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This
is a continuation of the first post,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/things_that_affect_you_pdufa_a.php">Things
That Affect YOU: PDUFA and AERS. PDUFA is
the Prescription
Drug User Fee Act. AERS is the
href="http://www.fda.gov/cder/aers/default.htm…
The
href="http://content.nejm.org/" rel="tag">New England
Journal of Medicine has a set of three
early-release editorials, all pertaining to prescription drug safety,
and all openly accessible:
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp078041">Paying
for Drug Approvals — Who'…
This
is from Medpage Today, which often carries the same things as Medscape,
but does not require registration (hint, hint).
They report on the finding of a genetic variant that increases the risk
of obesity. the more copies of the allele, the greater the
risk. The association was…
From
Reuters Health Information, via Medscape (free registration rquired):
href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/555126">Jeb Bush
Joins Board of Tenet Healthcare
CHICAGO (Reuters) Apr 12 - Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, brother of
U.S. President George W. Bush, will join the…
From
CNN, et alia:
href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/12/white.house.email/">White
House: 'We screwed up' on deleted e-mails
POSTED: 4:35 p.m. EDT, April 12, 2007
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House "screwed up" by not requiring
e-mails from Republican Party and campaign accounts…
[Update: Retired Doc's Thoughts has a more complete review of the varied potential benefits from statins.]
This
morning, Effect Measure
href="http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/2007/04/the_statin_story_continues_to.php">posted
about a retrospective study that indicates that there may be a…
href="http://www.oldamericancentury.org/index.htm">
I
thought this was kind of clever. Not sure why the
href="http://www.oldamericancentury.org/index.htm" rel="tag">Project
for the Old American Century put it up --
it is not their usual fare -- but they deserve credit…
From
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070409-crystal-cave.html">National
Geographic:
April
9, 2007—Geologist Juan Manuel García-Ruiz
calls it "the Sistine Chapel of crystals," but Superman could call it
home.
A sort of south-of-the-border Fortress of Solitude, Mexico'…
Here
at ScienceBlogs, and medical blogs in general, are generally
somewhat dismissive of complimentary and alternative medicine.
Every once in a while, though, something comes up that is
positive.
This is from American Family Physician, and is openly available.
href="http://www.…
Ordinarily,
I dislike fisking as a literary style, but it does have its
place. This is one of them. As noted in the two
previous posts,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/health_care_debate.php">(Part
One,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/…
In
order to make sense of this post, you probably need to read
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/health_care_debate.php">Part
One
first.
This is about an opinion piece that was published in the LA Times,
written by some advocates from the
rel="tag">Cato Institute:…
This
was at Barnes and Noble, in
href="http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/">Linux User &
Developer. I learned that
href="http://www.peugeot.com/">Peugot (the
second-largest auto maker in Europe) plans to install Linux for their
2,500 servers. That is not particularly surprising.…
It is
charitable to call it a "debate" about health care. It is
really a flame war with a veneer of civility.
It started with an opinion piece published in what is ordinarily a
respectable publication: the Los Angles Times (free registration
required). Two bloggers jumped on it. …
Obviously a follow-up to my last post,
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/04/why_blog.php">Why
Blog?
Like the Why Blog? post, this is partly a repetition of something I
posted before, at least once. But some of these points bear
repeating, if only to remind myself.
One…
This
is the meme of the moment here, as started by
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href="http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/04/why_do_you_blog_meme.php">Blog
Around the Clock
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href="http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/04/…
glumbert.com
- The Apple iRack
A
rather amusing video, sums things up nicely.
I
was just reading about
href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2109401,00.asp">Firefox
3.0,
which is supposed to have features that would simplify building and
using web-based applications. I'll be curious to see how this
plays
out. Will it make things leaner and more…
Wikipedia's
Image of the Day is a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Desinsertion_du_muscle_CO.jpg">photograph
of eye surgery. It is pretty cool, but only if you
like that kind of thing. I won't impose it on those who might
not want to see it.
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This is
one of the first publications that I subscribed to, after
Popular Electronics, and maybe Mad Magazine. I must confess
that I have not renewed the subscription, but from time to time I check
their website.
There is a bunch of good…
A few days ago, a couple of ScienceBloggers, (
href="http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/03/british_government_was_advised.php">Tim
Lambert and
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/03/ministers_were_told.php">I)
wrote about the startling revelation the the British government…
A
while back, I posted about a nutty thing Eric Keroack said:
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href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2006/11/premarital_sex_is_really_moder.php">PRE-MARITAL
SEX is really MODERN GERM WARFARE...
I was not the only one criticizing him; a total of
href="http://…
Perhaps
a minor issue in terms of national priorities: the Senate is
considering a bill that would make nearly ll federal employees eligible
for telecommuting.
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href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032902043.html"…
A while back I started a series about the science and logic (and other
factors) involved in the selection of antidepressant medication.
I suppose I could put in the pinks to the first four parts,
but anyone can use the search box in the left-hand sidebar to search
for "selection of…
A few years ago, the more progressive elements in the Blogosphere were
pressing for impeachment of the President. They were upset
that the traditional media were not going along.
Prior to the 2004 election, when you could not turn your head without
seeing another poll result, major…
According
to the Corporate Crime Reporter, at least 257
companies have "backdating problems." That refers to the
shady practice of backdating stock options, resulting in larger payouts
to those who receive compensation in the form of stock options.
But it isn't merely "shady:"…
This
is depressing. Now the UK is misusing and distorting
scientific findings. I suppose it is contagious.
This pertains to the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_survey_of_mortality_before_and_after_the_2003_invasion_of_Iraq">Lancet
study that found an estimated 50%…
Finally,
we have a nice succinct statement from a politician on the
subject of health care coverage.
I know this is controversial, in the sense that, so far, the mainstream
operatives in both major parties reject this. Still, I truly
believe that if most people understood the issue, they…