Blog roundup
sb admin | December 22, 2006The biggest news in science and public health was the tragic, though not unexpected, guilty verdict in the Libyan trial of six medics accused of deliberately infecting patients with HIV. Several members of the scientific community, mobilized by Nature reporter Declan Butler and several bloggers, drew attention to the scientific evidence demonstrating the medics´ innocence in the weeks before the trial, but science lost this one. Declan Butler, reporter has posts chronicling developments in this case; Revere at Effect Measure and Orac at Respectful Insolence have news and commentary on the…
sb admin | December 15, 2006Ruth Levine of Global Health Policy offers the AIDS-Malaria link as a reason disease-by-disease thinking isn't the way to go.
Richard Littlemore at DeSmogBlog reports on which US publishers don't think their audiences can handle George Monbiot's book "Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning."
Dave Munger at Cognitive Daily describes research into improving mood with fast thinking and positive statements.
Jordan Barab at Confined Space has the goods on the nominee for EPA's Inspector General position.
Page Rockwell at Broadsheet considers the prospects for getting HPV vaccine Gardasil to…
sb admin | December 8, 2006Health and environmental bloggers have covered a wide array of topics this week. Some highlights:
Steve at Omni Brain (don't click the link while eating) displays graphic warnings from Belgian and Thai cigarette packs
Merrill Goozner at GoonzNews posts an excerpt from his just-published article (cover story of The Scientist, for those with subscriptions) on treating malaria on the Thai-Burmese border.
Revere at Effect Measure challenged those who inveigh against alternative medicine to respond to a study that found chicken soup to inhibit neutrophil chemotaxis, and a lively discussion ensued…
sb admin | December 1, 2006Today is World AIDS Day, and thereâs no shortage of coverage in the blogosphere. Christy Hardin Smith at Firedoglake combines links to news stories with her own reflections, and Izzy at Unbossed remembers 1982, before they called it AIDS. Michael Bernstein and Nandini Oomman of Global Health Policy report from the World AIDS Day Event in Nairobi, and Christine Gorman of TIMEâs Global Health Update links to photos and stories of people living with AIDS.
On other topics:
Mike the Mad Biologist warns against focusing on water and sanitation improvement to the exclusion of cholera vaccination…