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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links:
Nature news feature on the neuroimaging work of Adrian Owen, who's found signs of awareness in vegetative patients. (Earlier digest coverage of one of Owen's ground-breaking papers).
New book that's worth a look "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking" by Oliver Burkeman. Burkeman gave a talk at the RSA about his book and the audio is available online.
The woman who changed her brain. Guardian profile of Barbara Arrowsmith-Young, author of The Woman who Changed Her Brain: Unlocking the ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 15, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Who Will Lead Us As We Embrace Personalized Medicine And Cancer Care And Turn The Tide Against Cancer?Email this article to a colleague.
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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend and participate in a conference "Turning the Tide Against Cancer Through Sustained Medical Innovation" in Washington DC. . The conference organizers brought together a stellar list of experts (present company excepted) to discuss the coming revolution in cancer care through personalized medicine, as well as the barriers and risks we face as science moves us forward towards what I consider a brave new world of cancer research and treatment.
With all of the intellect that was present at that meeting-and there was a lot-there was a theme that crystallized for me and oth...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 14, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Access to care Cancer Care Medications Research Treatment Source Type: blogs
The Helpless SocietyEmail this article to a colleague.
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It's hard to believe I was a card carrying liberal graduate from Brown University in a previous life.But, time, age and some cynicism have altered my concept of "compassion". We are no longer teaching people to fish for themselves, just handing quick, tasty one-time tuna meals out left and right.I am continually and increasingly amazed at the overall science and health ignorance of the populace, even in this day and age of the Internet.It seems like much of life is just moving from a mindless childhood, through vapid adulthood only to have a debilitated, chronically ill old age.We have done more to change survival of the f...
Source: CancerDoc - June 14, 2012 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs
The Special Issue SpotterEmail this article to a colleague.
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We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to:
Oxytocin, vasopressin and social behaviour (Hormones and Behaviour).
The human orgasm (Sexual and Relationship Therapy).
Human conflict (Science).
Building capacity to improve student outcomes through collaboration: Current issues and innovative approaches (Psychology in the Schools).
Sports psychology virtual special issue (British Journal of Psychology).
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy).
International perspectives on juvenile crime (Behavioural Sciences and the Law).
Teacher–child relationships from an attachment perspective ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 14, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
The human #microbiome project (HMP): new papers and news storiesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Just collecting here the new papers from the Human Microbiome Project and some news stories discussing them.
Main papers in Nature
Microbiology: Learning about who we are - commentary by Relman (Caution - hidden behind a paywall) but PDF available here.
Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome (Free)
A framework for human microbiome research (Free)
PLoS Collection (all free)
Announcing the Human Microbiome Project Collection
Metabolic Reconstruction for Metagenomic Data and Its Application to the Human Microbiome
Diverse CRISPRs Evolving in Human Microbiomes
Inflammatory Bowel Di...
Source: The Tree of Life - June 14, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Physical Therapy Business Aliance (PTBA) Position on Alternative Payment System (APS)Email this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion
The PTBA believes the VDP model is a bold step forward that recognizes the value of physical therapy services in the health care system, while contributing to an overall reduction in downstream health care utilization and costs. Although it is easy to be cynical about the future of health care given the misaligned incentives in the current payment model and many special interest groups, the evidence strongly supports the value of physical therapy services in reducing downstream health care utilization and costs. Our current health care system is in a state of crisis, hence incremental reform such as the model pr...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - June 13, 2012 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: Larry Benz Tags: Healtcare Quality Legislative & Regulatory Practice Research Source Type: blogs
Providing Value is More than just Creating an App or a Facebook PageEmail this article to a colleague.
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Roni Zeiger, MD
It’s easy to get caught up in new marketing channels, without evaluating the value it provides to customers, or potential customers. In order to increase brand awareness and build meaningful content, you need to get inside the mind of the consumers.
At the ePharma Summit West, you’ll travel inside the minds of consumers via Roni Zeiger, MD, Co-Founder and CEO of Impatient Science and former Chief Health Strategist at Google. While at Google, Dr. Zeiger helped create everything from Google Flu Trends to Symptom Search, popular tools consumers use to manage their health needs.
"Mobile is redefining ho...
