Category: Epidemiology
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John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and the Broad Street Pump
It’s been a while, hunh? Well here’s a short post on what I’m reading. I’m reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, and it concerns the cholera outbreak in the Soho area of London in 1854. If you’re an epidemiologist, you’ve heard of John Snow and you know about the Broad Street pump. This outbreak…
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Here at ACR 2006
I’m now in Washington for the ACR conference (see explanation here). We’re half way through the Clinical Research Conference and I’m jotting some notes in the break. The theme of this part of the conference (actually a pre-conference) is ‘reducing disparities in prevalence and impact of rheumatic diseases’. We’ve heard a nice introductory talk by…
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Another Day in the Life …
Data – The data set is so big that my computer crashed. That’s only because bloody Microsoft Windows decided it had to update while my analysis was running. But I set it to run again overnight and had something by morning. Presentation – There was enough data analysed, and I could actually present it, though…
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A Day in the Life …
Out of bed at 6:15. Out the door at 7:00. On the train at 7:13. Grab a latte. On to another train at 7:35. Onto the bus at 8:10. At work at 8:50. Read Dain Curse while on bus/train. Talk with the programmer about why my data looks weird. Learn that he’s right and that…
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Whoo! Hoo!
Today was a big day! I got word that the NIH gave a large chunk of money on my behalf to the folks who own my student loans. I got on the web site and confirmed it. I am now several thousand dollars less in debt! What a happy day! Now to put this in…
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September A&R Roundup
At long last, it’s time for the September Roundup of Arthritis & Rheumatism, the premier(?) journal for all things rheumatologic. Sorry it took me so long; I will plead that it was a very busy month, and that the paper journal took a long time to come out. I should also note that abstracts for…
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Sept A&R is Out – Check Out This Letter!
This month’s Arthritis and Rheumatism is now available, on line at least. I’m not sure why I didn’t get the TOC email, but I found out through the grape vine and have taken a preliminary look through it. Sorry, you can only read it if you have a prescription. Jumping Jehosephat! It’s packed with good…
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Oscar Winners Live Longer than their Peers?
I declared my intention to review this article (the link is to the abstract – you can access the whole article if you have a subscription) in Annals of Internal Medicine a few days ago, and have finally read it. And I now think it’s not a good article to review here. It turns out…
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A Slow Tuesday
Nothing really caught my attention today that I feel I just have to blog about. Same old mideast violence; will Lieberman be nominated by the Dems; same old stuff at work; nothing really catching my attention. I guess I can comment on a new experience this morning. I got to be ‘the expert’. For the…
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Whew!
Yesterday I submitted two grant applications. Thank god that’s done. Unfortunately, that still leaves 2 more to go in the next 6 weeks and all the rest that have to go in for the rest of my life. Actually, I don’t mind writing grant applications all that much. I like thinking about study design, and…
Steven Vlad 