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March 27, 2008
Category: Science Journalism
The March 2008 issue of Nature has a great editorial piece on the current (and future) state of science in news media. The article draws heavily on new information released by The Pew Research Center in a report called...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 12:00 AM • 3 Comments •
March 21, 2008
Category: Bioethics
The death of a euthanasia-advocate, who suffered from a debilitating cancer that ate away at her face, has re-kindled the debate over doctor-assisted suicide in France. A French law adopted in 2005 allows terminally ill people to refuse treatment in...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 8:36 AM • 2 Comments •
March 18, 2008
Category: Pharma
Two MIT pharmaceutical industry experts believe that the mounting U.S. drug price crisis can be contained and eventually reversed by separating drug discovery from drug marketing and by establishing a non-profit company to oversee funding for new medicines. The...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 10:49 PM • 3 Comments •
March 12, 2008
Category: Self Plug
Bora Zivkovic, my fellow SciBling from 'A Blog Around the Clock', was gracious enough to interview me as part of his interview series from the 2008 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. Check it out here....
Posted by Karen Ventii at 11:02 AM • 1 Comments •
March 6, 2008
Category: Food Science
Parts of the Southeastern U.S (where I live) have been experiencing severe drought conditions for months. Droughts can have significant environmental and economic impacts on a community. According to this press release, aridity is on the increase across the...
Posted by Karen Ventii at 11:15 AM • 2 Comments •
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