Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue.
Well, not really. Maybe it looks more like I picked the wrong NIH grant cycle to be submitting an R01. After all, the deadline for my getting my grant to my university’s grant’s office coincided very closely with the announcement of the General Medical [...]
This is apparently a real ad for the hotly contested Orleans Parish Coroner’s race:
Poor Dr. Frankenstein Minyard. This takes negative campaigning to a whole new level.
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Oh, no. I’m flying off to the UK tomorrow, and I’ve just learned that all my favoritest, bestest people there are going to kill themselves just 8 hours from now (uh, remember, correlation is not causation…I’m sorta sure it’s not because I’m coming to visit.) What they’re all going to do is go down to [...]
Source: Stowers Institute for Medical ResearchDate: January 29, 2010
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100129111835.htm
Linheng Li, Ph.D., a Stowers Institute Investigator, together with Hans Clevers, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, Netherlands, co-authored a prospective review published today by the journal Science that proposes a model of mammalian adult stem cell regulation that may explain how the coexistence [...]
Tennessee state representative Mike Turner introduced legislation earlier this year which would have denied health insurance coverage to all new state employees who smoke or use other tobacco products. Turner argued that the proposal was intended to control rising health care costs for the state.
Yesterday, Turner pulled the bill, ending consideration of this proposal.
The Rest [...]
The spending estimate for health IT provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act seems like a moving target. (I guess that’s the nature of estimates, anyway.) The popular number thrown around for a year has been $19.2 billion for EHRs. But that’s a net figure based on expected efficiency gains. I’ve heard that the [...]
So after that whole myth about sex in space got thrown around and it turned out to be bunk (well, ok, I’m calling it bunk until I see the report my ownself, and I was SO happy to be able to say “sex…in…spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace…”. Blah), I figure I owe you guys some REAL Friday Weird [...]
Source: Federation of American Societies for Experimental BiologyDate: January 28, 2010
Summary:
Using cells from mice, scientists discovered a new strategy for making embryonic stem cell transplants less likely to be rejected by a recipient’s immune system. This strategy involves fusing bone marrow cells to embryonic stem cells. Once fused, hybrid cells have DNA from [...]
Here is my post at Examiner on why. I thought it would never happen, actually. But I should have remembered – all psychology fads are inherently ridiculous because they are attempts to evade the depth of the human condition with some silly new idea.
According to the authors of a published “Views and Reviews” article in this week’s issue of the British Medical Journal, active smoking is probably no worse than using electronic cigarettes.
The article, entitled “Electronic Cigarettes: Miracle or Menace?,” reviews the current state of scientific knowledge about the safety of electronic cigarettes compared to traditional cigarettes. It [...]