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Quality without science and research is absurd
If there were something called a Nobel Prize in Medicine, it would be awarded to Peter Pronovost for the number of lives he has saved by his applied research in quality improvement. Oh wait, there is a Nobel Prize in Medicine, but they will never award it to Peter because the way he saves lives is based on the scientific method. Oh, wait the Nobel Prize in Medicine is based on applying the scientific method to questions of broad human health import and is awarded "to the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine." So, they will never award it to Peter be...
Source: Running a hospital - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

Will Farm Bills Save Taxpayers Money?
By Tad DeHavenThe Congressional Budget Office’s score of the farm bill passed in the Senate estimates that it would save $23 billion (versus the current baseline) over ten years. It’s score of the bill that came out of the House Agriculture Committee estimates savings of $35 billion. However, the previous three farm bills ended up costing more than the CBO originally estimated: The 1996 farm bill was supposed to phase out farm subsidies. Instead, crop prices fell and Congress responded with multiple “emergency” bailouts. From a 2001 paper on farm subsidies written by Chris Edwards and me: When the FAIR Act was pa...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Tad DeHaven Tags: General Tax and Budget Policy Source Type: blogs

So I messed up big time
by smpolisetti (Posted Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:51 am)I ended my junior year with a gpa of 2.03 and my science gpa is probably lower. I was lazy, I messed up, I know. It wasn't that I didn't understand the subject, I was just lazy. I know I have a long road ahead of me, but I'm willing to wait years if it means I can go to medical school. My question is, where do I go from here? What's my first step? Is it even possible or should I give up all together? All I want to do in life, is practice medicine.
Source: Med Student Guide - July 17, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

A.M. Vitals: Inflammation and Disease
Here's what's making health news this morning: The New Science Behind America's Deadliest Diseases (WSJ): Scientists have linked conditions including heart disease, diabetes and cancer to chronic inflammation, and they are studying how high-fat foods and excess body weight may increase the risk for fatal disorders. J&J's Profit Slips on Charges, Currency Impacts (WSJ): Second-quarter earnings fell 49% amid acquisition-related expenses and other items, as the health-care conglomerate's revenue was hurt by negative currency impacts. The company has been trying to recover from a string of recalls of some consumer products a...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Stefanie Ilgenfritz Tags: Drugs Health Reform Alzheimer's Cancer Health-Care Overhaul Nutrition WSJ Source Type: blogs

Dear CSL it’s too late to close the barn door as the horse has already bolted
The Star reports on the ex-Health Minister expressing concern about the glut of junior doctors BIDOR: Many junior doctors lack clinical training opportunities due to an oversupply of medical practitioners, said MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. Citing a district hospital with about 400 beds and 180 doctors as an example, he said the doctors would not be able to get adequate opportunities for their clinical training. “Clinical training and experience are very important for doctors. “The lack of it will have serious repercussions on their abilities,” said Dr Chua. He added that there were more than 300 recognis...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Palmdoc Tags: - Nation - Palmdoc - Training Chua Soi Lek house officers Housemanship MOH Source Type: blogs

Coursera Free online education
Whilst finalising the #GMEP website and #FOAM I have been reviewing the plethora of amazing educational resources available online for FREE. We will put up some posts highlighting some of these amazing resources over the next few weeksFirst up is COURSERA. At Coursera, you can take courses from the top universities, for free.Coursera are a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 17, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured coursera FOAM free GMEP online education Source Type: blogs

U.S. Government & Whistleblowers Sue Merck About Falsely Certified Mumps Vaccine
Whistleblowers shine light on shady Big Pharma behavior. This story has a long timeline. It starts with the mumps vaccine that Merck’s eminent vaccinologist Maurice Hilleman, MD, came up with using a strain he developed from his five year old daughter—commonly referred to as the “Jeryl Lynn” strain—that has been manufactured by Merck since 1967. In essence what transpired is the vaccine virus was “passaged” over the years through various growth medium or animal cells that caused the vaccine to lose its potency—let’s say ‘watered down’—and it became non-effective against the “wild” mumps virus....
Source: vactruth.com - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Merck MMRII vaccine MMRVaxpro mumps ProQuad vaccine Rabbit antibodies Vaccine fraud Vaccine lawsuit Vaccine whistleblowers Source Type: blogs

