Public Health:
Members of San Diego State University are expressing an interesting attitude in the aftermath of the drug sweep which arrested 75 students of SDSU. According to the initial reporting it is clear that members of an organized drug marketing organization...
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Posted on May 8, 2008 2:55 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Centers for Disease Control reported a higher number of measles cases in the US for first quarter 2008 in a recent report [h/t: occasional commenter ddt]. However, during January 1--April 25, 2008, a total of 64 confirmed measles cases...
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Posted on May 2, 2008 12:28 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In his classic song the great philosopher and student of addictive disorders, Hank Williams, Jr., blames a traditional source for increasing the probability of developing substance abuse: ....Hank why do you drink? (Hank) why do you roll smoke? Why must...
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Posted on April 3, 2008 1:48 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The past few years in NIH-funded research land have been peppered liberally with cries for "translational" research. The notion is that while the prior decades of research have been excellent at generating basic science observations, progress in using this information...
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Posted on March 27, 2008 7:14 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Huffington Post blogger David Sloan Wilson wonders why the Huffington Post has no section for "Science". I am reminded of this cover every time I visit the Huffington Post and see the words "Politics," "Media," "Business," "Entertainment," and "Living" on...
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Posted on March 24, 2008 4:35 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Today Show took up the vaccination issue today and used the recent San Diego measles situation as the lure. Matt Lauer served up a softball for his physician guest with this remark: "It seems to me the priority should...
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Posted on March 24, 2008 3:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
YHN and other parent bloggers (Abel Pharmboy, Dr. Free-Ride, DuWayne Brayton) have been musing on what DuWayne called "the conversation that never ends". To wit, the conversation that parents anticipate having with their children over the use of recreational psychoactive...
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Posted on March 11, 2008 2:59 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have a tendency to refer to data from the Monitoring the Future study with some frequency. Unfortunately I've been too lazy to post the critical data figures for your entertainment. Until today DearReader. One example of which I am...
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Posted on February 29, 2008 3:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As a brief update on my posts on the clinical use of MDMA (Part 1, Part 2) I'll note that the MAPS folks are trumpeting the initiation of yet another clinical trial with extra oomph because it is at dear...
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Posted on February 25, 2008 1:11 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Abel Pharmboy liveblogged his own vasectomy today. This takes some serious cajones, my friend. And it was all for a greater purpose: But the very serious part of this post is to educate men on how mild a vasectomy is...
Posted on February 21, 2008 11:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
