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Tag Archives: medicine
An Iron Curtain Has Descended Upon Psychopharmacology
Imagine if a chemist told you offhandedly that the Russians had different chemical elements than we did. Here in America, we use elements like lithium and silicon and bismuth. We have figured out lots of neat compounds we can make … Continue reading
Some Antibiotic Stagnation
In the past week I’ve written about antibiotics and the rate of technological progress. So when a graph about using antibiotics to measure the rate of scientific progress starts going around the Internet, I take note. Unfortunately, it’s inexcusably terrible. … Continue reading
HeartMath Considered Incoherent
[Note: all opinions expressed here are my own. Nothing to be taken as medical advice.] This is not a skeptic blog and I find much skeptic-blogging distasteful. But as the saying sort of goes: “You may not be interested in … Continue reading
Psychotropic Base Rates: The Argument From Antibiotics
The obscure antiprotozoal drug suramin has the prettiest molecular structure I’ve ever seen. It also has some evidence as a potential treatment for autism based on a cell danger response model of the condition. I’m not going to get too … Continue reading
SSRIs: Much More Than You Wanted To Know
Miri – the person, not the organization – writes about depression. There’s a lot there worth thinking about, but one part caught my eye: I’m a little tired of being told that SSRIs “don’t work” when they’re part of the … Continue reading
The Placebo-Singers
In medical school, I was always told that the word “placebo” came from the Latin “I will please”, because patients tried to get better to please doctors, or the pill was just there to please patients, or something like that. … Continue reading
Court-ing Disaster
[EDIT: Some lawyers in the comments say various factors about this case sound very fishy. I know what I heard at the lecture, but it’s starting to seem more likely that the lecturer made this whole thing up or at … Continue reading
Fish – Now By Prescription
I. LOVAZA™®© (ask your doctor if LOVAZA™®© is right for you) is an excellent medication. It is extraordinarily safe. It is moderately effective at its legal indication of lowering levels of certain fats in the bloodstream. It has moderately good … Continue reading