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Dogma Bites
I like to laugh at cardiologists. They always seem to be pushing some new treatment, especially vitamins. One only has to look at the Vitamin E, Folic Acid, or the Vitamin D fads. But all joking aside, while the field of cardiology may jump the gun from time to time, they are experts at scientific method. That's why as each of these miracle treatments have been studied and shown to be non beneficial, the recommendations changed. It's really straight forward: generate hypothesis, test, and draw conclusions. The rest of the scientific community should take notice. Yet, there are tim...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - August 18, 2012 Category: Family Physicians Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs

Google Science Fair 2012 Winners
I remember participating in science fairs when I was a kid. In fact, now that I have the opportunity to interview high school students who are applying to MIT, I hear about all types of science fair projects. In case you didn't know, Google also has a science fair and this year the winning project was an impressive project titled, "Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer" by 17-yr-old Brittany Wenger. Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer successfully detects 99.11% of malignant breast tumors. You can learn more about this fascinating project here. The winner in the 13-14 age group was Jonah...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - August 17, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: breast cancer google science Source Type: blogs

Finally, a maser for all those…
Finally, a maser for all those scifi stories… http://t.co/x5HX2UsX
Source: symtym - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: admin Tags: Science SciFi physics twitter Source Type: blogs

The $400 Million bapi Drug Failure: Are Patient Advocates the Scapegoat?
"Few people in pharma or the investment community were surprised at bapineuzumab's failure, as most odds makers put its chances for success at approximately 25 percent," said Daniel R. Hoffman, Ph.D., in a post to the Philadelphia Inquirer Check Up blog (see "Choosing between baldfaced political lies and Pharma's half-truths").Bapineuzumab is an experimental drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's Disease (see "Pfizer and Janssen Halt Alzheimer Drug Development: Why Not Try Gamification?")."But why do pharmas advance poor prospects to expensive, Phase 3 testing and throw half a billion dollars of shareholder money out the wi...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: crowdsourcing Research Alzheimer's Disease Source Type: blogs

Gadget in the pan? Just add rice
While the Gates Foundation is looking to reward new toilet designs, there is a “first-world” problem that afflicts many of us from time to time. The dreaded dropping the phone, iPod, Kindle in the toilet bowl. The whole hygiene and pathogen dissemination issue of using electronic gadgets on the toilet aside, how do you best dry a sodden device? Numerous sites talk about quickly retrieving said device and gently towelling it dry without switching it on, removing the battery and then burying the gadget in uncooked rice in a sealed container (or better still putting it in a sealed container with a few packets of s...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science add gadget pan rice Source Type: blogs

Balls. Sorry…oblate spheroids!
The sun is just a spinning ball of hot gas, 1.4 million kilometres across. The Deceived Wisdom about spinning balls if of course that they should bulge at their equator because of centrifugal force, the fast moving matter at the equator being flung out more than that at the North or South poles, like kids on the edge of a roundabout rather than those clinging to the middle. Indeed, astronomers had always expected our nearest star to bulge slightly at its equator. The gas giant planet Jupiter (which shone so brightly alongside Venus and the crescent moon in the morning sky the other is very oblate because of this phenomenon...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science balls Source Type: blogs

New book: Deceived Wisdom
My new book Deceived Wisdom is now with the typesetter and on schedule for print publication in a couple of months. It will also be on Kindle and other e-formats. Order now to avoid the holiday rush. If you’re in the UK, you can grab the free extended sampler for Kindle device, app or computer. In more than twenty years of science communication, I’ve contributed to, edited and co-authored books with the likes of John Gribbin, Ian Stewart, Joel Levy, Robert Slinn, Richard Dawkins, Adam Hart-Davis and others. Deceived Wisdom will be published by Elliot & Thompson and is my first solo book. You can grab the sa...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science book online sampler sciencebase Source Type: blogs

