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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...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:04 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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"...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:18 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Public Health
...and the steel hits the flesh. Mark Rosenberg, MD, representing the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, had an opinion piece published in the Boston Globe. He makes a good point about health. It is not just doctors...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:12 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) has been controversial, as noted in the Washington Post. Admittedly, most of the controversy has been contrived. Fortunately, the process is moving forward; there is no meaningful opposition at this point. A good summary of the...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Psychiatry
Psychology is turning out to be a rather important field these days. Nate Hagens has a post on The Oil Drum, The Psychological and Evolutionary Roots of Resource Overconsumption Revisited. He reviews the evolutionary psychology of poor economic decision-making. Calculated...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
It was the second-most-blogged article on the NYT when I got up this morning; now, it is the first-most-blogged. It is the article that reports on a survey that shows 72% support for a government-run health insurance program. The program...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:24 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
Market Folly writes of a new hedge fund strategy, and asks if there are any more ideas like this: We came across this interesting piece in Dealbook the other day and thought it was very intriguing. Simply put: hedge funds...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:37 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
Traumatic Brain Injury has been called the "signature injury" of the Iraq War, due to the reported high prevalence of the injury there. This is in contrast to previous wars. It's not that head injury is necessarily more common; what...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 9:04 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Energy
This is a continuation from last time. Sort of. Last time I wrote about some things from a recent program at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:57 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Public Health
A post at Energy Bulletin recaps a recent presentation at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The post is U.S. public health community begins discussing peak oil....
Posted by Joseph j7uy5 at 8:22 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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