Category: Research
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Enter, Smiling Sheepishly
A friend who lives in another city emailed me today because she was worried that something had happened to me. She pointed out that I had done no blogging in month. I guess that’s a pretty big hint. So let me apologize for my laxity in writing. I have no good excuse. Yes, I have…
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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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Dec A&R Roundup – Kind Of
I’m forgoing the A&R Roundup this month. I went through the Dec. issue last weekend, and you know, nothing caught my eye. How many hundred pages, but not one article that grabbed my attention. There were three articles that I flagged for my own reading, and maybe to review, but more because I feel like…
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Nov A&R Roundup
I have to admit that I don’t do these summaries of Arthritis & Rheumatism just for my readers. It’s also a way of forcing myself to at least glance through the journal every month and see what’s going on in the arthritis research world. I’m more likely to do it and remember it if I…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Part 4
(Parts 1 and 2. Part 3.) I’m back at last. I have spent the last few days helping to get my mother buried, in our hearts if not in fact, and only now have time to finish up. In this post I’ll address the arguments made by David Felson as to the efficacy of glucosamine…
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A Quick Aside
As you may have noticed, I’ve had to take a couple of breaks presenting this final 2006 ACR session, and have divided it up amongst a few posts over a few days. There are reasons for this. 1) As I expalined earlier, it is a subject that is near and dear to my heart and…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Part 3
Part 3 (See here for parts 1 and 2) Dr. Theodosakis then took the podium to present the case for glucosamine and chondroitin. Let me first say that Dr. T. is a young, charismatic man and appears to be a very nice guy. He is certainly an engaging speaker and certainly believes everything he says.…
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Glucosamine and Chondroitin Sulfate: The Great Debate, Parts 1 and 2
This was the last session I attended and concerns a topic of great interest to me, so I’m glad I was able to attend. I expect that this is going to turn into a long post, because it concerns some issues which are close to my heart and that’s I’d like to explore in a…
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Concurrent Abstracts – Complications of Pharmacotherapy
The abstracts I saw presented today tended to have a common theme: they all looked at the risks of therapy with medications we use frequently. You might think that figuring out whether a medication or group of medications cause, say, cancer would just be a matter of following some people and seeing whether they develop…
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2006 ACR Conference: Day 5 and Heading Home
Well, actually I’m heading to my parents’. I’ll get back home sometime this weekend. But it was my 5th day at the ACR Conference, the 3rd day of the conference proper. I managed to get to two sessions before I had to head to the airport, and they were two good ones. The other thing…
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