Today’s Headline of the Day is a two-fer. 1. “Red Wine Rivals Diabetes Drug in Lab Tests,” says a February 1 headline in Wine Spectator, going on to say, “Researchers working in biotechnology laboratories in Vienna have found that red wine contains favorable levels of a chemical [rosiglitazone, marketed under the name Avandia] currently used […]
Tag: medical
Curses! Rats! Ordered the wrong mice!
The Retraction Watch blog reports: The authors of a 2006 Journal of Immunology study have retracted it after it dawned on them that they used the wrong mice….
Press release: Seen in a new light (Hamman)
This week’s Press Release of the Month was released more than a year ago. But it shines anew thanks to today’s news that the protagonist, Dr. William Hamman, turns out not to be a doctor (see the Associated Press report “Pilot duped AMA with fake M.D. claim“). Here’s the beginning of the press release: WMU […]
Gov’t Falling Coconut Advice Underscored
Knowingly or not, Indian government officials acted in accord with published medical advice when they ordered recently that coconuts be removed from the trees at Mumbai’s Gandhi museum for fear that a nut would descend on to the head of President Obama. Should those officials wish to more fully educate the public, they could distribute […]