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G8 Meeting Begins: Ag Antibiotics on Agenda?
Quick post today as I’m getting ready for some travel. Just to note: The G8 summit is beginning in Ireland, and there is a push on to put intensive agriculture and its antibiotic use on the agenda for discussion by...
The Risks You Don’t Think of: A Plea to Pack a ‘Go Bag’
What if you had 15 minutes’ notice to leave your home, and you didn’t know when you’d be coming back — or what shape your home would be when you did? Could you find your key documents, medications, ID, devices,...
The Cool Factor (With Feathers): New York Chefs React To Pastured Poultry
If you’ve been around here a while, you might remember a couple of posts about the pastured-poultry movement. Pastured poultry is new old-style: beyond cage-free, beyond free-range, it puts chickens out on grass for most of their lives, producing a...
The “Road Not (Yet) Taken” On H7N9 Flu — And How Far We’ve Gotten
Last week’s New England Journal of Medicine included a thoughtful meditation on the possibility that the new bird flu out of China, H7N9, could become a globe-spanning pandemic — and on how much knowledge is needed before we’ll be able...
Summer is Lyme Disease Season. The Price Of The Drug To Treat It Just Exploded.
If you’ve been reading for a while, you might remember some posts about nationwide shortages of drugs. The Food and Drug Administration was concerned, and so were very senior physicians working in infectious disease, cancer, everyday emergency medicine and even...
How Do You Know Which Chicken To Buy? This Kickstarter Might Help.
There’s a project I’ve been watching on Kickstarter and I’m a little surprised it hasn’t gotten more traction, so I thought I’d call it out. TL;DR: You know those wallet cards and apps that help you make good choices...
To Prevent MRSA In Hospitals, Don’t Prevent Only MRSA
Practically since the multi-drug resistant bacterium MRSA became a public health issue in the 1960s, health care has been arguing over how best to prevent its spread — particularly in hospitals, where the bug first became a problem and where...
World Health Organization Annual Meeting: New Flu, Coronavirus Urgent Priorities
In Geneva today, the World Health Assembly — that is, the annual meeting of the 194 governments whose collective commitment support the World Health Organization — opened as traditional, with a speech by the WHO’s director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan. It...
Fecal Transplants: The FDA Steps In
Hi constant readers: I am traveling again, and while I’m in a far time zone, news has broken that you might be interested in. So while I don’t have a full understanding myself yet of what’s going on, I’m going...
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