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Tag Archives: medicine
Blog rally for the Healthcare X PRIZE
Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, has organized a blog rally to help design the Healthcare X PRIZE, a competition to improve the value of health care. Deadline for public comment is this Friday (5/29). Scott Shreeve, MD Senior Health Advisor at the X PRIZE Foundation, writes: … the X [...]
Systems medicine: seeing the forest
As we learn more about how our bodies work, new medical advice keeps emerging that contradicts the old. One year estrogen replacement therapy is heralded as the best thing to treat osteoporosis; later it is seen as dangerous. The same drug that successfully treats an enlarged prostate causes problems during cataract surgery. A lot of [...]
Future old wives’ tales of health and sickness
As a kid growing up in the American Midwest, I loved Laura Ingalls Wilder’s accounts of pioneer life. Along with explaining how cheese and butter are made, how a sod house is built, and how it feels to ride in a covered wagon over the frozen Mississippi, she described sickness, including a bout of fever [...]
NIH Draft Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research: one more week to comment
There’s only one week left for the public to comment on the NIH Draft Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research. The deadline is May 26th. Having worked with embryonic stem cells (albeit mouse, not human) as part of my doctoral research, I support stem cell research. Even though the guidelines are a huge step forward [...]
Doctors’ Diaries
A couple weeks ago, PBS aired “Doctors’ Diaries”, the latest installment in a series following seven Harvard Medical School students from their first year through graduation, internship, and beyond. Although I’m not an MD, I attended a year of med school classes as part of my graduate program. After watching the program last night, the [...]
Recent clinical trials on microneedle drug delivery