Source: ePharma Summit - June 13, 2012 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: Lilly Better Health Roni Zeiger ePharma Summit West Mobile Pharma Marketing Health Strategy Google Source Type: blogs
Kids Deprived of More Than SleepEmail this article to a colleague.
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Science Nation – Sleep Deprived Kids
- A psychologist explains why sleep is especially important for children, and outlines the consequences of sleep deprivation on development in children living in poverty. There are more pronounced effects on cognitive tests, showing that it adds to existing stressors.
The good news is that if low income kids simply get more sleep, it levels the playing field.
“They may not get sick as frequently, and in the home, they don’t show as much depression and anxiety,” reports Mona El-Sheikh.
Source: Channel N - June 13, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: All Documentary Online education brain child cognitive development parenting poverty psychology science scivee sleep video youth Source Type: blogs
Nature: 14 June 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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This week, reading the minds of the brain dead, sequencing the last great ape, and fifty years since the book that sparked the green movement.
Source: Nature Podcast - June 13, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: blogs
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I have just spent a cold and rainy Canadian Sunday indoors, watching the 9th annual MSF UK Scientific Day, streamed online for the very first time, for the entire world to see. (You watch the videos here) 967 people in … Continue reading →
Source: MSF Blogs - June 13, 2012 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: blogs
Perfect Home Painting Ideas, The Easiest Of All Home Painting Ideas, Contemporary Home Painting IdeasEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article shall discuss some of these.The Easiest Of All Home Painting IdeasFaux Painting. "Folks," literally "false" means. This kind of painting is used to create the illusion of different objects. For example, faux stone painting, can be used to reproduce an image of marble and wood. This kind of painting is done in order to mimic natural materials mainly.Perfect Home Painting IdeasWall stencils. Templates are used to form a pattern and color is applied using these patterns. When you delete a template, gives rise to a design pattern. These patterns of various animals, stars, geometric shapes are available, including ...
Source: Not Mercury - June 13, 2012 Category: Autism Tags: The Easiest Of All Home Painting Ideas Contemporary Home Painting Ideas Perfect Home Painting Ideas Source Type: blogs
Girlie scientist role models could do more harm than goodEmail this article to a colleague.
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The lack of women in science, maths and engineering (STEM) careers continues to raise concerns. One cause of the anomaly is thought to be beliefs among schoolchildren that these subjects are somehow inherently "masculine" and not for girls.
So what's needed to inspire schoolgirls, you might think, is sciencey female role models who show that you can be successful in STEM subjects and at the same time be feminine. Some attempts have already been made in that direction - the toy company Mattel brought out a "Computer Engineer Barbie" (complete with pink laptop) and mathematician Danica McKellar (pictured, right) has written...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 13, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Want to fold some proteins?Email this article to a colleague.
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In a previous post, I proposed that A&P students should be aware of the basic elements of protein folding. To follow up, I'd like to mention a interesting phenomenon related to protein folding and "citizen science" using an online game called Foldit. The Foldit game is an online puzzle game in which anybody can try their hand and finding which way a given protein folds most efficiently. Interestingly, this has proven to yield useful results for biochemists not obtainable by traditional methods.You may want to mention the Foldit game to students. I've already posted it at my blog The A&P...
Source: The A and P Professor - June 13, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
"Are You Sure?" hits Kindle today!Email this article to a colleague.
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I have just published my first eBook: Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty. It is available for the Kindle now, and will be out for iBooks and Nook shortly. This is based on two of my favorite episodoes of the Brain Science Podcast.
A free PDF version is available to anyone who sends me a copy of their Amazon receipt.
This is Volume 1 of a new series called Brain Talk: Conversations with Neuroscientists, which I hope will bring the content of the Brain Science Podcast to a broader audience.
I have also started a newsletter for people who only want news about my writing, but who don't want to get podcast announcements.
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - June 12, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Announcements Are You Sure Books certainty eBook ebooks unconscious Source Type: blogs
Cloud-Based Software Company Appature Appoints Pharmaceutical Marketing Veteran Bob Harrell as VP Marketing, HealthcareEmail this article to a colleague.
