EBM’s blind spot
The Cochrane Collaboration, arguably the exemplar of EBM, is a good place to illustrate EBM’s blind spot, a phrase used by Kimball Atwood at Science Based Medicine in his description of EBM’s inability to evaluate implausible health claims in the arena of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Here’s the listing of Cochrane CAM reviews. Few [...]
Statins after brain bleeds
Risks may exceed benefits. Via Archives of Neurology. Related editorial here.
Call for papers: Whole Body Interaction: Applications, Case Studies, Evaluations and Critical Theory
A special issue of International Journal of Arts and Technology The field of whole body interaction has recently emerged to take a more holistic view of human computer interaction. It is a research, philosophical and engineering approach to combining several aspects of human computer interaction. Whole body interaction encompasses Physical interaction Physiological state – pulse, [...]
Saturday night
She wrote this when she was 23. How did she know?
No respect, no respect at all for hospitalists
Image source: Wikipedia. Creative Commons license 3.0. Attribution: Jim Accordino <!– @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> It’s not that they aren’t liked. Referring docs and hospital staff love them. But as DB pointed out in one of his recent posts, hospitlaists are increasingly being regarded as advanced residents. It [...]
