Clinical Evidence, Searching Tidbits, and Other Minutiae

At the Pump Handle today, revere posts a brief overview of death certificates and their use in research, also with a nice discussion of ag...

Confounding is a concept often mentioned in clinical research - the idea that a 3rd variable can distort or confuse (or confound..) a relati...

From Mississippi Public Broadcasting, a video series called Tomes & Talismans about the Dewey Decimal System. Sound boring? But...it u...

ABC is posting the full episodes of the short series "Hopkins" filmed at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore... the kind of realit...

Biomed Central has calculated unofficial impact factors for many of its titles that are not yet covered in Journal Citation Reports -- they...

The Fresh Air David Sedaris interview is up on the NPR site -- he talks about his latest book ( When you are engulfed in flames ). (he'...

This feature on NPR's Talk of the Nation fits in really well with my ongoing struggle to trick myself into doing things that I need to ...