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SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - Jun 7, 2012) - Appature, Inc., a sponsor of the ePharma Summit, recently appointed Bob Harrell as the company's new Vice President of Marketing, Healthcare. Appature, a leading software-as-a-service (SAAS) provider for life sciences, offers a "surprisingly simple" relationship marketing platform that enables healthcare marketers to easily mine data, launch campaigns, and get actionable insights to drive deeper customer relationships and market share.
Harrell is known in the industry for innovation and leadership in the convergence of life sciences marketing and digital technologies. Leveraging t...
Source: ePharma Summit - June 12, 2012 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: ePharma Summit Bob Harrell Sponsor ePharma Appature Source Type: blogs
OK to Limit Pre-Dental Procedure Antibiotics to High Risk Heart PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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This study finding from Olmstead County, Minn., supports the guideline change, which limited the use of preventive antibiotics to people with the highest risks for complications from infective endocarditis.DALLAS, June 11, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The incidence of infectiveendocarditis among dental patients in Olmsted County, Minn. did notincrease after new guidelines called for giving preventive antibioticsbefore dental procedures only to those at greatest risk ofcomplications, according to independent research published inCirculation, an American Heart Association journal.Infective endocarditis is a bacterial infecti...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - June 12, 2012 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
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BEN SAWYER, CO-FOUNDER, DIGITALMILL AND THE GAMES FOR HEALTH PROJECT -- @bensawyer
Today starts the eighth annual Games for Health Conference - a big week for those in the health games field. For three days (June 12-14) game designers and developers, researchers, medical professionals, educators, entrepreneurs, and policy-makers will come together in Boston, Mass., to discuss and share information about the impact games and game technologies can have on health and health care.
Founded in 2004 with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneer Portfolio, the Games for Health Project exists to make large ...
Source: Pioneering Ideas - June 12, 2012 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: RWJF Blog Team Tags: Events Games Grants & Grantees Source Type: blogs
How To Cut 25% of Your Marketing Budget TodayEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today's guest post comes from James Ellis. Ellis is the Digital Strategist at closerlook inc. and blogs at digital-pharma.tumblr.com. He also needs more activity on his Twitter account (@digital_pharma) if you'd like to tell him he's wrong. No, really. James will be joining us at ePharma Summit West July 17-19, 2012 in San Franscico, California. If you'd like to join James, be sure to register today and mention code XP1756BLOG to save 15% off the current rate!
You have a lot of possible and actual targets, and almost as many ways to describe those targets: deciles (based on past prescribing data), deciles (based on ...
Source: ePharma Summit - June 11, 2012 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: segment marketing emails Web Strategy Digital Health Marketing digital strategy Communication and targeting Targeted Pharma Marketing ePharma Summit 2012 Source Type: blogs
Can Probiotics Influence Fertility? It’s Conceivable!Email this article to a colleague.
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From: Holistic Primary Care – Summer 2012, Ciel Patenaude
Gut and vaginal microflora are probably not the first things you think about when working with a couple struggling to conceive a child, but perhaps they should be.
Jean-Jacques ...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - June 11, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dr. Perlmutter Tags: Heads Up Source Type: blogs
What happened after the European Courts of Justice decision Brüstle v. Greenpeace e.V.?Email this article to a colleague.
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More than six months after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided Brüstle v. Greenpeace e.V. (Case C-34/10) on October 18, 2011 (which was described and discussed here at PredictER News, December 13, 2012), the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has still not made its decision. What happened after the October decision?Only a couple days after the decision had been made, several representatives of the European Parliament filed a request to the EU Commission to stop the funding of embryonic stem cell research in the EU program, Horizon 2020 (EPP Group in the European Parliament). In their point of view, the ECJ deci...
Source: PredictER Blog - June 11, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: PredictiveHealth EthicsResearch Source Type: blogs
TWiV 187: The mummyEmail this article to a colleague.
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On episode #187 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Rich discuss recovery of a hepatitis B viral genome from a 16th century Korean mummy, and personal omics profiling of an individual over a 14 month period.
You can find TWiV #187 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - June 10, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology ancient dna autoantibody genome HBV hepatitis b virus ipop Korea metabolome mike snyder mummy personal omics profiling proteome respiratory syncytial virus rhinovirus transcriptome viral Source Type: blogs
Bait and switch by herbalists, Chinese and Western. Simon Mills speaks.Email this article to a colleague.
