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2012.02.03: Kick-Back Friday: #193
2012.02.02: Alzheimer Biomarkers Less Meaningful With Advancing Age
2012.01.27: Kick-Back Friday: #192
2012.01.26: Harvard Analysts ID Sources of Medicare-Spending Gap
2012.01.24: Favorable Early Results of Embryonic Stem Cells in Macular Degeneration
2012.01.23: Who the Hell Was John Cunningham?
2012.01.20: Kick-Back Friday: #191
2012.01.20: Deen, Novo Taken DOWN...Well, Verbally at Least
2012.01.18: Dimebon Development for Alzheimer's Officially Dead
2012.01.13: Kick-Back Friday: #190
2012.01.13: They're Baaack: Plaintiffs Continue to Seek Injunction Against Federally Funded Stem-Cell Research
2011.12.22: Amyloid Burden in Cognitively Normal Elderly: What Does It Mean?
2011.12.16: Kick-Back Friday: #189
2011.12.16: World's Largest Drug Maker "Lets Go"
2011.12.09: Kick-Back Friday: #188
2011.12.08: FDA to Review Bleeding Events With Pradaxa
2011.12.06: Another Dead Professional Athlete With CTE
2011.12.01: XMRV, CFS, and Mikovits: Where Are We Now?
2011.11.30: RIP, More or Less: Brand Name Lipitor
2011.11.28: Once More With Feeling: Dealing With the Impending Cut to Medicare Reimbursement
2011.11.25: Kick-B(l)ack Friday: #187
2011.11.23: Harvard Canned-Soup-BPA Study Called "POS" by JunkScience.com
2011.11.22: Mikovits Held Without Bail; Allegedly Stole Lab Notebooks From Institute
2011.11.18: Kick-Back Friday: #186
2011.11.17: Geron Dumps Stem-Cell Investigation
2011.11.11: Kick-Back Friday: #185
2011.11.10: When It Comes to Disease Prevention, Bill Gates Shoots for Big Numbers
2011.11.07: FDA Approves 2nd Warfarin Competitor
2011.11.01: It's time for a new leader with some accessible, but not-too-threatening, physical ailment or deformity
2011.10.28: Kick-Back Friday: #184
2011.10.27: Another Study Contradicts Venous Insufficiency in Multiple Sclerosis
2011.10.26: Trish as a Cigarette Deterrent
2011.10.20: Drug Company Jettisons Drug Biz
2011.10.19: Alleged No More: Former FDA Chemist Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading
2011.10.14: Kick-Back Friday: #183
2011.10.12: Frontline and ProPublica Present Biased and Irresponsible View of Anthrax Investigation
2011.10.07: Hah: Blog Cited as Essential Reference in NEJM
2011.10.05: Girl Goes, or the Rockin' Science Blog Is More Powerful Than the Stodgy Letter to the Editor
2011.09.30: Kick-Back Friday: #182
2011.09.28: hESC Clinical Trials: And Then There Are Four
2011.09.27: Homing in on the Toxicity of Diethylene Glycol
2011.09.19: Why Michael Vick Sustained a Concussion: He's a Professional Football Player
2011.09.16: Kick-Back Friday: #181
2011.09.09: Kick-Back Friday: #180
2011.09.06: They Got a Name, and an Acronym, for That
2011.09.02: Kick-Back Friday: #179
2011.08.31: Panel Reveals Horrific Details of US-Funded Guatemalan VD Experiments
2011.08.26: Kick-Back Friday: #178
2011.08.26: Coach Summitt Prepares for Battle Against Unseen Opponent
2011.08.22: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel: Lookie, It's a Medulla Oblongata
2011.08.19: Kick-Back Friday: #177
2011.08.18: Physician, Gird Thyself: Being Sued Is Nearly a Given
2011.08.11: Pfizer Cuts Jobs at Bristol Plant, Former Site of Massengill HQ
2011.08.05: Industry Focuses on Earlier Intervention in Alzheimer's
2011.08.02: Teva's MS Pill Fails to Meet Primary Endpoint; Shares Fall
2011.07.29: Kick-Back Friday: #176
2011.07.29: Judge Reluctantly Legalizes Federal Funding of Stem-Cell Research
2011.07.28: Forbes Cover Story: High-Level Dysfunction at Pfizer
2011.07.27: Head-Nodding Syndrome Increases in South Sudan
2011.07.25: Teva Defends Copaxone: Oh, the Irony
2011.07.22: Costs of Disease-Modifying Drugs for MS Are Just Too Damn High
2011.07.21: Three Amyloid Tracers in Development
2011.07.20: ICAD 2011: Amyloid Targets in Trouble
2011.07.18: Large Overlap Between Healthy Controls and Alzheimer Patients in Amyloid PET Study
2011.07.15: Kick-Back Friday: #175
2011.07.15: Next to HMO/Hospital Execs, Czar Nicholas II Appeared Clued In
2011.07.12: Cephalosporin-Resistant Gonorrhea Increases in the United States
2011.07.08: Kick-Back Friday: #174
2011.07.06: Meta-analysis Suggests Small Cardiovascular Risk With Chantix
2011.07.01: Kick-Back Friday: #173
2011.06.27: Another Week, Another Study of CSF Biomarkers in Alzheimer's
2011.06.24: Kick-Back Friday: #172
2011.06.23: Merck KGaA Shoots Its Hobbled Horse, Oral Cladribine
2011.06.21: High Saturated-Fat Diet May Promote Cognitive Decline
2011.06.17: Kick-Back Friday: #171
2011.06.17: From the Annals of Mebbe: "Intensive Use" of Olive Oil Reduces Stroke Risk
2011.06.10: Kick-Back Friday: #170
2011.06.08: WHO on Germany's E. Coli Outbreak
2011.06.03: Kick-Back Friday: #169
2011.06.02: Imaging Study May Aid Detection of Concussive Brain Injury
2011.06.01: Post-hoc Analysis Provides Rationale for Lower Dosage of Pradaxa
2011.05.31: MS Activity Quickly Returns to Baseline After Stopping Tysabri
2011.05.27: Kick-Back Friday: #168
2011.05.24: My Heroes Are The Onion Writers
2011.05.20: Kick-Back Friday: #167
2011.05.18: Tysabri-Associated PML in MS: Better Survival Rates Than Other Patient Types
2011.05.16: TB Gets Historical Print Award
2011.05.13: Kick-Back Friday: #166
2011.05.12: Public Citizen Objects to Approval of Lilly's Amyloid Tracer
2011.05.10: Stem Cell Update
2011.05.06: Kick-Back Friday: #165
2011.05.06: Congress Wants to Reform Medicare Reimbursement, They Really Do
2011.05.04: Geier's Medical License Suspended
2011.05.03: Bears Safety Had CTE
2011.05.02: Bin Laden Succombs to Gunshot Wound, Not Renal Failure
2011.04.28: Infected Armadillos and Humans Often Share Same Strain of Leprosy
2011.04.27: TNF Antagonists and Peripheral Neuropathy
2011.04.26: Mouse Study: NSAIDs May Interfere With SSRI Activity
2011.04.25: Real-World Feedback on Pradaxa
2011.04.22: Kick-Back Friday: #164
2011.04.20: IMS Health Prescription Data: Another Slice and Dice
2011.04.19: Panel: AD Biomarkers Should Be Reserved for Clinical Trials
2011.04.15: Kick-Back Friday: #163
2011.04.15: CCSVI: Nonspecific Marker for General Neurologic Disease?
2011.04.14: FDA Tap Dances on Pradaxa Decision
2011.04.12: Teva's Oral MS Pill: Reasonably Safe and Effective
2011.04.09: A Word to Human Visitors, or Enervated by Movable Type
2011.04.08: Kick-Back Friday: #162
2011.04.05: CSF Biomarker for MS Not Ready for Primetime
2011.04.04: New Alzheimer Risk Genes Identified by Huge Collaborative Studies
2011.04.01: Kick-Back Friday: #161
2011.04.01: Radiologists' Experience With Venous Angioplasty/Stenting in MS: Is It Safe?
2011.03.30: What Tipped off the SEC to an FDA Chemist's Alleged Insider Trading?
