I am admittedly very late to seeing this post, but ReadWriteWeb posted an excellent list of bloggers and Twitter users discussing HIV/AIDS. (The post was …
Month: December 2009
CDC provides tips on ways to stay healthy this holiday
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued twelve health and safety tips for the holiday season. Some of the tips, like the suggestion …
Brain implant designed for patients with difficult-to-treat epilepsy
MIT's Technology Review has taken a look at a brain implant designed by Mountain View-based Neuropace to prevent the onset of seizures using electrical stimulation. …
Trimming treatment for AIDS patients
I read the New York Times account of the president’s new AIDS plan, and all that came to mind were the images of people I …
Northwestern's medical school now disclosing doctor-company relationships
As reported by the Wall Street Journal's Health Blog this morning, Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine is the latest medical school to disclose financial ties …
Researchers find link between fitness and cognition
Cardiovascular health in teenagers is associated with higher scores on intelligence tests, and more education and income as adults, according to a study in the …
Incidentalomas
A friend was diagnosed recently with prostate cancer. While his cancer was found to be relatively insignificant, he battled questions about treatment. Some physicians he …
Video: Kaiser Family Foundation town hall with U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator
If you missed last week's live webcast of the Kaiser Family Foundation's town hall event with U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Eric Goosby, an archived version …
Living Stories launches with three pages on health-care reform and medicine
In an effort to redefine journalism on the Web, the New York Times and the Washington Post have joined forces with Google to create a …
Denialism
OK. So I beat Jon Stewart to an interview with Michael Specter. If you're interested in considering how irrational thinking hinders scientific progress, you should …
No surprise here: A crying baby is the sound most likely to wake women
I tend to pop out of bed when my baby daughter makes even the slightest of whimpers in the middle of the night. I'm not …
Study: Some babies still aren't put to sleep on their back
My five-month-old baby has very little hair - and virtually none on a small patch on the back of her head. The reason for this …
Plastic surgery used to change fingerprints
In a story that draws up Hollywood images of criminal masterminds who keep plastic surgeons on the payroll to alter their appearance, the BBC has …
How to best care for AIDS orphans in Africa
During my travels in Kenya, I met a toddler named Mary Maishon who at one time had been a starved bundle of rags. She had …
How efficient should medicine be in the business sense?
Marya Zilberberg, MD, wonders on KevinMD about how efficient medicine should be: ...I worry that in our traditional American single-minded zeal we will go overboard …
Clues from Jane Austen's writings shake up beliefs about what killed her
So, maybe Jane Austen didn't die from Addison's disease after all. An article published in this month's Medical Humanities analyzes her papers and finds the …