This is the story of how it takes time and patience to do science. Not only does it take time to do the science, but it also takes time for the science to be adopted by others. Let’s talk therefore about the popularity contest that is science.A colleague of mine, who was [...]

I teach classes on doing literature searches and how to filter out bad information compared to good information on the web. There are a lot of great intellectual resources out there such as the national library of medicine and pubmed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ & http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/). I warn people against relying too much on [...]

I am a professor of neurology and a certified athletic trainer. I’m involved in the concussion and mild traumatic brain injury program for the athletes in the University of Cincinnati. While I am not a spokesperson for the University in any way, I do have an opinion on the diagnosis and [...]

I recently had the dubious distinction to participate in and serve on an National Institutes of Health grant review called and NIH study section. I’ve done this before and have reviewed lots of grants over the years, but there have been a lot of changes recently and it is a whole [...]

I received a heart breaking email recently. Frankly it made me cry. There are a lot of patient confidentiality details I must withhold but it is worth expressing this story.A care giver emailed me concerning a loved one he/she is taking care of (for ease of reading, this person will be female [...]

The federal government is spending a lot of time and effort on a federal bailout or stimulus package. Some of this stimulus package money is going to medical research. Over $10 billion is allotted to the National Institutes of Health to fund medical research projects. This money is grant funding that is being done by [...]

I went to college for nine years to obtain a bachelors, masters and Ph.D. I am very proud of those accomplishments and completely embrace the moniker geek. I love doing cutting edge research and teaching the next generation of ’geeks.’The problem is that with my education I did not learn how to market or promote [...]

So a clinical trial designed to study safety shows that a treatment produces significantly more death and survivable complications is presented to a group of people with several hundred patients. In the group with no treatment there was a 25% complication rate and with the group getting treatment there was a 75% complication rate. However, [...]

I think President Obama needs to present a state of the sciences in the union address. Yes, of course, I’m biased in this subject, but times are desperate. I work in a university hospital and train physicians and scientists at the cutting edge of technology. What we do is discover new [...]

I was in a meeting recently talking about ways to justify and validate my research. My research is concerning the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neurologic disorders such as stroke and traumatic brain injury. While I think that is important and that the government and people should be throwing money [...]