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Although many university courses in quackery have now closed, two subjects that hang on in a few places are western herbalism, and traditional Chinese medicine (including acupuncture). The University of Westminster still runs Chinese medicine, and Western herbal medicine (with dowsing). So do the University of Middlesex and University of East London.
Since the passing of the Health and Social Security Act, these people have been busy with their customary bait and switch tactics, trying to get taxpayers’ money. It’s worth looking again at the nonsense these people talk.
Take for example, the w...
Source: DC's goodscience - June 10, 2012 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia Anti-science antiscience badscience Bait and switch College of Medicine Dangerous advice Foundation for Integrated Health Graeme Catto herbal medicine herbalism Michael Dixon Prince Charles Prince of Wales Prince's Fou Source Type: blogs
Viruses at Artomatic 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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While on a business trip to Washington DC I took time to visit Artomatic 2012 in Arlington, Virginia. Artomatic is a month-long festival of over 1,000 artists who create visual art, music, performance, film, fashion, and more. I went because Forrest McCluer was showing his work there – he makes models of viruses from computer parts. We have featured his work on the science show This Week in Virology, most recently on episode 184. Forrest alerted us to the exhibit of another artist working with microbe themes, Michele Banks, and I went to see her work as well.
Forrest was showing AdenoCD virus, a model of adenovirus...
Source: virology blog - June 9, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Events Information art artomatic forrest mccluer michele banks microbe viral virology virus Source Type: blogs
How can we better connect patients with their doctors?Email this article to a colleague.
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The doctor/patient relationships has been dwindling in value in the recent years. In a blog post at the New York Times, they highlight the fact that many patents often don't bring up certain topics due to the fact that patients almost felt trapped when it came to talking to their doctors. Reasons cited in the article included an often authoritative feel from the doctors, others felt like they were upsetting their doctors when it came to communication. This simple relationship can put a huge hole in the best care that a patient could be receiving.
Kevin MD recently voiced his co...
Source: ePharma Summit - June 8, 2012 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: Pharma Event doctor patient communication healthcare and patient relationships ePharma Summit Pharmaceutical Event Doctor patient relationship Source Type: blogs
Catholic University and Stem Cell Bank CollaborateEmail this article to a colleague.
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More proof that the Church is not anti-science. It is anti-unethical science. From Reuters:A new collaboration has begun between the largest European family adult stem cell bank, Cryo-Save, and Europe's most important Catholic university, "Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore" (UCSC). Policlinico "Gemelli" University Hospital based in Rome, Italy, is part of the UCSC Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and is owned by the Vatican. The partnership aims at promoting and improving knowledge on the cryopreservation of mesenchymal stem cells from the umbilical cord tissue. Both parties strongly beli...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - June 7, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Stem cells, Adult Source Type: blogs
Three easy rules for staying in business as an academic publisherEmail this article to a colleague.
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While quantum physics teaches us that predicting the future is impossible, forecasting it is possible but fraught with errors, uncertainties and it is exceedingly difficult. Our own research tells us that our ability to forecast the behavior of animals and humans decreases with the amount of time into the future I want to forecast the behavior. However, there are some extreme cases where behaviors are exceedingly easy to predict. Faced with this situation, most people will turn and run:Over the last few weeks and months, we've seen comments and articles from corporate academic publishers that make their customers turn and ...
Source: bjoern.brembs.net - a neuroscientist's blog : RSS feed of bjoern.brembs.net - June 7, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: bjoern Tags: science politics Source Type: blogs
Introducing the health “prosumer”Email this article to a colleague.
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Some consumer marketers have done a great job identifying sophisticated amateurs who are willing to pay a premium for access to professional-level features. Two examples are cameras and kitchens, where’s it’s not unusual to see serious hobbyists (and wealthy poseurs) with professional-style gear. The term “prosumer” has been applied to this segment, and the term works for me. For the purpose of this post I am specifically interested in tools that are fit for professionals but safe and simple enough for skilled amateurs.
Medical information seems like a great area for the prosumer approach, but most ...
Source: Health Business Blog - June 6, 2012 Category: Health Managers Authors: David E. Williams of the Health business blog Tags: Patients Source Type: blogs
Evidence of the Afterlife – A ReviewEmail this article to a colleague.
