The bottom line: 42,000 deaths, 20 million cases of disease, and a net...
That, according to a recent piece in JAMA, is the what the vaccination of each U.S. birth cohort with the current childhood immunization schedule prevents. (That net savings figure is based on a...
View ArticleContext and corrections in writing about autism and vaccines: A case study in...
I’ve already been effusive in my praise of Amy Harmon’s front-page New York Times masterpiece, “Navigating Love and Autism,” which ran on Monday. Today, as The New York Observer’s Kat Stoeffel pointed...
View ArticleAvastin for Lung Cancer
One of the most interesting aspects of a newly published study of bevacizumab (Avastin) for older patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the abstract’s conclusion: “Adding...
View ArticleThe state of science writing, circa 2012: The summer of our discontent, made...
The summer has not been an easy one for aficionados or practitioners of science writing. There was, of course, the ongoing, death-by-1,000-cuts Jonah Lehrer fiasco, where, over a period of more than a...
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