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A New Year’s BOGUS has been born! (is it just me, or did that happen awfully fast?). And let me tell you, this Image by rochelle, et. al. via Flickr one is a ten-pound whopper with a stinky diaper chock-full of…well, you get the idea. An “evolutionary biologist” published an actual paper asserting that the […] If you’re looking for a breezy, informative and entertaining way to get the low-down on…joy (and who Image via Wikipedia isn’t?), look no further than here. Slate has a wonderful interview with Gretchen Rubin (of The Happiness Project). After a few minutes reading this interview, you’ll walk away feeling like a happiness-research data pro. And […] The inimitable Dr. Val (of Get Better Health) is hosting an special, Inaugural Edition of Grand Rounds. The Image via Wikipedia theme is, of course, healthcare reform. Take a breather from our country’s festivities and head on over. You can check out what the entire healthcare blogosphere (patients, advocates, nurses, doctors and all the team!) […] Image by an0nym0usmuse via Flickr When people talk about healthcare reform, what starts as a policy question often deteriorates into a Tower-of-Babel cacophony of confusion. Everyone’s talking about something different. And, frankly, it’s hard to know how to make things better when no one knows where they’re headed. So do I know where we […] In a last minute announcement under the Bush administration, one that leaves consumer advocates stunned, Image via Wikipedia our FDA (Foolish and Deteriorated Abysmally) has passed a ruling that allows pharmaceutical companies to directly market off-label (translation: unapproved) uses of drugs to doctors. The caveat that’s supposed to make this all okey-dokey (per the industry) […] Now we’ve learned that people in middle age who drink 3 or more cups of coffee a day are over 50% less likely to Image via Wikipedia develop dementia/Alzheimer’s in later life. A previous study in April revealed dementia-preventing effects from one cup of coffee a day – but that study was done with […] |
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