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Conclusion
I found the stories and the scientific discussions in “Evidence of the Afterlife” totally engrossing. I found that it that quelled all my skepticism. This book was so interesting, well written, and ultimately, so inspiring, that I could not put this it down.
After reading this book I feel extremely sure of my faith in a higher power and in an afterlife. I also found that my belief was “widened.” What I mean by that is, I feel that what is “out there” for us after death (and probably accessible to us in life also) is far beyond what the limits of our minds and our religions...
Source: Life Learning Today - June 6, 2012 Category: Life Coaches Authors: AgentSully Tags: Reviews Spiritual book review nde near death experience spirituality Source Type: blogs
Nature: 07 June 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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This week, eighth century cosmic rays preserved in trees, calculating the real cost of your cappuccino, and is our growing population a ticking time bomb?
Source: Nature Podcast - June 6, 2012 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: blogs
TWiM 34: Doing the DISCO with EmilianiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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On episode #34 of the science show This Week in Microbiology, Vincent, Michael, and Elio discuss changing populations of Emiliania huxleyi and their viruses in the North and Black Seas.
You can find TWiM #34 at microbeworld.org/twim.
Source: virology blog - June 6, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Microbiology algae bacteria ehux emiliania eukaryote huxlyei microbe phytoplankton protist virus Source Type: blogs
More discussion on Functional Capacity EvaluationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Some years ago I wrote about Functional Capacity Evaluations and the lack of evidence supporting their use, particularly their use as predictive tools for establishing work “fitness”.
I’ve received some sharp criticism in the past for my stance on FCE, and I continue to look for evidence that FCE are valid and reliable. I haven’t found anything recently, and I’m still concerned that FCE are used inappropriately for people with chronic pain. There is nothing like the demand characteristics of a testing situation for a person with chronic pain to either push themselves – and have a f...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 5, 2012 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Uncategorized Chronic pain fitness for work functional capacity evaluations reliability Return to Work science validity Source Type: blogs
Through The Fog Of New Cancer Research Information, The Enthusiasm Of Youth Meets The Wisdom Of EldersEmail this article to a colleague.
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I had trouble sleeping this morning, so I got up and took a look at the tweets on my smartphone that focused on yesterday's sessions at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.
There were literally hundreds of bits of information that covered the span of sessions, from science to quality of life to other topics of interests. I wondered how much of the information we have heard over the past several days will actually make a difference in the lives of cancer patients in the days and months ahead. And while sitting in a less well-attended session hearing an update on another once pro...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 5, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Media Medications Research Treatment Source Type: blogs
Lightning Strikes DatapaloozaEmail this article to a colleague.
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It didn’t appear on the lightning strike map, but lightning did indeed strike a young medical student inside the Washington Convention Center right in front of about 1,500 amazed spectators on the first day of The Health Data Initiative Forum III: The Health Datapalooza. Everyone is fine—though our medical student may never be the same again.
Actually, this story began long before Datapalooza, of course. Fourth-year medical student, Craig Monsen, and his Johns Hopkins Medical School classmate, David Do, started collaborating on software applications soon after they met in first-year anatomy c...
Source: Pioneering Ideas - June 5, 2012 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: Mike Painter Tags: About Pioneer Competitions Disruptive Innovation Source Type: blogs
Genomics Leads To An "Aha!" Moment And Closes The Loop On Tanning Beds And Melanoma RiskEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yesterday I wrote a blog discussing how meetings like the current annual gathering of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) gives me a chance to think about big picture questions.
Well, there is another side to the experience that is also interesting and important, such as getting information that helps put together pieces of a larger puzzle, and perhaps even gives closure to a nagging question. When you have one of those "Aha!!!" moments, it can truly solidify your thoughts and maybe even save a few lives in the process. In this case, the same presentation that led to yesterday's comments about the emerg...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 4, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Environment Other cancers Prevention Research Vitamins Source Type: blogs
The future of health science communication — the menu versionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Last week, I was invited to give a speech about the future of science communication at a dinner arranged by the Center for Healthy Ageing here at the University of Copenhagen.
The terms for the speech were harsh. I got a mere five minutes between the entree and the main course — and I wasn’t allowed to use powerpoint!
