2,000 students at Washington State might have swine flu! permlink
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Check it out. That's ~10% of the student body....
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Is beating a woman ever justified? permlink
Category: Health
Global Health Magazine has some data up on the "% of women who believe it is OK for husbands to beat them." If you click through the original data, the question is more extensive: % of girls and women aged...
Posted by Razib Khan at 6:20 PM • 4 Comments •
More than a guy in pajamas permlink
Category: Health
Dan MacArthur did a lot of legwork in this post on Complete Genomics....
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Circumcision to prevent HIV infection in America permlink
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Officials Weigh Circumcision to Fight H.I.V. Risk: Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS. ... He and other experts...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:11 AM • 23 Comments •
Disease & democracy permlink
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Fat Tax: Which is why it is so striking to talk to Delos M. Cosgrove, the heart surgeon who is the clinic's chief executive, about the initiative. Cosgrove says that if it were up to him, if there weren't legal...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:20 PM • 12 Comments •
Addiction is not a "disease" (?) permlink
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Recently I listened to the author of Addiction: A Disorder of Choice, Gene M. Heyman, interviewed on the Tom Ashbrook show. A lot of the discussion revolved around the term "disease", which I can't really comment on, but a great...
Posted by Razib Khan at 7:07 PM • 20 Comments •
Sugar intake by demographic variable permlink
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Apparently the average American gets ~17% of their calories a day from sugar. This varies by population segment: The intake of added sugars was higher among men than women and inversely related to age, educational status, and family income. Asian...
Posted by Razib Khan at 4:11 PM • 6 Comments •
Are women getting better looking? permlink
Category: Genetics
Update: The author of the paper clears up confusions. Update: Here's the paper. End Update The British media is abuzz with another paper from Satoshi Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist who has great marketing savvy. I can't find the study online...
Posted by Razib Khan at 2:11 PM • 18 Comments •
Born to run permlink
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Wired has a piece up To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes, which discusses the controversy over the utility of running shoes. Of course the "support" that typical athletic shoes provide is real. when I switch to flip-flops in...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:51 PM • 4 Comments •
The Illumina whole-genome-sequence permlink
Category: Genetics
I notice that Fortune has a story on personal genomics up, Genetic sequencing gets personal Biotech firm Illumina will sequence your entire genetic code -- and throw in a Mac -- for $48,000: So far, personalized genomics make up just...
Posted by Razib Khan at 3:50 PM • 0 Comments •
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