Science Behind U.S.'s Deadliest Diseases
Scientists have linked several diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer to a condition known as chronic inflammation, and they are studying how high-fat foods and excess body weight may increase the risk for fatal disorders.
Source: WSJ.com: The Informed Patient - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: FREE Source Type: blogs

Life Technologies: Top 10 Innovative Biomedicine Companies in 2012
Life Technologies is one of 10 biomedicine companies included in Technology Review’s 50 Most Innovative Companies (TR50) for 2012 [1]. What is a TR50 company? It is a business whose innovations force other businesses to change their strategic course. TR50 companies are nominated by Technology Review’s editors who look for companies that, over the last year, have demonstrated original and valuable technology, are bringing that technology to market at a significant scale, and are clearly influencing their competitors. With a presence in 160 countries, Life Technologies is a global biotechnology company that off...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - July 17, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen Source Type: blogs

Can’t Quench My Own Thirst…
Can someone play the world’s smallest and tiniest violin for me? I had a very and incredibly insatiable thirst this morning. I woke up feeling that way. Maggie and I made a short beeline to the Circle K convenience store down the road from my home for something very, very and extremely cold to drink. I tied Maggie to the post outside and got a couple of quarts of lemon/lime Gatorade. It hit the spot so incredibly well. I drank the first quart in a matter of minutes and you could hear and feel it sloshing around in my stomach as Maggie and I soon went about our rounds. Maggie and I arrived home and I started to look...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - July 17, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs

A Profile of Kenneth Hayworth, Brain Preservation Prize Founder
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "By 2110, Hayworth predicts, mind uploading - the transfer of a biological brain to a silicon-based operating system - will be as common as laser eye surgery is today. ... While a graduate student at the University of Southern California, he built a machine in his garage that changed the way brain tissue is cut and imaged in electron microscopes. The combination of technical smarts and entrepreneurial gumption earned him a grant from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience, a subsidiary of the McKnight Foundation, and an invitation to Harvard, where he stayed, on a postdoctoral ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 17, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Congress and the Dangers of Lead Exposure
Yet again, the U.S. Congress exhibits cognitive dissonance on toxic chemical exposure. Last week, witnesses at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing entitled “the Latest Science on Lead’s Impacts on Children’s Development and Public Health” established that children’s...
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 17, 2012 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: HealthLawProf Hodnicki Source Type: blogs

Terrence Deacon (podcast interview)
In his new book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter Terrence Deacon writes that his goal is “demonstrate how a form of causality depending specifically on absent features and unrealized potential can be compatible with our best science.” (page 16). But in a recent interview (Books and Ideas #47) he also contends that his book "grew out of a dissatisfaction with the systems theory approach." He feels strongly that "to understand the origin of end-directed phenomena, representational phenomena, or mental phenomena, you need to take one further step; you need to figure out what’s beyond self-orga...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - July 16, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books and Ideas Podcast Incomplete Nature Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Terrence Deacon emergence podcast interviews Source Type: blogs

Research Links Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) to Increased Isolation and Risk of Death
Two studies presented today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® 2012 (AAIC® 2012) in Vancouver provide evidence of connections between mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and negative health outcomes – increased isolation and death. Alzheimer's Reading Room These studies suggest that MCI, which is too often thought of as "only a little memory loss," is a serious condition that demands heightened physician and family member observation, personalized care, and additional research. MCI can be a precursor to Alzheimer's disease. "Cognitive impairment of any kind is serious, and requires increased m...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 16, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

