I must have fallen behind in my blog reading, which led me not to notice that Abel Pharmboy over at Terra Sigillata just celebrated his first blogiversary on Friday. Here's to another successful year of science blogging!
If you want to get a taste of what Abel's about, he just posted two good analyses of articles that appeared in the Journal of Clinical Oncology this month, one about the ethics of dealing with situations when parents choose quackery over efficacious treatment for children with good prognosis cancers and another discussing a review article covering the evidence base for the efficacy (or mostly lack of efficacy) of alternative medicine in treating cancer pain.
More like this
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure
CDC wants us to get vaccinated for flu every year. Always for seasonal flu, and this year, if there is a vaccine available, for swine flu.
This is from the journal Menopause. The
link goes to the abstract; a subcription is required for full access.
It is a pilot study with results that are not robust enough
to use in routine clinical decision-making, but it does indicate a
I'm sure it's obvious that I'm often puzzled (and, I daresay, many other skeptics and boosters of science- and evidence-based medicine are puzzled too) over why various forms of quackery and woo that have either about as close to zero prior probability as one can imagine and/or (more frequently "
As always, thanks for the support. I think that I also just missed your blogiversary last week, so here's to many more for us both!