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...stem cell biology for many years—to be able to produce customized disease-specific lines for different patients," said George Q. Daley, a member of the executive committee of HSCI and the senior author of the paper, which was published on the Web site of the journal Cell earlier this month...
Predictably, things have gotten worse since then. Robert Diaz, an ecologist at the College of William and Mary in Virginia who helped UNEP with its numbers, reports in the current issue of the journal Science that today there are more than 400 known dead zones along coastlines around the world, covering roughly 95,000 sq. mi. of seabed. Some of the dead zones that Diaz and his Swedish co-author identify in their review have been around for some time, but have only recently been studied. Many others appear to be new. About 8% of them, mainly those...
...dreary world of spinal stenosis was cheered up last February by a report in the New England Journal of Medicine that found that surgery for spinal stenosis works better than all of our other non-surgical treatments. The well-known authors of the paper included surgeons who have spent their careers doing the operation. The report claimed to be a first - an "evidence-based" study in which researchers did statistical analysis of how spinal stenosis patients fared with surgery versus non-surgical treatment...
...know enough math to know that neither my colleagues nor I really know statistics. Not one orthopedist nor one neurosurgeon in my acquaintance really understands the math used in statistical papers. They learn by faith in somebody else's statistics, by trust in the reputation of an individual, or journal or university...
Patients rarely question the drugs their doctors prescribe. But the truth is that doctors don't always prescribe the best or cheapest treatment. Actually, they don't always know what that is, given that they lack the time to keep up with the latest drug journal articles, pore over research on the Web or attend medical conferences. One of doctors' most convenient sources of new-drug information is, therefore, also the most biased: the chipper, gift-laden pharmaceutical salespeople who come to doctors' offices bearing free samples, prescribing tips and copies of the latest study that shows how great their...