EU agency lifts lid on drug data secrets | Reuters
via reuters.com LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - Europe's medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information. The change is a landmark in transparency that puts Europe ahead of the United States, according to critics of the $1 trillion-a-year global drugs industry, who have long argued for full access to trial data. Such information is a treasure trove for scientists wanting to test drug company claims and potentially expose product deficiencies. As part ...
Source: PharmaGossip - July 16, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Medical Progress is Not Easy: Complaining About it is Much Easier than Progress
Conclusion Ultimately, “the one-sided messaging by medical journals, led by editors arguably motivated to market their publication, has inflamed the fCOI mania that in turn has reduced physician-industry collaboration and industry-subsidized medical education.” Stossel maintained that this mania has also driven “a prosecutorial racket that forces companies to pour money into settling dubious allegations under threat of debarment penalties that would prevent them from selling any of their products to Medicare or Medicaid.” Instead of causing all this mania and wasting millions of dollars fighting through smoke a...
Source: Policy and Medicine - July 16, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

Judges , doctors and double standards
Doctors are treated as respected professionals and held in high regard , because we expect them to take care of our health when we are ill. We hold our judges in equally high regard , because we expect them to dispense justice impartially and fairly, whenever there are disputes between citizens . Judges, like doctors, are professionals who’ve studied a body of knowledge ; and who are then appointed to serve on the bench because they are expert at what they do, and have a good reputation. However , what amazes me is the double standards we use when we consider the mistakes and errors made by judges and doctors . Whe...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - July 15, 2012 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Tags: Health Negligence Contempt of court Legal Information Law Judge Double standard Source Type: blogs

Science GPA
by CaribMD (Posted Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:55 pm)Well, if your Science GPA is really low then the overall will be too. I would say a Science lower than 2.8 would be a big read flag
Source: Med Student Guide - July 15, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

Be wary of miracles too good to be true
Not for the first time I’ve suspected that lyricist and drummer with the Canadian rock band Rush, Neil Peart has been reading my blog. First time was having written about the concept of earthshine, the band’s next album featured a song on that very concept, the reflected light from the Earth illuminating the dark face of a new moon ‘cradled’ in the old. Of course, I didn’t really believe he was reading my stuff, it was a kind of bizarre, displaced hero worship surely? Well then what to make of a song on the recently released album from the progressive power trio Clockwork Angels that discusses...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 15, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science good miracles true wary Source Type: blogs

WWAD? (A=Atul)
The sad story of Rory Staunton, the young boy who died of sepsis infection, has been prompting a lot of commentary. I have noticed that is the nature of press coverage that it often takes a sympathetic figure to get attention to a long-term, systemic problem in the health care system. I have written here of the efforts of Dr. Jim O'Brien and others at the Sepsis Alliance to help doctors and nurses learn of the early warning signs of a sepsis infection. Let's hope that the recent story will give a greater impetus to the expansion of training about this important clinical problem.But it is not of that topic...
Source: Running a hospital - July 15, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

WWAD?
The sad story of Rory Staunton, the young boy who died of sepsis infection, has been prompting a lot of commentary. I have noticed that is the nature of press coverage that it often takes a sympathetic figure to get attention to a long-term, systemic problem in the health care system. I have written here of the efforts of Dr. Jim O'Brien and others at the Sepsis Alliance to help doctors and nurses learn of the early warning signs of a sepsis infection. Let's hope that the recent story will give a greater impetus to the expansion of training about this important clinical problem.But it is not of that topic...
Source: Running a hospital - July 15, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

TWiV 191: When two rights make a wrong
On episode #191 of the science show This Week in Virology, Nissin joins the TWiV crew to discuss an outbreak of lethal disease among Cambodian children, and recombination among attenuated herpesvirus vaccines leading to pathogenic viruses. You can find TWiV #191 at www.twiv.tv.
Source: virology blog - July 15, 2012 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology cambodia chicken disease disease outbreak enterovirus 71 ev71 gallid herpesvrus 1 infectious laryngotracheitis pediatric illness recombinant vaccine viral Source Type: blogs

Sunday News Round-Up, a Tosh Entree with a Side of Miscellany
Geek Feminism has a nice round-up of interesting posts, especially on women in science and tech, and I appreciate being included in it. I also really appreciated being included in Shakesville’s Wednesday Blogaround. [trigger warning henceforth, because all this here is Tosh/rape-related] There have been a ton of good comments and posts related to the Tosh rape “joke.” Here are a few I like: Christy Cardinal writes about getting rape threats just for posting on the subject. I’m linking it to show, again, that this is widespread. I got them last time I posted on him. This time, I got a comment tha...
Source: Women's Health News - July 15, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Abuse, Rape, & Safety Access, Rights, & Choice Breastfeeding Ethics Events & Observances Laws, Legislation, & Courts Miscellaneous News Round-Ups Reviews Atlanta Black women comedy Comedy Central Daniel Tosh Guttmach Source Type: blogs

Last chance to get into the Chinese Medicine Essentials course
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Source: Deepest Health: Exploring Classical Chinese Medicine - July 15, 2012 Category: Alternative Medicine Practitioners Authors: Eric Grey Tags: Foundational Science Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 16th 2012
This study not only lays the groundwork for a new understanding of osteoarthritis, but also shows that the old 'either/or' nature v. nurture argument is outdated: epigenetics teaches us that nature (the daily wear and tear of joints) regulates nurture (the genes in our cartilage) to cause arthritis." EXERCISE BENEFICIAL IN ELDERLY Monday, July 9, 2012 http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/07/exercise-beneficial-in-elderly.php Here is yet another study showing that exercise in the elderly produces benefits large enough to power a massive drug industry were they caused by a pill - yet most people fail to take advantage of...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 15, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

#arseniclife wrapup
I think that the #arseniclife saga is finally nearing its end. Our refutation paper was published on Science Express on Sunday July 8; Science lifted its embargo early, to coincide with my Evolpalooza talk. Another refutation paper by Erb et al.) was released at the same time - we didn't know about this work but it nicely supports and complements ours. At the same time Science released a rather platitudinous Editorial Statement (available here). Wolfe-Simon continues to deny that any errors were made and states that results of her more recent work support the original claims (evasive email correspon...
Source: RRResearch - July 15, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Rosie Redfield Source Type: blogs

Three talks, 1.5 days at #ISMB ... phylogeny, phylogenomics, open science and more
Gave three talks in 1.5 days here in Long Beach as part of the satellite meetings associated with the "Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology" (ISMB) 2012 Conference. I will write more about the meeting and the craziness of giving three very different talks in 1.5 days. But for now I wanted to at least get my talks posted here since I posted the slides to slideshare and recorded the audio in synch with the slides and posted these "slideshows" to YouTube. Here are the talks below: Talk 1 for the "Bioinformatics Open Source Conference" BOSC2012. Was asked to talk about Open Science ... so ... I did ... Slides...
Source: The Tree of Life - July 15, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

Robot avatar body controlled by thought alone
Via: New ScientistFor the first time, a person lying in an fMRI machine has controlled a robot hundreds of kilometers away using thought alone."The ultimate goal is to create a surrogate, like in Avatar, although that’s a long way off yet,” says Abderrahmane Kheddar, director of the joint robotics laboratory at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan.Teleoperated robots, those that can be remotely controlled by a human, have been around for decades. Kheddar and his colleagues are going a step further. “True embodiment goes far beyond classical telepresence, by making you...
Source: Positive Technology Journal - July 14, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: Brain-computer interface Future interfaces Source Type: blogs

Bigfoot Biohazard: Sasquatch Microbiome an Unpercieved Threat
Sasquatch, like humans, are host to over 10,000 microbes, some of which are most likely unknown to science, and potentially hazardous to human health.Contributor: David ClaerrPublished: Jul 14, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - July 14, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

“We do things at Pfizer that are best for shareholders of Pfizer." You Gotta Problem with That?
I can't believe a Pfizer "spokesperson" (Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Counsel, Matthew Lepore) said:“We do things at Pfizer that are best for shareholders of Pfizer" when defending Pfizer's continued financial support of Heartland Institute, an organization whose president Joe Bast claimed that the public health community has a campaign to "demonize smokers" based on "junk science" (find the story here: "Pfizer Refuses To Pull Funding From Anti-Science Front Group").Among the books authored by Joe Bast is "Please Don’t Poop in My Salad (and other essays opposing the war against smoking)" (see his 2008 ...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - July 14, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Smoking Cessation Pfizer Chantix Source Type: blogs

The Darwin Lost Weekend
A man tries to convince his friend that Charles Darwin conceived his book ‘Origin of Species’ on the concept of evolution in the town of Cromer, Norfolk, England and not in the Galapagos Islands. This video was premiered at the first Science Online conference back in 2009 but has only just this last week reached the virtual hallowed halls of Youtube. Thanks to Graham Steel for the alert. I knew I’d seen it somewhere before… Meanwhile, for fans of the North Norfolk Coast, here’s a little poem wot I wrote about the village of Stiffkey. Ever been taken up the North Norfolk Coast? There’s ...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 14, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science darwin lost weekend Source Type: blogs

Gamification's Brave New World Circa 1984: Operation Frog
The objective was to use the keyboard or joystick to move a simulated hand, pick up simulated instruments, and "dissect" a simulated frog and identify its organs. At the end, the user (usually a high school biology student) was challenged to reverse the process by putting the frog back together (the game aspect). If successful, the user was rewarded with a fun animation of the (simulated) frog dancing off in a top hat and cane -- no harm done (except to the frog I dissected doing research for the simulation). The codename was "Defrogger," but it was published by Scholastic as "Operation: Frog" in 1985.Operation: Frog ran o...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - July 14, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: gamification Syrum Source Type: blogs

Battleground Zero for New Alzheimer's Drug
If all three drugs fail and fail miserably the Alzheimer's community is in trouble. The pharmaceutical companies might give up. They might conclude that Alzheimer's cannot be treated effectively. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room We are down to the one inch line on three new drugs, potential treatments, for Alzheimer's disease. The Phase 3 clinical trials for Bapineuzumab and Solanezumab are scheduled to be released in the next few months, maybe as early as next month. A third drug, Gammagard, could report next year. Some say if the drugs fail it could be the end of Alzheimer's research as we know it. That ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 14, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

The Burden of Proof: IACC Director Insel's 2009 Statement On Autism Increases
"Based on the above mentioned research, approximately 53% percent of the increase in autism prevalence over time may be explained by changes in diagnosis (26%), greater awareness (16%), and an increase in parental age (11%). While this research is beginning to help us understand the increase in autism prevalence, half of the increase is still unexplained and not due to better diagnosis, greater awareness, and social factors alone. Environmental factors, and their interactions with genetic susceptibilities, are likely contributors to increase in prevalence and are the subject of numerous research projects currently supporte...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 14, 2012 Category: Autism Authors: Autism Reality NB Source Type: blogs

Article: The mundaneness of science
So true about all researchThe mundaneness of sciencehttp://www.lastwordonnothing.com/2012/07/12/the-mundaneness-of-science/Sent via Flipboard
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - July 13, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Don’t fake it, make it: Visit to Labitat
Earlier this week Louise Whiteley and I visited Labitat preparing for a project that aims to combine synthetic biology, design, democracy and the museum – easy, when you are (getting to) know the right people … “Labitat is a makerspace in CPH. We are a group of people with diverse interests in technology. We are an independent physical space, working creatively with technology, bridging interactive technology with design and art.” In a basement in Frederiksberg we found ourselves surrounded by boxes sprouting electronics, a home-built laser-cutter, a beauty of a 1950s lathe with curves like a vintage espres...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - July 13, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Karin Tybjerg Tags: art and biomed art and science public engagement Studiolab Source Type: blogs

Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT
It's exciting to see what Johns Hopkins is doing in the area of public health informatics. The following press release outlines a New Information Technology Center Established to Benefit Population Health: Johns Hopkins University is establishing a new center aimed at improving and expanding the use of electronic health record systems, e-health and information technology. The Johns Hopkins Center for Population Health IT— known as CPHIT (or "see-fit")—will draw on faculty skilled in public health, medicine, informatics, computer science, business and systems engineering and will focus on helping public h...
Source: Medicine and Technology by Dr. Joseph Kim - July 13, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Tags: public health informatics Johns Hopkins Source Type: blogs

