But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil
Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Allergy – everything from fullerenes to cannabis

Allergy research continues to be one of the most active research fields. New studies show that that fullerenes may inhibit the allergic response

Human MC and peripheral blood basophils exhibited a significant inhibition of IgE dependent mediator release when preincubated with C60 fullerenes.

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Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Wer heilt hat recht

This is a German quote – frequently used in the context of alternative medicine – “who heals is right”. The history of this old quotation is unclear; maybe it is a modification of the Latin “extra ecclesiam salus non est” .
In todays English it is “the doctor’s always right” (or “might is right”?)
Anyway it is nonsense as (1) a healer wants to be successful and not rightful (2) healing (at least on a few occasions) is no proof for the right treatment

Monday, June 18th, 2007

Reset temporary system date

To evaluate software that is depends on an expired system date, you may want to use this batch that wraps around calling a program.

rundate.cmd.

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@echo off
FOR /F "TOKENS=1* DELIMS= " %%A IN ('DATE/T') DO SET TMPDATE=%DATE%
date 31/12/2006
"program.exe"
pause
date %TMPDATE%
exit 

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

When controls are no controls

So far in epidemiology case – control studies are defined by an approach where

… the past histories of patients (the cases) suffering from the condition of interest are compared to the past histories of persons (the controls) who do not have the condition of interest, but who otherwise resemble the cases in such particulars as age and sex ….

I usually explain controls as non-cases in the same overall environment (Show me more…)

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