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Ambidextrous More Likely To Be Bisexual; Why Do We Care, Anyway?
A new study coming from the
href="http://www.uoguelph.ca/" rel="tag">University
of Guelph.
href="http://www.psychology.uoguelph.ca/d_faculty/peters.html">Dr.
Michael Peters, a neuropsychologist, analyzed a…
From the
href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4401429.html">Houston
Chronicle: State Rep. Edmund Kuempel has authored a bill that
would allow legally blind people to go hunting. They'd be
allowed to use laser sights, which are prohibited for fully-sighted
hunters.…
Since it seems to be a big deal to the New York Times (two articles in
two days), I thought I'd comment on this. An FDA advisory
panel recently voted to expand the warnings in the product labeling for
antidepressants.
Just to put this in perspective, the FDA makes many
such changes.…
Pay-for-performance is one of the buzzwords in health care financing
these days. I haven't been following it much, but Dr. Gault
has, over at
target="_blank">retired doc's thoughts.
His latest:
title="Site: retired doc's thoughts"
href="http://mdredux.blogspot.com/2006/12/…
This
picture just cracks me up.
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/ypsipanty1206.php"
onclick="window.open('http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/ypsipanty1206.php','popup','width=500,height=375,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,…
Spectrolab, Inc. has announced that they have developed a way to nearly
double the efficiency of solar cells. They've done it by
creating semiconductor Dagwood sandwiches, with over 20 layers.
The basic idea is to have different layers that respond to
different wavelengths of light.…
According to a study published in the medical journal, Pediatrics,
girls and young women who visit eating disorder oriented websites may
be harmed by the activity. The funny thing is, is does not
matter if the sites encourage eating disorder behavior, or discourage
it. Persons who visit…
So far, I have resisted commenting on the report of the Iraq Study
Group. But this is too good to pass up. From
href="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/12/nothing_can_mat.html">DeLong,
who got it from
href="http://myalteregospeaks.blogspot.com/2006/12/s-r-t.html">Alter
Ego,…
In June, I put up a post noting that open-source browsers accounted for
more than 50% of the hits at ScienceBlogs. At that time,
Firefox was 48.17%. Since then, Microsoft released IE7, which
includes a tabbed interface, and other enhancements that Firefox (and
others, e.g. Opera and…
Flying carp, also called Asian Silver Carp (among others), present a
significant risk to homeland security. The fish can grow to
50, even 100 pounds. Propellers on boats prompt the fish to
jump out of the water, sometimes into boats, sometimes striking boaters.
A video of this is…
Just when you thought there could not possibly be any more to say about
the subject, given the uncertainties inherent in the area, there is yet
another study. This one is from analysis of a large patient
registry in Finland. A total of 15,390 patients were included
in the analysis, over…
This has been a topic at ScienceBlogs before. Now, finally,
the New England Journal of Medicine is catching up. They have
an editorial on the ethics of vaccination against Human Papilloma
Virus. It turns out that there are many facets to this issue.
The background is this:…
Usually, doctors post radiology quizzes with odd clinical findings, or
sometimes odd things that people have swallowed, or gotten into their
bodies through other means.
But this particular image has nothing to do with medicine, or even
traditional radiology. Rather, it pertains to…
NEJM has a nice, short article on the management of menopausal
symptoms. Usually their clinical stuff is subscription-only,
but this one is openly accessible. I'm not going to comment
on it, specifically, but mention it only because it might be something
of general interest. …
HT:
href="http://66.232.26.48/ee/index.php?/fist/more/fri_rdm_10_all_there_is_edition/">Liberal
Street Fighter.
I had to think about this for a bit before it made sense (free
registration on Medscape required):
href="http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/547792">Does
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Decrease Gastroesophageal Reflux in
Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
Twenty-four-hour…
This is kind of an old story, I know. Still, every once in a
while it is good to revisit these things. When the topic
first came up in 2004, it was the subject of much newspaper space and
blog commentary. But now, it has pretty much faded from the
national consciousness. Has…
I have to admit, I was started to see a Consumer Reports article on the
"Best Buy" drugs for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar
disorder. So now
treating mental illness is like buying a toaster oven?
Seriously, at first
it seemed kind of inappropriate. After all you cannot…
I have not posted as much recently, compared to my usual.
That's because I've been messing with my computers, setting
them up to use Sabayon
instead of Suse. Those of you who can about such things can
guess why that is.
One thing I've noticed. If I don't post very much, not as…
I just love the title; it's from a
href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/333/7578/1129">recent
editorial (link to abstract; subscription required for full
access) in the British Medical Journal. The author, Jonathan
Waxman, argues that the medical profession should protect…
I was a bit perplexed by a recent study on a new treatment for alcohol
withdrawal. Ordinarily, I am in favor of new treatment
options, based on the supposition that nothing works for everyone, and
having more options is good. This counterbalances, to some
extent, the anti-pharma screed…
Happy Thanksgiving!
About the image: it's big, I know, kind of slow for those with dial-up,
and it's going to mess up the formatting of the page for those with
lower-resolution monitors. I did shrink it some, but
shrinking degrades the quality quite a bit.
The above image is from the…
The NEJM has another open-access article about drug safety.
As usual, when they publish something on an open-access
basis, it is something of interest to the general public, pertaining to
health care policy.
This one describes specific instances of drug companies concealing
information from…
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division
of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader,
and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble
apprehension, it to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our
Constitution." -John Adams…
The big news on the USA culture front: Rupert Murdoch has personally
intervened, and
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/us/21simp.html?ex=1321765200&en=8a7b71ce038300ee&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss">canned
the OJ Simpson deal. He actually
href="http://www.…
HT to Murph
at Common Monkeyflower for reminding me about this.
Youtube has a video montage, set to the tune of "Let's
Impeach The President" by
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Young">Neil Young.
There's another video that just has a static picture, and the music, in
case…
I've been holding back on this one, but it is time to speak out.
On November 2, 2006,
href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2006-11-02T230517Z_01_WEN9025_RTRIDST_0_TECH-MICROSOFT-NOVELL-BALLMER-DC.XML">Microsoft
and Novell announced a deal…
Catching up on news from earlier in the week, I came across a couple of
items. One is a breathtaking development in Mexico, a country
that is 88%
Catholic; the other from South Africa:
href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4324824.html">Mexican
capital legalizes gay unions…
The Game just started. I am not going to live-blog it, in the
traditional sense, but
I am going to make a few comments.
The student newspaper at UM is the Michigan Daily. Right now,
their entire front page (
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/images/Remembering_Bo.JPG…
href="http://www.beliefnet.com/story/204/story_20419_1.html">Philanthropy
Expert: Conservatives Are More Generous
By Frank Brieaddy
Religion News Service
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Syracuse University professor Arthur C. Brooks is
about to become the darling of the religious right in America -- and…