Carnivals & Other Posts
September 20th, 2006 by Francois Rivest
The second carnival of GRADual progress, the carnival of graduate student (for those who don’t know what a carnival is, see my previous post here), is now published here. Among the interesting posts, I found one about the unevitable dead end (more PhD’s finishing than Faculties opening), and a very nice one meant to supervisors on how to take care of graduate students.
There is also the Encephalon, 6th edition, a neuroscience carnival. It points to a very interesting and introductory post on LTP (long-term potentiation, physiological measure of synaptic changes).
There is also an interesting post on open access publishing here. Â
Finally, in Forbes, there is an interesting article on children ear infection and antibiotic, which I think (like Retrospectale) worth citing:
A new study found that almost two-thirds of children given a prescription for antibiotics — just in case — didn’t need to have the prescription filled to get better.
“Our study evaluated a ‘wait-and-see’ prescription for ear infections in children,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. David Spiro, who was at Yale University School of Medicine at the time of the study. “Compared to children who were given antibiotics, children in the wait-and-see group had the same outcomes.”
Spiro, who now heads Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, said that by giving parents a prescription and asking them not to fill the prescription unless the child developed a higher fever or had continued ear pain, doctors can empower families to become part of the child’s health-care team.
Additionally, he said, by offering the wait-and-see prescriptions, doctors can help families save time and money. That’s because if the child’s condition worsens, parents don’t have to take time off from work to go see the doctor again if they already have a prescription in hand.
The study findings are published in the Sept. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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