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Oklahoma University President Interferes with Federally Funded Health Research

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:09:24 +0000

Call for Support of Oklahoma Scientists and Research Programs Speaking of Research, along with scientists and others across the country, were appalled to learn yesterday that Oklahoma State University’s President cancelled a research project for which his university had already accepted ...

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NIH approves use of embryonic stem cells

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 01:50:45 +0000

The U.S. National Institutes of Health announced approval Wednesday of the use of human embryonic stem cells in NIH-funded research.

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Gene-Testing Machine for Doctors

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:10:59 +0000

A new device rapidly analyzes blood for medically relevant genetic variations.

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December 1, 2009: The Patient Safety Field Turns Ten

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0000

On December 1, 1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report entitled To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Although its authors hoped to spark a national movement, they had little cause for optimism. After all, early efforts by advocates...( read more )

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Australian Skeptics announce the Bent Spoon for 2009.

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:20:24 +0000

At the Australian Skeptics National Convention dinner last night in Brisbane, the award for the Bent Spoon was announced. For the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudo-scientific piffle, the Bent Spoon went to Meryl Dorey and the Australian Vaccination Network ...

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Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? No -- Lawton 339: b4953 -

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 07:41:44 +0000

Published 29 November 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4953 Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4953 Head to Head Is the conflict of interest unacceptable when drug companies conduct trials on their own drugs? No 1 Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, London doi:10.1136/bmj.b4330 Ben Goldacre ...

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Best Science Visualization and Music Videos of 2009

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:00:27 +0000

Wired Magazine always publishes some interesting videos dedicated to science and, let’s say, fun. Here are the entries and a few sample videos. Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009 Volume rendering is a technique used to display two-dimensional data in three-dimensional space. ...

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Health Care Reform Bills Legitimize Quackery

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:30:43 +0000

The newly formed Institute for Science in Medicine (ISM; http://www.scienceinmedicine.org) expressed its concern today about provisions in current Congressional health care reform bills that require reimbursement of ineffective and potentially unsafe care.

Better Health found this 2 days ago on scienceinmedicine.org

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When a police line-up with six one-eyed men is better than a line-up with none

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:27:43 +0000

You're mugged by a man with a patch over one eye. You describe him and his distinctive appearance to the police. They locate a one-eyed suspect and present him to you in a video line-up with five innocent "foils". If this suspect is the only person in the line-up with one eye, prior research ...

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Brain Damage, Pedophilia, and the Law

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:27:43 +0000

An intriguing and tragic story of brain damage is reported in the latest issue of Neurocase : Klüver-Bucy syndrome, hypersexuality, and the law . The authors are Devinsky, Sacks, and Devinsky - Sacks being neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks . Their anonymous patient, a 51 year old ...

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Columbia Medical Testifies On Malpractice In State Senate

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0000

Lee Goldman, M.D., executive vice president for health and biomedical sciences and dean of the faculties of medicine and health sciences at Columbia University testified today on medical malpractice reform before the New York State Senate Committees on Codes, Health and Insurance in Albany, New ...

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Health Care Rationing, American-Style

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:00 +0000

Uwe E. Reinhardt is an economics professor at Princeton. On last Sunday morning’s Meet the Press , the host David Gregory touched on the United States Preventive Services Task Force report that earlier in the week had recommended against routine screening mammography in women aged 40 to 49. ...

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How our skin helps us to listen : Not Exactly Rocket Science

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Profile Ed_Yong.jpg Ed Yong is an award - winning science writer based in London. Not Exactly Rocket Science is his attempt to make the latest scientific discoveries interesting to everyone by beating jargon, confusion and elitism with the stick of good writing. He finds writing about himself in ...

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Does "Internet Addiction" Really Shrink Your Brain?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

Internet addiction is a murky and controversial disorder that is the subject of intense debate over whether it should be included in the new DSM-V . Here are the proposed diagnostic criteria as developed by Dr. Kimberly Young : Do you feel preoccupied with the Internet (think about previous ...

Mind Hacks found this 5 days ago on neurocritic.blogspot.com

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Neuroethics conference podcasts

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

The Dalhousie University-based Novel Tech Ethics group recently hosted a conference called Brain Matters: New Directions in Neuroethics . You can read descriptions of the conference at the Dana Foundation's website and in the neuroethics newsletter . They've also made six plenary talks available ...

Mind Hacks found this 5 days ago on somatosphere.net

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Mental Illness vs. Suicide

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:22:25 +0000

Do countries with more mental illness have more suicides? At first glance, it seems as though the answer must be "yes". Although not all suicides are related to mental illness, unsurprisingly people with mental illness do have a much higher suicide rate than people without. So, all other ...

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Randomized, Controlled Trial of an Intervention for Toddlers With Autism: The Early Start Denver Model -- Dawson et al., 10.1542/peds.2009-0958 -

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:00:00 +0000

Geraldine Dawson, PhD a ,b ,c , Sally Rogers, PhD d , Jeffrey Munson, PhD e ,f , Milani Smith, PhD e , Jamie Winter, PhD e , Jessica Greenson, PhD e , Amy Donaldson, PhD g and Jennifer Varley, MS e a Autism Speaks; b Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North ...

Health News from Medical News Today found this 2 days ago on pediatrics.aappublications.org

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Six hospitals to sue state over reimbursement rates

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:13:55 +0000

Six hospitals to sue state over reimbursement rates

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INTERNAL BLEEDING: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes (9781590710739): Robert M. Wachter, Kaveh Shojania: Books

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:11:00 +0000

With a mix of horrifying medical accidents and warmly logical problem solving, Internal Bleeding provides a serious, if graphic, look at an industry where a simple mistake can lead directly to death. Happily, authors (both are medical doctors) Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania have as many ...

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Evidence In Medicine

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:31:00 +0000

As mentioned in my last post , I want to continue the discussion of plausibility with the recent evidence suggesting benefit from an AIDS vaccine. This was a randomized, placebo-controlled trial in 16,000 adults, that, at least in the initial press releases, showed a statistically significant ...

PharmaGossip found this 13 days ago on evidenceinmedicine.org

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