had a commentary published in Nature today
 

Hey Friends, Wanted to share a couple of links about a probiotics trial in India that had amazing results in preventing sepsis in newborns. I wasn't involved in the trial, but Nature invited me to write a "News and View" about it, after I served as one of the peer-reviewers on the trial for them.

The Nature articles were published online today, and will appear in print within the next week or so:

Here's a link to the trial report in Nature: http://rdcu.be/u3lg

Here's a link to my commentary, also in Nature: http://rdcu.be/u3kO

If those are too nerdy, here's how The Atlantic covered the trial today: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...iotics/537093/

And here's the NPR report http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand...adly-infection

Holy shit Dan, long time no see!

I fell into the habit of lurking. I'm on here all the time, but I hardly ever post. I struggle with two addictions, to sports teams, one that rewards my fandom with occasional excellence, 4 pennants and 2 World Series wins...the other a hateful beast that hasn't done much in 47 years beyond getting my hopes up, clogging my facebook.com feed and making me wonder why I'm so ridiculously loyal to them. ;)

Link to article?

Congratulations!

Damn, that's pretty cool for you.

Thanks! I placed links in the topic heading post. The much more important link is to the trial report by the trial investigators. I wasn't involved in this trial. I only peer-reviewed the trial report, which pales in comparison to what the investigators did. (In my job, I am on both sides of the process, either being one of the investigators or being one of the reviewers.) But I have to say that I'm proud of the work that my colleagues and I have made these past several years toward improving the quality of the science in probiotics and prebiotics research over the years. Also, it looks good on my curriculum vitae that Nature invited me to write a commentary for them, so that's nice, too. :) I'm stoked about the commentary because of the nearly 200 papers I've published, this one will probably be among the most read, given how many readers Nature attracts.

Missed it. Sorry. Thanks.

Hi

You seem nice. How's it going, Simply Red!?

Good how about you Dan?

Married huh?

Pretty good. The Royals pulled one out today. My happiness depends inordinately on their performance. I'm starting to get jaded about the Chiefs performance, at least in theory. I'm sure that when the regular season starts, they will be aggravating my blood pressure, too.

:) I better not touch that.

Oh always w/ the Chiefs. LMAO

Congrats!

Is sepsis a problem in India, or is this a first-world privilege thing to test it in India first?