Statins: through a lens clearly
Category: Clinical
Chalk another one up for statins: less risk of cataracts.
Posted by revere at 6:08 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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.
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Clinical:
The dangers of weed
Category: Clinical
Nothing like a healthy stew.
Posted by revere at 4:40 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Oral conception
Category: Child health
Inconceivable but true.
Posted by revere at 6:33 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Joint pain and migraines: weather or not
Category: Environment
What's a joint like that doing in a nice guy like you?
Posted by revere at 6:20 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Randomized trial versus observational study challenge, V: pre-randomization
Category: scientific method
Leading up to the discussion of randomization.
Posted by revere at 6:15 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Randomized trial versus observational study challenge, IV: causation, concluded
Category: scientific method
Biological plausibility.
Posted by revere at 6:27 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Randomized trial versus observational study challenge
Category: Clinical
We ask readers to critique a non randomized and non controlled clinical trial.
Posted by revere at 6:25 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The rapid flu test and coin flips; more confusion
Category: Swine flu
Even lab directors can get this wrong.
Posted by revere at 6:07 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The depressing math of swine flu, ICUs and ventilators
Category: Influenza treatment
Critical care beds are already over loaded without swine flu.
Posted by revere at 6:08 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Severe cases in swine flu: lack of clinical details
Category: Swine flu
So far too little information.
Posted by revere at 7:06 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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