by Alison Bass | Dec 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
In Chelsea (a stone’s throw from Boston Harbor), there lives a nine-year-old boy with curly black hair whose eyes are dead because he is on drugs, the legal kind. His single mother, who is on welfare and long-term disability (she has serious health problems)...
by Alison Bass | Dec 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mere days after several bloggers (including myself) spotlighted the conflicts of interest among medical societies criticizing the new mammography guidelines, Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has asked these groups (and quite a few others) for information about the...
by Alison Bass | Nov 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
This Wednesday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing on the new breast cancer screening recommendations, in response no doubt to the storm of criticism that greeted the recent guidelines issued by the US Preventative Services Task Force. I...
by Alison Bass | Nov 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
We’ve got family coming in for Thanksgiving and I have much to do. So this week, I’d just like to point my faithful readers to three items of interest:1. Gary Schwitzer’s great blog, which goes a long way to explaining why there was such an unholy...
by Alison Bass | Nov 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
Talk about synergy. Just a few days ago, my health and science journalism class at Brandeis was discussing ethics in science, using as a template an old case example involving scientific fraud in the University of Michigan laboratory then headed by Dr. Francis...