So how to catch the attention of 35 hungry academics in a noisy restaurant?
My solution was to translate the main ideas in my health science communication vision into a classical menu format:
The noise in the room was overwhelming, but the menu largely spoke for itself.
Appetizers is what journa...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 4, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: communcation public engagement public health science communication public outreach social web media Source Type: blogs
The new science of "Phew!"Email this article to a colleague.
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There's a childish prank I never tire of. As soon as we've left the house and the front-door has slammed shut, I pat down all my pockets and say nervously to my companion "Er, you've got the keys, right?". Then, just when their dismay at the prospect of being locked out has peaked, I say "Only joking!" and watch with pleasure as relief washes over them.
I say "relief", but what exactly is that emotion my companion has just experienced? As Kate Sweeny and Kathleen Vohs write in a new journal article, "Although relief is readily identified and frequently experienced, it is not understood well from the perspective of psychol...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 4, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
G r e a t e r / l e t t e r / s p a c i n g / helps reading in dyslexiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Simply increasing the spacing between letters improves the reading ability of children with developmental dyslexia, according to a group of Italian and French researchers (Zorzi et al., 2012). Dyslexic children were 20% faster and twice as accurate when reading the altered text. This impressive result was obtained without any prior training whatsoever.The study was based on the phenomenon of crowding, where the recognition of individual letters is impaired by the close proximity of surrounding letters. Children with dyslexia are disproportionately affected by crowding, compared to normally developing children (Martelli et ...
Source: The Neurocritic - June 4, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
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Our #arseniclife manuscript has been officially accepted for publication in Science. We now have to abide by Science's embargo policy, so if you'd like more information you can look at the copy posted on the Arxiv server or contact Science.
Source: RRResearch - June 4, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Rosie Redfield Source Type: blogs
Will Genomics Lead Us To A Brave New World Of Cancer Diagnosis?Email this article to a colleague.
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One of the things I enjoy about coming to meetings like the current annual session of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is that it gives me a chance to give thought to some larger questions that face cancer care. A presentation I attended Friday afternoon on the impact of genomics on cancer diagnosis and treatment in the future has offered just such an opportunity.
Most of you I suspect give little thought to the actual processes that we use to diagnose cancer. One has a tumor somewhere in the body, the doctors take a specimen, send it to the pathologist and the pathologist makes the diagnosis....
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 3, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Breast Cancer Cancer Care Cervical Cancer Colon Cancer Lung Cancer Other cancers Prostate Cancer Rectal Cancer Research Treatment Source Type: blogs
A Blast From The Past Meets A Drug From The Present To Create A Vision Of The Future: A New Treatment For Breast Cancer That Makes A DifferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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This is the stuff of science fiction, a dream, something you could envision but were skeptical it could be done. But now it has been done, and raises the question of whether we are headed "back to the future" in the treatment of cancer.
The drug in question here is called T-DM1. It is an "antibody drug conjugate" between trastuzumab--which is a monoclonal antibody drug commonly used today to treat selected women with aggressive breast cancer--bound to a derivative of another more traditional cancer chemotherapy drug called maytansine.
Maytansine was a cancer chemotherapy drug evaluated in the 1970's an...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - June 3, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Breast Cancer Cancer Care Medications Research Treatment Source Type: blogs
TWiV 186: From Buda to grinding stumpsEmail this article to a colleague.
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On episode #186 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV chiefs tackle reader email about how to pronounce Buda, Texas, grinding tree stumps, and much more.
You can find TWiV #186 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - June 3, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology CFS containment EBV graduate study H5N1 influenza nsabb reader questions viral virus Source Type: blogs
Homeschool graduation address, 2012: Lessons from medicineEmail this article to a colleague.
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This talk was delivered to the Easley Home Educators graduation ceremony, June 1st, 2012, at Rock Springs Baptist Church, Easley, SC.
Congratulations, class of 2012! Thank you so much for the honor of speaking to you and your loved ones on this most amazing day.
It is a proud moment, for several reasons. Because you worked hard to be here. Graduation, in the current educational milieu of this country, is a great accomplishment. All too many young people will not graduate, and will struggle to find work or further education of any sort.
It’s a proud time because you graduated as home-schooled students. As the fath...
