At the risk of irritating a fellow ScienceBlogger again, I thought I’d point out this little post forwarded to me by Norm Jenson as yet another example of exactly the inflated hype for dichloroacetate as a “cure for cancer” that will “never see the light of day” because it has little profit potential (and, by […]
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Via Black Triangle, I’m made aware of another example of religious fundamentalism interfering with sound health care: A MUSLIM doctors’ leader has provoked an outcry by urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps and rubella because it is “un-Islamic”. Dr Abdul Majid Katme, head of the Islamic Medical […]
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Children’s medicine
The latest Pediatrics Grand Rounds has been posted over at Unintelligent Design: Grand Rounds, Volume 1 Edition 21: What Dreams May Come.
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Critics who don’t like my insistence on applying the scientific method to the claims of alternative medicine sometimes accuse me of unrelenting hostility towards alternative medicine, as though no amount of evidence would ever convince me of the efficacy of various alternative medicine therapies. Nothing could be further from the truth; I merely insist, as […]
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Street Anatomy
PZ mentioned it, but, after having seen it, I thought I’d give it a plug too, mainly because my readership skews more towards the medical blogosphere than PZ’s does, and a new blog this promising should be publicized to other medical bloggers. It’s by a graduate student in Biomedical Visualization at the University of Illinois […]
