
Actually, this is only good news for coffee drinkers who also have late-stage hepatitis C. A recent study in Hepatology showed a possible benefit to coffee consumption in patients with hepatitis C, First I will show the treatment of the...
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Category: Science News
This is about chronic fatigue syndrome and the association with XMRV. I apologize in advance for the provocative title, and the subsequent gratuitous references to the Nobel Prize, but there is a point to this. Take a look at this...
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Category: Bioethics
The topic of neural enhancement has created controversy. This came to wide attention in late 2007, upon the publication of various articles in Nature, as noted by Shelley Batts, Janet Stemwedel, David Dobbs, Daniel MacArthur, Scicurious and others. But so...
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Category: Psychiatry
This is from an open-access article in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry: an article featuring a debate about the relevance of randomized, controlled trials to clinical practice. It is mostly about research on psychotherapy, but with some treatment of psychopharmacology....
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Category: Environment
This is an odd one. A study of 5191 adults showed an association between air pollution and attacks of acute appendicitis. Effect of ambient air pollution on the incidence of appendicitis CMAJ 10.1503/cmaj.082068 Published online ahead of print October 5,...
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Category: Psychiatry
The new drug is called iloperidone; the brand name in the USA will be Fanapt. It is yet another antipsychotic that blocks D2 and 5HT2 receptors. Although there is no universally accepted way of classifying drugs into families, it will...
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Category: Medicine
Practitioners are warned that it is astonishingly easy to make dosing errors with the oral suspension of Tamiflu (oseltamivir). This is a product that is mostly given to kids, although it could be used for adults who have difficulty swallowing,...
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Category: Neuroscience
A recent report refers to the increasing number of Alzheimer patient an "emergency." Yet, despite an enormous amount of research, and a handful of drugs, we are not particularly close to having a robust intervention for this condition. Perhaps the...
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Category: Medicine
The SEIU website makes an astonishing claim: But, in DC and nine other states, including Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming, insurance companies have gone too far, claiming that "domestic violence victim"...
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Category: Armchair Musings
The odd thing about the Pfizer story is that it is old news. Fierce Pharma wrote about it on 26 January 2009, and Neuron Culture posted about it, on 27 January 2009. Yet it just appeared in the New York...
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