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What's in your milk?

Kris Demko didn't grow up on a dairy farm, but as a child, she was a self-described "milkaholic."" For her parents - her mother is a striking former model - it was very important that their children be tall. That meant drinking lots of milk. Things ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  29 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Harvard University

A Jewish pig geneticist

The Rothschild lineage is often associated with Jewish tradition, banking, and fantastic wines. But Max Rothschild, a researcher at Iowa State University, is associated with some decidedly nonkosher animals: pigs. And, more recently, shrimp. When he ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  18 Apr 2008

The Biggest Hurdle To Heath Care Reform? The Doctors Themselves.

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From IVAN ORANSKY, The New Republic,  17 Mar 2008

How the New York Times picks reporters

In a story that probably hit close to home to anyone who ever clicked on the wrong email recipient in Outlook, it turns out that attorneys for Lilly sent confidential documents to a New York Times reporter named Alex Berenson instead of an attorney ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  8 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Alex Berenson,  Maureen Dowd,  Andrew Ross Sorkin

Should trial sponsors pay for treatment?

What is the responsibility of a company sponsoring a clinical trial when one of its participants gets sick? That's the theme of a story in today's Wall Street Journal. As Sarah Rubenstein reports, the family of a woman who took part in a clinical ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  31 Jan 2008

Science blogging conf.: Ethics, please

Do science bloggers need a code of ethics? Should they disclose conflicts of interest? Moderate comments? Protect anonymous colleagues? Those were some of the questions raised at the first session, led by Janet Stemwedel, that I went to today at the ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  22 Jan 2008

Do women blog about science?

Thanks for sharing this - very interesting. Bora and I tried hard to make the conference include women presenters and attendees. Glad you were here again. ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  21 Jan 2008

Pygmy rabbits may get reprieve

For those of you cheering the pygmy rabbit, you can let up a restrained cheer today - a small one, perhaps, in keeping with the size of the animals. The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), bowing to a September court order, is reconsidering whether ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  9 Jan 2008

A waiting trial

When I knock on the door of room 733 of the MeritCare Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, ND, Doug Bergman is sitting up in his bed. He's been expecting me, but it's not me he's waiting for. On this mid-October day, wearing flannel pajama bottoms and a ...

From IVAN ORANSKY, The Scientist,  9 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Roger Maris,  Fred Hutchinson

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