Monday, February 11, 2013

The War of the End of the World: The health puzzle posed by its survivors

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The War of Canudos took place in Brazil in 1896 and 1897. Canudos was a settlement of several thousand deeply religious Christians, led by...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

The 2012 Atherosclerosis egg study: More smoking is associated with more plaque, unless you eat more eggs

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I blogged before about the study by David Spence and colleagues, published online in July 2012 in the journal Atherosclerosis ( ). This stud...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Does tallness cause heart disease? No, but sex does

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Popular beliefs about medical issues are sometimes motivated by a statistical phenomenon known as “spurious relationship”, among other names...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

The bipolar disorder pendulum: Depression as a compensatory adaptation

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As far as explaining natural phenomena, Darwin was one of the best theoretical researchers of all time. Yet, there were a few phenomena that...
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Monday, October 1, 2012

The anatomy of a VAP test report

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The vertical auto profile (VAP) test is an enhanced lipid profile test. It has been proposed, as a more complete test that relies on direct ...
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Monday, September 17, 2012

Familial hypercholesteromia: Why rely on cholesterol levels when more direct measures are available?

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There are two forms of familial hypercholesteromia (FH), namely heterozygous and homozygous FH. In heterozygous FH only one copy of the gene...
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Monday, September 3, 2012

Daniel Suelo, the man who quit money, seems remarkably healthy

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Daniel James Shellabarger (better known as Daniel Suelo) is portrayed in the bestselling 2012 nonfiction book by Mark Sundeen titled “The Ma...
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