2011.03.29: Litigation Re Baxter's Tainted Heparin Underway
2011.03.25: Kick-Back Friday: #160
2011.03.24: Panel Finds Bruce Ivins Capable of "Anthrax Attacks"
2011.03.24: CDC Finds Low Levels of Diethylene Glycol in OTC Health Products
2011.03.22: MS News: Stem Cell Transplantation in Aggressive Disease; Drug Costs Soar
2011.03.21: FDA Declines Approval of Lilly's Amyloid Tracer, For Now
2011.03.18: Kick-Back Friday: #159
2011.03.17: Fukushima Radiation Levels Explained
2011.03.14: Giffords Recovering Speech Abilities
2011.03.11: Kick-Back Friday: #158
2011.03.10: Benlysta Approved (Finally) for SLE
2011.03.08: The Road to Involuntary Commitment in California: Alas, We've Been Down It Before
2011.03.07: Iditarod Has Life-Saving History
2011.03.04: Kick-Back Friday: #157
2011.03.03: Another Potti Retraction
2011.03.02: FDA Rejects Oral Cladribine for MS
2011.03.01: Case Report Suggests Alternative Role for Anti-Amyloid Antibodies
2011.02.25: Kick-Back Friday: #156
2011.02.24: Surprising and Yet-Not-Surprising Exit of Lilly's Neuroscience Chief
2011.02.23: Vaccine Court Prevails; PPACA Constitutional
2011.02.22: Rate of PML With Tysabri Inches Upward
2011.02.21: Presidents Plagued by Physical Limitations
2011.02.18: Kick-Back Friday: #155
2011.02.17: Scientific Evidence Not Enough to Implicate Ivins in Anthrax Attacks; But That's Nothing New
2011.02.15: Parkinson-Berry Study Should Be Viewed Cum Grano Salis
2011.02.11: Kick-Back Friday: #154
2011.02.11: Another New Anticoagulant Protects Against Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation
2011.02.10: Peer Reviewer of Denture-Cream Article Failed to Disclose P&G Ties
2011.02.07: Small Study Shows Promise of Universal Flu Vaccine
2011.02.04: Kick-Back Friday: #153
2011.02.04: Old Number-Reading Test May Aid Rapid Assessment of Head Injury
2011.02.03: Commercial Activity vs Inactivity Is at Center of Judges' PPACA Rulings
2011.02.01: "Broccoli Judge" Tosses Gutted PPACA
2011.01.31: Another Potti Article Retracted; FDA Visits Duke
2011.01.28: Kick-Back Friday: #152
2011.01.26: Update on Giffords's Condition
2011.01.21: Kick-Back Friday: #151
2011.01.21: FDA Advisory Panel Conditionally Endorses Clinically Useless Amyloid Tracer
2011.01.19: FDA Gives Lilly's Amyloid Tracer Preliminary Thumbs Down
2011.01.18: More Information on Brain Injury of Giffords
2011.01.14: Kick-Back Friday: #150
2011.01.14: Merck's Frontrunner Antiplatelet Hits Brick Wall
2011.01.12: Lilly's Investigational AD Drug May Cause Brain Edema
2011.01.10: Speculation on Brain Injury of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
2011.01.07: Kick-Back Friday: #149
2011.01.07: FDA Denies Avastin Decision Based on Cost
2011.01.06: Duke's Exculpating Review of Potti's Work Used Mislabeled Data
2011.01.05: Third hESC Trial Gets FDA Nod
2011.01.03: More on PPACA's Constitutionality: When Can Commercial Inactivity Be Defined as Activity?
2010.12.31: Kick-Back Friday: #148
2010.12.31: Top 10 for '10: No. 1
2010.12.30: Top 10 for '10: No. 2
2010.12.29: Top 10 for '10: No. 3
2010.12.28: Top 10 for '10: No. 4
2010.12.27: Top 10 for '10: No. 5
2010.12.26: Top 10 for '10: No. 6
2010.12.26: Top 10 for '10: No. 7
2010.12.24: Top 10 for '10: No. 8
2010.12.23: Top 10 for '10: No. 9
2010.12.22: Top 10 for '10: No. 10
2010.12.21: Epo Discoverer Dies
2010.12.17: Kick-Back Friday: #147
2010.12.17: House GOPs: FDA Considered Cost in Avastin Withdrawal for Breast Cancer
2010.12.16: Legal Scholar: PPACA Insurance Mandate at Risk
2010.12.14: Duke Med Center Plagued by More Scientific Controversy
2010.12.13: The Golden Age of Wireless
2010.12.10: Kick-Back Friday: #146
2010.12.10: Roche's Investigational Antipsychotic Has Distinct MOA
2010.12.09: Senate Bill Would Delay Medicare Cut 1 Year
2010.12.08: In Business Communications, Pharma Execs Lead by Negative Example
2010.12.07: Appeals Court Hears Arguments for Stem Cell Funding
2010.12.06: Pfizer CEO Abruptly Resigns; Reporter Believes His Parting Reason [Snort]
2010.12.03: Kick-Back Friday: #145
2010.12.03: In NEJM Editorial, FDA Commish Has Selective Memory
2010.12.01: Congress Votes to Delay Medicare Cut; Christmas on December 25th
2010.11.30: BBRI Trustees Oppose Faculty Member in Stem-Cell Case
2010.11.29: FDA Extends Review of Cladribine for MS
2010.11.26: Kick-B(l)ack Friday: #144
2010.11.23: Another hESC Trial to Begin in the US
2010.11.22: Duke's Potti Resigns; Some Kind of Forgiveness Annoyingly Requested
2010.11.19: Kick-Back Friday: #143
2010.11.19: Enthusiasm for Emerging Anticoagulants Now Tempered
2010.11.17: In the Works: More Clinical Studies of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
2010.11.16: Yabba-Dabigatran: Cheerleading for Pradaxa and What May Follow
2010.11.15: New Study: Authors Implicate Acne, Rather Than Accutane, for Increasing Suicide Risk
2010.11.12: Kick-Back Friday: #142
2010.11.11: High Pradaxa Price Justified
2010.11.10: Lilly Banks on Amyloid PET Tracer
2010.11.08: X-Radiation: Has It Been 115 Years Already?
2010.11.05: Kick-Back Friday: #141
2010.11.04: Bats' Recognition of Water Surface Is Hard Wired
2010.11.03: Still No Support for Omega-3 in Alzheimer's
2010.11.01: Statins May Reduce Risk of Epilepsy in Adults
2010.10.29: Kick-Back Friday: #140
2010.10.27: Nonconcussive Head Blows in Football Also Damaging
2010.10.26: WSJ's Melinda Beck Uses New Eastwood Movie to Highlight Old Study News
2010.10.25: It's...Yes...After All
2010.10.22: Kick-Back Friday: #139
2010.10.20: FDA Approves Dabigatran for Stroke Prevention
2010.10.19: FDA Threatens Egg Farmer With "Seizure and/or Injunction"
2010.10.18: California: 1950s Pertussis Records Broken
2010.10.15: Kick-Back Friday: #138
2010.10.12: First hESC-Derived Therapy Begins in Humans
2010.10.11: Cell-Cultured Influenza Vaccine Equivalent to Old-School Injection
2010.10.08: Kick-Back Friday: #137
2010.10.08: Why Novartis Is Like Your Cute Little, Bank-Breaking, Liberal Arts College
2010.10.06: Medicare Reimbursement: Looking to Kick the SGR Can Into Oblivion
2010.10.04: Venereal Disease and the Sorry History of the Public Health Service: Wait, There's More
2010.10.01: Kick-Back Friday: #136
2010.10.01: Briefing Timeline Set in Stem-Cell Appeal
2010.09.30: Miami Herald: Florida Chiropractor Demands Geiers' Access to State Vaccine Records
2010.09.29: Stem-Cell Stay Sustained
2010.09.28: Stem-Cell Injunction Argued in Appellate Court: Yale Law Grads on Parade
2010.09.27: Glass Flakes in Drug Vials: Longstanding, Vexing Problem
2010.09.24: Kick-Back Friday: #135
2010.09.22: Live Blogging the Subcommittee Hearing on the Egg-Borne Salmonella Outbreak
2010.09.22: And the Winner Is...Novartis
2010.09.21: Senate Attempted to Alter Dickey-Wicker Amendment in 2001
2010.09.17: Kick-Back Friday: #134
2010.09.17: Whooping Cough Epidemic in California May Be Record Breaking
2010.09.17: WSJ: Feed Supplier to Wright County Egg Not Source of Salmonella
2010.09.16: Egg Facilities of "Habitual Violator" DeCoster Plagued With Salmonella for 2 Years
2010.09.15: Medical Resident Took Call While Intubated
2010.09.14: What We've Still Got Here: Orthopods' Failure to Disclose
2010.09.13: Study: Postnatal Exposure to Thimerosal Reduces Autism Risk
2010.09.10: Kick-Back Friday: #133
2010.09.10: Appeals Court Lifts Ban on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
2010.09.10: What? Federal Agencies Don't Talk to One Another?
2010.09.08: On Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Judge Denies DOJ Motion for Stay
2010.09.07: On GSK, Ghostwriting, and the AHA: Grassley Sidesteps Confusing Evidence, Can't See Forest for Trees, Is Probably a Hypocrite, Etc.
2010.09.03: Kick-Back Friday: #132
2010.09.02: Allergan Settles With DOJ, Drops Free-Speech Case
2010.09.01: DoJ to Appeal Stem Cell Ruling
2010.08.31: Manure Piled High at DeCosters' Hen Houses
2010.08.29: Decision Upheld: Vaccines Did Not Cause Autism
2010.08.27: Kick-Back Friday: #131
2010.08.26: And...Small Medical Practices in Jeopardy
2010.08.25: "Remarkable" Stem Cell Research in Jeopardy
2010.08.24: Although Biochemically Counterintuitive, Combo Parkinson Drug May Increase Cardiovascular Risk
2010.08.23: Owner at Center of Salmonella-Tainted-Egg Investigation; "Habitual Violator" of Regulations
2010.08.20: Kick-Back Friday: #130
2010.08.20: Genetic Story of Common Muscular Dystrophy Progresses
2010.08.19: Spinal Fluid Assay Useful for Predicting Dementia in Parkinson's
2010.08.17: Another Anti-Beta-Amyloid Drug Bites It
2010.08.16: Indian Superbug Underscores Risks of Medical Tourism
2010.08.12: Kick-Back Friday: #129
2010.08.12: Another Negative Lithium Trial in ALS
2010.08.11: Alzheimer Assay Deserves Qualified Embrace
2010.08.06: Kick-Back Friday: #128
2010.08.06: Trustees: Improved Medicare Outlook due to PPACA...n' Other Stuff n' Junk
2010.08.04: Missourians to Obama: What Rhymes With Show Me?
