Bill Gates writes about a low-tech, low-cost initiative to reduce the transmission of HIV in South Africa: After that, I travelled 590 kilometers northwest of …
Month: March 2010
Special court says no link between autism and vaccines
A federal "vaccines court" constitituted to hear legal challenges filed by more than 5,300 parents who claimed that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (commonly known as the …
Representative Michael Castle speaks about human embryonic stem cell research
I wrote on Tuesday about the newest effort to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. Yesterday, Nature's blog, a Spoonful of Medicine, posted an …
New hope for hearing loss with chemotherapy
Chemo is bad stuff. Not only does it make you feel like crap, but it can damage your heart, kidneys, and nerves. Some chemo drugs …
Hit the brakes on health-care bill, say two top Dem pollsters
Patrick Caddell and Douglas Schoen are pollsters for the last two non-GOP U.S. Presidents - Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, respectively. So it's revealing that …
Lower costs, convenience drive growth of CME online
Over the next several years physicians will increasingly turn to the Internet for continuing medical education courses, according to a study recently published in the …
On crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti
Lukas Biewald discusses the crowdsourced relief efforts in Haiti: The advantages of a flexible crowdsourcing workflow to managing disaster relief are huge. Businesses like crowdsourced …
Physicians turn to books to better understand patients, selves
Between seeing patients, performing procedures and, if they're in the academic world, publishing papers and teaching students, it would seem unlikely that physicians have loads …
Biomedical innovations and future health-care spending
Stanford health economist Victor Fuchs, PhD, offers his perspective on how to think about future health-care spending in an article published yesterday in the New …
FDA helping drug companies develop treatments for orphan diseases
Orphan. It’s such a lonely word. And when coupled with the word “disease,” it’s downright scary. The truth is I had never heard of the …
Lou Gehrig on Lou Gehrig's disease and multiple sclerosis
One of my favorite blogs of late is Letters of Note, which is a self-described repository of "correspondence deserving of a wider audience." Today, Letters …
NIH panel weighs in on vaginal birth after cesarean
UPDATE 12:35 P.M.: The panel's draft report is out, and they're recommending that pregnant women and their providers use "evidence-based decision-making" when determining whether a …
Tips for not losing sleep over daylight-saving time
For those of us who are sleep deprived (which apparently is the majority of Americans), the most dreaded time of year is quickly approaching: daylight-saving …
Third time's the charm for stem cell legislation?
It's been exactly one year since President Obama overturned the federal funding restrictions imposed in 2001 by President George W. Bush on human embryonic stem …
The Sixth Taste: Australian researchers find that taste buds may play a role in obesity
I may eat fast, but I definitely stop at fatty foods (unless said fatty foods are cleverly disguised as delicious Tartine morning buns). In fact, …
A prescription for improving science education
Science education isn’t faring well in many U.S. high schools, with American teenagers being outperformed by their counterparts in several other developed countries. But universities …