New book from Sciencebase’s David Bradley
My new book Deceived Wisdom is on course for a November publication in print and on Kindle, the perfect stocking filler. Get your order in early to avoid the rush. Meanwhile, you can get a sneak preview with the extended sampler in PDF, ePub formats mobi. For those of you in the UK the sampler is also on Kindle device, app or computer. Previously, I’ve contributed to, edited and co-authored books before with the likes of John Gribbin, Ian Stewart, Richard Dawkins, Adam Hart-Davis and others, among those titles are “A Brief History of Science” with John Gribbin and Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press&...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science book online sampler sciencebase Source Type: blogs

Free extended book sampler from Sciencebase
My new book Deceived Wisdom is on course for a November publication in print and on Kindle, the perfect stocking filler. Meanwhile, you can download a free extended sampler in PDF, ePub, mobi, or Kindle format right now. Previously, I’ve contributed to, edited and co-authored books before with the likes of John Gribbin, Ian Stewart, Richard Dawkins, Adam Hart-Davis and others, among those titles are “A Brief History of Science” with John Gribbin and Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press’ “Atoms and Elements”, the Chamber’s “Biographical Dictionary” and “Science...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science book online sampler sciencebase Source Type: blogs

Sciencebase new book sampler online
Did I mention it already? I’m writing a book – Deceived Wisdom. I’ve contributed to, edited and co-authored books before, of course, most recently including “A Brief History of Science” with John Gribbin and Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press’ “Atoms and Elements”, the Chamber’s “Biographical Dictionary” and “Science” with Adam Hart-Davis. Deceived Wisdom is my first solo book to be published in November by Elliot & Thompson. I may already have mentioned here, and elsewhere, that I’m pretty much done with the writing, the chapter...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science book online sampler sciencebase Source Type: blogs

Lead in Lipstick – Follow up Study
This study appears to confirm that lead in lipstick is not a major health concern. Image credit: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3188/2846929172_b7c8c0f180.jpg References: http://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/productandingredientsafety/productinformation/ucm137224.htm “Determination of total lead in 400 lipsticks on the U.S. market using a validated microwave-assisted digestion, inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometric method,” Hepp. Journal of Cosmetic Science, 2012, Vol 63
Source: thebeautybrains.com - August 17, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Beauty Myth Busting Lip stick/gloss Questions lead lipstick Source Type: blogs

How does a kangaroo clean its pouch of joey dirt?
Source: bookofjoe - August 17, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Animals Nature Science Source Type: blogs

PEBS Neuroethics Roundup (JHU)
Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Brain might not stand in the way of free will, New Scientist In The Popular Press In Mock Case, Biological Evidence Reduces Sentences, Science Alzheimer's early diagnosis – can we 'Google' it?, The Guardian Stopping...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - August 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Adam Kolber Source Type: blogs

The (Tailored) Future of New Driver Training
New driver training study highlights importance of post-licence skills (Science Network): “Crash rates are highest immediately after licensing…so there is potential for improving safety during the first six months,” Dr Beanland says…“Driving involves a highly complex skill set, so drivers need some kind of training and practice to acquire those skills…The paper found cognitive skills training (particularly hazard perception) had the potential to significantly reduce crash risk, and procedural skills training (specifically vehicle handling) was effective at improving the technical skills of drivers…The review ...
Source: SharpBrains - August 16, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Education & Lifelong Learning cognitive skills training Cognitive-Training driving-fitness Source Type: blogs

Cinnamon for diabetes
Oh and while we’re on supposedly natural remedies against disease (how natural is processed, sweetened chocolate?), there is a nice feature article over in Science-Based Medicine [no relation, Ed] that debunks the deceived wisdom about cinnamon and its supposed benefits to people with diabetes. Here’s what Scott Gavura has to say: “Cinnamon’s effectiveness as a treatment for diabetes has not been established. A prescription drug as ineffective as cinnamon likely wouldn’t pass FDA muster.” He points out that there are existing therapies for diabetes that are inexpensive, effective and well tolera...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 16, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Dark chocolate and high blood pressure
The media was recently salivating over the idea that dark chocolate could somehow reduce blood pressure courtesy of its flavanols. But, NHS Choices has once again debunked this medical deceived wisdom. The claims in the research hyped by the tabloids were for an average 2-3 mmHg lowering of blood pressure reading based on a meta analysis of studies into the effects of chocolate on bp. Regardless, that seems like a rather small reduction. Chocolate in moderation can be part of a healthy balanced diet, the magazine says. But most chocolate is high in fat and calories so too much will counteract any benefits of marginal reduc...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 16, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

