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Why I love the MMWR
- Thread starter SFJoe
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Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Hardly new: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199602153340718originally posted by SFJoe:
Dangerous FoamAnother reason to avoid Florida?
Love this quote on the topic: "I question any party where you’re intentionally going to put together alcohol, slippery surfaces and blinding people to their visual surroundings," says Dr. Howard Mell, a spokesman for the American College of Emergency Physicians.
... but still on one of Dr. SFJoe's favorite themes:
Enterprising young winemaker encounters problems
Mark Lipton
("Pruno - it's not just for breakfast any more!")
Enterprising young winemaker encounters problems
Mark Lipton
("Pruno - it's not just for breakfast any more!")
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
That seems a lot to ask of a toilet.
Yes.originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
That seems a lot to ask of a toilet.
Though I'm pretty sure they ferment in baggies or some such. The open-top fermenters lead to too much, er, volatility, I think.
John McIlwain
John McIlwain
Damn funny.originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
That seems a lot to ask of a toilet.
Heston Blumenthal is at it again.
How does he stay in business? My urge to eat in one of his places is so small that it can't be measured.
How does he stay in business? My urge to eat in one of his places is so small that it can't be measured.
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
"Dinner opened in 2011, the restaurant specialises in historical English food . . ."
Well there's the problem, he's using recipes that predate man's understanding of bacteria. Or maybe he feels the experience is more authentic if diners walk out suffering from the plague.
Well there's the problem, he's using recipes that predate man's understanding of bacteria. Or maybe he feels the experience is more authentic if diners walk out suffering from the plague.
I have some memory of having seen a recipe that I thought was his that involved holding a steak sous-vide at 120* for 24 hours or some such.
It probably doesn't make that much difference to norovirus, but it seems like a great way to give your guests a staph or salmonella infection.
It probably doesn't make that much difference to norovirus, but it seems like a great way to give your guests a staph or salmonella infection.
originally posted by SFJoe:
Paging Brad KaneCareful on those special fish in Chinatown.
Predators sometimes concentrate bad stuff from their diets.
Ciguatera spoils Valentine's Day.
More hazards for the VLM.
originally posted by SFJoe:
More hazards for the VLM.
Uh-oh.
originally posted by Dan McQ:
Not the MMWR, but a great game plan of what needs to be done to address the pesky buggars that keep appearing in its pages.
I may take a dark view, but my notion of this world is pretty pessimistic. The intergovernmental panel is likely to solve the problem sometime after we've all festered into gooey puddles. Narrow-spectrum targeted drugs given in combination are a biologically fabulous idea that unfortunately have in most cases no plausible path to development, clinical testing, or approval, even in important infections.
Sure would be nice if we stopped wasting our current drugs on the livestock, though.
originally posted by SFJoe:
I may take a dark view, but my notion of this world is pretty pessimistic. The intergovernmental panel is likely to solve the problem sometime after we've all festered into gooey puddles. Narrow-spectrum targeted drugs given in combination are a biologically fabulous idea that unfortunately have in most cases no plausible path to development, clinical testing, or approval, even in important infections.
No real argument with that. It was published in Nature, after all. The problem is we can't even get the fools on the Hill to kick start things here in the States...
STAAR Act
Sure would be nice if we stopped wasting our current drugs on the livestock, though.
Or wasting them on viral infections in all us humans.