medicine - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:31:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png medicine - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Death of the stethoscope? https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/27/death-of-the-stethoscope-2/ Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:22:20 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3549 It’s not just zombies that rise from the dead—science news stories can also come back to haunt the reader. Take “Death of the stethoscope,” which surfaced in my RSS feed in the middle of 2015. As a former stethoscope user, the clickbait headline immediately intrigued me. No stethoscope? How would clinicians survive? Historical First off:… Read More »Death of the stethoscope?

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]]> 3549 Around town: Operation Med School https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/15/around-town-operation-med-school-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:21:35 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3660 This one’s for you if you have a high school student around the house who is thinking that med school could be a good option for post-secondary. A group of enterprising Grade 11 and 12 students is putting on a one-day pre-medical conference for high school peers. Run as an annual event, Operation Med School… Read More »Around town: Operation Med School

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]]> 3660 A new era for thalidomide? https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/12/11/new-era-thalidomide/ Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:34:29 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2917 I’d like to stretch the coincidence theme once more on the blog, so bear with me as I wander through some random but connected happenings from my own world of science communications. Thalidomide. What do you think of when you hear the name of this drug? What images come to mind? If you’re a certain age,… Read More »A new era for thalidomide?

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]]> 2917 Tea to fight malaria? Yes, but also no. https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/12/tea-to-fight-malaria-yes-but-also-no/ Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:49:24 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=620 Brendan Borell has written a scathing attack on the WHO, published in Slate last week. Because of the basics of the story, I thought I knew what I was in for: someone is advocating the use of a cheap “natural” remedy instead of a well-understood synthetic drug. They’re anecdotally reporting extreme efficacy and no drawbacks.… Read More »Tea to fight malaria? Yes, but also no.

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