The Morning Flap: August 16, 2012
Chris McMurray of Crumb and Get It does not agree with Obama Administration policies These are my links for August 15th through August 16th: Radford business owner declines Joe Biden’s request to stop in store- Would you say no to the Vice President?This might happen more than you think from both political parties, most businesses just don’t talk about it. The owner of “Crumb and Get It” – did.Chris McMurray’s bakery has been open only since May, barely three months.Wednesday morning, advance teams for Vice President Joe Biden walked in. “I approached her she said Joe Biden is com...
Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog - August 16, 2012 Category: Dentists Authors: Flap Tags: Pinboard Links The Morning Flap #tcot Biden Brewer California Conservatives Dream_Act FDA FRC Gay_Marriage GM GOP Holder immigration LEFT Medicare NOM Obama Obamacare Polling Romney Ryan Thompson Voter_ID Source Type: blogs

Bombshell Interview Reveals DNA Fragments Discovered 6 Months After Vaccination
Interview With Norma Erickson, President, S.A.N.E. VAX, Inc Part 1 | Part 2 Sin Hang Lee, MD, is a medical practitioner historically qualified to practice medicine in the People’s Republic of China, the District of Columbia, New York State, and the State of Connecticut in the USA, plus in Canada and British Commonwealth countries via his registration with the General Medical Council of the UK. Currently Dr. Lee holds a medical license in the State of Connecticut, USA. Dr. Lee has staff privileges at the Milford Hospital in Milford, Connecticut. He was certified by the American Board of Pathology in anatomical pathology ...
Source: vactruth.com - August 16, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Writers Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gardasil rDNA Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Source Type: blogs

Quick Takes: Health care and the election
Health care policy has always been a hot button issue in elections, perhaps moreso in 2012 than ever before. In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling on ACA and at a time when federal debt and household finances are on the list of talking points for both political parties, we thought we’d go to some of our eminently qualified Disruptive Women for their takes on how health care and the election will affect each other. Here’s what they had to say. Pat Ford Roegner, MSW, RN, FAAN The 2012 election is being heralded as the “watershed election” for the future of health care delivery and coverage. It certainly wi...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 16, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Cost Disparities Election 2012 Health Reform Medicaid Medicare Policy Politics Quick Takes Women's Health 2012 election ACA Affordable Care Act Source Type: blogs

A Closer Look at a New Yale Pathology Outreach Venture
I have been noticing a trend in the evolution of lab outreach among academic pathology departments and some large hospital-based labs. They are moving away from, or adding to, traditional outreach activities and rolling out tumor genomic profiling labs. These enterprises are often established in collaboration with for-profit genomics labs. Here's an excerpt about what's going on at Yale (see: A Diagnostics Startup Relies On Yale Professors): Four pathologists on the staff of Yale's medical school analyze cancer test results for Precipio Diagnostics, a New Haven company that was founded less than a year ag...
Source: Lab Soft News - August 16, 2012 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Anatomic Pathology Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Electronic Medical Record Healthcare Information Technology Hospitals and Healthcare Delivery Lab Information Products Lab Regulation Laboratory Industry Trends LIS Defin Source Type: blogs

Drugs, geeks and fitness
While I’ve been writing my own book, Deceived Wisdom, I’m afraid I’ve not had an awful lot of time to read and review the various science books that have been piling up on my desk. So, here’s a quick round-up based on the publisher descriptions of those in my reading queue. Drugs Without the Hot Air (9781906860165): David Nutt – From health to family to society, Nutt offers a science-based perspective on drug use and abuse. He applies the same objective criteria to legal and illegal substances and argues that legality is not a clear measure of harm, some illegal drugs are far less hazardous an...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 16, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science drugs fitness geeks Source Type: blogs

