Looking through posts tagged ‘Medicine’

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A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS | 9th Nov 2008

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS - WSJ.com.

Taking Back The Power of Science | 18th Sep 2008

I read an article on Ars Technica [via /.]the other day that made me very worried about the future of scientific discovery in the US. With our currently failing economy, I don’t understand how we can still be making such idiotic decisions about the future of some of our most innovative industries.
The scientific research [...]

Disease-specific Stem Cells | 14th Aug 2008

A recent post on Ars Technica explains how researchers are converting adult stem cells from patients with certain diseases into embryonic stem cells. This will hopefully make studying the cellular basis of diseases like Parkinson’s easier by providing a virtually unlimited supply of tissue, which was previously difficult to come by. This technique [...]

The Inner Life of a Cell | 11th Aug 2008

Harvard made a great video called The Inner Life of a Cell a couple of years ago using some great computer graphics [hat tip Sadie]. It tells a brief story of the mechanism of inflammation being activated in a leukocyte. It was put to some great music by Studio Daily. I highly [...]

Panda Throws in the Towel | 15th May 2008

Well after years of writing, it appears that Panda Bear, M.D. is throwing in the towel on his blog. His was one of the few blogs I read regularly, and it’s one that no doubt has left an impact on my past and future as a physician. He says that he’ll be working [...]

Why We Fight | 21st Apr 2008

Has med school taught me to appreciate the complexity of the human body and the intricacy of human disease? Hell no! What has it taught me? That the human body is a freakin’ mine field. Every which way you turn there are 10 more ways stuff can go wrong with your [...]

Futile care | 19th Mar 2008

PandaBear made a good point about the incentives for terminating futile medical care:
My third point is that there is no incentive at any level of the medical industry to use a little common sense. At the high end, physicians risk severe legal consequences for not doing exactly what the family wants no matter how [...]

MMR vaccine doesn’t cause autism | 6th Feb 2008

Finally, someone proved it. Now will all these people pipe down? Heh, probably not.

Pieter didn’t lie | 5th Nov 2007

Apparently Pieter wasn’t lying to me when he said my undergraduate thesis was on a really important topic. In yesterday’s Tribune, they dug up an apparently old piece of news that I hadn’t heard. The folks at UIUC’s new IGB received a $7 million grant from the NIH back in April. For [...]

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