Even in a medical building, despite fears of the flu, most patients—and most medical personnel, too—disregard instructions to use a hand-sanitizer station. A new study [click on the image or click here to download a PDF] to be published in the Annals of Improbable Research, examined the hand-sanitizing behavior of patients and doctors who entered […]
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Uncertainty and principles (and swine flu)
Nice essay (by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, in The Atlantic magazine) on the uncertainty — pro and con — in using a new medicine before there are good studies that reveal whether it is effective: … All of which leaves open the question of what people should do when faced with a decision about whether […]
Mexican precautions: UK necktie vector study
The newest Mexican tactic against the spread of swine flu — going necktie-less — is justified if the results of a 2000 British study are accurate. That study looked at the spread of infection within hospitals: “Neck Ties as Vectors for Nosocomial Infection,” M. Dixon, Intensive Care Medicine, vol. 26, no. 2, February 2000, p. […]