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Tuesday, November 01, 2005 

Grand Rounds 2.06 is up

...and over here at KidneyNotes. Lots of good stuff this week, as usual, but posts that particularly caught my eye were this one about a new technology for distinguishing between viral and bacterial meningitis; a report on a potential new antifreeze on The Biotech Weblog, and one that interests me both as a woman and a mom, a scary story about what happened to a doctor who refused to cave to pressure to perform more C-sections.

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  • I'm Tara C. Smith
  • From Iowa, United States
  • I'm a mom and a scientist, your basic stressed-out, wanna-have-it-all-and-do-it-all Gen Xer. Recently transplanted from Ohio to Iowa, I've spent most of my life in the midwest (with 4 years of college spent out east in "soda" territory). My main interest, and the subject of my research, is infectious disease: how does the microbe cause illness? What makes one strain nasty, and another "avirulent?" Are the latter really not causing any disease, or could some of those be possible for the development of chronic disease years down the road? Additionally, I've spent a lot of time discussing the value of teaching evolution, and educating others about "intelligent design" and other forms of creationism. My interest in history of science and medicine is also useful as a way to tie all of the above interests together. [Disclaimer: the views here are solely my own, and do not represent my employer, my spouse, that guy who's always sitting by the fountain when I come into work, or anyone else with whom I may be remotely affiliated.]
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