Medicine and Science (2010)

© 2012 Peter Free

 

RNA Viruses Responsible for European Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Found in other Hymenoptera, with Pollen as the Medium for Inter-Species Transmission

(29 December 2010)

 

 

Global Crop Diversity Trust to Find and Preserve Wild Relatives of Food Crops in Preparation for Climate Change (28 December 2010)

 

 

Alcohol, Impulsivity, and a Finnish Gene — Implications for Freedom of Will and Genetic Manipulation (27 December 2010)

 

 

Fate and Probability’s Tipping Hand — Mallory and Irvine on Everest in 1924 — an 18 Millibar Drop in Barometric Pressure (23 December 2010)

 

 

A Case of “Maybe-Science” — Questions regarding a Computed “Fossil Genome” (22 December 2010)

 

 

Boreal Biomass Burning — an Escalating Contribution to Climate Change?(07 December 2010)

 

 

What Will Our Children’s Kids Aspire to When They Look Up at the Night Sky? (24 November 2010)

 

 

Pest-Resistant Genetically Modified Corn, Combined with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Regulatory Attempt to Keep it Effective, Has Worked (10 November 2010)

 

 

Atomic Optical Clocks Demonstrate Slowing and Speeding of Time per Relative Speed or Proximity to Mass (01 November 2010)

 

 

Pharmaceutical Testing and Its Placebos ─ Even the Most Basic Utilitarian and Scientific Principles Are Often Ignored (23 October 2010)

 

 

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) Are Still Not Adequately Protecting Patients (21 October 2010)

 

 

Behind the Shouting Decay that Marks American Politics, Science Still Has its Hope-Inspiring Triumphs ─ the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (21 October 2010)

 

 

Oral Bisphosphonates Used Long-Term Increase Risk of Esophageal Cancer, but Absolute Risk Remains Small ─ an Illustration of the Need to Evaluate Absolute as Well as Relative Risk (16 October 2010)

 

 

Inertia in Medicine Sometimes Defies Common Sense ─ Unnecessary Cancer Screenings in Advanced Cancer Patients (13 October 2010)

 

 

A Step Forward in Identifying the Causes of Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder ─ and a Statement regarding Why Science Is Important (10 October 2010)

 

 

Tinnitus Involves Signaling along the Brain’s Interacting Neural Networks─ Effectively Treating the Disorder Will Be Complicated (21 September 2010)

 

 

Prostate Cancer Screening via PSA Levels May Not Be Routinely Advisable Except in Higher Risk Patients

(15 September 2010)

 

 

If We Were All as Obtuse as the Food and Drug Administration, Our Genes Would Have Died Out Long Ago ─ The FDA Rejected the Idea of Emulating Britain’s Success in Reducing Egg Salmonella

(24 August 2010)

 

 

If You Thought the Food and Drug Administration Competently Regulates the Safety of Implanted Medical Devices, You Guessed Wrong Enough to Get Yourself Killed (10 August 2010)

 

 

JUPITER Rosuvastatin Study Upended: Use of Statins in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Does Not Reduce All-cause Mortality (30 June 2010)

 

 

JUPITER Rosuvastatin Study Upended: Use of Statins in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Does Not Reduce All-cause Mortality (30 June 2010)

 

 

Arrogant Complacence in Medical Practice and Institutions Kills Thousands of People Annually ─ Self-Regulation Is Not the Answer (20 July 2010)

 

 

Claim of Having Created Synthetic Life Is Far Overblown (18 June 2010)

 

 

Nanoparticle Air Pollution along Traffic Corridors Damages Brains (12 June 2010)

 

 

Gene Therapy Regulation: The Need for Third Party Fiduciaries (2001)

 

 

Mad Cows and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ─ The New Stature of the Precautionary Principle in European Law and Health Practice (April 2001)