Kay Lazar in the Boston Globe tells a sad story. Several weeks ago, Governor Patrick and his administration pushed through a plan to help assure that legal Massachusetts immigrants would continue to receive coverage under the state’s landmark health care access bill. This was a gutsy move, staving off prejudice and xenophobia, and [...]
Although I disagree with the policy argument, you have to appreciate the cleverness of this video.
The September 24th Nature came in the mail today and as always with this journal (otherwise I wouldn’t pay for it!) is full of interesting stuff. One paper of particular interest is a cool merger of evolution, computational biology, structural biology and protein engineering.
An interesting question in evolution is to what degree are [...]
A loyal reader sent in this wonderful photomicrograph from a recent case of cerebral Baylisascariasis (click on the picture to see it up close). A cause of eosinophilic meningoencephalitis, infection with Baylisascaris procyonis is typically characterized by necrosis and eosinophilic inflammation. Larvae are often encapsulated within fibrous tissue (reference 1). Although not particularly neurotropic, [...]
The BIDMC team again joined in the Hub on Wheels, a bike ride through the neighborhoods that is a fundraiser for the Boston public schools. Our team raised about $7000, and we and Cataldo Ambulance Service also donated medical services for the ride. Mayor Menino’s bicycling czarina Nicole Freedman visited the medical tent before [...]
We were so pleased that the Student National Medical Association decided to hold its Board of Directors meeting and National Leadership Institute at BIDMC this weekend. SNMA is the nation’s oldest and largest independent, student-run organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of color. Membership includes [...]
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I ran across this information packed and thought provoking series about wine and your heart. It consists of 3 parts:
Part I: More than just Enjoyment!
Part II: Preventing Heart Attacks
Part III: To the Heart of the Matter
Ellen Mack, M.D., M.P.H., the author, says:
The first two parts (see Part 1 &Part 2) [...]
Yesterday was a good day for catching up on the literature; not only did I finally get around to the IL28B papers I blogged about yesterday, but I also took a run through the genome fusion paper which is being seen as the fitting marker of the end of the “Communicated by” mechanism of PNAS [...]
Bill Ives posts 25 Creative Twitter Applications. He embeds this link.
Examples go from really useful — but dangerous if you text while driving:
CommuterFeed aggregates tweets about traffic from people stuck in jams. By following your city’s feed, you can get updates about ongoing traffic tangles. New Jersey Transit riders have created a similar [...]
I finally got around to reading the Nature News & Views article by Iadonato and Katze summarizing and opining on the recent quartet of papers linking genetic variation around IL26B and the response to standard therapy for Hepatitis C Virus. The N&V has at least one glaring flaw and also (IMHO) goes down the [...]