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Monthly Archives: October 2009

A new wonder drug?! Before you say “gimme”, whack it with a hammer

By kathy | Published: October 31, 2009
Last weekend I met an actual, real-life cancer researcher, at an NBCC ProjectLEAD workshop. She was smart, and pretty, and earnest — sort of how you imagine cancer researchers when you’re sitting there with your chemo I.V. running and wondering who dreamed up that wonderful-wretched drug. In the course of conversation, I asked her [...]
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An Epic Flip-Flop on Breast Self-Exams?

By kathy | Published: October 28, 2009
If anything can be said for breast self-exams, it’s that they inspire some crazy fun videos. But the latest news suggests that, for most of us, that may be all they deliver. If this sounds as crazy to you as it did to me, read on. Last weekend I attended a two and a half [...]
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Does Whole Foods Cause Cancer?

By kathy | Published: October 26, 2009
What do you get when you cross Marie Antoinette with a natural food conglomerate? If you guessed an out-of-touch tofu tycoon spouting “Let them eat organic beets,” you win! Earlier this summer Whole Foods CEO John Mackey came out with a pompous polemic on health care reform, complete with his very own epidemiological theories. If you’re [...]
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The Dog Ate Megan McArdle’s Homework

By kathy | Published: October 25, 2009
One of the ugliest features of the health care debate, aside from the media’s willingness to spread unadulterated garbage (death panels, anyone?), is that otherwise smart, thoughtful people are weighing in with boatloads of nonsense. Catching up on my reading a few weeks ago I ran across this rambling and conclusory post by Megan McArdle, [...]
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