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by medymed 11y ago
Very limited data provided in the article, and no subgroup analysis by college type or major or other demographic variables. It is more worrying, to me, if all low income future engineering students skip college to become line workers. It i
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by medymed 11y ago
This article compares medical experimentation with varying levels of egregiousness, but leaves unmentioned the variable interpretation of the standard of care used for control groups. Is the standard of care the regimen that was outlined in
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by medymed 11y ago
Innovation in philosophy I guess can be redefining something new, something that hasn't been redefined countless times already. Redefining free will? So last-millenium... Cool story though!
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by medymed 11y ago
Recipe for dealing with cultural conflicts at Yale: 1. Express indignation 2. Convene a committee 3. Produce a report recommending hiring new administrator for diversity/cultural-somethingness 4. Hire administrator It will happen...jus
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by medymed 11y ago
Would be fascinating if they could harvest healthy host progenitor cells, destroy the leukemic cells with another persons's engineered off-the-shelf graft which has a couple of chemically (e.g. tetracycline) inducible kill-switches, an
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by medymed 11y ago
Redistribute most of the $5 billion dollars of psychology and behavioral-related NIH research funding to historically high ROI areas like infectious disease research. http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx
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by medymed 11y ago
thats ridiculous:-)
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by medymed 11y ago
If raised in an affluent suburb, they might surprise you.
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by medymed 11y ago
Title is "How to make biomedical research more reproducible"' discussed by a psychologist. Funding via R01 et al creates an ecosystem of start-up like labs that publish or perish as is said--and perish quickly. For too many P
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by medymed 11y ago
I will be looking for frequency of medication errors per medication. Giving someone a triple dose of advil or local anesthetic probably not too big of a deal, but a triple dose of phenylephrine or labetolol is asking for trouble. In other w
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by medymed 11y ago
Whenever I can spare the time, I try to make mobile apps and computer games. I think it can add value to the world. But compared to calling the shots in the dark on a imminent nuclear holocaust? Geez louise. If this story is true, this guy
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by medymed 11y ago
You could build a similar game, make no specific claims (or get a small focus-group to test it out), get a psychologist or two interested with a free trial, then transition to a respectable price later if it is adopted by the clinical commu
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by medymed 11y ago
When a video game is backed by clinical trials, you could charge a ton of money for it. Like $100s per month that insurance plans will negotiate down to fewer $100s, but still 100s, per month. At least for a few years. The difference is tha
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by medymed 11y ago
they have symptoms and have found a way to improve their symptoms. they are reaosnable about it. there don't appear to be stories of assault for blood drinking (at least in the article). it doesn't really fit with craziness as in
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by medymed 11y ago
Translational medicine is bench-to-bedside. This was indeed translational research. This kind of medicine seems more like bedside-to-bedside, as in giving the cancer guy's drug to the Parkinson's guy in the next bed over and see
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by medymed 11y ago
NO. Wait, I changed my mind. Yes.
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by medymed 11y ago
agreed. especially for currently non-curable conditions, social/lifestyle interventions for sufferers and their caregivers with big benefits at next to no cost are a big win.
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by medymed 11y ago
Great question. I think this is why organ systems with (arguably) relatively fewer interconnecting parts and more accessible parts than the brain, for example blood, are easier to research. Not all of the parts will be able to be controll
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by medymed 11y ago
So many gut microbiome variables, so many neurologic variables in the brain, so many type 1 errors calling out from the data in seductive whispers "publish me...". While preliminary research is curious, I predict that more medium-
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by medymed 11y ago
When medical staff see someone resolutely starving themselves in a state psychiatric institution, drinking liters of water before their daily weigh-ins to nudge the number up, and hiding their full Ensure cans from nurses to avoid the calor