Monthly Archives: February 2013

# Maggie Kuo and Charlie Storrar # 2013-02-23 # 12:45 http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?cid=1103&MainCatID=11&id=20130223000071 So the type of hairstyle depicted on the Bike Snob NYC “Seal of Approval” would be considered “inappropriate and subversive”:

NYT raises questions about federal project, science press provides answers By Curtis Brainard http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/obama_brain_activity_map_detai.php “The vagueness of the plan sent some neuroscientists into a tizzy, however, though one that produced a fascinating discussion about the right and wrong ways to … Continue reading →

“Health IT hyper-enthusiasts, when faced with the prospect of government regulations, react like Pavlov’s dogs with the response “regulation of health IT will harm innovation.” Here’s a soliloquy of critical questions that need be asked:” from Health Care Renewal- http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/02/arguments-with-pavlovs-dogs-health-it.html … Continue reading →

Recent experienceing of thundersnow reminded me of Big Dead Place: “Burying the Finn’s Tooth” The Speech “On this 7th day of February, 2004, at the Geographical South Pole, of planet Earth, the third planet from the sun, in a small … Continue reading →

* Article by: JEREMY OLSON , Star Tribune * Updated: February 27, 2013 – 10:07 AM “Mentally ill patients’ consent is at the center of the controversy.” “A University of Minnesota ethics professor is asking for an investigation into drug … Continue reading →

By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News “A run of poor sleep can have a potentially profound effect on the internal workings of the human body, say UK researchers. The activity of hundreds of genes was altered when … Continue reading →

by Harriet A. Washington http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1153365.Medical_Apartheid “On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section … Continue reading →

-Ben Goldacre “So to be clear, this whole book is about meticulously defending every assertion in the paragraph that follows. Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative … Continue reading →

“tweet·tweet…” 1BOM from Goldacre: The debate is over. Tweets coming from Ben Goldacre say: “” * It is very sad. There are so many in industry who want to move constructively towards greater transparency, and recognise the value for them. … Continue reading →

“There is good news and bad news about enrolling patients in clincal trials. First, the good news – 89 percent of all trials meet their enrollment goals. Now, the bad news – 48 percent of the trial sites miss enrollment … Continue reading →