FutureBaby Chronicles: Medical Mascot Choice
Could there be a worse choice of animal mascot than the Panda brand baby warmer? Give me the Emperor Penguin model, any day....Posted on April 21, 2008 8:00 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Medicine:
Framing Stem Cells
Thoughts on the dynamic weighting of "core values."Posted on April 11, 2008 8:10 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Magazine Etiquette in Medicine
A tip for the doctors and future doctors reading this: People sitting in waiting rooms are not necessarily hugely enthusiastic about being reminded about their medical problems.Posted on March 8, 2008 10:56 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Earlier Alcohol Prevention?
EurekAlert tossed up a press release from the University of Minnesota yesterday with the provocative title: "U of Minn researchers find primary alcohol prevention programs are needed for 'tweens'" and the even more eye-popping subtitle "Study recommends that prevention programs...Posted on February 28, 2008 8:49 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
School Killings and The Problem With Relative Numbers
Homicide is the second-leading cause of death among American children. This isn't the result of a murder epidemic, but rather a triumph of modern medicine.Posted on January 21, 2008 9:41 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Steroid Madness
Aren't there better uses for the neurons I've now tied up with the knowledge that Mary J. Blige allegedly used human growth hormone?Posted on January 15, 2008 9:15 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Tree of SCIENCE!!! #7
Another cold December day, another ornament from the Tree of SCIENCE!!! This one's for the doctors in the house: That's a little elf guy smoking a pipe, and he represents the science of public health.and epidemiology....Posted on December 19, 2007 7:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Guess the Nobel, Win a Prize
Guess the winner of any of this year's Nobel Prizes (before they're announced), and win a prize.Posted on October 8, 2007 8:02 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Healing Power of Beer
As noted here in the past, I had horrible stomach problems for a good chunk of last year. This was diagnosed as "Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease" or "GERD," which basically amounts to "Your stomach hurts." After a number of deeply unsatisfactory...Posted on October 6, 2007 8:49 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Trust Me About the Sunscreen
On the one hand, sunscreen is a Good Thing, but do we really need more humorless health scolding in the Times?Posted on July 5, 2007 10:20 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wake Me When You Have Something Surprising to Say
Bora's probably already aware of this, but the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies is currently underway in Minnesota. Like many professional society meeting, this has led to a giant blort of press releases on EurekAlert, as the...Posted on June 13, 2007 8:49 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Notes From the World's Best Health Care System
The phone message was a little alarming, as I had no recollection of scheduling a medical procedure for Monday...Posted on May 4, 2007 11:51 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Want to Be a Doctor? Major in Physics
Physics majors get higher MCAT scores than biology majors, and have a better chance of getting into medical school.Posted on February 14, 2007 2:13 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Extended Shifts Lead to Medical Errors
Surprising approximately no-one outside the medical profession, Eurekalert today features a press release about a paper showing that doctors on long shifts make more mistakes: The study, published in PLoS Medicine, which was led by Charles Czeisler and Laura Barger...Posted on December 12, 2006 9:42 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shorter Hours for Doctors
Via Inside Higher Ed's Quick Takes, some good news about the medical profession: The proportion of medical residents who said they had worked more than 80 hours a week in the previous four weeks at any point during the 2005-6...Posted on November 3, 2006 10:08 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ontological Epidemiology
If a bird gets the flu in a forest, and no doctors are there to record it, is it a potential pandemic?Posted on October 24, 2006 10:13 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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