Gleaned: Suspicious women, sneaky cops, fair-minded children. Plus flu.
Category: Brains and minds
What I distracted myself with this morning. Don't mix these at home.
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I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.
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Viruses, flu, & immunology:
Vaccinating kids for flu protects almost everyone
Category: Healthcare policy
"A landmark study looking at how to limit the spread of influenza has shown what experts have long believed but hadn't until now proved: Giving flu shots to kids helps protect everyone in a community from the virus."
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Top Five Posts at Neuron Culture in November
Category: Books
PTSD, orchid children, military suicides, coral isles, and adjuvants. That was a SLOW month at Neuron Culture.
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Quick dip: Healthcare reform, conflicted profs, and the vaccine shortage
Category: Healthcare policy
Our lack of readyness for this thing is sobering -- as is the complacency about same.
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Why is the swine flu vaccine so late? Who are you to ask such a question?
Category: Public health
I like industrial secrets as much as the next person. But it would seem that when tens of millions of doses of vaccine are weeks late, we might get something more specific than that one company was overoptimistic and another had trouble filling syringes.
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"The right to infect": SophiaZoe tells us what she really thinks about health workers & flu shots
Category: Public health
Nurses and doctors have won a victory in their battle for their "right" to infect patients with easily prevented...
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The flu, Donald Fagan, Dana Blankenhorn, and the fellow in the brite nightgown
Category: Public health
W.C. Fields (above) famously called death the “fellow in the brite nightgown.” A few years ago Donald Fagan turned this into a catchy song. To those unconcerned about H1N1 feel free to hum it on your way out the door, when said fellow gives you the victory hug.
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Am I dreaming, or are both swine flu and the healtcare reform backlash in retreat?
Category: Public health
Probably dreaming. But now and then it all seems so real.
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Swine flu vaccine 'nightmare' -- and neither flu nor vaccine is even here yet
Category: Public health
Tell me again why we don't just have vaccination clinics at school?
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Neuron Culture's Top Ten from September
Category: Public health
That post reported the news (via FiercePharma) that Pfizer had tucked away in its financial disclosure forms a $2.3 billion charge to end the federal investigation into allegations of off-label promotions of its Cox-2 painkillers, including Bextra. ... Because my post was was one of the few things already on the interwebz before Justice held its news conference, the Google rush shot it toward the top of the search results.
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