Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
Some of the interesting features of the placebo effect:
22 February 2011
Darvocet decision a prelude a warm up for banning methadone?
Christian Sinclair over at Pallimed does some sleuthing into the FDA's rationale for pulling propoxyphene and comes away concerned:
He notes that
Combined with some FDA memo analysis (go read the post) he concludes
This would be bad news indeed.
He notes that
* Propoxyphene is a synthetic derivative of methadone.
* Methadone causes QT prolongation of questionable clinical significance in palliative care patients.
* QT prolongation is a risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias.
Combined with some FDA memo analysis (go read the post) he concludes
Well all this may be a whole lot of nothing but my real concern is that methadone may be a drug in the crosshairs of the FDA soon. It already has four strikes against it:
1) documented QT prolongation
2) stigma of heroin treatment programs
3) accelerating percent of all deaths related to opioids
4) methadone could be considered an orphan drug
This would be bad news indeed.
10 February 2011
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)
Just discovered the National Library of Medicine's archive of images. Pretty neat (in a depressing sort of way).
Here's the main site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/
and here's a link to search results for pain:
Images from the History of Medicine (NLM) - Search Results: All Fields SimilarTo 'Pain'
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