Saturday 31 May 2008
Reuters (via Yahoo! News) has a story about the double whammy of a lung cancer diagnosis. (See Lung cancer patients fight stigma.)
Archive for May, 2008:
Friday 30 May 2008
Earlier this month I wrote about YourMisdiagnosis.com. (See Don’t believe everything you read (about Health 2.0)). My take on it was that the site was gaining much more prominence than its measly number of posts (1 then, 3 now) merited, and that journalists writing about it must not have bothered to check out the site itself. Now Dr. Mintz is attacking the blog as a deceptive commercial site. I don’t think I’d go that far but his message to pay attention to who’s behind what you read makes sense.
Friday 30 May 2008
Dr. Mark Thornton, former medical officer at the FDA’s Office of Oncology Products, takes Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) to task on the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page. (See Grassley’s War on Cancer Patients.) Thornton is upset that Grassley is challenging the FDA’s acceptance of surrogate endpoints and accelerated approval timelines. As Thornton writes:
Friday 30 May 2008
There are some interesting robots in this video from New Scientist. It includes robots based on animals including robotic salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical cockroaches and some cool self-configuring robots. The cockroach bot actually communicates with real roaches. The self-configuring bot manages to regroup itself so it can slide under an obstacle.
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Thursday 29 May 2008
Hank Stern at InsureBlog has posted an excellent Health Wonk Review, playing it straight for once!