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A couple of href="http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch221/ch221g.html" rel="tag">Parkinson's Disease related items came across the news wires, briefly.  There are lessons in both of them, but both leave me with unresolved questions.   The first one I noticed was a report based upon a…
I'm not the best one to comment on this, not being a starving grad student, but I find it a bit disturbing.  In Science today: an article on the unintended consequences of increased NIH funding. face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> href="opa.faseb.org/pdf/NIHFundingTrends.pps"> NIH…
Here are ScienceBlogs, we have been href="http://www.scienceblogs.com/sample/fastsearch?order=date&IncludeBlogs=49%2C83%2C3%2C11%2C8%2C55%2C64%2C10%2C87%2C60%2C22%2C80%2C15%2C95%2C78%2C52%2C4%2C48%2C45%2C63%2C14%2C25%2C53%2C50%2C42%2C89%2C5%2C47%2C90%2C71%2C96%2C9%2C62%2C16%2C38%2C67%2C43%…
One sure sign of acceptance in the mainstream media occurs when a publication gets picked up by Google News (as illustrated in the screen capture image, above). Yesterday, reading the Public Library of Science Medicine journal ( rel="tag" href="http://medicine.plosjournals.org/">PLoS…
This is not really news, I guess, but it is a good reminder.  In fact I've written about it twice before ( href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/10/folate_supplementation_america.php">1 href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/01/reversal_of_progress_on_folate.php"…
A study published in the British Medical Journal indicates that use of a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotic" rel="tag">probiotic drink can reduce the frequency of antibiotic-associated diarrhea in general, and of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium_difficile" rel="tag…
The href="http://www.fda.gov/default.htm" rel="tag">FDA just can't win.  When they restrict something or say something negative, they are being too restrictive or complicit with big pharma.  When they approve something too slowly they are insensitive to the needs of patients.  …
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of hearing href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman" rel="tag">Amy Goodman interview href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/about.php">Chris Mooney about the subject of his new book, href="http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2007/07/…
This is starting to look like a never-ending saga, and I have written about it extensively before.  But this latest update certainly deserves some attention. It comes from an article ( href="http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajp;164/7/1029">Suicide Attempts Among…
(RWOS=Republican War on Science) In case you haven't noticed (and why would you?), the USA is without a Surgeon General.  The old one, Dr. href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Carmona" rel="tag">Richard Carmona, unhired himself for unclear reasons last July, as href="http://…
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We are most accustomed to seeing power generation windmills on dry land, here in the USA.  In Europe, some are on land and some are offshore.  They generally are considered eyesores.  Myself, I think they are beautiful.  I love to see…
"It won't be easy, but it is time to ask the American people to be patriotic about something other than war." -- title="From the ScienceBlogs Interview" href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/07/exclusive_interview_with_senat.php">John Edwards
Insurance companies have discriminated against their mentally ill customers for years.  Sadly, they have done so with t he comlicity of the Federal government.   There have been many attempts to change this, but the attempts generally are made by constituents who have little power, and…
...And tell me what the poll means. These are from a poll conducted on July 5, 2007, by the href="http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/" rel="tag">American Research Group (sorry, no permalink): cellspacing="0" width="90%"> Question: Do you approve or disapprove of President George W…
On June 21, 2007, the American Psychiatric Association issued a press release on the subject of video game addiction.  Apparently, it had been rumored n the media that the APA was going to have a vote on whether to classify excessive video gaming as an addiction. That was never a possibility…
Speciation is the formation of new species of organisms.  Often, the term is used to describe an event in the course of evolution in which one species gets divided into two groups, after which the process of genetic change occurs differently in each group.  When the differences are so…
The term "entitlement" has garnered a strongly negative connotation in recent years.  Usually, the word entitlement is used to refer to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, plus other programs that provide direct assistance (Aid to Families with Dependent Children, student aid,…
It is a cheap shot, indeed, but an exceptionally good one.  And given that Cheney is the only person in history to get an apology from someone after shooting him in the face with a shotgun, it is strangely appropriate... flashvars="config=http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/xml/…
The news article does not state specifically why it is happening, but it is a trend over the past two years: href="http://www.thestar.com/Environment/article/232782">Great Lakes fish getting worse: Study Jul 05, 2007 11:36 AM Catherine Porter Toronto Star Environment Reporter…
The href="http://www.allerca.com/">Allerca hypoallergenic cat... href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/Alerca_kittens.jpg"> is a hot commodity right now.  The company claims a 15-month waiting list for the $4,000 pets.  They supposedly have many virtues: An…
Recently, a friend asked my opinion on an article that appeared in Life Extension magazine:  How Congress Is Being Misled to Think That DHEA Is an “Anabolic Steroid”.   title="Dehydroepiandrosterone">DHEA has been a topic here before; I wrote about it ( href="http://scienceblogs.com/…
T face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">his is another post in a series detailing the selection of antidepressant medication.  Use the "Antidepressants" link in the "Categories" part of the sidebar to find the other posts in the series. In this post, I am sort of assuming that the reader…
If you have no shaving cream, you can use a bit of hair conditioner instead.
The href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda">Red Panda has a Latin name that suggests it is a cat.  It is not, being more closely related to bears and raccoons.  They are similar to the more famous Giant Pandas, but sufficiently distinct so as to have their own family name,…
There is a refreshingly whimsical article, on a very serious subject, in this month's edition of Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain. rev="review" href="http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2007.00665.x">Harry Potter and the Curse of Headache Fred Sheftell MD…
A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine caught my attention, because it has significant implications for stress management by physicians.  The study also generated a bit of attention in the popular media.  For example, this article in NYT: title="NYT permanent link via RSS…
I really like the idea behind the Farmer's Diner.  This guy, Tod Murphy, started a restaurant that only servers food that was grown or produced within seventy miles.   There's an interview with him in href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/272/" rel="tag"…
Why are people, all over the country, all of a sudden, searching for "Asian flying carp video?"
Not posting much this week. I'll be taking down my computers for a few days, making it difficult to post at all.   Maybe I will finally find out where all those little wires behind my computers go.  If I can get them all plugged in to the right spots again, regular posting will resume…
href="http://www.latimes.com/la-bamboobikes-pg,0,860767.photogallery?coll=la-default-underdog"> The href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bamboo18jun18,0,7672267.story?coll=la-home-center">inventor hopes to see them become commonplace in the third world.  Strange, because…