Health Care/Medicine:
...but for those who suffer from it, "in your head" can be more debilitating than other chronic, painful illnesses. A massive WHO survey study of 60 countries reported that 3.2% of people had depression over the course of a year....
Posted on September 7, 2007 3:55 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Finally we get some data on changes in AD pathology with statin use! Statins are taken for lowering cholesterol, but they have other beneficial effects such as modulating inflammatory responses. Thus, they could prove beneficial in the treatment of AD...
Posted on August 29, 2007 3:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm on a environmental tox kick lately. The latest foray into endocrine disruption in the news is polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs. PBDEs are used as flame retardant compounds, and like my earlier ruminations on bisphenol A, they're in everything....
Posted on August 16, 2007 1:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, that title is a bit ostentatious. But the foods we eat contain many compounds that can be beneficial to brain health. One strategy for optimizing our brains for long-term peak performance is to identify these compounds and discover how...
Posted on July 18, 2007 3:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I recently posted three "Basics"-style blurbs about menopause and hormone therapy (HT). If you missed it, they are here, here, and here. The field has gone through a lot of upheaval since the WHI studies in 2002, and I would...
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Posted on July 10, 2007 1:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Postmenopausal women frequently complain about problems with attention and concentration, and increased forgetfulness. Controlled studies of the cognitive effects of menopause and HRT, however, have been controversial.
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Posted on July 6, 2007 1:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is the second of a series that examines menopause, hormone therapy, and consequences of each. Today's installment looks at the makeup of common hormones on the market, physiological consequences of hormone loss and replacement, and the Women's Health Initiative...
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Posted on July 4, 2007 2:45 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I thought I'd hop on the Basics bandwagon. Here's an oldy of mine with some menopause and hormone therapy background. WARNING: rampant pharmaceutical company sexism ahead. Do not attempt to communicate or reason with Zuska for at least 4 hours...
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Posted on June 13, 2007 8:03 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Looks like, once again, when somebody bothers to crunch the numbers those flimsy justifications for abstinence-only programs are found lacking....
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Posted on December 1, 2006 10:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Looks like the infamous abortion ban in South Dakota ain't gonna fly with the state's residents. Opponents of South Dakota's abortion ban are maintaining their lead over those who favor the law. With 194 of 818 precincts reporting results, 60...
Posted on November 7, 2006 10:50 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Looks like yet another interesting toxin was found, this time in a venomous snail. This discovery comes from the lab of an old player in the field, who apparently discovered the conotoxin that is used in Prialt....
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Posted on August 21, 2006 8:13 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The latest soon-to-be casualty to the Bush administration's attempt to break all useful government programs is 1-800-SUICIDE. Given their track record of scrubbing information oriented to LBGT youth (who happen to be a major at-risk category) from other such sites...
Posted on August 1, 2006 12:54 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Aetiology, Tara is confused. She somehow thinks that Focus on the Family is actually anti-life....
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Posted on July 12, 2006 2:25 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I know Tara is going to kick me for this post, because as one of the resident D.I.N.K.s here at ScienceBlogs my parenting advice doesn't extend into the realm of "ethical" so much as "practical". Specifically, I've advised her on...
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Posted on July 10, 2006 10:01 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is one simple reason why a pharmacist's personal beliefs should not factor into the dispensing of medication that, to me, takes precedence over all others. Medications rarely, if ever, have one use. A single medication can be prescribed for...
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Posted on June 29, 2006 10:27 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just a couple comments on Tara's situation. Firstly, check that the pharmacist doesn't have a little Vicodin habit of his or her own. Probably not, but I've lost all faith in humanity. Secondly, this situation is deplorable. If a veterinarian...
Posted on June 29, 2006 5:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A recent study of 20,000 children confirmed that smoking just isn't good for kids. I don't know why this should come as a surprise to anybody, but I thought I should post it just in case.......
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Posted on June 21, 2006 2:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm sure somebody else on SB had to blog this, but just in case it got missed.... the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies released the results of a two-year study that examined the state of the Emergency Care...
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Posted on June 16, 2006 7:49 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...you might not know what to do you might have to think of how you got started sittin' in your little room --The White Stripes...
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Posted on June 9, 2006 9:34 AM • 0 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
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