On The Disrupted Sequence of Health-Care Reform
Elvin Lim looks at the health-care reform bill that passed in the House.
Inhalation Treatment for Asthma:
Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
An excerpt from Asthma: The Biography.
The Discovery of Insulin
An excerpt from Diabetes: The Biography.
How We Look At Health Care
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
How Ferrets Identified a Virus
An excerpt from Viruses, Plagues, and History, showing how pigs, dogs, and ferrets helped identify influenza as a virus.
Coming To Understand Obsession
An excerpt from The Thought That Counts by James Douglas Kant with Martin Franklin, PH.D., and Linda Wasmer Andrews.
Did Director Steven Soderbergh Get The Chemistry Right…Again?
A chemical look at The Informant!.
Bioterrorism Beginnings:
The Rajneesh Cult, Oregon, 1985
An excerpt from Bracing For Armageddon?
At last, progress in developing an AIDS vaccine
HIV/AIDS expert Alan Whiteside on the recent HIV vaccine trails in Thailand.
Nauseating or Nauseous
Phil Sefton, ELS, weighs in on the difference between “nauseating” and “nauseous”.
The Case for Michael Jackson’s Doctor
Was Michael Jackson’s doctor responsible?
Confronting Climate Collapse
An excerpt from Down to the Wire.
Tools for Innovation I: Normal psychology and economic recovery
How do goals drive behavior?
Meaning and Health
An excerpt from Hope in the Age of Anxiety, looking at the relationship between meaning and health.
Behind the scenes at JAMA and the Archives journals: top ten mistakes authors make, part III
Today, Brenda Gregoline discusses the final four points on her ‘top ten list’ of most frequent mistakes authors make when submitting manuscripts – including duplicate submissions, failing to protect patient identity, not ‘matching-up data’ and forgetting to read the instructions for authors!
Behind the scenes at JAMA and the Archives journals: top ten mistakes authors make, part II
It’s impossible to expect authors to absorb all of the 1000-page ‘AMA Manual of Style’; they’re just trying to get published, and it’s our job to help them. Today, we discuss three of the top-ten most frequent mistakes, including punctuation and style, ‘errors of grandiosity’ and wacky references.