The Health Weblog
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…
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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