Archive for the ‘Hot Medicine Health News’ Category
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
And I thought, whatever his other faults and whatever my disagreements with his politics,, that Bill Clinton was incredibly smart. Apparently I was wrong:"You do not want to bring your children into the world where we go on with the number of children who are born with autism tripling every ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
The Case of Deborah Rice: Who Is the Environmental Protection Agency Protecting?:For researchers who operate at the intersection of basic biology and toxicology, following the data where they take you--as any good scientist would--carries the risk that you will be publicly attacked as a crank, charged with scientific misconduct, or ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
I'm heading to Boston on Friday to speak at the Harvard Book Store about Microcosm. It's at 7 pm, and it's free. Information is here. Then it's on to Chicago, where I'll be talking at the Field Museum on Saturday at 2. Here are the details. I hope some Loom ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Three months ago, I mentioned that the mayor of perennially zaftig Oklahoma City, having lost 38 pounds in 10 months himself, had launched an initiative aimed at getting locals to shed excess weight. By late April, over 17,700 official participants in Cornett's program had lost a collective 68,700 pounds over ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Wow.I just saw something that utterly stunned me over at that house organ of the mercury militia and antivaccinationists everywhere Age of Autism. It's an example of hypocrisy so blatant that it stuns even me, someone who's been following the whole pseudoscientific "vaccines cause autism" movement for over three years ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
So on the blog birthday we asked our dear readers what they've learned over the last year, and as a test we gave them this crank who attacks the bisphosphonate anti-osteoporosis drugs in his article "the delusion of bone drugs". I think the reader with the best grade is ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case: diarrhea.
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
"What I want you to do," I said, "is breathe in deep, then blow it all out like you're blowing out birthday candles."He focused his eyes in concentration and blinked a few times, then did as I'd said, aiming for the finger I held in front of him. I listened ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
"Detoxification."Whenever I hear that term, I'm at least 90% certain that I'm dealing with seriously unscientific woo. The reason should be obvious to longtime readers of this blog or to anyone who has followed "alternative medicine" for a while, because "detoxification" is a mainstay of "alternative" treatments and quackery for ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Thakur D, Pocha M. Pneumothorax after a roller coaster ride. Arch Dis Child. 2007 May;91(5):421. No abstract available.So riding a roller coaster can potentially cause your lung to deflate like a balloon. Now that's a ride!---Roldan-Valadez E, Facha MT, Martinez-Lopez M, Herrera-Mora P. Subdural hematoma in a teenager related to ...
Posted in Hot Medicine Health News | No Comments »