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Entries from February 2007

Twisted Bowels

February 14th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Ok. That’s a pretty unpleasant title for this rant, but then I awoke to an e-mail from one of the news aggregators I use proclaiming “FDA issues warning on rotavirus vaccine”.
I quickly turned to this story worried that the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) had picked up a cluster of intussception on […]

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Tags: FDA · Rant

Evangelical Oncologist

February 13th, 2007 · 22 Comments

I don’t know if it’s the shorter days of winter, or the busier days in the laboratory, but nearly two weeks have passed since I’ve written anything here and it seems like only a few days. It is certainly not for lack of good material. I keep two folders - one on the […]

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Tags: Blogging · Fundraising · Oncology

Non-fumeur, SVP.

February 1st, 2007 · 6 Comments

Shinga must be thrilled at same story that I heard on the BBC today: Februay 1 marks the implementation of a (partial) indoor smoking ban in France:
For this is a typical French paradox - smoking in public places such as airports, railway stations, hospitals, offices and schools is now forbidden.
But restaurants, cafes, casinos and bars have until […]

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Tags: Cancer