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Making The Complex A Little Simpler: The Number Needed To Treat

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease

Making The Complex A Little Simpler: The Number Needed To Treat
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A little while back, we told you about the great conference Wired put on with MDAnderson, called WIRED DATA | Life.

And one of the standout presentations of that conference was put-on by inveterate smartass, David Newman, of the site: The Number Needed to Treat.

Well, Wired has seen fit to remind us of David & Co-Founder Graham Walker’s work in a recent Science post.

 
What the NNT tries to do is take the highest-quality studies it can find and publish a ratings-system…

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Rolling The Dice On Science-Empowered-Pregnancy Past 50. Lisa Miller Channels Proust On Career-Women Who Flip Mother Nature The Bird

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Family, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Rolling The Dice On Science-Empowered-Pregnancy Past 50. Lisa Miller Channels Proust On Career-Women Who Flip Mother Nature The Bird
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I’d write more about it here, but the article is positively exhaustive; though not in the “80-page-Journal-Abstract-Reading” sense of scientific overload.

Lisa spins her phonebook over at New York Magazine not about the brainy specifics,

But more about the general presence & consequences of the bio-tech that makes pregnancy a tantalizing-but-iffy possibility for women at/over 50, or even past Menopause.

Thankfully, she makes sure not to portray it as the…

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