Do dogs understand barks?
If you are a dog, please bark up.Posted on May 1, 2008 3:42 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Effect Measure
Effect Measure is a forum for progressive public health discussion and argument as well as a source of public health information from around the web that interests the Editor(s)
Search this blog
Search This Blog using Google
Profile
The Editors of Effect Measure are senior public health scientists and practitioners. Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States (Boston, 1799). The Editors sign their posts "Revere" to recognize the public service of a professional forerunner better known for other things.
Recent Posts
- Dying for a home
- Why should the military get a scarce pandemic flu vaccine before almost everyone else?
- The Katrina aid that wasn't
- The Iraq-Pakistan border is not a problem
- Salmonella outbreak developments
- HIV/AIDS grossly underestimated in US?
- Spoiling the tomato barrel
- Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Prime Movers
- "One donut, decaf, no glaze, no powdered sugar"
- The US is one of the better off developing nations
Recent Comments
- amk on Dying for a home
- rickr on "Braised enterovirus" and "Fuck the spring chicken"
- revere on Dying for a home
- Edmund on Dying for a home
- john snow on Why should the military get a scarce pandemic flu vaccine before almost everyone else?
- revere on Dying for a home
- Rhiannon on Dying for a home
- revere on Why should the military get a scarce pandemic flu vaccine before almost everyone else?
- bigdudeisme on Why should the military get a scarce pandemic flu vaccine before almost everyone else?
- M. Randolph Kruger on Why should the military get a scarce pandemic flu vaccine before almost everyone else?
Categories
- Academia
- Advertising
- Air pollution
- Alternative medicine
- Anti-war
- Antibiotics
- Antiviral model series
- Antivirals
- Archaeology
- Big Pharma
- Bioengineering
- Biology
- Bioterrorism
- Bird flu
- Birds
- Blog
- Blog carnivals
- CDC
- Cancer
- Cancer policy
- Civil liberties
- Climate change
- Clinical
- Computers
- Congress
- Consumers
- Contest
- Creationism/evolution
- Disasters
- Drugs
- Economy
- Energy
- Environment
- Environmental health
- Epidemiology
- Ethics
- Evolution
- FDA
- Federal health
- Food
- Food safety
- Fraud
- Freethinker Sermonettes
- GM food and agriculture
- Genetic sequences
- Greenhouse gas
- Grotesque
- Guns
- Health care
- Health insurance
- History
- History, science
- Human rights
- Humor?
- Infectious disease
- Influenza treatment
- Injury
- Intellectual property
- Internet
- Invention/innovation
- Iraq/Afghanistan
- Israel and Palestine
- Justice
- Labor and Unions
- Lawsuits
- Math model series
- Media
- Mental health
- Movies
- NIH
- New drugs
- Nuclear
- Occupational health
- Open Access
- Pandemic preparedness
- Personal
- Pesticides
- Philosophy of science
- Physics
- Physiology
- Politics
- Polonium-210
- Priorities
- Privacy
- Product safety
- Public health preparedness
- Quackery and fraud
- Regulation
- Regulations
- Reproductive.rights
- Research support
- Safety
- Science education
- Science policy
- Scientific publishing
- Security
- Sex
- Smoking
- Stem cells
- Surveillance
- TB
- Tasers
- Taxes
- Technology
- Terrorism
- Tripoli 6
- Urban legend
- Vaccines
- Varia
- WHO
- War costs
- Water pollution
- West Nile
- Whistleblowers
- Wingnut wrongosphere
- Words
- asbestos
- net neturality
- publishing
Archives
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
Blogroll
- Aetiology
- Respectful Insolence (Orac)
- Am. J. of Bioethics/Editor's Blog
- Angry Toxicologist
- Code Blue Blog
- Confined Space
- Environmental Health News
- Genetics and Public Health
- Health Care Renewal
- Impact Analysis
- Join Together
- NIOSH Science Blog
- Stayin' Alive
- The Rest of the Story (Tobacco)
- U.S. Food Policy
- Avian Flu Diary
- Bird Flu (Dr. Bob Gleeson)
- CDC
- CIDRAP
- Clinicians' Biosecurity Network
- coming influenza pandemic (newsfilter)
- connotea (avian flu)
- CurrentEvents Discussion Board
- Declan Butler's blog
- Flu Wiki
- Greenhammer
- H5N1 (crofsblog)
- ProMed
- PandemicFlu.gov
- Recombinomics (Henry Niman)
- Scott McPherson's Blog
- Sophia Zoe's Blog
- AxisofLogic
- Billmon
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Bouphonia
- DailyKos
- Daubert on the Web
- The Grist Magazine
- James Wolcott
- Just a Bump in the Beltway
- Majikthise (Philosophy/Political/General)
- myDD
- On social marketing and social change
- Post-Normal Times
- Political Site of the Day
- Sadly, No
- Sandwalk
- Science and Politics
- The Next Hurrah
- War and Piece (Laura Rozen)
- Iraq Coalition Casualties Count
- Today in Iraq
Public Health/Medical Links
Bird flu links
Other Links
Iraq
Group Efforts
Other Information
Biology:
Tangled web, tangled bank and mercury poisoning
Mercury crawls out of the river into birds.Posted on April 21, 2008 4:39 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A public health question about plant viruses for the hivemind
An epidemic of cucurbit disease and a question about human diseases from plant viruses.Posted on April 21, 2008 7:09 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Scientists for a better PCR" (hat tip Scienceblogs.de)
If you are a molecular biologist this is hilarious. If you're not, well, you tell me.Posted on March 3, 2008 3:17 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How bats fly out of hell
Now we know that bumblebees (and bats) can fly. They just don't do it the usual way.Posted on February 29, 2008 3:52 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pregnant women standing on their own two feet
A fetus shifts a woman's center of mass. How does she cope?Posted on December 17, 2007 4:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lightweight dinosaur, heavyweight publishing event
A weird dinosaur with hollow bones and cranium is now for all to see. Yes, we mean all. No subscription required.Posted on November 15, 2007 3:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mouse pick-up line: piss off!
Major urinary proteins are recognition signals for mice.Posted on November 5, 2007 4:27 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Telling a cell to make an eye
Accidental discovery of switch that turns on eye development sequence.Posted on October 30, 2007 7:31 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Something I don't get about fish ecology
Experts restock with the "wrong" fish. What's the issue, here?Posted on September 8, 2007 7:11 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If my ant had balls she'd be a pandemic victim
Virus decimating fire ants. Oh, goody. Let's make it a pesticide.Posted on May 10, 2007 4:25 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thanksgiving; the sacred and the tryptophan
Turkey, tryptophan and melatonin. What are they thinking?Posted on November 23, 2006 7:54 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Statins for H5N1. The road not taken. Why?
Statins hold promise for treating H5N1 ARDS. They remain unexamined. Why?Posted on October 4, 2006 7:23 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's not the heat
How we lose heat, if we lose heat.Posted on July 19, 2006 7:04 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
