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Category: H1N1 Novel Swine Flu
Kids, before we watch the video, I have to tell you: I just got a flu shot the other day and it did not hurt even a tiny little bit. That's because the needle is very small and your neurons .... that feel the pain...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
The current health care reform bill(s) do not address actual health care ... like what procedures to use and stuff ... as much as they address insurance. This is a health insurance reform bill, not a health care system reform bill. (Though there is necessarily...
Posted by Greg Laden at 1:30 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: H1N1 Novel Swine Flu
Our offspring is due on the 20th, just prior to Thanksgiving. This causes many people to get very excited because they get to see and play with the new baby. I wonder how mad at me all those people are going to get when they find out I might not let that happen?
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:06 AM • 69 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
The following press release touches on a recently emerging and probably valid method of addressing some infections....
Posted by Greg Laden at 2:05 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
The seasonal influenza virus is extremely adaptable: each year, it evolves ways to evade vaccines, forcing vaccine makers to come up with new formulations. That evolution, known as antigenic drift, occurs when viruses change the sequence of their major surface protein, known as hemagglutinin (HA)....
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:04 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: H1N1 Novel Swine Flu
Athens, Ga. - Each year, the influenza virus evolves. And each year, public health officials try to predict what the new strain will be and how it will affect the population in order to best combat it. A new study by an international team of...
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:02 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Heatlh Care
You must watch this. You. Simply. Must. Watch. This....
Posted by Greg Laden at 7:55 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
Hispanic children diagnosed with brain tumors get high-quality treatment at hospitals that specialize in neurosurgery far less often than other children with the same condition, potentially compromising their immediate prognosis and long-term survival, according to research from Johns Hopkins published in October's Pediatrics. More than...
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:28 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
A good friend of mine is. I know something about this particular issue, and my opinion as a doctor* is that she will be fine. Which I told her. But I know that means very little. Please read this. ____________________ Footnotes *Well, doctor of philosophy,...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:54 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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