Just about the last place I expected to find quackademic medicine
—was Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Quackademic medicine goes against Vandy’s traditions. VUMC was a leader in the biomedical sciences. It was always a place where new ideas were welcome but where nutty ideas were just nutty ideas. I was aware that woo got its foot in the door of VUMC a year or so ago [...]
Special issue: Algebraic and combinatorial coding theory
International Journal of Information and Coding Theory 1(2) 2010 On the construction of bent vectorial functions Differential properties of power functions Constructions of self-dual codes over finite commutative chain rings Binomial moments for divisible self-dual codes There is no Euclidean self-dual quaternary [18,9,7] code MDS self-dual codes of lengths 16 and 18 Enumeration of AGL(m/3, [...]
Diagnostic error—the sleeping dog of patient safety?
Yes, at least according to patient safety expert Robert L. Trowbridge, MD, interviewed in a recent issue of Today′s Hospitalist. Diagnostic errors, at least so called cognitive diagnostic errors, reflect on the physician’s clinical skill. As Trowbridge pointed out: If I prescribe the wrong medication or the wrong dose, I can justify that by saying [...]
Green Eggs and Ham
Saw some news a few days back where the FDA voted to try and study artificial food dyes in greater detail sometime in future. (FDA advisors recommend more study of food dyes) Yippee.  I’m sure that this recent announcement counts for somewhere between nothing and less than nothing in terms of committing to concrete [...]
Chronic pancreatitis – The Lancet review
There are two forms of chronic pancreatitis Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive fibroinflammatory disease that exists in 2 forms: – large-duct forms (often with intraductal calculi)- small-duct form Causes of chronic pancreatitis Chronic pancreatitis results from a complex mix of: – environmental factors – alcohol, cigarettes, and occupational chemicals- genetic factors – mutation in a [...]
