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		<title>New Policy on Answering Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers,
It was a tough decision, but I have decided to close comments to posts 25 days after they have been written. For the most part, I truly enjoy your insights and feedback, but I&#8217;m extremely busy with my graduate school curriculum and don&#8217;t feel that I can offer quality responses to all the comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why patients with chronic disease are disaffected and how online social networks meet their needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to a tri-chapter meeting of the Medical Library Association. The topic was why some patients with chronic disease are disaffected and how online social networks have met some of their needs. I try to offer a balanced perspective – both the good and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun-blocking culture among the Chinese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not every culture reveres the sun as Americans do. In our recent trip to Chengdu, China with a stopover in Hong Kong, we saw hundreds of people, women especially, blocking light on a daily basis.
We&#8217;re not sure if these people are supplementing with vitamin D (there is certainly no vitamin D added to the food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second-guessing the consensus on vitamin D</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results, only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bacteriality.com/2009/08/10/iom/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s official &#8211; the trial at West China Hospital is set to begin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am very excited to share the latest press release by ARF announcing our collaboration with West China Hospital. Here is the full announcement.
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		<title>Notes from the 2009 International Congress of Antibodies</title>
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Two weeks ago, I boarded a 747 to travel to Beijing, China in order to speak at the 2009 International Congress of Antibodies.   Within minutes of hitting the runway, we were greeted by a crew of officials wearing surgical masks and wielding thermometers.  The fever analysis was performed as part of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travels, papers, and more&#8230; an update</title>
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If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants a pile of driftwood.

Hello readers!  Suffice it to say I&#8217;ve been missing in action for several months.  For much of the time I&#8217;ve been traveling.  Some of you may know that I just got back from China where I gave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bacteriality.com/2009/06/06/travels/</link>
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		<title>Milk consumption tied to Parkinson&#8217;s disease</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In a recent prospective study appearing in Neurology, researchers at various scientific institutions including many in Korea set out to examine the relation between milk and calcium intake in midlife and the risk of Parkinson&#8217;s disease.  The team analyzed data based on records of dietary intake observed from 1965 to 1968 in 7,504 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bacteriality.com/2009/04/04/milk/</link>
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		<title>Hey there, how&#8217;s your Kineosphaeram holding up?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Excuse me, my what?!
Duh, Kineosphaeram, one of the over 600 bacterial species that may be living in your mouth or other areas of your body.  If you don&#8217;t harbor Kineosphaeram, then perhaps your mouth is home to Bergeriella, Buttiauxella, Cedecea, Derxia, Faecalibacterium, Hallella, Mannheimia, Paludibacterm, Ruminococcus, Thermovirga, or Wolinella. The list goes on&#8230;.

Looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bacteriality.com/2009/03/21/salivary/</link>
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		<title>Olmesartan may play a role in reducing coronary plaque</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago I reported on the results of multiple studies, the results of which indicate that the class of medications known as Angiotensin Receptor Blockers or ARBs have the potential to ameliorate a variety of cardiovascular conditions.  
Today another study joins the list &#8211; this one conducted by Atsushi Hirohata, M.D, Ph.D and [...]]]></description>
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