New Study Finds Patients Regularly Mugged in the Dark
A while back I wrote about my experience being shaken down for over $4,000 when I had to take my daughter for a simple x-ray after she hurt her foot while we we...
Tag: Healthcare policy
Your genetic info — not free, easy, or clear
This isn't something we'll figure out in a couple workshops; it's something the industry and the broader genomics community will need to consider carefully over...
Gleaned: Suspicious women, sneaky cops, fair-minded children. Plus flu.
What I distracted myself with this morning. Don't mix these at home.
The Week’s Best: Evolution, healthcare reform, clever apes, and Cheever in his undies
Evolution, healthcare reform, baboons, and Cheever in his underwear
Gleanings – mind & brain, law and war, media, bad trains
Mind, brain, and body (including those gene things) While reading Wolpert's review of Greenberg's book, I found that the Guardian has a particularly rich trove ...
The day’s gleanings
Jerry Coyne relates that Birds are getting smaller. Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it When I talk to writing classes, someone will usual...
Patty’s Day Roundup
BoingBoing loves The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing on Blogs 2009, founded/published by the ever-present Bora Zivkovic and edited by scicurious. N...
Notables from Out-n-About 03/17/2010 (a.m.)
Reading, ants, reading about ants, and Ezra Klein fact-checks David Brooks
From Out-N-About: latest web notables
We’ll start with the science, cruise through J school, and end with healthcare reform or bust. Genetic material Willful ignorance is not an effective argu...
Vaccinating kids for flu protects almost everyone
"A landmark study looking at how to limit the spread of influenza has shown what experts have long believed but hadn't until now proved: Giving flu shots to kid...