Judges are more lenient toward a psychopath when given a neuro explanation for his condition
This study also isn't the first to examine the factors affecting the decision making of judges. For instance, it was shown last year that hungry judges are less forgiving. _________________________________ Lisa G. Aspinwall, Teneille R. Brown, & James Tabery (2012). The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges' Sentencing of Psychopaths? Science : 10.1126/science.1219569 Post written by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Scientists Discover that the Brain Cleans Itself
“We’re hopeful that these findings have implications for many conditions that involve the brain, such as traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and Parkinson’s disease.” Alzheimer's Reading Room Scientists have discovered a cleansing mechanism in the brain, essentially a river inside the brain. They hope that this newly discovered fluid stream might be enlisted to flush away the buildup of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative disorders. “It’s a hydraulic system,” said Maiken Nedergaard. “Once you open it, you break the connections, and it...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - August 16, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Nanofactories to Produce and Target Drugs in the Body
Another branch of targeted therapies is the design of nanofactories that can be steered to specific locations in the body and there produce proteins and other drugs in response to local conditions or external commands. Early work in this field is underway: "Science is one step closer to producing drugs in the right place at the right time in the body, avoiding the collateral damage of untargeted treatments. Researchers [have] designed nanoparticles that can be stimulated via UV light to produce proteins on demand in vivo. The new method, which involves packaging the molecular machinery for making proteins into a membraned ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 16, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Judges are more forgiving of a psychopath when they're given a neurobiological explanation for his condition
This study also isn't the first to examine the factors affecting the decision making of judges. For instance, it was shown last year that hungry judges are less forgiving. _________________________________ Lisa G. Aspinwall, Teneille R. Brown, & James Tabery (2012). The Double-Edged Sword: Does Biomechanism Increase or Decrease Judges' Sentencing of Psychopaths? Science : 10.1126/science.1219569 Post written by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 16, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

In which Simon Gaskell, of Queen Mary, University of London, makes a cock-up
The row about redundancies firings at Queen Mary rumbles on. I’ve already written about it twice in Is Queen Mary University of London trying to commit scientific suicide?, and in Queen Mary, University of London in The Times. Does Simon Gaskell care?. But wait, there is more to come. The harm done to teaching at Queen Mary was outlined in a report written at the request of Simon Gaskell. He appears to have ignored it entirely. So let’s concentrate on research. Simon Gaskell Some explanation of the bizarre behaviour of the Queen Mary management can be gleaned from Queen Mary’s Frequently...
Source: DC's goodscience - August 15, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

There Is More Than One Jacques Pepin
(The title is intended to raise a question in your mind. Two men named Jacques Pepin? Who are they, and why do I care? Read on and I'll explain. The first Jacques Pepin is a world-renowned chef, born in 1935 in Lyon, France. Much of what he is famous for is his work with the late Julia Child, known for "The French Chef" television series on American public television during the 1960's and 1970's. They also collaborated on a number of other programs shown on public television up into the late 1990's and into the beginning of the 21st century. Julia Child passed away in 2004, and today would have been her 100th birthday. ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - August 15, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs

Fruit fly Open Science on the radio
This morning I was in the studio of RBB Kulturradio and had a short, snappy 5min interview about our recent back-to-back Open Science publications on fruit fly tracking. You can listen to it here:
Source: bjoern.brembs.net - a neuroscientist's blog : RSS feed of bjoern.brembs.net - August 15, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: bjoern Tags: news Source Type: blogs

Nature: 16 August 2012
The rise of the maser, a tasty journey along the Silk Road, and a neat little recipe for an important drug.
Source: Nature Podcast - August 15, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: blogs

