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Oral conception
Posted by revere on February 2, 2010 Grant writing makes you crazy and also forces bloggers to stoop to ever lower levels. Hence this from the Discover Magazine blog via Boingboing. While trawling for gold in the medical case literature they struck it rich with the story of the 15 year old girl with no vagina who got pregnant by giving her…
US health care system pronounced healthy
Posted by revere on January 6, 2010 Rush Limbaugh has done a personal biopsy of the US health care system and found it healthy:
Some people find posts like this tiresome. There are so many things that need doing and so little time and resources to do them. Adding to the list makes our eyes glaze over. I understand. But that doesn’t make this any less of a Big Deal.
Malawi redux
Posted by revere on September 14, 2009 This morning we reported some hopeful news about the desperately poor country of Malawi, where childhood mortality is incredibly high but being slashed. It’s still too high. Way, way too high. And in response I found this very sad post from another blogger, this one a doc now in rural Canada, but once in Malawi:
Children dying early
Posted by revere on September 14, 2009 They say starting the day with a good breakfast gives you a leg up on the rest of the day, so we thought we’d start out the week with some decent public health news. We’re always bringing you bad public health news, which isn’t what we want to do. We live for the news to…
Tropical depressions as a cause of poisoning
Posted by revere on May 27, 2009 We don’t usually think of power outages as an important cause of poisoning but it is. Electrical power has become such a necessary part of basic needs — think of light at night and refrigeration — that if it is interrupted for more than a few hours people will turn to gasoline powered generators to…
Swine flu: jumping the wrong way in New York?
Posted by revere on May 18, 2009 Five more schools in the New York City borough of Queens have closed because of suspected swine flu cases. Eleven schools have now been closed there and hundreds of students are down with a flu-like illness. Parents are understandably concerned, the more so because not many days ago Mayor Bloomberg and the city’s health commissioner…
Swine flu: just a statistic
Posted by revere on April 29, 2009 The first death in the US from swine flu in a Texas toddler is being widely reported, but a piece just in from Bloomberg says the infection was acquired in Mexico: The first confirmed U.S. swine flu death was a 22-month-old child from Mexico, according to a Houston official. The toddler was brought to Houston…
Children’s health and tobacco
Posted by revere on February 23, 2009 DemFromCT continues his public health series over at DailyKos, thus also continuing to make my early week blogging easier. This week is a brief look at this year’s flu season, already in full swing, including what is happening in pediatric deaths from flu. He follows this with another interview, this time the American Lung Association’s…
Fresh flowers and spoiled lives
Posted by revere on November 30, 2008 A story on the wires about a paper in the journal Epidemiology this month (November) confirms what other work has shown: those beautiful flowers we buy in American florist shops have an added price attached to them, paid by the children of Central America. Epidemiology is one of the top tier journals in the field…