Building Unity Farm - The Guinea Fowl are Born
It's August in New England and although everyone in healthcare IT is consumed by Meaningful Use stage 2, ICD10, ACA, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, and various compliance initiatives, it's also the time we try to take a few hours off before the busy Fall. Although I'm not taking any vacation this year, I have reduced my writing schedule (hence fewer blog posts this month) and spent more time at Unity Farm.This week our first 20 guinea fowl hatched and the keets (the name for young guinea fowl) are running around the brooder, eating, drinking, chirping, and sleeping.Here's how we did it.Guinea fowl are terrible parents...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 22, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Ve haf vays of making you guinea pigs!
Leading Western pharmaceutical companies paid millions of pounds to former Communist East Germany to use more that 50,000 patients in state-run hospitals as unwitting guinea pigs for drug tests in which several people died, it was revealed today.An investigation by the German magazine Der Spiegel said international conglomerates such as Bayer, Hoechst, Roche, Schering and Sandoz carried out more than 600 tests on patients, mostly without their knowledge, at hospitals and clinics in the former Communist state.The companies were said to have paid the regime the equivalent of €400,000 (£338,000) per test. Schering, a conce...
Source: PharmaGossip - May 13, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Influenza H5N1 x H1N1 reassortants: ignore the headlines, it’s good science
Those of you with an interest in virology, or perhaps simply sensationalism, have probably seen the recent headlines proclaiming another laboratory-made killer influenza virus. From The Independent: ‘Appalling irresponsibility: Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus’; and from InSing.com: ‘Made-in-China killer flu virus’. It’s unfortunate that the comments of several scientists have tainted what is a very well done set of experiments. Let’s deconstruct the situation with an analysis of the science that was done.
It is known that avian inf...
Source: virology blog - May 8, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Commentary Information aerosol transmission avian H5N1 ferret guinea pig H1N1 Hualan Chen hybrid virus influenza reassortant viral Source Type: blogs
Human Guinea Pigs: How to Tell if Your Insulin Still Works
Question: How can you tell if the insulin in any given vial is still good before injecting it?Answer: You can't! You have to "test" it on yourself by injecting and awaiting the blood sugar results.Isn't that crazy?!A reader emailed me a week or so... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - July 9, 2008 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Amy Tenderich Source Type: blogs
