Talking with kids about drugs.
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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Medicine:
Should researchers share data?
Are data from cancer research supposed to help cancer patients or career-minded scientists?Posted on March 3, 2008 2:12 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A tangle of controversy -- and a plea to start untangling.
You've probably heard that UCLA scientist Edythe London, whose house was earlier vandalized to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars by animal rights activists, has once again been targeted. This time an incendiary device was left on her...Posted on February 14, 2008 7:19 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's a disease?
"What is a disease?" It would be nice to think that this is the kind of question where there are clear-cut, fact-based answers to be had. "Disease" is a term that seems to pick out a category of biological...Posted on February 12, 2008 10:08 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Super Bowl parties, double dipping, and strategies for emerging alive.
Via Greg Laden, I see that there is now some research to support our primal revulsion toward double-dippers:...Posted on February 2, 2008 4:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tracking down a source.
Maybe you saw the story in the New York Times about new research that may show that ingesting too much caffeine while pregnant increases the chances of miscarriage. And, if you're like me, one of the first things you did...Posted on January 23, 2008 5:51 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ethical considerations in the development of a male birth control pill.
"Why don't they make a birth control pill for men?" There are important considerations from medical ethics that might explain why a birth control pill for men has not happened yet....Posted on January 10, 2008 10:00 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There are days when having a body is inconvenient.
Do you know that feeling one gets that is characteristic of "about to come down with something", where you have an off taste in your mouth and your head feels fuzzy, and it seems like the very best thing you...Posted on November 28, 2007 11:06 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How not to make the case for animal rights.
People with concerns about the use of animals in biomedical research should also be concerned about the actions of the Animal Liberation Front and other "animal rights" groups -- at least if they want other people to take their concerns...Posted on November 2, 2007 2:25 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
DVD review: Physicians - Speaking for Research.
The other day I received a DVD made by Americans for Medical Progress called Physicians - Speaking for Research. (They indicate on their site that the DVDs are free for the asking.) This is a DVD aimed at physicians,...Posted on August 24, 2007 6:34 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How big a risk is my laser printer?
On the basis of this article about emissions from laser printers, our department administrator came by this week to take my HP 1200 series LaserJet away. I said I wanted to keep it....Posted on August 16, 2007 7:05 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A resolution for the Tripoli six.
Almost a year ago, I learned about the case of the Tripoli six, five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician in Libya sentenced to death for infecting hundreds of children with HIV despite the fact that the best scientific evidence...Posted on July 24, 2007 12:29 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some questions about the cadaver calculator.
Orac's calculated value (if he shuffled off this mortal coil in his present state -- and I really hope he doesn't) piqued my curiosity and led me to calculate the value of my own potential cadaver. But the calculated value...Posted on July 22, 2007 2:15 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is medicine an art or a science?
In his book Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (reviewed in the last post), Greg Critser includes a quotation from a physician (in a self-help book [1]) that I found really striking: In your...Posted on July 5, 2007 2:51 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Book review: Generation Rx.
I recently finished reading Greg Critser's Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies. Frankly, I don't feel so well....Posted on July 5, 2007 1:18 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Scientific plausibility of Never Let Me Go.
Since it has come up in the comments on my review of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, I'm going to go ahead and discuss some of the issues around cutting-edge biomedical technologies in the book that might, or...Posted on June 24, 2007 2:31 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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