2010.08.03: Truly Fatter, Quickly
2010.08.03: Link Between Accutane and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Probably Idiosyncratic
2010.07.31: Kick-Back Friday: #127
2010.07.30: Fecal Occult-Blood Testing May Save More Lives Than Colonoscopy
2010.07.28: For Merck Serono, Two's the Charm
2010.07.26: Source of Contaminated Heparin Still Unknown
2010.07.23: Kick-Back Friday: #126
2010.07.22: Fear of Autism Not a Reason to Delay Vaccinations
2010.07.21: Duke Failed to Vet Researcher's CV
2010.07.20: Approved Mozobil May Have Role in Glioblastoma Treatment
2010.07.19: When Is a Health-Insurance Mandate Constitutional? When It's Associated With a Pena—Er, Tax
2010.07.16: Kick-Back Friday: #125
2010.07.15: Successful HIV Vaccine Probable
2010.07.14: Tau Angle Promoted in Development of Bapineuzumab
2010.07.13: More Drama on Eve of FDA's Review of Avandia, or Where Is Dr. Martin Freed?
2010.07.12: Harvard Prof Analyzes Avandia Controversy
2010.07.09: Kick-Back Friday: #124
2010.07.09: Income for Certified CME Continues to Fall
2010.07.08: Expert: Congress Won't Repeal SGR Formula
2010.07.06: Confusion Over Availability of Sinemet
2010.07.02: Kick-Back Friday: #123
2010.07.01: Variations in Medicare Spending: Guess What? It's Complicated AND a Mystery
2010.06.29: MS Patients Still Demand Jugular-Vein Procedures Despite Lack of Data
2010.06.25: Kick-Back Friday: #122
2010.06.23: The Decline of Hospital-Based Nursing Care
2010.06.18: Kick-Back Friday: #121
2010.06.09: Pfizer Makes a Point at ASCO
2010.06.08: AAN Panel Reaffirms Brain-Death Criteria
2010.06.07: BMJ Writers Take "Cheap Shot" at WHO
2010.06.04: Kick-Back Friday: #120
2010.06.04: Small, Increased Risk of GBS With Pandemic H1N1 Vaccine
2010.06.03: What the Hell Is Corexit?
2010.06.02: AF Linked to Dementia (Yeah I Know, Old News)
2010.06.01: Vaccine Prevents Breast Cancer in Mice
2010.05.28: Kick-Back Friday: #119
2010.05.28: NYT Wrong to Cite McClain Case in OSHA-Biosafety Story
2010.05.27: And If They Say It's Not About the Money...
2010.05.25: Proposed Amendment to Medicare Reimbursement Explained, Sort Of
2010.05.24: Michaels's TIA Not Necessarily due to PFO
2010.05.21: Kick-Back Friday: #118
2010.05.21: Democrats Propose Long-Term Fix to Medicare Cuts
2010.05.19: In Madison County, Lack of Data Doesn't Thwart PI Lawyer
2010.05.17: WHO Cell-Phone Study Is Not So Inconclusive
2010.05.14: Kick-Back Friday: #117
2010.05.14: This Is News? Whistleblowers Paint Themselves in Altruistic Light
2010.05.13: Allergan Will Appeal Loss of 2nd Botox Suit
2010.05.11: SAH Outcomes Better
2010.05.10: Malcolm Gladwell on Cancer-Drug Development
2010.05.07: Kick-Back Friday: #116
2010.05.07: Now Rotateq Has PCV DNA Fragments; Trypsin May Be Source
2010.05.06: Here Comes the Sun, Maybe: High-Dose Vitamin D Possibly Beneficial in MS
2010.05.04: The Best-Seller Dance
2010.05.03: Reasons for Unpublished Stroke Trials May Not Be Underhanded
2010.04.30: Kick-Back Friday: #115
2010.04.29: Generic Antiepileptic Drugs: Do They Increase or Decrease Healthcare Costs?
2010.04.28: Bret Michaels and SAH
2010.04.27: Vitamin D Study in Peril Over Avandia Concerns
2010.04.26: Lipitor Possibly Beneficial in Early MS
2010.04.23: Kick-Back Friday: #114
2010.04.23: Man Bites Dog; Allergan Sues Plaintiff
2010.04.23: Infographic: Mining the Web for Health
2010.04.22: CMSS: All Aboard the Independence-Transparency Train
2010.04.21: Snapshot of Tobacco Poisoning in Children
2010.04.20: Yeah Like, But Dude, Where Does "420" Come From? I Mean, Like, What's Its Derivation, Man? The Word, Man, the Word, or, I Mean, Like, the Numbers, Man
2010.04.19: PTC Therapeutics Tight Lipped on Clinical Data; Investigator Speaks Out
2010.04.16: Kick-Back Friday: #113
2010.04.16: On Medicare Cut: Congress Once Again Gives Itself Little Time to Grow a Pair
2010.04.15: No Rise in GBS With 2009 H1N1 Vaccination
2010.04.14: IV Ig in Alzheimer's: Baxter's Small Phase 2 Study Warrants Phase 3 Investigation. And That Is All
2010.04.13: Jugular-Vein Procedures in MS: Zeal Must Yield to Thoughtful Study
2010.04.12: Something for The Hurt Locker 2
2010.04.09: Kick-Back Friday: #112
2010.04.09: Repurposing Avandia
2010.04.08: Mandatory Health Insurance: Gaming the New System
2010.04.07: Lilly Leads Late-Stage Development of AD Drugs
2010.04.06: Lithium Tanks in Well-Controlled ALS Trial
2010.04.05: Prevailing Ex-Pfizer Scientist Has Genetically Determined Illness
2010.04.02: Kick-Back Friday: #111
2010.04.01: Pfizer Boards Disclosure Train
2010.03.26: Kick-Back Friday #110
2010.03.25: Better Idea: Close MS Stent Program
2010.03.23: Medicare: In the Year 2525...
2010.03.23: Rotarix Had PCV1 DNA From Vaccine Inception
2010.03.22: After 20 Years of Use, We Still Don't Know How Statins Cause Myopathy
2010.03.19: Kick-Back Friday: #109
2010.03.19: BMJ Study: In the Age of Transparency, COI Disclosures Still Lacking
2010.03.18: Prayer and Sedation for the Dying
2010.03.17: Duke Wins ACC Showdown
2010.03.16: Hospitalizations Reduced With Warfarin Sensitivity Testing
2010.03.15: Geiers' Studies Discredited in Federal Vaccine Opinions
2010.03.12: Kick-Back Friday: #108
2010.03.12: In Defense of (Some) High-Tech Screening Tests in POTOS
2010.03.11: On Medicare Cut, Senate Kicks the Can Again
2010.03.10: FDA Approves Botox for Arm Spasticity in Adults; Allergan's Case Against Govt Still Active
2010.03.09: Alzheimer Disease: Brace, Brace, Brace for the Aging Baby Boomer!
2010.03.08: "Son of Rituxan" in Peril
2010.03.05: Kick-Back Friday: #107
2010.03.05: DTC Trends: Pregunte a su doctor
2010.03.04: The Taking of Absence Epilepsy One Two Three
2010.03.03: Dimebon Tanks (Along With Medivation Stock) in Phase 3 Alzheimer Trial
2010.03.02: Bunning Still Blocking Extension of Medicare Reimbursement
2010.03.01: Conflicting Results of Carotid-Stent Trials Frustrate Practical Application
2010.02.26: Kick-Back Friday: #106
2010.02.26: Senator Bunning: Persona Non Grata Among Practicing Physicians
2010.02.22: High-Dose Progesterone To Be Studied in Brain-Injured Patients
2010.02.19: Kick-Back Friday: #105
2010.02.17: Funky Tut
2010.02.15: Accutane-Depression Link: Clinical Studies Not Overwhelming
2010.02.12: Kick-Back Friday: #104
2010.02.12: In the (Possible) Wake of Pandemic H1N1: The Latest CDC Numbers
2010.02.12: East Coast Mumps Outbreak Imported From Britain
2010.02.11: Migraine Increases Risk of Vascular Disease, but Risk Still Low
2010.02.10: Dimebon Development for Huntington Disease, Alzheimer Disease Progresses
2010.02.09: Parkinson Disease and Exposure to Trichloroethylene: More Suggestive Data
2010.02.08: Litigation-Driven Research: Getting Over the Ick Factor
2010.02.05: Kick-Back Friday: #103
2010.02.05: Accutane-PET Study Discredited in Court Opinion
2010.02.04: fMRI Study Clouds Definition of Vegetative State
2010.02.03: The Lancet Tries to Unring a Bell
2010.02.02: Physician Eyewitness in Haiti
2010.01.29: Kick-Back Friday: #102
2010.01.29: Bill and Melinda Throw Another $10 Billion at Vaccine Development
2010.01.28: Plaintiffs: Allergan Promoted Off-Label Use of Botox
2010.01.27: Huh? When? Novartis Submitted NDA for Fingolimod in December
2010.01.26: Guidelines Recommend Botox for Pediatric Spasticity
2010.01.25: Brief Primer: Speakers' Bureaus vs Continuing Medical Education (CME) Programs
2010.01.24: "Walking Drug" Approved for All MS Patients
2010.01.22: Kick-Back Friday: #101
2010.01.22: "Extraordinary Measures": Not Even Good Enough for Premium Movie Channels
2010.01.21: At Last: Peer Review of MS Pill Trials
2010.01.20: Limited, Encouraging Support for Choline in Alzheimer's
2010.01.19: Meh: In Cognitive Dysfunction, Vitamin E May Help, or...It May Do Nothing, or...It May Harm
2010.01.18: Little Support for Oral B Vitamins in Alzheimer Disease
2010.01.15: Kick-Back Friday: #100
2010.01.15: Why the Individual Mandate for Health Insurance Is Constitutional
2010.01.14: Govt Responds to Allergan's Free-Speech Complaint
2010.01.13: Scant Data, Benefit of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Alzheimer Disease
2010.01.12: Souvenaid Study Problematic
2010.01.11: Pfizer Gives Stanford $3M for CME
2010.01.08: Kick-Back Friday: #99
2010.01.08: WSJ: Who Will Regulate the Proposed Insurance "Exchange"?
2010.01.07: Pandemic Flu May Contribute Significantly to Pregnancy-Related Death Rate
2010.01.05: Are You Ready for Some Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy?
2010.01.04: Predicting the Transition to Alzheimer Disease
2010.01.01: Kick-Back Friday: #98
2009.12.31: Top 10 for '09: No. 1
2009.12.30: Top 10 for '09: No. 2
2009.12.29: Top 10 for '09: No. 3
2009.12.28: Top 10 for '09: No. 4
2009.12.27: Top 10 for '09: No. 5
2009.12.26: Top 10 for '09: No. 6
2009.12.25: Top 10 for '09: No. 7
2009.12.24: Top 10 for '09: No. 8
2009.12.23: Top 10 for '09: No. 9
2009.12.22: Top 10 for '09: No. 10
2009.12.21: CDC: Rise in Autism Is (at Least) Partly due to Increased Recognition, Documentation
2009.12.18: Kick-Back Friday: #97
2009.12.18: Animal Dewormer in Cocaine
2009.12.17: Predicting Recurrent Stroke in the Short Term
2009.12.16: Aricept Goes Generic
2009.12.15: More Troubles for Elan
2009.12.14: Official Report: Nigerian Deaths Due to Tainted Teething Product
2009.12.12: Overall H1N1 Mortality in England Comparable to US Estimates
2009.12.11: Kick-Back Friday: #96
2009.12.11: BMJ Editor Bitch Slaps* Roche
2009.12.10: Tasigna Outperforms Gleevec in Open-Label Study of Ph+ CML, But Survival Data Absent
2009.12.09: Spending Rally on DTC Drug Ads?
2009.12.08: Measles Initiative Needs Funds to Avert Rise in Measles Deaths
2009.12.07: Pandemic Flu Vaccines Comparably Safe
2009.12.05: Pandemic H1N1: Activity Down; Vaccine Supplies Up
2009.12.04: Kick-Back Friday: #95
2009.12.04: CBO: Latest Snapshot of Pharma's Promotional Spending
2009.12.04: Haste Makes Waste: Merck Serono May Have Rushed Cladribine NDA
2009.12.03: Fred Hassan: Genomics Will Revive Pharma
2009.12.02: Healthcare Reform: Why Neurology Should Be Considered a Primary Care Specialty
2009.12.01: Approval for MS Pill: Merck Serono Takes a Shocking Tumble
2009.12.01: Forbes's Matthew Herper Bashes Zetia
2009.11.27: Kick-Back Friday: #94
2009.11.25: Plavix: DTC Ads Did Not Ramp up Drug Use, But DTC Launch Coincided With Price Bump
2009.11.23: Norwegian H1N1 Mutation Not New
2009.11.20: Kick-Back Friday: #93
2009.11.20: CDC: Modest Decline in H1N1 Activity
2009.11.20: Harvard Researchers: IT Doesn't Reduce Healthcare Costs
2009.11.19: Despite Manipulation, Phase 2 Bapineuzumab Study Still Disappoints
2009.11.19: While Investigating Medical Ghostwriting, Grassley and Deans Will Likely Exchange Ghostwritten Letters
2009.11.18: Niacin Benefits Mixed in Atherosclerotic Disease
2009.11.17: Jack Mitchell Is a Scary Guy
2009.11.16: To the WSJ Editors: Readers Deserve Better Than Alicia Mundy
2009.11.14: CDC: Up to 34 Million Americans With Pandemic Flu
2009.11.13: Kick-Back Friday: #92
2009.11.13: Seasonal Flu Vaccine and Protection Against Pandemic Flu
2009.11.12: Primary Outcomes Changed in Gabapentin Trials
2009.11.11: Google's Flu Shot Finder
2009.11.11: After Delay, FDA Approves GSK's Pandemic Flu Vaccine
2009.11.10: Abdul-Jabbar and Facts About CML
2009.11.09: Fort Hood Shootings: An Attempt to Separate Terrorism From Psychopathology
2009.11.06: Kick-Back Friday: #91
2009.11.06: Chastise Academics for Industry Ties Later; First Promote Diversity
2009.11.05: Seasonal Flu Vaccine: High Demand Leads to Short Supply
2009.11.05: Kaiser Data: Infants With Genetic Diseases Receive On-Time Vaccinations
2009.11.04: HIV Testing: Data Favor Opt-Out Policy
2009.11.03: CME Reform From People Who Don't Have to Participate in CME
2009.11.02: Reanalysis Negates Recommendation for N95 Respirators
2009.11.02: Second Belimumab Trial Delivers, Sort Of
2009.10.30: Kick-Back Friday: #90
2009.10.30: Millions of Americans Infected With Pandemic Flu
2009.10.29: Lead Detected in Face Paint
2009.10.29: Influenza: Moms' Reasons for Not Vaccinating
2009.10.28: More Tysabri-Related PML Cases Prompt Search for Detecting Risk
2009.10.27: ALS-Like Disease in 2 Gardasil Recipients
2009.10.23: Kick-Back Friday: #89
2009.10.23: The Solace of Illusion
2009.10.22: H1N1 Vaccine Shortage: Blame Chickens
2009.10.21: NEJM Offers Sobering Peer Review of Thai HIV Vaccine Study
2009.10.20: Epeius: "Bringing Hard Science Gently to the Bedside" and a Smile to My Face
2009.10.17: More H1N1 Pediatric Deaths
2009.10.16: Kick-Back Friday: #88
2009.10.16: Results of Gene Therapy in Parkinson Disease Support Further Study
2009.10.14: ...And Furthermore, Bill Maher Needs a Haircut
2009.10.13: High Healthcare Costs and DTC Ads: NPR's Loose Association
2009.10.09: Kick-Back Friday: #87
2009.10.08: H1N1 Vaccine Table
2009.10.08: Orthopedic Surgeons: What We've Got Here Is Failure to Disclose
2009.10.07: What Allergan Proposes in its "Free-Speech" Complaint
2009.10.06: Biggest "Take-Home" From Today's CDC Briefing on H1N1 Vaccination
2009.10.06: Pharma Execs Take Note: Harkonen Convicted of Wire Fraud
2009.10.05: Allergan Files "Free-Speech" Complaint Against Govt
2009.10.02: Kick-Back Friday: #86
2009.10.02: Pfizer Retains Rights to Aricept; Eisai Gets Hands on Lyrica
2009.10.01: Approval for MS Pill: Novartis on Heels of Merck Serono
2009.10.01: Strep Pneumoniae Most Likely Bacterial Pathogen in Fatal H1N1
2009.09.30: SEC Eyeballs Elan
2009.09.29: Remembering Quaalude
2009.09.28: H1N1 Activity Now Widespread in US South
2009.09.25: Kick-Back Friday: #85
2009.09.25: More Problems for Prion Proponents
2009.09.24: For Past Seasonal Flu, Shot Vaccine More Effective Than Nasal Spray
2009.09.23: To Curtail Early Smoking, FDA Bans Flavored Cigs
2009.09.22: Vaccinations for Seasonal and Pandemic Flu
2009.09.21: GSK, Like Pfizer, Cuts off MECCs
2009.09.18: Kick-Back Friday: #84
2009.09.18: Medical Editors Launch the Age of "Ghostbusting"
2009.09.17: CDC: More Than 1 Million Americans Infected to Date With Pandemic H1N1
2009.09.16: Harvard Expert Estimates Very Low Mortality Rate for 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
2009.09.16: Novel H1N1 Vaccine Approval for 4 of 5 Companies
2009.09.15: Geiers Target Dental Amalgam
2009.09.14: Ghost and Honorary Authorship: Common in Top Med Journals
2009.09.11: Kick-Back Friday: #83
2009.09.10: Tysabri: Virus Reactivation and PML Treatment
2009.09.08: Whither the Clinical Development of Iplex, Amy Harmon?
2009.09.05: Crude H1N1 Death Rate Creeps Above 1%
2009.09.04: Kick-Back Friday: #82
2009.09.04: NYT Coverage of Forest Marketing: Easy to Create Perception; Harder to Dig
2009.09.03: Today's H1N1 Press Conference From the CDC: NOT Live Blogged
2009.09.03: US Pediatric Deaths due to Novel H1N1...So Far
2009.09.02: Mother of God! Forest Labs Had Marketing Plan for Lexapro!
2009.09.01: Ticagrelor KOs Clopidogrel
2009.08.31: The ACCME Data Dumps
2009.08.29: Crude H1N1 Death Rate Hovers at 1%
2009.08.28: Kick-Back Friday: #81
2009.08.28: Novel H1N1 Infection in Chicago: Children Preferentially Vulnerable
2009.08.27: Novel H1N1 Mortality Rate: Pitfalls in Calculation
2009.08.26: Another Kennedy Passes
2009.08.24: CDC Recommends Novel H1N1 Vaccine for Certain Groups
2009.08.21: Kick-Back Friday: #80
2009.08.19: Novel H1N1 Mortality Rate Approaches 1%
2009.08.19: Niaspan vs Zetia: Analysts Don't Hedge Their Bets
2009.08.18: Imaginary Pathophilia Goes Viral!
2009.08.17: In MS Market, Novartis Jockeys for Position
2009.08.14: Kick-Back Friday: #79
2009.08.13: Novel H1N1 Mortality Rate Still Up
2009.08.12: FDA's Schultz "Moves Forward"
2009.08.11: PML With mAbs Reviewed
2009.08.10: Grave Long-term Outcomes for Children With Thiamine Deficiency
2009.08.07: Kick-Back Friday: #78
2009.08.07: Rapid H1N1 Test Relatively Insensitive
2009.08.05: H1N1 Mortality Rate Increases
2009.08.04: Botulinum Toxin: The Name Game
2009.07.31: Kick-Back Friday: #77
2009.07.30: Whole-Body Neurography
2009.07.28: Discriminating AD From MCI by Using MR and CSF Data
2009.07.24: Kick-Back Friday: #76
2009.07.23: Mild Cognitive Impairment: Predicting Conversion to Alzheimer Disease
2009.07.22: Trachoma Eliminated in 3 More Countries
2009.07.21: Belimumab Buzz
2009.07.20: ACCME Report: CME Income for MECCs Dropped 20% Last Year
2009.07.17: Kick-Back Friday: #75
2009.07.17: WHO Changes Policy on H1N1 Reporting
2009.07.15: Some Closure for the Issue of PFO Closure
2009.07.10: Kick-Back Friday: #74
2009.07.09: Avastin for NF2 Vestibular Schwannomas
2009.07.03: Kick-Back Friday: #73
2009.07.03: H1N1 Death Rate Holds Steady
2009.06.26: Kick-Back Friday: #72
2009.06.23: Duke Engineers Test Catheter Prototype for Brain Tumors
2009.06.22: WHO: H1N1 Update
2009.06.19: Kick-Back Friday: #71
2009.06.12: Kick-Back Friday: #70
2009.06.12: Caution for Today: GBS Risk With Old Swine-Flu Vaccine
2009.06.11: WHO: Not-So-Deadly Swine Flu Now Pandemic
2009.06.05: Kick-Back Friday: #69
2009.06.05: Neurospecific Protein Key to Brain Degeneration in Huntington's
2009.06.03: National Review Investigates Macy Foundation and IOM
2009.06.02: What Else Doesn't Work in Autism
2009.06.01: Post-Stroke Statins Reduce the Risk of Recurrent Stroke and Death
2009.05.29: Kick-Back Friday: #68
2009.05.29: New African Arenavirus Gets a Name
2009.05.28: Cases of Pertussis Due to Parents' Refusal to Vaccinate
2009.05.27: Leprosy Is So Old
2009.05.25: Geiers Featured in Chicago Tribune
2009.05.22: Kick-Back Friday: #67
2009.05.22: Actively Recruiting US Interventional Trials in ALS
2009.05.21: Follow-up: Insmed's Development of Iplex in ALS
2009.05.19: The NYT Misses in its Coverage of Iplex and ALS
2009.05.15: Kick-Back Friday: #66
2009.05.14: New Index Predicts Dementia in Late Life
2009.05.13: And Yet Another Dubious Consumer Product From China
2009.05.12: Eisai-Pfizer Smackdown Anticipated
2009.05.08: Kick-Back Friday: #65
2009.05.08: Doping in Power Athletes: Why hCG?
2009.05.05: Another Negative MCI Trial
2009.05.04: Fingolimod Beats Avonex in Relapsing-Remitting MS
2009.05.01: Kick-Back Friday: #64
2009.04.30: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Aftermath (2)
2009.04.27: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Aftermath
2009.04.24: Kick-Back Friday: #63
2009.04.24: ACCME Asks for Comments on Comment Procedures
2009.04.23: NSAID Use and AD Risk: Muddied Waters
2009.04.21: A Lengthier-Than-Expected History of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: Part 6
2009.04.20: A Lengthier-Than-Expected History of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: Part 5
2009.04.17: Kick-Back Friday: #62
2009.04.16: A Brief History of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: Part 4
2009.04.15: A Brief History of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: Part 3
2009.04.14: A Brief History of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act: Part 2
2009.04.13: A Brief History of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act*: Part 1
2009.04.10: Kick-Back Friday: #61
2009.04.08: Pig-Slaughter Neuropathy: AAN Update
2009.04.06: Massengill Pleads Guilty to Adulteration, Misbranding
2009.04.03: Kick-Back Friday: #60
2009.04.03: Massengill Files Demurrer to Federal Indictment; 54 of 166 Counts Dismissed
2009.04.02: Vasogenic Brain Edema Plagues Bapineuzumab Development
2009.04.01: Hollywood Showed Interest in Elixir Sulfanilamide Story
2009.03.31: FDA Learns of Proposed Massengill Defense in 1938 Federal Adulteration/Misbranding Case
2009.03.30: Massengill Denies Adulteration at Federal Hearing; Later Arraigned
2009.03.27: Kick-Back Friday: #59
2009.03.27: JNS Reviewer: Geier et al "Clearly Not Objective"
2009.03.26: Massengill Counters Press Coverage of Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy
2009.03.24: Tell Me, Is the Capital of France Still Paris?
2009.03.23: Massengill Settles Death Claims; Cited to Appear in Federal Courts
2009.03.20: Kick-Back Friday: #58
2009.03.20: Massengill's Chemist Defends Elixir
2009.03.18: After Secretary's Report to Senate, Massengill Defends Elixir
2009.03.16: Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy: Calls for Improved Legislation (2)
2009.03.13: Kick-Back Friday: #57
2009.03.13: Elixir Sulfanilamide Tragedy: Calls for Improved Legislation
2009.03.12: Elixir Sulfanilamide Deaths: Dedicated Page
2009.03.09: A Few Words About Massengill Douche
2009.03.06: Kick-Back Friday: #56
2009.03.06: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (9)
2009.03.04: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (8)
2009.03.02: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (7)
2009.02.27: Kick-Back Friday: #55
2009.02.27: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (6)
2009.02.25: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (5)
2009.02.23: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (4)
2009.02.20: Kick-Back Friday: #54
2009.02.19: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (3)
2009.02.17: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate (2)
2009.02.16: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Scramble to Confiscate
2009.02.13: Kick-Back Friday: #53
2009.02.13: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: The FDA Visits Bristol, Tennessee
2009.02.11: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: More Deaths in the Deep South
2009.02.09: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: East St. Louis and Mt. Olive Deaths
2009.02.06: Kick-Back Friday: #52
2009.02.06: More Deaths in Nigeria due to Diethylene Glycol
2009.02.05: Before Departing, Blago Approved Medicaid Funding for Kids' Care
2009.02.04: Vaccines and Autism: Shooting Down the "Too Many, Too Soon" Argument
2009.02.03: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: Early Investigation and Recall
2009.02.02: Zimbabwe's Cholera Epidemic Escalates
2009.01.30: Kick-Back Friday: #51
2009.01.30: Just a Reminder: Different Food Brands Often Made in Same Place
2009.01.28: FDA Wars: The Empire Strikes Back With Criminal Investigation of Rebelling Scientists
2009.01.26: The MS Holy Grail: It's a Horse Race for FDA Submission of Oral Agent
2009.01.23: Kick-Back Friday: #50
2009.01.23: China's Melamine-Tainted Milk Scandal: Sentences and Compensation
2009.01.22: Massengill's Elixir Sulfanilamide: Inspiration, Formula, and Distribution
2009.01.21: Elixir of Sulfanilamide: The Beginning—Tulsa Deaths (2)
2009.01.20: Behavioral Therapy for Autism: The NYT Buries the All-Important Lead
2009.01.19: US Deaths From Elixir Sulfanilamide: The Beginning—Tulsa
2009.01.16: Kick-Back Friday: #49
2009.01.16: Pediatric Pneumococcal Vaccine: Possibly Wider Efficacy Than Expected
2009.01.15: US Rates of Pneumoccocal Meningitis Drop
2009.01.14: Measles: The Thing That Won't Leave Europe
2009.01.13: Deep-Brain Stimulation Better Than Best Medical Therapy in Advanced Parkinson Disease
2009.01.09: Kick-Back Friday: #48
2009.01.09: LDL Trumps CIMT
2009.01.08: FDA Scientists to Obama: Overhaul Agency
2009.01.07: The Mess That Is Zimbabwe Gets Messier
2009.01.06: Allegation: Ivins's 1983 Letter as Former Colleague
2009.01.05: Bruce Ivins as ΚΚΓ-Obsessed "jimmyflathead"
2009.01.02: Kick-Back Friday: #47
2009.01.02: Nissen vs Peto: Smackdown, New England-Style
2009.01.01: One More Look Back...
