A writer with a law degree. A crazy woman in the kitchen. Sometimes able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Posted in Deep Thoughts, links, medicine, science on Jun 10th, 2008
The wellness editor at the NYT wrote a thought-provoker linking to an article about the results of a study comparing gender roles and spouses’ feelings about housework between heterosexual and homosexual couples. I thought it was interesting and it’s something I’m going to think about, even though the BH and I are better than many couples [...]
Posted in bipolar, links, medicine, politics, science on Mar 31st, 2008
A detailed review of the Mental Health Parity movement, and the push to make health insurers cover mental illness on par with physical illness. No question where I fall on the larger question, but I’d be interested in reviewing any scientific discussion about the ways to show/prove/test for the existence of hormonal/biochemical mental illnesses such [...]
There’s an interesting Op-Ed piece in the NYT by a wildlife biologist about the impact of buying local on the fall of the sparrow.
Posted in bipolar, crank, government, links, medicine, politics, science on Jan 17th, 2008
The NYT published an article about drug trials and the underreporting of negative and equivocal study results to the FDA and peer-approved journals, data which factors significantly into the FDA’s assessment of where a proposed drug falls along the risk/benefit spectrum. To me, it’s no surprise. Despite cladding their studies in impenetrable jargon and cloaking [...]