From last week:The Joel Bieber blog has this post on the case of illegal use of a musical device in Portsmouth, involving ice cream trucks - which reminds of another case, the one with the preacher singing too loud in his case.On the farm in Blacksburg, the scientists are converting poultry litter into fuel. [read post]

Any use, or any use within the last seven or 30 days, would be fairly irrelevant to the pathophysiology of a cerebral hemorrhage. [read post]

The large dataset used by Williams and colleagues, which they see as a plus, works against them by increasing the bias from the use of categorical variables for confounding variables.[12] The Williams study raises serious questions not only about the quality of medical journalism, but also about how an executive agency such as the Veterans Administration evaluates scientific evidence. [read post]