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May 4, 2007
The
work of Li-Huei
Tsai on the partial restoration of memory was in the news a
few days ago. Although the experiments were done on mice, it
was hoped that the results could indicate a reason to hope that humans
with dementia could be helped.
The study showed that an environment enriched with…
May 4, 2007
Two US senators,
href="http://byrd.senate.gov/newsroom/news_may/byrd_clinton_call_for_ending_2002_iraq_resolution.html">Robert
Byrd and one other, are suggesting now that Congress try a
href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/?hpid=news-col-blogs">different
approach for…
May 3, 2007
According
to
href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070503/NEWS07/70503070">a
study done at the University of Michigan's
href="http://www.isr.umich.edu/home/">Institute for Social
Research, fewer people are identifying themselves as
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
May 3, 2007
Congress sent the President an appropriations bill that suggested a
timetable for the withdrawal of US military forces from Iraq. He vetoed it. When
President Bush vetoed the bill, he
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/02/AR2007050202410.html">signed
the veto…
May 3, 2007
A study has shown that the world's fastest average pedestrian pace is
in
href="http://article.wn.com/view/2007/05/02/Singapore_Worlds_fastest_walkers/"
rel="tag">Singapore. The
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May 3, 2007
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It is
time to pick the tea leaves. May 2 is the traditional date to…
May 2, 2007
The
Australian beer maker, Fosters, is installing a
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-australia-beer-power,0,2942622.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed">prototype
fuel cell. Nothing remarkable about that, except
this fuel cell uses wastewater from the manufacture of beer.
The…
May 1, 2007
Every once in a while one of the world's most physically fit persons
drops over and dies. In fact four persons have died during
or shortly after running the Boston Marathon.
It has been
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/352/15/1550">known
for a while that the cause, in at…
May 1, 2007
Data
presented at a Neurology conference shows structural changes in the
brain of Gulf War vets who are highly symptomatic of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_Syndrome" rel="tag">Gulf
War Syndrome.
It appears that the findings have not yet been published; in fact, the
study has…
April 30, 2007
Just
in case you are a physician looking for a reason to avoid drug reps,
you should read this article on PLOS Medicine. It is an
enlightening, if sickening, inside view of pharmaceutical sales
practices.
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April 30, 2007
IEEE Spectrum
(free registration required) has a nice little article about devices
that generate heat and electricity for the home. This is a
good idea, except for two problems: one, it is more efficient, and two,
it is more reliable than the current system.
Micro-CHP (combined heat and power)…
April 29, 2007
It is
not often that retired NFL players get published in medical journals,
but apparently it does happen.
Eric
Hipple, formerly a quarterback for the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Lions">Detroit
Lions, has an article in Medicine & Science in Sports
& Exercise. Granted…
April 28, 2007
April 26, 2007
Dr. Joseph *****
**** * ******* St
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103
Dear Dr. *****:
Thank you for contacting me regarding the impeachment of Vice
President Cheney. I appreciate hearing from you.
As you know, impeachment is a very serious matter. The
Constitution sets forth the…
April 25, 2007
OK, I
turned on the TV, in all its 12-inch glory, and watched
href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html">the
show. It is as good as any articles of impeachment
will ever be.
Money quotes, from the
href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/transcript1.html">transcript…
April 25, 2007
From
LA Times:
The San Diego Zoo's male giant panda, Gao Gao, nips at female panda Bai
Yun's back. The two adult giant pandas at the San Diego Zoo mated
Tuesday, zoo officials announced, raising hopes of an offspring this
summer.
(
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-pandas25apr25,1,…
April 25, 2007
George
McGovern takes Cheney to task for, among other things, misunderstanding
political history.
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href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-mcgovern24apr24,0,4084076.story?coll=la-opinion-center">Los
Angeles Times:
VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney…
April 24, 2007
Regarding
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/24/education/24loans.html?ex=1335067200&en=c2a6501764fefef8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">efforts
to reform the practices of student loan vendors, in
light of the recent scandal:
The
state-by-state regulatory action, so…
April 23, 2007
From
BBC:
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href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6575767.stm">Fat-fighting
baby milk criticised
Plans to add a hormone which suppresses hunger to baby formula food is
unlikely to work say experts.
University of Buckingham researchers are…
April 23, 2007
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April 21, 2007
Maybe
I will turn on the TV next week:
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href="http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574260">'Devastating'
Moyers Probe of Press and Iraq Coming
By Greg Mitchell
April 19, 2007
NEW YORK (Commentary) The…
April 20, 2007
If,
after reading my earlier posts this week, you are thinking that strange
things happen in the pharmaceutical market, you are right.
But strange things happen in the stock market too.
A pharmaceutical company,
rel="tag">Amgen, just saw the price of its stock
shares jump by 3.9%. The…
April 20, 2007
If
you have glanced at this blog over the past week, you've noticed that I
wrote three posts about the opportunity -- and the pressing need -- for
reform at the FDA. Mike the Mad Biologist had an interesting
take on this, from an entirely different perspective:
href="http://scienceblogs.com/…
April 19, 2007
"My
job is a job to make decisions. I'm a decision -- if the job
description were, what do you do -- it's decision-maker. And I make a
lot of big ones, and I make a lot of little ones."
href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070419-3.html">source
April 18, 2007
href="http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/?last_story=/ent/audiofile/2007/04/19/patti_smith/">This
is my second music-related post in one week.
Salon has
an
href="http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/?last_story=/ent/audiofile/2007/04/19/patti_smith/">article
with podcast, with
href="…
April 18, 2007
Add this to the list of environmental worries: The generation
of electricity is a highly water-intensive process. It takes
three times as much water to produce the electricity needed for a home,
than the water used in that home.
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0417/p01s02-wogi.html"…
April 18, 2007
The
first two posts in this series are
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/things_that_affect_you_pdufa_a.php">here
and
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/things_that_affect_you_pdufa_a_1.php">here.
The final editorial in the NEJM's three-part series…
April 17, 2007
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Dust
Dampens Hurricane Formation
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I'm hardly an expert, but it appears that there is some evidence that
the amount of dust in the air over the Atlantic is a factor…
April 17, 2007
Nightmares
are a terrible problem for many persons with posttraumatic stress
disorder. Not only that, but they can be difficult to treat.
Lately, the LA Times has taken to emailing me a summary of some of
their Science & Medicine headlines. I'm not sure why;
maybe the LA Times thinks the…
April 16, 2007
It is
not often that I write about music. In fact, it is not
often that I even think about music. But this little item
caught my eye, if not my ear, if only because it is perplexing to try
to imagine Balkan-Techno fusion:
href="http://www.geocities.com/emmo_dj/home.html">DJ EMMO…