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Cancer

Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO: An Era Is Over

by pribut on August 24, 2011

You may love Apple computers and their devices including the iPod, iPad, and iPhone. Or you may like Windows computers or perhaps Linux boxes. Whatever you like about your computer, whatever it may be, it was Steve Jobs and
Steve Wozniak’s abilities, vision, and salesmanship that has put one in your home.
Without Wozniak the engineer, and [...]

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A Smart Phone Clever Enough To Analyze Your Biopsy

by pribut on February 25, 2011

Miniaturization of technology continues to bring new innovations in science and technology. The very latest innovation which you probably have not seen yet is a miniature NMR. On a larger scale this is the old familiar MRI machine. The micro-NMR is coupled to a Smart Phone and used to analyze cell surface proteins. A study [...]

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Parenthetically Speaking: Colons, Math and the New York Times

by pribut on December 21, 2008

Science, Numbers, Journalism and Critical Thinking
I believe it was on a Merlin Mann podcast, where someone jokingly mentioned the concept of an iColon website which in typical Web 2.0 fashion people could share the images and films of their colonoscopy procedures. This week the New York Times managed to demonstrate where their heads were at [...]

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Evidence Based Medicine vs. Sensationalism: NYT and Lymphoma

by pribut on July 14, 2007

Evidence Based Medicine vs. Sensationalism
The New York Times, today, in a fairly sensational manner, discusses Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma and medications in vogue in reference to two medicines, including Zevalin, which at this time is used in cases of failure of other therapies. The accusastion being made is that physicians are not using Zevalin, a radioactive [...]

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