Source: edwinleap.com - June 2, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Edwinlea Tags: education emergency medicine faith family homeschool stuff medical education parenthood raising a woman raising men Source Type: blogs
Transforming academic conferences through TwitterEmail this article to a colleague.
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I have attended several conferences in my life. Some inspiring, some boring, some well organised and some a terribly mess. I have also not attended a lot of conferences in my life. Either due to lack of funding or lack of time. Conferences which were not relevant enough or where only one session was really interesting. I have sometimes wished that I could use some Harry Potter tricks and through a portkey transport myself around the world to participate in one session and then hurry home again. Or use a time-turner so I could go back in time and not miss out on a parallel session to the session I chose to attend.
Portke...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - June 1, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication academic conferences LSE blog research science online london 20 social sciences Twitter Source Type: blogs
Preventing overdiagnosis: how to stop harming the healthyEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a great article in this week’s BMJ Ray Moynihan and others tell us that evidence is mounting that medicine is harming healthy people through ever earlier detection and ever wider definition of disease. The authors provide many examples of the problem with diagnoses of false positive prostate and breast cancers, and over-diagnosis of ADHD, autism, and coronary disease among other problems. Much of this is due to poor science and a poor understanding of science among the general public and politicians who push interventions such as inappropriate screening that result from a oversensitive tests with many false posi...
Source: Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - June 1, 2012 Category: Epidemiologists Authors: cbuttery Tags: Chronic Disease epidemiology policy Prevention Surveillance Technology The future Source Type: blogs
Know-Nothing, or Industry Shill? You Be The Judge.Email this article to a colleague.
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I have not been writing much the past few weeks due to other concerns, and will probably not write much this summer.However, I have been commenting on various posts on other blogs. One resultant thread stands out as yet another example of a likely industry shill or sockpuppet defending the state of health IT, oddly at a blog on pharma (same blog as was the topic of tmy post "More 'You're Too Negative, And You Don't Provide The Solution To The Problems You Critique', This Time re: Pharma").Industry-sponsored sockpuppetry is a form of stealth marketing or lobbying, through discreditation of detractors, although in a pe...
Source: Health Care Renewal - June 1, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: sockpuppet stealth marketing medical ethics Healthcare IT experiment In the Pipeline Vioxx Source Type: blogs
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links:
In an open-access feature on Toilet Psychology for The Psychologist, Nick Haslam argues that psychologists should stop averting their eyes from the bathroom. "In 30 years of studying the field I rarely came across any recognition that human beings are creatures who excrete," he writes.
How Mark Changizi turned Japanese (perceptually) in just one week.
The science and ethics of voluntary amputation, the latest from Mo Costandi's Neurophilosophy blog.
Crowdsourcing is transforming the science of psychology.
The latest Neuropod podcast is online, including ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - June 1, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
A Few of My Favorite Things in My Life of Chronic PainEmail this article to a colleague.
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Some things just make this way of life better. I know we each have our favorites. Here are some of mine which include medical care, home life and cleaning, exercise, and cooking:
Medical Care
A compassionate doctor who has good hearing as well as a smart mind.
A doctor who looks into my eyes instead of the screen of a computer.
A gynecologist with small hands; preferably attached to a female doctor.
A kind receptionist at any kind of office. Don’t make me bring out the big guns; it upsets me to be rude.
Doctors who call when they say they will.
Doctor’s offices that don’t keep me waiting all day on my so...
Source: Life with Chronic Pain - May 31, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Authors: admin Tags: Chronic pain Chronic pain community Chronic pain lifestyle Arthritis living with pain Source Type: blogs
All's Not Quiet on the Less-is-more FrontEmail this article to a colleague.
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Coming next year -- yes, the wheels of science grind slow, but they grind fine -- the Preventing Overdiagnosis Conference. Overdiagnosis means that people who have some condition that will never harm them get a disease label and, almost inevitably, treatment. Said treatment is at the very least costly, quite likely harmful, and the person must live with an unsettling and possibly even stigmatizing consciousness of being sick, or "at risk."Overdiagnosis comes from screening that can't discriminate well between dangerous and harmless lesions. Examples are mammography for breast cancer, and PSA for prostate cancer. Those have...
Source: Stayin' Alive - May 31, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