Study: Eating more cereal can boost your vitamin D intake
Vitamin D is essential for bone growth and maintenance, and it might help reduce the risk of various diseases. But most people don't consume anywhere near the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of the vitamin from food sources, a problem that might be partially remedied by bumping up intake of vitamin D-fortified cereal and milk, according to a new study in the Journal of Food Science. In the study, researchers analyzed dietary intake data from 7,837 adults and children in the U.S. and 4,025 in Canada. In particular, they looked at three things: total intake of vitamin D from food; the percent contribution of various foods...
Source: Consumer Reports Health Blog - August 15, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Consumer Reports News Tags: Breakfast Diet & Nutrition Natural Health Vitamins Supplements Source Type: blogs

Bill Gates Awards Grants for Reinventing the Toilet
Last year, we wrote about a challenge that former Microsoft CEO and philanthropist Bill Gates posed to the scientific and engineering community: reinvent the toilet. According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, forty percent of people on Earth, or about 2.5 billion people, don’t have a safe and sanitary way of doing their business, so the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge was born.This week, Gates awarded grant prizes to three universities for their innovative commodes. The California Institute of Technology won first prize for their solar-powered toilet that also generates hydrogen and electricity. In second pl...
Source: Medgadget - August 15, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Scott Jung Tags: in the news... Public Health Source Type: blogs

From Abby: Absolutely Not Medical Advice.
This is NOT medical advice. Not even close. But Abby has some opinions that are influenced by her years with type 1 diabetes, her nursing degree, and all the stuff she hears people saying about diabetes, and she wants to share those opinions here. * * * Diabetes is confusing. Sometimes you think you have it figured out, and then - BAM - you do the same thing that worked the last five days but today it doesn't work. I believe that 90% of the time, there is a reason for these disturbances. I've decided to take my educated little brain and put some myths to rest, and spread some pea...
Source: Six Until Me. - August 15, 2012 Category: Diabetes Tags: From Abby Source Type: blogs

Great. I got a C in Chem II. Advice needed...
by FutureDocStigen (Posted Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:48 am)Took an intense 5 credit Chem II class (with lab) over the summer. Material wasn't that difficult, but the pace is what messed me up. Too many equations to keep straight over such a short period of time and quizzes everyday. I have a child and a husband that is working weekends this summer, so this class did not work out too well. I think I will be okay for testing this material MCAT, but concerned about my grade. I've had pretty much straight A's (one AB) in the last 2 years. This is a prereq class though. Am I doomed? It only brought my GPA down to a 3.7, and science G...
Source: Med Student Guide - August 15, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

Moon, Venus and Jupiter in the pre-dawn East
I woke rather earlier this morning (about 4:30 to be precise) and took a look eastwards from our bedroom window and what a spectacle! Despite the early hour, I grabbed my SLR and snapped the crescent Moon, Venus and Jupiter in near alignment. I posted the raw photo on Imaging Storm, but have done a labelled version for Sciencebase readers: Skymania’s Paul Sutherland tells us that Venus currently makes “a brilliant spectacle in the morning sky” and I’d have to agree it was quite a site, crisp, clear, earthshine apparent in the horns of the crescent moon. Venus is also presenting a crescent but is bi...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 15, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Biohacking Workshop at Labitat on August 25th-26th
Our local biohacker space in Copenhagen, BiologiGaragen @ Labitat, is hosting a workshop on the last weekend in August inviting people to get hands-on with DNA and the lab equipment you need to work with it. The flyer below gives a taste of some of the exciting activities and discussions that will be going on, and after watching Rüdiger extract DNA from an onion during his recent presentation here at Museion, I can vouch for the ‘ooh!’ factor… The workshop is also a chance to try out a bunch of the activities Malthe and Rüdiger are thinking of including in the hybrid museum-hacker space we’re wo...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 15, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: public engagement Studiolab biohacking biologigaragen labitat maker space open science Source Type: blogs

