Pathology News
Exposure to formaldehyde may increase risk of developing ALS, study suggests Reuters (4/17, Steenhuysen) reports that according to findings presented at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Chicago, researchers at the Harvard...
The U.K.'s Guardian (4/17, Randerson) reports that the "era of mass genome sequencing to assess risks of genetic disease comes a step closer today with the publication of" a second "human genome sequence," according to an...
I have been considering a post dealing with the amount of material online and in-print involving children and what it means for their safety. For example, there are countless, albeit very well done and highly personal "mommy"...
It’s a great pleasure for me to host Medicine 2.0, the blog carnival of web 2.0 and medicine. We, medical bloggers, try to write more and more about web 2.0’s impact on medicine and healthcare. My thanks to Berci Mesko for the invitation...
On the front page of its Health section, the Washington Post (4/8, HE1, Brown) reports that, "in the world of health economics," an "ounce of prevention is" typically "worth considerably less" than an ounce of...
I posted a previous note about the value of all clinical information derived from health system records in EMRs or PHRs here. This is volume 2 on the same theme. Several years ago as an intern I was charged with caring for a patient who...
