Editor’s Selections: Cancer screening, organ donation, politics of psychopharmacology, and a stuttering penis
November 11th, 2009 Editor's Selections No Comments
Travis Saunders selects several notable posts each week from Health and Clinical Research. He blogs at Obesity Panacea.
- Rethinking Cancer Screening. Respectful Insolence discusses what is wrong with cancer screening, and how it can be fixed. A very interesting post on the complexity of applying messy science to public health issues like cancer.
- Why are North Americans more likely to donate organs than their Japanese counterparts? The Primate Diaries looks at Reciprocity and the Anthropology of Organ Donation.
- Britain recently fired Dr David Nutt, chief adviser on illegal drugs, for making evidence-based statements about illegal drugs. Doesn’t that seem odd? Neuroskeptic explains in a fantastic post titled The Politics of Psychopharmacology.
- Priapism is a painful, long-lasting erection which usually results from certain drugs (e.g. too much Viagra), disease or blunt trauma. It does not usually result from ADHD medication. But that is exactly what happened to one unfortunately 15 year old, a case which is described by Scicurious in The Stuttering Priapism.