Praising Marijuana Prohibition
The view from the White House. As regular readers of Addiction Inbox will know, I am on record as favoring some form of decriminalization for marijuana. But I also write regularly about the difficulties of marijuana addiction and withdrawal. And I have been critical of the operational strategies employed by the medical marijuana movement in the several states in which it now operates. What I have not done, to date, is offer up the official view of a drug policy analyst from the Obama administration who straightforwardly favors a continuation of the legal prohibition against marijuana. One of the architects of the c...
Source: Addiction Inbox - August 15, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (IPRCC) Inaugural Meeting
The interagency pain research coordinating committee (IPRCC) recently held its inaugural meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The group, created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), serves as a federal advisory committee and was formed as part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to enhance research efforts and promote collaboration across the government. “We have a remarkable collection of members, bringing an extraordinary range of views and perspectives on pain,” said NINDS director Dr. Story Landis, who chaired the meeting. “Congress is looking to us ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 15, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Shennong, Materia Medica & Teaching about Fish?
There’s so much going on at Deepest Health, I scarcely have a moment to update blog readers on the comings and goings. As most of you know, I’ve been doing a lot of digging into Chinese herbs, both in my online and offline teaching. All of that work is bearing fruit as I work with new Shennong students. If you’ve been interested in the course, registration for the latest cohort wraps up very soon. Read about the course by clicking this link – http://deepesthealth.com/store/shennong-method/ If you’re interested, and aren’t sure you’re going to have time to register or you need...
Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - August 14, 2012 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Community and Cultivation Source Type: blogs

Hairy Bikers BP
UPDATE: The show’s producer got in touch to tell me she was massively disinterested in any big-picture message warping. “I just shot what Roy Taylor said. Dave and Si were both on medication for high blood pressure. Following alterations in their way of cooking, living, exercising and thinking, they are no longer taking the pills.” Fair enough. Yesterday, I watched one episode of the food show from fellow “Geordies” Si King and Dave Myers in which they expounded the benefits of exercise and calorie reduction for weight loss. So far, so good. They had Newcastle University’s Roy Taylor tra...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 14, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science bikers bp bs hairy Source Type: blogs

Our Children will Rebel against Diabetes
Young people in America today are getting type 2 diabetes much younger than their parents ever did. The media is ringing its collective hands over concern that this terrible trend will continue.Even the good, gray New York Times is worried. “Obesity and the form of diabetes linked to it are taking an even worse toll on America’s youths than medical experts had realized,” Denise Grady, a Times science reporter, wrote earlier...
Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - August 14, 2012 Category: Diabetes Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs

Print your fetus
Back in the day, parents used to spend nine months wondering what they’re baby would be like. Then came monochromatic, grainy but wonderful ultrasound, which showed you the baby in mummy’s “tummy”…we have such grainy snapshots of both our children ante-natal and lovely they are too. Then ultrasound went all high-def and 3D and gave the next generation of parents a crisper view of their unborn baby’s bits and pieces. But, with rapid prototyping printers, commonly known as 3D printers, you can get a much better feel for how your baby will turn out: Print your fetus is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 14, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Police evacuate university campus
UPDATE: Roads are re-opening, suspicious package was not, apparently, a bomb. UPDATE: Jenny Rohn just updated us: “Apparently there is a suspicious package in the Whittington hospital A&E – avoid Archway station and environs if you can, all locked down. ” UPDATE: McDonald’s evacuated. Obviously, no food wasted by those abandoning their “meal”. UPDATE: @HornseyJournal Just updated us: “Rumours of bomb alert at or near Archway Tube station/Whittington Hospital now. Buildings nearby being evacuated. Police helicopter there.” Cell biologist Jenny Rohn just tweeted that ̶...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - August 14, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Babakus for Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia is a type of specific learning difficulty where individuals have difficulty in understanding basic concepts in maths. It is surprisingly common affecting 6-7% of the population. However it is not so recognised in the same way that dyslexia (problems with reading) is. The key problem in dyscalculia seems to be difficulty in understanding numersiories, which is the ability to automatically recognize the number of objects in a set. Understanding Numerosities seems to be neurologically based and is associated with the intraparietal sulcus in the brain. Treatment for dyscalculia is not readily available. I w...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - August 14, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Jonathan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Bodybuilding with Diabetes
Colette Nelson has lived with type 1 diabetes for almost 30 years. Despite her impressive bodybuilding physique today, she was a “skinny” aerobics instructor when she was younger. It wasn’t until the age of 19 when she began lifting weights. Today, she’s competed in two-dozen competitions, and is works as a Certified Diabetes Educator for a hospital, and trains people across the country in bodybuilding. As a past competitive powerlifter myself, I can’t help but admire Colette’s dedication to her training, and most importantly, her diabetes. And she doesn’t let stigmas around women ...
Source: Diabetes Daily - August 14, 2012 Category: Diabetes Authors: Ginger Vieira Tags: General Get Moving Type 1 Diabetes Weight Management bodybuilding strength-training Source Type: blogs

