Proper risk analysis
As some of you know, my wife is pregnant with our first child (a boy!). As we eagerly await his zeroth birthday, we spend our time between working on our "day jobs" and working on figuring out what to...
View ArticleBreastfeeding, infant hyperbilirubinemia, statistical graphics, and modern...
So by now the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. My son Nicolas was born Tues May 4, 2010, so I am going to add a new topic to the blog to do with science and medicine related to Pediatric care. I am...
View ArticleOn baby music
I'm going to write a followup to the hyperbilirubinemia article on general principles in risk analysis, thanks to professor Bhutani from Stanford who pointed me to an article of his. But for the...
View ArticleBabies, or Adults, Sunlight, and Vitamin D
Most of you will know that Vitamin D is a substance produced in mammals chiefly in the skin by exposure to sunlight (wackily, birds get it by secreting stuff onto their feathers where it is...
View ArticlePertussis, zombies, and epidemiology from dynamics
What can zombies tell us about Whooping Cough? Recently there have been some highly publicized outbreaks of whooping cough (aka Pertussis) in the SF Bay Area, and Los Angeles areas. People are getting...
View ArticleDHA and Fish Oil Use in Pregnancy
The NY Times reports on a recent study of supplementation of pregnant women with DHA (Docosahexaenoic acid, a kind of Omega 3 fat) and how it affects the intelligence of offspring. An earlier, smaller...
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