2008.12.31: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 1
2008.12.30: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 2
2008.12.29: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 3
2008.12.28: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 4
2008.12.27: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 5
2008.12.26: Kick-Back Friday: #46
2008.12.26: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 6
2008.12.26: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 7
2008.12.24: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 8
2008.12.23: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 9
2008.12.22: Top 10 Medical Stories of 2008: No. 10
2008.12.19: Kick-Back Friday: #45
2008.12.19: The 102nd Skeptic's Circle: [Bleeping] Edition
2008.12.19: Transplant Surgeon Acquitted of Dependent-Adult Abuse
2008.12.18: Ped Neuros Support Widespread HepB Vaccination Despite Possible MS Risk
2008.12.17: Reversal in Gunvalson v PTC Therapeutics
2008.12.16: PML With Tysabri: No. 4 and Counting
2008.12.15: Expert Panel: Avoid In Utero Exposure to Valproate
2008.12.12: Kick-Back Friday: #44
2008.12.12: Before Shaking Down Children's CEO, Blago Approved $650 Million to Hospital
2008.12.11: Nice Guy: IL Gov Tried to Shake Down Children's Memorial CEO
2008.12.10: Nissen Maneuvers for FDA Commish?
2008.12.09: Bromism Expected in Environmentally Friendly Dry Cleaners
2008.12.08: U Penn to Disclose (Probably Few) Pharma Ties of Faculty
2008.12.05: Kick-Back Friday: #43
2008.12.05: ALS Incidence Increasing in New Zealand Province
2008.12.04: Global Measles Initiative a Success, but Funding Needed
2008.12.03: Update on Melamine in Chinese Food Supply
2008.12.02: Depakote During Pregnancy May Increase the Risk of Autism
2008.12.01: Book Review: America's Mandated Sterilization—It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
2008.11.28: Kick-Back Friday: #42
2008.11.26: Diethylene Glycol Reappears—Again and Again and Again...
2008.11.25: FDA's Enhanced Feed Ban to Curtail Mad Cow Disease
2008.11.24: FDA Approvals for Neuro Drugs Triple in 2008
2008.11.24: More Support for Avastin in Advanced Breast Cancer
2008.11.21: Kick-Back Friday: #41
2008.11.21: World's Hospitalizations for Rotavirus Infection Higher Than Expected
2008.11.21: Coverage With Perinatal HepB Vaccine Is Low
2008.11.19: 15th (Really 16th) Case of Mad Cow Disease in Canada
2008.11.18: Chelation Challenge for Mercury Toxicity Is "A Scam"
2008.11.17: MRSA Testing on Hospital Admission: Universal or Selective Screening?
2008.11.14: Kick-Back Friday: #40
2008.11.14: An American MRSA in Colombia
2008.11.13: Whooping Cough in the Midwest
2008.11.12: Google = Cool
2008.11.11: Quiet Update on New African Arenavirus
2008.11.11: Measles Hits Gibraltar, Hard
2008.11.10: Nissen Hearts Crestor Study
2008.11.07: Kick-Back Friday: #39
2008.11.07: Evidence for Chelation in Autism: Slim to None (Okay, Really None)
2008.11.06: Gene Linked to Language Disorder and Autism
2008.11.05: Op Ed-Plus: Further Commentary on the Work of Mark and David Geier
2008.11.03: Genentech Seeks FDA Approval for Avastin in Glioblastoma
2008.11.03: Pork-Processing Neuropathy: Why Now?
2008.11.01: Nancy Snyderman Actually Comes off Looking Like a Rational Physician
2008.10.31: Kick-Back Friday: #38
2008.10.30: TAP's Patent Application to Give Lupron to Autistic Children
2008.10.30: Third Case of PML With Tysabri
2008.10.28: What's Killing the World
2008.10.27: But Why Stop Now? Urinary Porphyrin Data of Geier et al Should Have Been Controlled for Age
2008.10.25: Beating a Dead Horse? Yeah, Maybe
2008.10.24: Kick-Back Friday: #37
2008.10.24: The Search for an MS Pill Continues
2008.10.23: The CAMMS223 Study Finds a Nice, Permanent Home
2008.10.22: Will the Real Plasma Oxidized Glutathione Level Please Stand Up?
2008.10.21: WSJ Promotes Pamlab Product (More or Less)
2008.10.20: Testosterone Not Increased in Autistic Children
2008.10.17: Kick-Back Friday: #36
2008.10.17: More Lab Values From Geier and Geier Are Examined
2008.10.16: Timeline for ID of New African Arenavirus
2008.10.15: Court's Friends Appeal in Gunvalson v PTC Therapeutics
2008.10.14: Geiers' Metabolite Values Are Questioned
2008.10.13: Vaccination Increases Among US Teens (Along With Slip 'N Slide Use)
2008.10.10: Kick-Back Friday: #35
2008.10.10: Possible Risk of CNS Demyelination With Hepatitis B Vaccine Requires Further Study
2008.10.09: Memories of Measles
2008.10.09: IOC to Olympic Athletes: We're Keeping Your Body Fluids for 8 Years
2008.10.07: Tarceva Plus Avastin Disappoint
2008.10.06: Journal Editor Cites Poling for Lack of Disclosure
2008.10.03: Kick-Back Friday: #34
2008.10.03: Still up in the Air: Bias in Today's Commercially Supported CME
2008.10.02: Old Tissue Specimen Aids Historical Search for HIV Infection
2008.10.01: Jenny McCarthy Is So Proud to Be Dependent on Something Else for Existence or Support Without Making a Useful or Adequate Contribution
2008.10.01: Campath Efficacy in MS Holds Up
2008.09.30: Statins May Aggravate ALS but Do Not Increase its Incidence
2008.09.29: Melamine Contamination Expands
2008.09.26: Kick-Back Friday: #33
2008.09.26: Time Extended for Thrombolytic Therapy in Acute Stroke
2008.09.25: PTC Appeals Decision in Gunvalson Case
2008.09.24: Paxil in Adolescent Depression: What Are the Data?
2008.09.23: Neurologists Fault Media's Coverage of Schiavo Case
2008.09.22: FTC Sues 5 Online Companies for Peddling False Cancer Treatments
2008.09.19: Kick-Back Friday: #32
2008.09.19: Logic of Suspending Chelation Study in Autism Is Undeniable
2008.09.19: Cobbled Update of Melamine in Chinese Baby Formula
2008.09.18: Pols Piss Off Peto
2008.09.17: Another AD Drug Disappoints (Although Placebo Looks Promising)
2008.09.16: Antipsychotic Study in Early-Onset Schizophrenia Really Begs a Different Study
2008.09.15: Let It Go AP, Let It Go
2008.09.12: Kick-Back Friday: #31
2008.09.12: The Return of Melamine
2008.09.11: Does the ACCME's Latest Proposal Encroach on Free Speech?
2008.09.10: Book Review: Nuts Abhor a Vacuum
2008.09.09: Low-Normal B12 Associated With Brain Atrophy
2008.09.08: Pfizer Gambles on Three-Times-per-Day Antihistamine for Alzheimer's Disease
2008.09.05: Kick-Back Friday: #30
2008.09.05: Most US Parents Remain Sane, Vaccinate Children
2008.09.04: Need a Negative Vytorin Quote? Call Dr. Nissen
2008.09.03: Vytorin Is Beaten Up Some More
2008.09.02: Stanford Limits Industry Support of CME
2008.08.30: Salmonella Saintpaul: US Outbreak Over, Analysis Continues
2008.08.29: Kick-Back Friday: #29
2008.08.29: More on Gunvalson v. PTC Therapeutics
2008.08.28: The Beat Goes On: Arguing About Pharma's Influence on Med Ed
2008.08.27: One Fifth of Ayurvedic Products Contain Heavy Metals
2008.08.26: Zinc in Excess Denture Cream May Cause Neurologic Illness
2008.08.25: How the Smoking-Gun "Anthrax" Flask at USAMRIID Became a Smoking Gun
2008.08.22: Kick-Back Friday: #28
2008.08.22: Boo, Boo, Boo: US Measles Cases Increase
2008.08.21: Gimme: The "Right" to Access Experimental Therapies
2008.08.20: Synthetic Heparin on the Distant Horizon
2008.08.19: Despite FBI Anthrax Briefing, Media and Blogging Arguably Egg on "Grassy Knollers"
2008.08.19: 40+ WF Seeks Childless Professional Existence
2008.08.18: First Drug Approved in US for Huntington's Chorea
2008.08.15: Kick-Back Friday: #27
2008.08.15: Genetic Gumshoeing in the Anthrax Letter Attacks
2008.08.14: The Transplant Paradox: Heart Donation After Cardiac Death
2008.08.13: I-Kicked-Your-Ass Display Probably Innate
2008.08.12: Mass Hospitals Crack Down on Doctors' Abuse
2008.08.11: Kinesio Tape: The Athlete's New Mojo
2008.08.11: Biostatistician Says Athletes' Doping Tests Flawed
2008.08.09: Mass Health-Code Bill: Industry Argues "Chilling" Effect on Clinical Research
2008.08.08: Kick-Back Friday: #26
2008.08.08: Stroke Patients Not Worse Off With Generalist Care (Depending on Your Analysis)
2008.08.07: ACCME Proposes Another Limitation on CME Production
2008.08.07: Another Response to Carlat the Magnificent
2008.08.06: DoJ Evidence Against Ivins Compelling
2008.08.06: BusinessWeek Engages in Sloppy Reporting of Industry-Funded CME
2008.08.05: Women With Schizophrenia May Benefit From Adjunctive Estrogen
2008.08.04: Fear and Loathing in the Amygdala
2008.08.01: Kick-Back Friday: #25
2008.08.01: Mass Legislature Reaches Compromise on Pharma Conduct
2008.08.01: Overall Risk-Benefit of Tysabri Still Positive, Despite New PML Cases
2008.07.31: Anti-Tau Agent Warrants Phase 3 Study in AD
2008.07.30: Bapineuzumab and Share Prices of Elan/Wyeth: What a Difference Some Undefined Thing Makes
2008.07.29: Nonagenarian Women More Likely to Be Demented Than Men
2008.07.28: Mosquito-Transmitted Encephaliti-ti-ti-des
2008.07.27: If Ping Pong Is an Olympic Sport, We Can Add Double Dutch
2008.07.25: Kick-Back Friday: #24
2008.07.25: Limited Alcohol in Karate and Other Olympic Prohibitions
2008.07.24: Roche: No Planted Molecule in Mircera
2008.07.24: Statin-Induced Myopathy and SNP Polymorphisms
2008.07.23: Roche and WADA to Tour de France Athlete: Gotcha
2008.07.22: Vaccine-Induced Autism and Professional Wrestling: How Are These Things Alike?