Deep impact: Our manuscript on the consequences of journal rank
For the better part of this year, Marcus Munafò and I have been working on a manuscript reviewing the empirical literature on journal rank and its impact on science. In early June we received a rejection letter together with three reviews from PLoS Biology. We are currently in the process of revising the manuscript in order to submit it to a different journal. In the light of the traffic and discussion on two posts about journal rank (or Thomson Reuters' Impact Factor, to be specific), one by Stephen Curry and one by DrugMonkey, we decided to release this submitted, non-revised version (our fifth internal version) to the ...
Source: bjoern.brembs.net - a neuroscientist's blog : RSS feed of bjoern.brembs.net - August 14, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: bjoern Tags: science Source Type: blogs

Journal Impact Factors are silly and everybody knows it
I wasn't planning to write anything on Stephen Curry's latest piece on the negotiated, irreproducible and mathematically unsound Impact Factor sold by Thomson Reuters to gullible university administrators. I agree with most of what he writes there and, as he correctly cites a 20 year-old paper, all of it has been known for a decade or more. So why now pick it up anyway? First, apparently a lot of people are recommending the article, raising the suspicion that there may be some last refuges of scientists out there who are isolated from common knowledge. Second, he mentions a smear campaign against the IF, or rather shaming ...
Source: bjoern.brembs.net - a neuroscientist's blog : RSS feed of bjoern.brembs.net - August 14, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: bjoern Tags: science politics Source Type: blogs

Mindfulness in School
From On Point Radio (with Tom Ashbrook): American children need reading, writing and arithmetic. They need science, technology, engineering, art, literature. They also, says a new movement, need a psychological tool kit filled with attention, perseverance, emotional control, “mindfulness.” Some now call it character. The habits of mind that make all else possible. Taught in school. Classrooms are now taking time out for meditative moments. Getting centered. Getting mindful. The call it self-regulation. Emotional learning. Right alongside the “three-R’s”. This hour, On Point: teaching mindful...
Source: The Situationist - August 14, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Education Positive Psychology Mindfulness Willpower Source Type: blogs

Neutrinophone — Neutrino-Powered Telephone
Source: bookofjoe - August 14, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

The Tell-Tale Brain: Fact or Fiction?
I haven't read Rama's new book, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human, but Peter Brugger of Zurich University Hospital has and he's not all that impressed. He gives his review of the book, published in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, the entertaining subtitle "Tabula Rama" and starts off with zinger: What a fabulous book! Ironically, it is ‘‘fabulous’’ to a degree that will unsettle many scientists, as Ramachandran’s ratio of fables-to-facts may exceed what they can tolerate. And Brugger ends on a similar note: I think I will recommend this book to any of m...
Source: Talking Brains - August 14, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs

A Thought on Priorities
Let us contemplate for a moment the level of effort that people put in to just one method of papering over just one of the changes caused by aging - just to keep up appearances, and making no difference at all to the underlying processes that cause degeneration. The method I had in mind is the use of dye to camouflage the progressive graying of hair. The fading of color of hair is an early sign that stem cell populations are responding to rising levels of damage, becoming less active in maintaining tissue. For whatever reason the pigment cells that give hair its color are more sensitive than others to the accumulating cell...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 14, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs