Medicine & Health:
SciMonkbling Evil Monkey has a post up at Neurotopia (Version 2.0) in which he rails against idiot reviewer comments found in the summary statements. These latter are the written critiques provided by the three (typically) reviewers assigned to a NIH...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 12:45 PM • 2 Comments •
Apparently, a surgeon has been committing battery on his patients by applying temporary tattoos to their bodies while they are unconscious during surgery. Given the way physicians are trained to believe they are gods who function on a practical and...
Posted on July 23, 2008 6:34 AM • 10 Comments •
In my post on the interactive map of US prescription opiate use trends provided by the Las Vegas Sun I initially missed the association with a three-part series on "The New Addiction". This explains why the Sun came up with...
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Posted on July 22, 2008 9:15 PM • 3 Comments •
If you are a reader of my posts on drug abuse science you will have noticed that it rarely takes long for a commenter or three to opine some version of "The (US) War on Drugs is a complete and...
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Posted on July 21, 2008 11:00 PM • 67 Comments •
Okay, with Stage 13 on the books, where are we with the doping cases? Well, first we had Manuel Beltrán nailed for erythropoietin (EPO); his team Liquigas pulled him out of the Tour and suspended him. Next up was Moisés...
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Posted on July 18, 2008 6:22 PM • 6 Comments •
A story I recently heard from an correspondent who works as a medical professional in a general surgery practice reminds me of the distance we have yet to travel in understanding even the seemingly obvious implications of drug abuse. My...
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Posted on July 13, 2008 1:40 AM • 19 Comments •
Recreational use and abuse of prescription narcotics has received much attention in recent years, from the 2003 revelation that Rush Limbaugh was abusing OxyContin to the multi-drug overdose of Heath Ledger. If you do a little searching you will no...
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Posted on July 9, 2008 9:49 AM • 12 Comments •
Most of the audience for this blog will be familiar with the use of "Google" as a verb to describe searching the World Wide Web for information on a given topic. "I googled a half-dozen mojito recipes which we tried...
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Posted on July 7, 2008 8:16 PM • 25 Comments •
President George W. Bush signed H.R. 2642, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008 on June 30th. This little bit of mid-year pork includes, yes, a little sniff for the NIH. Schweet. [ Agent writedit is all over the case, as...
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Posted on July 2, 2008 2:15 PM • 3 Comments •
Greg and Steve (not Adam and Eve) both blogged a recent paper by Degenhardt and (20 other) colleagues in PLoS Medicine. Steve: According to a new survey the USA has highest level of illegal cocaine and cannabis use in the...
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Posted on June 30, 2008 11:11 PM • 7 Comments •
