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• More on surveys of violent war deaths

  
  Deltoid — Authority: 674
  Andrew Mack emails me to draw attention to his paper ( "Estimating War Deaths: An Arena of Contestation" by Spagat, Mack, Cooper and Kreutz ), which criticizes Obermeyer et als paper Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia . I commented on Obermeyer et al in this post . I agree with some of their ...
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• Health 2009: A Year in Review

  
  FOX News Health Blog — Authority: 123
  Well, it’s time to bid adieu to 2009. It was an interesting year bringing us closer to the end of what some consider “the worst decade in American history.” From the historical inauguration of President Obama, to the most elaborate Ponzi scheme this country has seen, to the bailouts, failed stimulus packages, ...
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• TLS Rec: Icyou

  
  The Lancet Student — Authority: 129
  Icyou Health Videos. A large number of videos on a wide variety of health topics.
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• Famous thoughts on manuscript reviews

  
  Positive Technology Journal — Authority: 126
  from Edward Ross (Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Transplantation, UFla) in The Lancet today … To die while awaiting the review… alone . Ernest Hemingway It is the nature of reviews to be late . Aristotle I invented slow manuscript reviews . Al Gore There is more to life than simply ...
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• 6 Fast Food Health Effects

  
  Correct Weight Loss Blog — Authority: 124
  Fast Food ‘Super Size Me’ has an apt tag line of “a film of epic portions”. This 2004 documentary was directed by Morgan Spurlock. Mr Spurlock was followed for a 30 day period during which he only dined at McDonald’s. The average calorie consumed daily was 5000 calories. The documentary focuses on the ...
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• Do Medical Editors Discriminate Against Poor Authors?

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 425
  Do medical editors have different quality standards based on the authors geographic location?
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• ADVANCED MELANOMA AND IPILIMUMAB

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 148
  Ipilimumab elicited a dose-dependent effect on efficacy and safety measures in pretreated patients with advanced melanoma, lending support to further studies at a dose of 10 mg/kg. Ipilimumab is a human monoclonal antibody that blocks cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 and has shown promising ...
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• Blood

  
  Tales Of The Fencesitter — Authority: 103
  He takes a lancet and dips it into his finger. Blood flows, it looks so red. He feeds it to the machine, looks at the resulting number– 400. ‘It’s too high, time to take out the needle’ he tells me with a wry smile. It breaks my heart seeing my dad inject himself with insulin everyday. He says it’s ...
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• Lancet: Climate Change is Passive Smoking on a Global Scale

  
  DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — Authority: 695
  passive smoke.jpg In a comment piece entitled Climate Policy: Lessons from Tobacco Control, the medical journal The Lancet, Maria Nilsson, et al, point out the similarities between tobacco and climate change: "In addition to causing huge damage to population health, both cause substantial ...
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• TLS Rec: Medsin in Copenhagen

  
  The Lancet Student — Authority: 129
  Medsin report on their delegation at the COP15 UN climate change negotiations live at www.medsin.org/cop .
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• ARTs Safe Without Routine Lab Tests, Lancet Study Finds

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  A Lancet study published online Tuesday validates the safety of administering first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) to patients with HIV without routine toxicity and efficacy lab tests, “[b]ut tests of immune-system function might still be a good idea to monitor the progression of the disease and guide the second ...
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• TLS Rec: Darfur Petition

  
  The Lancet Student — Authority: 129
  A followup to UCL and MSF Darfur Week, a petition to the UK Prime Minister to support the Darfur peace process.
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• HPV Vaccine: Continuous Protection Beyond Six Years

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  An article published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet reports that the ‘Cervarix’ human papilloma virus ( HPV ) vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline offers continued protection beyond six years from infection against the types of HPV most commonly associated with cervical cancer ( HPV -16 and ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Lancet Student — Authority: 129
  The Autumn 2009 issue of the American Medical Students’ Association’s journal Global Pulse
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• !!NEWSFLASH!! Inhaling Misted Pig Brains May Make You Sick !!NEWSFLASH!!

  
  Baxter King's Creepy — Authority: 133
  “Between November 2006 and May 2008, two dozen slaughterhouse workers in Minnesota and Indiana took ill with a variety of neurological and physical illnesses. Now, researchers think they know why.” “The medical journal Lancet Neurology describes what happened this way: “An outbreak of neurological ...
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• Studies Measure Climate Change’s Impact on Public Health

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 641
  Just in time for the opening of the United National Climate Change conference in Copenhagen next week, the London-based medical journal The Lancet has published the findings of a number of studies that examine the links between climate change and public health.There are six separate reports in the series. They explore ...
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• Mayo Clinic Publishes First Comprehensive Report of Pork Processing Plant Illness

  
  Mayo Clinic News — Authority: 413
  Journalists:  For links to web-video and audio files, see the bottom of this post.The first complete report of Mayo Clinic physicians’ initial assessment of pork processing plant workers with a unique neurological disorder has been published online in Lancet Neurology. It includes the detailed results of the ...
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