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Plan B – Does it work?
Ales Rarus comments on new notes at the LTI Blog citing evidence that Plan B is not very effective. As Serge summarizes on the LTI Blog, “As it was, the group who had to go to the pharmacy to get EC used it 197 times, while the group who had direct access used it 309 … Continue reading
>Do all doctors need to be bean counters?
>The New England Journal of Medicine (subscription only, but it should be available at your local library) has an article recommending changes in pre-med (college) requirements, medical school curriculum, and the changes the editors see in the future practice of medicine. The article suggests trading the current premed requirement of calculus for statistics (how will … Continue reading
Do all doctors need to be bean counters?
The New England Journal of Medicine (subscription only, but it should be available at your local library) has an article recommending changes in pre-med (college) requirements, medical school curriculum, and the changes the editors see in the future practice of medicine. The article suggests trading the current premed requirement of calculus for statistics (how will … Continue reading
>If you think healthcare is expensive, now . .
>” . . . Just wait until it’s free.” Ending with one of my favorite quotes from P.J. O’Rourke, this article from the Washington Times is framed in political bias, but the statistics and the stories (which are verifiable elsewhere) are apolitical. They are particularly pertinent if you remember that all Medicare payments will be … Continue reading
If you think healthcare is expensive, now . .
” . . . Just wait until it’s free.” Ending with one of my favorite quotes from P.J. O’Rourke, this article from the Washington Times is framed in political bias, but the statistics and the stories (which are verifiable elsewhere) are apolitical. They are particularly pertinent if you remember that all Medicare payments will be … Continue reading
>1 in 10: How lucky do you feel?
>If you want to save your child’s cord blood, there’s a nine in ten chance that the sample won’t be usable. That’s a good reason for us all to get behind the public banking of umbilical cord blood cells. From the San Antonio Express-News: . . . So far, the hospital has collected 2,500 units … Continue reading
1 in 10: How lucky do you feel?
If you want to save your child’s cord blood, there’s a nine in ten chance that the sample won’t be usable. That’s a good reason for us all to get behind the public banking of umbilical cord blood cells. From the San Antonio Express-News: . . . So far, the hospital has collected 2,500 units … Continue reading
>Proven research in ethical stem cells
>From Human Events author James Kelly: Faustman twice cured mice of Type I Diabetes without stem cells. She uses an inexpensive drug, called BCG, to block ongoing immune attacks on insulin producing “beta islets.” She then removes the cause of Diabetes by supplying a missing protein, which retrains the immune system to recognize the cells … Continue reading
Proven research in ethical stem cells
From Human Events author James Kelly: Faustman twice cured mice of Type I Diabetes without stem cells. She uses an inexpensive drug, called BCG, to block ongoing immune attacks on insulin producing “beta islets.” She then removes the cause of Diabetes by supplying a missing protein, which retrains the immune system to recognize the cells … Continue reading
Medical ethics, lawyers, bean counters and government guns
As you know, I’m studying for my Master’s in Bioethics at Trinity International University, an Evangelical university in Deerfield, Chicago. Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., asks at her blog, Texas Advance Directives Blog, how medical ethicists are being trained today. TIU has a Masters in Bioethics program begun by Nigel Cameron and John F. Kilner in … Continue reading
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