Tag: health
member name: jonathan H.
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August 12, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
New data from a 32-year investigation indicate that obesity spreads contagiously among networks of friends and relatives. This may be due to permissive attitudes toward obesity among friends.
The . . . more
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May 24, 2008 05:28 PM EDT --
I'm reposting this articel from Medscape in case you missed it.
Prerna Mona Khanna, MD, MPH
Medscape J Med. 2008;10(5):113.
At this point, it really doesn't . . . more
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May 22, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
Genine,
I've posted your e-mail (see below) with my response without asking you. Let me know if I should delete this article.
I'm happy to comment on your health care examples, but I think you'd . . . more
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October 19, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
I had the pleasure of using the medical library archives this week.
I performed an autopsy on a woman who was insensitive to thyroid hormone (her body acted as if she didn’t have a thyroid gland . . . more
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June 09, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
The US Environmental Protection Agency and the State of California have endorsed a meta-analysis of passive sun exposure and skin cancer published in the British Medical Journal.
Secondhand sun . . . more
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July 27, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
The New York State Department of Health has just come out with a plan for rationing ventilators in case of an influenza pandemic. The related discussions highlight the ethical dilemmas of withdrawing . . . more
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May 01, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
The laws regarding funding of FDA drug safety research/testing is up for renewal.
The New England Journal has posted a great debate on the issue.
I will include both the links and text of the articles . . . more
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May 01, 2007 07:20 AM EDT --
The laws regarding funding of FDA drug safety research/testing is up for renewal.
The New England Journal has posted a great debate on the issue.
I will include both the links and text . . . more
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March 11, 2008 07:41 PM EDT --
Finally, a great description of my job...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFb7smyVEyg
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December 01, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
Google has invested in a company offering a $1,000. genetic test that allows participants to trace their evolutionary ancestry and calculate the genetic risk of various diseases. The site ( 23and me.com . . . more
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January 31, 2008 09:32 PM EST --
I've been thinking of Kotel Notes, the custom of placing prayers on scraps of paper into cracks of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
(Nowadays, you can even pray by proxy by sending an e-mail to a . . . more
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March 09, 2008 09:44 AM EDT --
I just returned from our Academy of Pathology meeting in Denver. Chris Fletcher from BWH delivered a pessimistic keynote lecture on the "future of academic pathology."
He sited . . . more
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December 20, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
Background:
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. George Lundberg, the editor of MedGenMed, the largest online open-access (free) peer-reviewed medical journal. Lundberg is a bit of a crackpot, but very . . . more
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May 08, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Related to my comment about the cost of health care, here's an editorial from "Medscape" regarding unnecessary medical testing.The article focuses too much on private company offerings (i.e. . . . more
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