Bad science (part two)

Cover of Bad Science

Look at this incredible video. The man who is talking is a medical practitioner who has become an epidemiologist. He belongs to a Cochrane group. The Cochrane groups chase false evidence-based medicine by reviewing all the published studies on a particular public health issue (like preventive behaviors, cancer screening, pharmaceutical industry lobbying and so on). It’s an awesome one man show made by a Doctor!

Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science, posted with vodpod

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Schwartz

Wandering in the Hervé Maisonneuve Blog I just have learned that Daniel Schwartz passed on sept 6, 2009 at the age of 92.
If you were en ancient student of the « Certificat d’Etudes Statistiques Appliquées à la Médecine (CESAM) » like I was this name invariably must remember you the green book which you learned “by heart” and which made you shake with terror before exam. We, students, all named this green book “The Schwartz”. In those years (1992) I choose the Epidemiological option of the CESAM and succeeded the exam. What happened next is just history…

Legionella and Dengue are tracked by Facebook and google

In a precedent post I talked about Google correlate (see my post of 9 June).

Social networks and search engines are becoming the two new disease hunters of the 21 century.

Legionellosis epidemic has been elucidated in Los Angeles County by the mean of Facebook and dengue is being actually chased by Google.

In the next future you will perhaps start your next trip abroad by connecting you to Google Dengue Trends to get an instant indicator of Dengue activity in the World or to Health Map.

An interesting research article on neglected tropical disease surveillance has been published on the subject in Plos (Public Library of Science).