This isn’t news to my readers but the sorry state of employment-based health insurance in the US means that anyone is one catastrophe away from bankruptcy.
A rather personal example of this came home to roost today when several folks…
Early this week, a British criminology professor wrote a slightly plaintive essay about the 19th century serial poisoner, Mary Ann Cotton. Why, he wondered, did no one remember the evil Mary Ann and her remarkable homicidal career: poisoning an…
Category: Speakeasy Science, arsenic, poison, science history
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Tagged arsenic, Belle Gunness, David Wilson, Frederick Seddon, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Jane Toppan, Mary Ann Cotton, Rudolph Witthaus
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If you go to your physician’s office and inquire about your weight status, he or she will measure your height and weight to derive your BMI (weight in kg divided by height in m squared). Then they will compare your…
In December, PLoS Medicine published a paper by An Pan and colleagues, which focused on shift work and type 2 diabetes. The authors found that working night shifts on rotation over extended periods of time modestly increased the risk…
“Tumors destroy man in a unique and appalling way, as flesh of his own flesh which has somehow been rendered proliferative, rampant, predatory and ungovernable.”
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I’ve been needing to get this out in the open since the excellent Science Online 2012 session that Maryn McKenna and Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn organized, on writing about science for women’s magazines.
A few years…
Travis’ Note: Today’s guest post comes from our friend and colleague Atif Kukaswadia, aka Mr Epidemiology. You can find more on Atif at the bottom of this post.
I’d like you to watch that video [email subscribers can…
Forget the elephan
t in the room. Try the elephant on the farm, raiding crops for a tasty treat while risking the wrath of frustrated farmers.
This tug-of-war for territory and resources is just one manifestation of the growing tensions between…
I loves me some Soapbox. Thanks to the Nature blogs folks for letting me rant on a favorite theme:
As a graduate student, I studied the genetics of Hirschsprung disease, a congenital disorder of the nervous system in
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Photoacoustic imaging beyond our wildest dreams Medical imaging, from whole organs to single blood vessels.
