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• a vexation of zombies

  
  Cocktail Party Physics — Authority: 103
  The next best thing to a Christmas feast has to be holiday leftovers, and the same is true at the cocktail party. In preparation for an exciting new year of cool science, Ive been cleaning out my overstuffed fodder file. Out with the old, and in with the new -- and for some reason, Ive got a bunch of random items ...
  3 days ago

• The Deadliest Day Of The Year Is Christmas?

  
  Better Health — Authority: 548
  With 365 days a year, one would think the law of averages would win this battle.  And you would be wrong. Because there is a deadliest day of the year ?  It’s none other than Christmas .  Who would have thought that?  Why would Christmas be the deadliest day of the year. Researchers examined 53 million ...
  5 days ago

• Vitamin D and Disease Incidence Prevention

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 516
  For what reason I dont know, but this January 2009 editorial by William Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation is making the rounds. Perhaps it just came available on the web. Its a good read, particularly in light of the billions and trillions of dollars the thieves & thugs in DC are about to flush down the ...
  6 days ago

• Understanding Liverpool Better: The Joint Director of Public Health Annual Report 2008–2009

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: Understanding Liverpool Better: The Joint Director of Public Health Annual Report 2008–2009 Skinny: This year’s public health annual report from Liverpool PCT focusing on: Improving Health 2010 Year of Wellbeing and Innovation Workplace Wellbeing Charter Impact of Recession on Mental Health ...
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• Who needs science? Lawmakers mull cell phone warnings

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 738
  According to an Associated Press report , a state legislator from Maine has introduced a bill that would attach a warning label to cell phones. The proposed warnings would feature bold red text warning of the danger of brain cancer, and feature an image of a small brain. Theres one small problem with all of this: ...
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• CDC: Rise in Autism (at Least) Partly due to Increased Recognition, Documentation

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 127
  From 2002 to 2006, the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) increased significantly among 8-year-old American boys and girls.* This conclusion is based on a newly published, retrospective review from the CDCs Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network....
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• A(H1N1) Swine Influenza: SocCon – end to national collection

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Title: A(H1N1) Swine Influenza: SocCon – end to national collection Skinny: Letter from Roy Taylor ending the national collection of SocCon data as a result of the slow down in infection rates with swine flu. Publisher: DH Size of Publication: 2p. Published: 18/12/2009 Posted in Grey Literature, ...
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• Nutrition Graduate Programs in North America

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 158
  Find Nutrition Graduate Programs in the United States and Canada. If you’d like to achieve a Masters or Ph.D. in nutrition , you should first review admission requirements to nutrition graduate programs. Typically, prospective students must take an aptitude test prior to enrollment. Additionally, applicants ...
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• Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part IV: The Smell Test

  
  Free The Animal — Authority: 516
  In this Part IV of the series ( Part I ; Part II ; Part III ), I have decided to do go about this in a different way than Id indicated before. I covered the Paleo Principle in Part II, but more in terms of our having evolved to eat meat and not with a lot of specifics about saturated fat in particular. Accordingly, ...
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• CDC report 1 in 110 kids are identified autistic

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 132
  You’ve probably already heard—the CDC ’s estimate of the autism rate was announced as 1% today. This was published in an MMWR came out today, with the new CDC prevalence estimate of 1 in 110. I made some notes on the conference call , but I thought it worthwhile to make a few comments on the document ...
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• Heart 2010 (Vol. 96 No. 1)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 146
  Heart 2010 (Vol. 96 No. 1) Contents page Fade Fave: Epidemiology: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in South Asian and white populations in London: database evaluation of characteristics and outcome Fade Skinny: Compares out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) characteristics in white and South Asian populations ...
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• Animal Dewormer in Cocaine

  
  Pathophilia — Authority: 127
  Unexplained bone-marrow failure (ie, agranulocytosis) in residents of New Mexico, Washington, and Canada led to the discovery of levamisole, an antiparasitic antibiotic, as a prevalent cutting agent in cocaine. A report of the investigation by public health officials, which began last year and identified...
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• CDC conference call: 1% autism prevalence.

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 132
  The CDC conference call was today. This call was about the new MMWR ( Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports ) that is due out. (The report is here , with an appendix here ). Dr. Catherine Rice, lead author was there. She gave the intro. Report is released today. “Significant public health issue”. ...
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• Santas reindeer quarantined over Lyme disease fears

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 128
  North Pole reindeer have been quarantined following the discovery of ticks carrying Lyme diseases, bringing into question their availability on Dec. 24 and the possibility of causing a global Lyme disease pandemic should they cross international borders. Elves first found reindeer ticks on ...
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• Is CDC to announce 1 in 100 autism rate?

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 132
  And, if so, is SafeMinds trying to play games with Google news to get their story on top? What happens when you are the first to break a big news story, at least in terms of Google News? Well, quite often your story gets to be the top story. On Wednesday, SafeMinds put a piece on the Age of Autism Blog CDC ...
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• Survey: Nation lacking in epidemiologists

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 135
  Nearly 1,500 more epidemiologists are needed nationwide to sufficiently carry out public health duties, according to a survey of state epidemiologists earlier this year. The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists has released its 2009 Epidemiology Capacity Assessment (PDF), intended to report on the ...
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• Instruction, Information Seeking Behaviors, Clinical Evidence: Teaching with EBM Databases

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  This has been a busy month. The final first-year PBL class will be wrapping up, as the semester will be over on Friday, Dec 18 2009. On Monday, I taught an evidence-based medicine class for 28 third-year medical students, which I’ve been doing since 2001.  It is part of a week-long curriculum that all ...
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• The Giants Shoulders #18

  
  JOST A MON — Authority: 488
  In the first few days following the announcement of this edition of the Giants Shoulders carnival, I received a few articles that appeared to strike off completely from the subject matter of the previous edition. To wit, I hoped that I might be able to do for geophysics what The Primate Diaries had done so ably ...
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• News, Medical Research, UCHC Faculty: Immune Levels + Holiday Stress? Not Beneficial

  
  EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC — Authority: 112
  ” If you ever thought the stress of seeing your extended family over the holidays was slowly killing you— the bad news : a new research report in the December 2009 print issue of Journal of Leukocyte Biology shows that you might be right. Here’s the good news : results from the same study might lead ...
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• One in 10 Brit kids will become obese by 2015: Study

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 15 (ANI): One in 10 British children is likely to become obese by 2015, reveals a new study.The research team from University College London insists that if the current trend continues 10.1 per cent of boys and 8.9 per cent of girls aged between two and 10 will be obese within six years, [...]
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