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Here’s the MasterCard commercial:
- One brand new 3.0T MRI scanner, sited, installed, and running: $3M
- two research slots: $1844
- Having two and a half hours on a quiet Sunday afternoon to scan two newborn premie twins: priceless.
My life is starting to get better.

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Since I posted about this recently, I thought that I’d post a follow-up. I added the search terms “autism thimerosal” years ago to an automated system run by the National Library of Medicine which e-mails me monthly updates on new published results regarding those keywords. Since it’s October 1st, I just got an [...]

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While doing some reading online, I came across a nice New York Times article on the controversy over a suspected (by a very small number of scientists) link between autism and a part-mercury compound that used to be used as a vaccine preservative. I’ve read a bunch of the research, both for and against, [...]

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The former US Surgeon General had some harsh words to Congress this week about how the Bush Adminstration repeatedly tried to get him to conceal scientific truths. Some choice gems:
The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and [...]

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Nice fluff piece on MSNBC about a University of Pennsylvania Emergency Medicine doc and his recent discovery that for many patients who suffer cardiac arrest, the lack of oxygen doesn’t kill them, it’s the reintroduction of oxygen after the pause.

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I hate to hype these things when I haven’t pulled the original research article, yet, but this looks interesting.
Certain types of diabetes are the result of the immune system attacking and killing cells in the pancreas that supply insulin to the body. Based on the article, researchers were able to replace the tissue with [...]

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