Subscribe to this tag Should You Join a Research Study? 9 Tips for Volunteers in Clinical Trials
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Ben Harder
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Health - September 23, 2009
By enrolling in a research study, patients can advance clinical care. But they need to consider safety.
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Doctor Self-Referral: Should You Get That X-Ray or CT Scan?
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - July 31, 2009
Doctors make money when they prescribe and perform diagnostic tests. That's a conflict of interest.
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Why a Man Let 2,000 Malaria-Infected Mosquitoes Bite Him
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - July 30, 2009
Willing to get bites and face risks, volunteers play key role in effort to develop malaria vaccine.
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Volunteering for a Clinical Trial: Have You? Would You?
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - July 10, 2009
I almost became a human guinea pig. Others do it over and over again.
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Maggot Therapy: How to Find a Doctor Who Will Prescribe Maggots
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - March 31, 2009
Maggots can heal wounds and skin ulcers without costing an arm and a leg. But you need a prescription.
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Maggots, Leeches, and One More Utterly Revolting Medical Therapy
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - March 20, 2009
If you think putting maggots on flesh wounds sounds disgusting, wait 'til you finish reading this list.
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Economic Crisis Is 'Unfortunate Opportunity' for Health Researchers
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - March 13, 2009
Downturn is a natural experiment for scientists studying the health effects of socioeconomic factors.
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13 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Daylight Saving Time
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Ben Harder
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Health - March 3, 2009
When clocks spring forward, people lose sleep, have more heart attacks, and might not even save energy.
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Like Crashed US Airways Plane, Space Shuttle Has Had Bird Collision
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - January 15, 2009
NASA has worried for years about the risk of a catastrophic bird strike.
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Smoking Ban Prevented Heart Attacks; Does Each Obama Speech Do the Same?
By
Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - January 2, 2009
The president-elect's public appearances lower the nation's blood pressure, one politician suggests.
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Sustainable Seafood Rankings: 4 Supermarket Chains Pass Greenpeace’s Review
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - December 9, 2008
16 companies, including Wal-Mart, Costco, and Trader Joe's, get failing grades from Greenpeace. Again.
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Do Folic Acid, B Vitamins Prevent Cancer—or Cause It?
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - November 5, 2008
Neither, a new study suggests
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Hundreds of Birds Killed by School's Artificial Lights
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - October 3, 2008
Migrating birds perished in collisions with a West Virginia building that had lights on at night.
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Democrats' Convention Logo Hints at Light Pollution in Denver
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - August 29, 2008
Or does it?
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Could Incense Burned in Church Give You Cancer?
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - August 25, 2008
Incense, used by many religions, has been linked to respiratory disease.
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Forces of Darkness Make Pitch to Congress to Fight Light Pollution
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - June 20, 2008
Experts speak to staffers about wasted energy and threats to health and wildlife.
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Decoded Platypus Genome Spells Out 'Hybrid'
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - May 7, 2008
Gene-sequencing study finds a bit of lizardlike DNA mixed with mammal.
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High-Fat Diet Found to Fight Seizures in Kids
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - May 2, 2008
A regimen called the ketogenic diet dramatically cut frequency of epileptic fits.
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Is the Polar Bear Threatened?
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 30, 2008
Judge rules that Interior Department has until May 15 to rule on Endangered Species Act.
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Masturbation-Prostate Link: eFluxMedia Got It Wrong
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 24, 2008
It quotes liberally from 5-year-old accounts; "latest study in this field."
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The Latest News on Ejaculations and Prostate Cancer
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 24, 2008
It's from 2004, but it's more recent than what Fox News and others are talking about.
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Will We All Soon Eat Lab-Grown Meat?
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 24, 2008
PETA hopes so. Would test-tube produce follow? Who will speak for the fruit trees?
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Reporting on Masturbation-Cancer Link Is Wrong
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 23, 2008
Not morally. Journalistically.
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Space Station Crew Crash-Lands; Hawking Talks
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 22, 2008
Unintelligent life exists elsewhere, cosmologist speculates. Did it design the Soyuz capsule?
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Other Problem Plastics: Bisphenol A Isn't the Only Concern
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Ben Harder
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Thinking Harder - April 18, 2008
Should we worry about plastics that aren't polycarbonate? The phthalates debate.
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