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One of my favorite epidemiological study designs is the temporal association "ecological" study that attempts to imply causation by showing one exposure increasing and one outcome increasing and implying that the exposure is causing the outcome. You know, "Hey, they are both going up so one thing causes another." Vaccine use and autism rates anyone? So, just for fun I've produced the graph above and as you can see, through the efforts of CDC, WHO, VA and many individually hard-working IPs
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Recent breakthroughs in monitoring and treating diabetes suggest that needle-less diabetes care is on the horizon.
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At my local mega-grocery store last weekend, I happened to stroll down the aisle dedicated to homeopathic treatments. I saw shelf after shelf of brightly colored packages, all claiming health benefits. Most of these "medicines" were not cheap.
Amazing. To an average shopper, all of these products look like real medicine. The packaging is similar, the claims are similar, and it's all on display at a respectable grocery store. The difference, though, is that none […]
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This post combines two subjects that absolutely fascinate me, and hopefully you; the history of a disease, and its pathophysiology (medical observations + mechanism acting within the organism).
Toxic Shock Syndrome, or TSS, is an illness...
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Yesterday was the Perelman School of Medicine’s graduation at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, and for most of the students that means goodbye medical school and hello residency. So where will the 84 men and 76 women be heading as they embark on the next phase of their lives?...
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A study by Dr. Mardi Gomberg-Maitland found that pulmonary hypertension is often misdiagnosed.
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Exercise training and the brain 129- Relationship between aerobic endurance training and dynamic cerebral blood flow regulation in humans – Ichikawa et al. Acute exercise and the brain 130- Dynamic exercise improves cognitive function in association with increased prefrontal oxygenation – Endo et al. Aging, cognitive load and the brain 131-Very-low-frequency oscillations of cerebral hemodynamics […]
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Dr. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh at Uppsala University (Sweden) who specializes in comparative genomics and Dr. Åke Hedhammar, SLU (Sweden) recently identified a novel gene in German shepherd dogs, PKP-2, that encodes a protein (plakophilin-2) important for regulating proper skin structure and function. This protein was found to be associated with canine atopic dermatitis (i.e. doggy eczema), a…
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# 7268 Not surprisingly, people in Saudi Arabia living near where an outbreak of nCoV infections have recently been reported are viewing any signs of fever, or respiratory illness, with a heightened degree of suspicion. Today, AFP is reporting that `scores’ of people have shown up at local emergency rooms in the city of Al Asha – many with minor complaints - fearing that they might have contracted this emerging virus. Follow the link
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# 7267 A pair of reports out of Hong Kong this morning in the aftermath of this weekend’s revelations about the novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia (see Saudi Arabia: MOH Coronavirus Twitter Updates) and France (see France: Second Coronavirus Case Confirmed). While Hong Kong has tested a number of travelers returning from the Middle East for the novel coronavirus – so far – none have tested positive. Hong Kong’s hyper-vigilance over infectious
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For anyone who would like to read a thorough review of the current evidence with regard to Hb targets and the use of ESAs in patients with CKD and those on dialysis, I strongly recommend the review published in Nature Reviews Nephrology this month. The field of anemia treatment if CKD has changed completely in the last 10 years. Hb targets have gotten considerably lower and the "one size fits all" model is changing into a model based on individualized Hb targets.Two questions remain to be
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This is a guest post by Graham Coop and Peter Ralph, cross-posted from the Coop Lab website. We’ve been addressing some of the FAQs on topics arising from our paper on the geography of recent genetic genealogy in Europe (PLOS Biology). We wanted to write one on shared genetic material in personal genomics data but [...]
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On the SGU this week we did an interview with Don McLeroy, the former chairman of the Texas School Board of Education, famous for his (successful) attempts to insert wording into the science textbook standards that would open the door for creationist arguments. The interview was very enlightening. In my opinion it was an excellent [...]
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Our research is funded by the public – around 80p in every pound donated to us is spent on this vital work – so we have a responsibility to make sure our supporters’ cash gets spent on the very best science … Continue reading →
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It started about seven years ago. I thought it was just a fleeting fascination but the seeds had been sown for a lifelong affair – I was hooked. I would tell anyone who would listen. Always something of a chatterbox, I would wax lyrical about their variety, ingenuity and rapid ability to adapt. It was […]
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Gabby (Nielk) continues our summary of the FDA Workshop with a look at the second half of Day One – a discussion entitled “Patients’ Perspective on Treatment Approaches”
The FDA Drug Development Workshop for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) took place on the 25th and 26th of April 2013. It was well attended by patients, advocates, doctors, representatives of the CDC and even a few pharmaceutical reps.
The workshop was also broadcast live
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Sometimes blogging topics arise from the strangest places. It’s true. For instance, although references to how tobacco causes cancer and the decades long denialist campaign by tobacco companies are not infrequently referenced in my blogging (particularly from supporters of highly dubious studies alleging a link between cell phone radiation and cancer and the ham-handed misuse…
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That naturopathy is a veritable cornucopia of quackery mixed with the odd sensible, science-based suggestion here and there is not in doubt, at least not to supporters of science-based medicine (SBM). However, what naturopaths are very good at doing is representing their pseudoscience as somehow being scientific and thus on par with conventional SBM. So [...]
