Dr. Andy

Reflections on medicine and biology among other things

Saturday, January 23, 2010

US Death Rates

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From the same article in the previous post about US demographics in 2007: Age adjusted death rates (death per 1000) over time 1915 21.7 19...
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US demographics

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The January edition of Pediatrics summarizes much interesting information about US demographics in 2007: Births: 4.3 million Deaths: 2.4 m...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Healthcare reform

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From David Leonhardt in the NY Times an argument that the current bills on healthcare reform under consideration in the Congress are middle...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

2010 New Years Resolutions

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1. Run at least 20 miles at USC Fat Ass 50k 1/2. If I'm training for a marathon this spring I'm not sure I need to do all 30+ miles...
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Year in Review

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How did I do on my 2009 resolutions. 1. Finish Upper St. Clair 50K 1/3. No problem 2. Win Pittsburgh Indoor rowing sprints with time sub 6:...
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Monday, January 19, 2009

New Years Resolutions

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1. Finish Upper St. Clair 50K 1/3 2. Win Pittsburgh Indoor rowing sprints with time sub 6:35 3. Finish Pittsburgh Marathon. Will probably ru...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Great Eastern Endurance Race 100K Report

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Prologue: This was the worst mentally I’ve ever come into a race. It was gloomy, cloudy and misting to raining my whole 5+ hour drive down...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Western States Tips, or go and get your buckle

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With all the applicants and the apparently imminent demise of the 2-time loser rule, you may only get one shot at Western States, so here ar...
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Pittsburgh Indoor Sprints Rowing Race Report

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I led for only 200 meters, but fortunately they were the last 200. I put down 6:50 as my estimated time 3 weeks ago, but after some short wo...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Western States Pictures

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Thanks to Tom Watson, pacer extrordinaire, for these. If you click (or maybe double click on them) you'll see bigger versions. This is...
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Saturday, July 21, 2007

One Hundred Miles, One (very long) Day

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It used to seem to me, That my life ran on too fast And I had to take it slowly, Just to make the good parts last But when you’re born to ru...
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Friday, July 14, 2006

Stop Smoking!

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If this doesn't curb your cigarette habit, nothing will. all those bumps are individual metastases of this long-time smokers lung cancer...
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physicians and unions

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Why I'll never join a doctor's union: The death of a patient in Goettingen, central Germany, is being blamed on weeks of strikes by ...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Intelligent design

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A good commentary by law professor/medical ethicist George Annas in this week's NEJM about the various guises in which creationists try...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Human to human avian flu transmission?

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Health officials have confirmed that bird flu has killed six members of a single family in rural Indonesia, and doctors have tried to deter...
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Bronchial thermoplasty

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Which articles do and don't get extensive media coverage has always been a bit of a mystery to me, but never more so than this one. Eve...
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

The psychological toll of food allergies

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Allergists and pediatricians are aware that food allergies lead to a lot of worry for parents. The psychological burden can be overwhelming...
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It's not that we have too many doctors

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In 2003, the United States had fewer practicing physicians, practicing nurses, and acute care bed days per capita than the median country in...
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Weight loss update

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Weight this week: 205 Weight last week: 205 Change this week: 0 Starting weight: 206 Change from start: -3 No change in weight this week, bu...
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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Calculate your cardiovascular risk

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using this calculator . You just need to know your total and HDL cholesterol and your systolic blood pressure. I come up with a 1% risk of ...
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Monday, May 15, 2006

Why we scratch

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Why do we scratch? A simple answer would be because we itch, but how does scratching make itching (or pruritis in doctor lingo) better. But ...
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