2008.07.22: Statins and Aortic Stenosis: Retrospective vs Prospective Study
2008.07.21: Elan's AN1792: No Clinical Benefit With Clearance of Amyloid Plaques in AD
2008.07.18: Kick-Back Friday: #23
2008.07.18: Balamuthiasis: Another Creepy Encephalitis
2008.07.17: Teaching Premeds: Less Orgo...More Basic English
2008.07.17: Why Did Pfizer Cut Off MECCs?
2008.07.16: Kings County Patient Died of Pulmonary Embolism
2008.07.16: Massachusetts House Waters Down Bill on Pharma Conduct
2008.07.15: Vioxx and Bextra Increase Stroke Risk
2008.07.14: ProNeuron Alleges Unfair Co-Licensing Behavior by Teva
2008.07.11: Kick-Back Friday: #22
2008.07.11: Biggest US Measles Outbreak in 10 Years
2008.07.11: FDA Panel: No Black-Box Suicide Warning on Anticonvulsants
2008.07.10: Not Quite Like the Pope Apologizing for the Inquisition...
2008.07.10: No More Swag: PhRMA Updates Interaction Code
2008.07.09: Nurses Take It From All Sides
2008.07.08: Negative Lipitor Data Raise Doubt About CIMT
2008.07.07: Physicians Who Commit Suicide: Not So Much "Why" as "How"
2008.07.04: Kick-Back Friday: #21
2008.07.03: Serotonin and a Buyer's Market
2008.07.02: Pfizer Cuts Off CME Grants to MECCs
2008.07.02: As She Lay Dying at G Building
2008.07.01: High Prevalence of COIs Among Drafters of Neurology Guidelines
2008.07.01: WHO Recommends 2-Day Test for MDR-TB
2008.06.30: More Missed Primary Endpoints in AD Trials
2008.06.30: Real Medical Drama Made Less Real by Singer-Songwriters
2008.06.27: Kick-Back Friday: #20
2008.06.27: Kohl Targets Kopelow (and the ACCME)
2008.06.26: Rotavirus Vaccine Reduces (Surprise) Rotavirus Disease
2008.06.26: Initial Treatment for Parkinson's: L-Dopa or Dopamine Agonist?
2008.06.25: Parasitic and Other Infectious Diseases Affect America's Poor
2008.06.24: Amyloid-Beta Dimers Induce Alzheimer's-Like Findings in Rodents
2008.06.23: A Response to Carlat the Magnificent
2008.06.20: Kick-Back Friday: #19
2008.06.20: ACCME Plans to Bulk Up While Cracking Down...I Think...Until It Will Exist No More
2008.06.19: Prediction: Anticonvulsant Suicide Warnings Unlikely to Affect Prescriptions
2008.06.18: FDA Targets (and Retargets) Web Detritus
2008.06.17: Elan, Wyeth Bury Missed Primary Endpoints in Phase 2 Trial of AD Drug
2008.06.17: Obesity: What Is It Good For?
2008.06.17: Dingell and Stupak Grandstand on DTC Ad Requests
2008.06.16: Elimination of Commercially Funded CME "Down in Flames"
2008.06.16: How Is Reciting Pi to 22,000 Numbers Like Reforming Medicare?
2008.06.16: GSK, Novo Nordisk Lead Pharma Philanthropy; Teva, Schering-Plough Not So Much
2008.06.13: Kick-Back Friday: #18
2008.06.13: Surprising Target for Potential AD Agents
2008.06.12: Rules for Being Admitted to the Hospital and Invading Another Country
2008.06.12: Texas Healthcare Worker Gave Pertussis to Newborns
2008.06.12: Avian Flu Vaccine Is Immunogenic and Safe in Early-Phase Trial
2008.06.11: Grassley's Winding Road to Biederman et al
2008.06.10: Spinning Dancer Chews up Bulk of Morning
2008.06.09: Mercury Fillings and the Media
2008.06.06: Kick-Back Friday: #17
2008.06.06: Meth and MRSA
2008.06.05: "Green Our Vaccines": It Rhymes, Sort Of
2008.06.04: Carlat vs Stossel: Little Learned
2008.06.04: ASCO: Vaccine Prolongs Survival in Glioblastoma Multiforme
2008.06.03: "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life": Change the Channel
2008.06.03: Cannabis Use Correlates With Smaller Hippocampus, Amygdala
2008.06.02: Measles Outbreak in DuPage County, IL
2008.06.02: Duke's Allan Friedman Operates on Ted Kennedy
2008.05.30: Kick-Back Friday: #16
2008.05.30: Young-Geier Autism Study: What the—? (Part 4)
2008.05.29: NSAID Reduction of AD Not Dependent on Suppression of Beta Amyloid
2008.05.28: Young-Geier Autism Study: What the—? (Part 3)
2008.05.28: Do Tase Me, Bro
2008.05.27: Young-Geier Autism Study: What the—? (Part 2)
2008.05.26: Young-Geier Autism Study: What the—? (Part 1)
2008.05.23: Kick-Back Friday: #15
2008.05.23: I've Been Sucked Into the Thimerosal-Autism-Geier Vortex
2008.05.22: Chinese CDC/WHO Release Report on Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
2008.05.22: It's Always Fun, Until Somebody Gets Hurt
2008.05.21: Christina the Astonishing
2008.05.20: Boston Globe: Ted Kennedy Has Brain Tumor
2008.05.19: IRB Approval of Geier Autism Study: Yes or No?
2008.05.19: Media Retain Big Anti-Jones for ENHANCE, Schering-Plough, and Fred Hassan
2008.05.16: Kick-Back Friday: #14
2008.05.16: JNJ v ARC: Remaining Claims and Counterclaims
2008.05.16: Large Stroke Trial a Bust for Boehringer Ingelheim
2008.05.16: This Just Might Make Living in Cleveland Worth It
2008.05.15: From the Mind of Stephen King
2008.05.15: Mixed Messages in NEJM Criticism of Cypher Ad
2008.05.15: Viagra Maintains Cardiac Function in Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
2008.05.14: Study to Determine Drug Counterfeiting in India
2008.05.14: More Grim Figures From China
2008.05.13: Cardiologist Peter Libby: Negative Perception Prompted Refusal of Pharma Money
2008.05.13: In Attempt to Usurp Dems' "Change" Message, GOP Steals Effexor's Tagline
2008.05.12: Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease Takes More Lives in China
2008.05.12: Stem-Cell Research in Neurology Continues Despite Lack of Clear Guidelines
2008.05.09: Kick-Back Friday: #13
2008.05.09: How Many Trees Were Killed for Representative Dingell?
2008.05.09: Your Crack Grandpappy
2008.05.09: Looming Large: The Cost of Not Vaccinating
2008.05.08: Your Intestinal Flora: Get to Know Them!
2008.05.08: Continuing Outbreak of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease in China
2008.05.07: More Data for Neuroprotective Effect of NSAIDs
2008.05.06: China Is Being, Well, China in the Investigation of Tainted Heparin
2008.05.05: African Sleeping Sickness: Ploys Between Host and Parasite
2008.05.02: Kick-Back Friday: #12
2008.05.02: New Biomarker for AD Highly Sensitive and Specific
2008.05.01: Spheramine Implants for Parkinson's: Clinical Study Continues
2008.04.30: The FDA Is Hiring, Quick and Big Time
2008.04.29: Survival in ALS Prolonged With High Lipid Levels
2008.04.29: Disheartening News for Lupus Patients
2008.04.28: AAMC Report: Do as I Say Now, Not as I Did Then
2008.04.25: Kick-Back Friday: #11
2008.04.25: Trachoma Still Leading Cause of Blindness in Developing World
2008.04.24: Heparin Contaminant Not Naturally Produced
2008.04.23: Actions of Heparin Contaminant Revealed
2008.04.23: Little Headway Made in Treatment of Prion Diseases
2008.04.22: Teen Peanut Bully Arrested
2008.04.22: Managed Care: Fewer Vytorin Prescriptions, but No Change in Coverage
2008.04.22: FDA to China: Prime Suspect Is Heparin Contaminant
2008.04.21: Somebody Writes Something Positive About Prozac
2008.04.21: Chinese Official: Heparin Contaminant Not Cause of Adverse Reactions
2008.04.20: AMWA Chimes in on Medical Ghostwriting
2008.04.18: Kick-Back Friday: #10
2008.04.18: Smoking, Chemical Exposure, and ALS Risk
2008.04.18: TB Strains on a Plane
2008.04.17: NIH Branch Offers Calculator for Preemie Viability
2008.04.17: Add Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency to List of Protective Mutations Against Malaria
2008.04.17: More on Pig-Slaughter Neuropathy
2008.04.16: JAMA Offers Chance Not to Blog About ENHANCE Study
2008.04.16: FDA's Eschenbach: Chinese Heparin Counterfeited for "Economic Fraud"
2008.04.15: Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Autistic Spectrum Disorder
2008.04.15: Rituxan Not Effective in Primary Progressive MS
2008.04.15: Then and Now: Quality Differences in ENHANCE Data
2008.04.14: More on Case Against Pfizer's Alan Hesketh, Some of It Stomach Turning
2008.04.11: Kick-Back Friday: #9
2008.04.11: Independent Reviewer: ENHANCE Data "Not Acceptable"
2008.04.11: SP to Grassley: Here's Your Disclosure, Right Here
2008.04.10: No Wonder Chinese ED Pills Work Redux
2008.04.10: German Stoners Get the Lead In
2008.04.09: Another ENHANCE Panel: Still No Discussion of "Missing" or "Implausible" Data
2008.04.09: FDA Updates Likely Heparin Death Toll
2008.04.08: FDA to GSK: How Widespread Are Your Reporting Deficiences?
