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Traffic increase!
Wow! I’ve had a traffic surge over the last couple of days because of my new look and because of my post on Aetiology. So welcome Aetiology readers and other WordPress folks! Please look around; I hope you find something interesting. For those coming from Aetiology, Michael brought up one good point: I know squat…
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New Look!
I gave the site a new look today. Whaddya think? The banner is from James Gillray’s “The Gout”.
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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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The CIA knows when you’re lying
Read this, from the NY Times. It concerns the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, caught early on in Afghanistan. The article says that there was a major dispute between the FBI who were using standard interrogation techniques, and the CIA who came later and started using more ‘aggressive’ techniques (that’s a euphemism for ‘torture’, you know,…
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Celecoxib and Cardiovascular Risk
Finally, I’m getting around to reviewing the two articles I’ve been threatening to review for the last week! I’m referring to two articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Both are about reducing the risk of colon polyps by using celecoxib (Celebrex). The fact is that these articles are interesting not…
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Celecoxib and Cardiovascular Risk
Finally, I’m getting around to reviewing the two articles I’ve been threatening to review for the last week!I’m referring to two articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Both are about reducing the risk of colon polyps by using celecoxib (Celebrex). The fact is that these articles are interesting not because…
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I know, I’m behind!
The New England Journal is out again today and I still haven’t reviewed the articles I meant to do last week. I’m sorry, but they’re just going to have to wait until this weekend; I still need to sit down and go through them. But I’ve got another one to add to the list from…
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Great News!
I was able to submit my grant after all! My letter-writer contacted the relevant people at the Arthritis Foundation just before the deadline and let them know that he was having trouble getting his letter uploaded to the site. I’m very glad to say that they were willing to give me a short extension, and…
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Happy Labor Day!
I’m working all weekend. I hope you aren’t. Actually, I’m not unhappy to be working. I’m doing some moon-lighting, so I’m making some decent bucks, seeing as it’s the holiday weekend and all. That means I’m that much closer to new car. I’m still driving the Honda Civic that I bought in 1992! It’s run…
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Five years later …
I am a regular reader of The Economist. I like it because it has news from around the world, given with a liberal (small-L) bent. When I say ‘liberal’ here, I do not mean ‘the left wing of the Democratic party’; I mean liberal in the sense of believing in free enterprise, generally small government,…
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