0000-0002-8715-2896 Oldest Homo sapiens a “nothingburger”? Plus top journos blast secrecy on health care law Posted June 16, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS? It’sCategory Archives: medical journalism
Oldest Homo sapiens a “nothingburger”? Plus US health care policy approaches The End
0000-0002-8715-2896 Oldest Homo sapiens a “nothingburger”? Plus top journos blast secrecy on health care law Posted June 16, 2017 by Tabitha M. Powledge in Uncategorized post-info AddThis Sharing Buttons above OLDEST HOMO SAPIENS? It’sPosted by in ACA, affordable care act, africa, ancient DNA, Astronomy, brain, climate change, congress, dna, Donald Trump, Evolution, featured, genetics, health care, Human Evolution, human paleontology, media criticism, medical journalism, morocco, North Africa, Obamacare, On Science Blogs, paleontology, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Research, Science Journalism, Trumpcare, united states, US Senate
Rare Disease Day 2016: Huntington’s Disease Update
Source: Rare Disease Day 2016: Huntington’s Disease Update Things do happen for a reason. The editors of PLOS asked me weeks ago to post today, Rare Disease Day, about Huntington’s disease (HD). I wondered why,Posted by in Epidemiology, featured, medical journalism
14 Things that Cost the Same as a Gene Therapy Clinical Trial
Several of the families I write about say that it takes about $3-5 million to fund a phase 1 clinical trial for a handful of patients to test a gene transfer protocol. A phase 1 trialPosted by in clinical trial, FDA, featured, medical journalism, Rare Disease Day
Testosterone beyond Sex
When we think about sex hormones, notably estrogens and androgens, we usually associate them with sex, gender and body development. Like all hormones, they are chemical messengers, substances produced in one part of the bodyWhite deaths increase: drugs, alcohol, suicide, but in US only. Why?
There’s a big puzzle growing out of that startling new research showing that the death rate among white Americans age 45-54, especially the less-educated, has been rising since 1999. This even though the death rateCancer, processed meat, red meat. Just how bad? Not very.
NO MORE BALONEY The remarkable thing about the latest World Health Organization declaration–that processed meats are definitely carcinogenic and red meat probably is too–is how many media folks responded by trying to save our bacon.Breast cancer: Should DCIS be treated? Pig genome: messy and quite boaring
SHOULD DCIS BE TREATED LIKE BREAST CANCER? No one seems to know exactly what to make of the big study on the outcomes of DCIS. (DCIS = ductal carcinoma in situ, often called stage 0 breast cancer or precancer, which … Continue reading
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Down with time changes plus the NY Times hearty series on cardio developments
WAIT A SECOND It must have seemed like a good idea at the time, the time being 1972, a time before computers ran the world. That’s when it was decided that a way must be invented to keep precision atomic … Continue reading
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Obamacare lives and Kennewick Man is a Native American
WHEW! The Affordable Care Act (aka ACA, aka Obamacare) subsidies to help people buy health insurance got saved by the US Supreme Court after all, with the somewhat unexpected help (unexpected by me, anyway) of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here’s … Continue reading
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More fallout from the retracted gay marriage paper; social sciences under fire
For the third time here at On Science Blogs, fallout from the fraudulent Science paper about the ease of changing opposition to gay marriage. The commentary now has moved on from that particular paper to the shakiness of social science … Continue reading
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