2008.04.07: Bizarro World: Bacteria Eat Antibiotics, Clay Kills Bacteria
2008.04.04: Kick-Back Friday: #8
2008.04.04: Pfizer Attempts to Capitalize on Vytorin's Limited Indications: Oh, the Irony
2008.04.04: Industry-Funded CME: More Point and Counterpoint
2008.04.03: ENHANCE Study: The Thing That Wouldn't Leave...the Blogosphere
2008.04.02: ENHANCE E-Mail Exchange: Dear John, John, and...Rick
2008.04.01: SP Share Price, Insider Trading, and the ENHANCE Timeline: Now in Fancy Graphs
2008.03.31: ENHANCE Study: Frustration With Trial and Coverage of It
2008.03.29: FBI: Homing in on the Perpetrator of the 2001 "Anthrax Attacks"
2008.03.28: Kick-Back Friday: #7
2008.03.28: Ga-ross: Pfizer Patent Chief Charged With Child Porn Activities
2008.03.28: Sexism in Medicine? Well, Snap My Bra and Call Me Shocked
2008.03.27: Indicted Former InterMune CEO Is Filmed as "Man on the Street"
2008.03.27: Lithium Possibly Beneficial in ALS
2008.03.26: This Just In: Kids Go Wild for Harry Potter and Increases in Drug Costs Outpace Inflation
2008.03.25: Priscilla Presley's Face: TMZ All Over the Story—Or Maybe Not
2008.03.24: InterMune: Chronology of a Near Death
2008.03.21: Kick-Back Friday: #6
2008.03.21: Anti-Vax Parents Sustain Californians' Goofy Reputation
2008.03.20: More on Faux Heparin Contaminant
2008.03.20: Surgeon Roozrokh to Face 1 Charge; 2 Dismissed
2008.03.19: Former InterMune CEO Indicted for Misleading Promotion of Actimmune
2008.03.19: NYT: Counterfeit Heparin Likely Altered Chondroitin Sulfate
2008.03.18: Lilly Responds to NYT Article on Lechleiter "Off-Label" E-Mail
2008.03.17: Who Needs SNL's Weekend Update When You've Got the AP?
2008.03.15: Baxter: No Endotoxins in Recalled Heparin
2008.03.14: Kick-Back Friday: #5
2008.03.14: Lechleiter: Too Dumb to Be Lilly CEO?
2008.03.13: Should Kids With Autism Be Screened for Mitochondrial Disorders?
2008.03.12: Stubborn Case of MRSA? What Up With Kitty?
2008.03.12: So Who's Paying for Vaccine-Related Injuries?
2008.03.11: When Did Everybody Decide That Prostitution Is OK?
2008.03.11: Pharma vs Biotech: FDA-Approval Rates
2008.03.10: Japanese Companies Recall SPL Heparin
2008.03.10: Parents of Hannah Poling: Differing Explanations for Daughter's Autism?
2008.03.09: File Under What the Hell Am I Supposed to Do With This Information?*
2008.03.09: DMCB to Disease-Management Companies: Use This Anecdote Template
2008.03.08: Roozrokh Prelim Hearing: Final Testimony
2008.03.07: Kick-Back Friday: #4
2008.03.07: Roozrokh Prelim Hearing: Who Ordered What When?
2008.03.07: Ripped From "Law and Order": US Execs Charged With Importing Tainted Chinese Toothpaste
2008.03.06: Roozrokh Prelim Hearing: See One, Botch One
2008.03.06: Manganese-Induced Parkinsonism in IV Drug Users
2008.03.05: "Contaminant" in Baxter's Recalled Heparin
2008.03.05: Roozrokh Prelim Hearing Continues: Conflicting Accounts and Neuro Testimony
2008.03.04: JAMA: Media Shortcomings in Reportage of ENHANCE Study
2008.03.03: Continuing Coverage of Roozrokh Preliminary Hearing: Transplant Expert Testimony
2008.03.03: Clinical Trial Phases: What Are the Success Rates?
2008.02.29: Kick-Back Friday: #3
2008.02.29: More on Roozrokh Case: Lubarsky Testimony
2008.02.28: Heparin Supplier Changzhou SPL: FDA Inspection Form Now Available
2008.02.28: Newborn Cystic Fibrosis Declining in Massachusetts
2008.02.27: NYT Discovers California (and Roozrokh Case)
2008.02.26: More on Heparin Extraction: Zzzzzz
2008.02.25: Education and Net Worth May Guard Against Dementia, but not Mortality, in Elderly
2008.02.25: Tina Fey et al Send up Duramed's Seasonale Ad
2008.02.22: Kick-Back Friday: #2
2008.02.22: APP's Soon-Shiong: No Stranger to Suspect Chinese Suppliers
2008.02.21: And the Air-Travel Risks Just Keep on Comin': This Time, Measles
2008.02.21: The WSJ Has Gordon Fairclough in China
2008.02.20: How in Tarnation Did US Armadillos Get Leprosy?
2008.02.20: APP: Aiming for a Heparin Monopoly?
2008.02.19: No Wonder Chinese ED Pills Work
2008.02.19: WSJ: Product Variations Found in Baxter's Chinese-Made Heparin
2008.02.18: WHO's Leprosy-Elimination Program Targets Brazil
2008.02.18: Study Confirms Risk of Plavix in Proximity to CABG
2008.02.15: Kick-Back Friday: #1
2008.02.15: Where Does Heparin Come From?
2008.02.14: Rituxan in MS: Positive Phase 2 Results, But Phase 3 Study Stalled
2008.02.13: Tysabri: Additional Risk and Unexpected Potential
2008.02.13: Cafepharma Reassures Anonymous Posters
2008.02.12: ENHANCE Study: More Much Ado About Suboptimal Data
2008.02.11: Ripping off Medicaid Through Nominal Pricing
2008.02.08: Dear Prospective Ad Agency: I Would Like to Be Played by Julianne Moore
2008.02.07: DoJ: US Importer Conspired to Bypass Inspection of Tainted Chinese Wheat Gluten
2008.02.06: McCain Not So Pharma-Friendly
2008.02.06: Official Cause of Ledger's Death Reported
2008.02.05: MeetingsNet CME Survey: Pro or Con Industry Support?
2008.02.04: “Celebrity Rehab”: Attention Junkies
2008.02.02: Why I Won't Be Eating a Hot Dog Today
2008.02.01: The Neverending PR Cluelessness of Pharma
2008.01.31: Topic: Democratic Health Plans—Neither Democratic Nor Healthy? Discuss.
2008.01.30: Hello, My Name Is Dr. Mengele—Er, Svensson
2008.01.29: TV Show Offends Doctors, Lawyers, Asians, Good Writers, British Actors, Purist Wham! Fans...
2008.01.28: ENHANCE Study: Basically, the Ultrasound Images Were Crap
2008.01.25: "Henry Ford of Lobotomy"
2008.01.25: John Edwards's Emergency-Response Plan
2008.01.25: CDC Requests Help in Pig-Slaughter Neuropathy
2008.01.24: In Case of Emergency, Do Not Call an Olsen Twin
2008.01.23: Eponym Use Promotes Misguided Praise
2008.01.22: Suggested Link Between Pig Slaughter and Neurologic Illness
2008.01.19: More Data for the Anti-Statin Zeitgeist
2008.01.17: If You Flog the Data, They Will Confess
2008.01.16: The Existential Controversy of Fibromyalgia
2008.01.15: Possible Sexual Transmission of Resistant CA-MRSA Clone Among Gay Men
2008.01.14: If Industry-Funded CME Goes, What Exactly Goes With It?
2008.01.10: The Netherlands Takes Your Political Temperature
2008.01.09: Original American Sin in the Form of an AFAP Mutation
2008.01.08: More In-Flight TB Exposure: Passenger Screening With New Blood Test Recommended
2007.12.31: No. 1: Warning—Made Partly or Wholly in China
2007.12.30: No. 2: Regulatory Vigilantism
2007.12.29: No. 3: Prion, Schmrion?
2007.12.28: No. 4: Success of HPV Vaccine
2007.12.27: No. 5: Failure of HIV Vaccine
2007.12.26: No. 6: CA-MRSA—Not Your Father’s HA-MRSA
2007.12.25: No. 7: Frequently Flying XDR/MDR TB—Reason Gajillion to Avoid Air Travel
2007.12.24: No. 8: Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1)—A Few Amino-Acid Substitutions Shy of a Pandemic
2007.12.23: No. 9: Exubera Market Withdrawal—Your Imperfect Disaster/Hastiness/Rudeness Analogy Here
2007.12.22: Inaugural Post

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