Stereotype
One of my MD-PhD classmates sent me this article on how stereotypes about women in science undermine their careers whether or not they personally believe in the stereotypes.In a nutshell, the article said that when women talk to male colleagues about research, they may subconsciously think about the stereotype that women are worse at science than men, and this undermines their confidence and performance during such interactions. That these thoughts happen regardless of whether the man actually thinks any of these things.This resonated with me. When I talk to a lot of men, I'm actually conscious of my concern that the...
Source: The long road to medical school - July 13, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

Who do you follow back on Twitter?
There is almost no limit to the number of people you could follow on Twitter, but when someone follows you, how do you decide whether to follow back or not? I’ve updated my handy cut-out-and-keep Twitter Decision Flowchart for the scientific age. You may wish to add your own block words, so print it in pencil and use an eraser ;-) Please retweet and share wildly, we should all be applying these principles to boost the overall Twitter signal-to-noise ratio. Who do you follow back on Twitter? is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - July 13, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science follow Source Type: blogs

Why the APA is Losing Members
The American Psychological Association (APA) suffered a 7.6 percent loss of its members from 2010 to 2011 — from 91,306 to 84,339. While in recent years, the APA has suffered from smaller membership declines, this is the first time ever in the organization’s 120-year history it has suffered such a significant one-year decline in members. Is this downward trend specific to the American Psychological Association, or are other professional organizations suffering similar losses? And what’s to blame for this precipitous loss of members in a single year? A few factors come to mind. The APA’s 2011 Loss o...
Source: World of Psychology - July 13, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, PsyD Tags: General Professional Psychiatry Psychology American Psychiatric Association American Psychological Association Apa Apa History Apa Members Bureau Of Labor Bureau Of Labor Statistics Decline Directory Discrepancy Doctoral Degree Source Type: blogs

A.M. Vitals: U.S. Targets Genetic Codes of Food-Borne Bacteria
Also: Brain tissue from former football star Junior Seau is sent to the NIH for study; research shows keeping a food diary can help people lose weight; and growth in global spending on medication is expected to slow.
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - July 13, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Mark Long Tags: Drugs Brain Science Food safety Genetics Sports medicine Source Type: blogs

Did Dotty Take a Lot of Dietary Supplements?
It appears that people are wondering if I somehow stumbled on to some magic bullet that slowed down, or stopped Dotty's Alzheimer's. By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room It appears that people are wondering if I somehow stumbled on to some magic bullet that slowed down, or stopped Dotty's Alzheimer's. Specifically, I get asked often about what dietary supplements she took. In the beginning she took a lot of supplements, never Ginkgo biloba, never coconut oil. After a while, and after doing loads of research, I did settle in on a few items. However, the major decision was to get most of what we needed ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 13, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Hear hear! Stop bullying the social sciences - LA Times Op-Ed. Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless - Tom Stafford of Mind Hacks explains. New book that's worth a look, Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory by psychologist Charles Fernyhough (New Scientist described it as "an immense pleasure"). Fernyhough used his blog to reflect on how the book came about. BBC Four broadcast a trio of excellent documentaries this week, all of which are now available on iPlayer for a limited time: Rupture: Living With a Broken Brain; Blink: A Hor...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 13, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs

Corporate Disguises in Medical Science Dodging the Interest Repertoire
Sergio Sismondo1 1Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Sergio Sismondo, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 Email: sismondo@queensu.ca Abstract Roughly 40% of the sizeable medical research and literature on recently approved drugs is “ghost managed” by the pharmaceutical industry and its agents. Research is performed and articles are written by companies and their agents, though apparently independent academics serve as authors on the publications. Similarly, the industry hires academic scientists, termed key opinion leaders, to serve as its speakers and to deli...
Source: PharmaGossip - July 13, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

What will it take for Pharmaceutical Companies to Stop Offering Doctors Illegal Inducements to Prescribe Dangerous and Expensive Drugs—and for Doctors to Stop Accepting Them?
With all the excitement about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act, another remarkable event related to the rising cost of health care has gotten less attention than it deserves. On July 2, 2012, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) pled guilty...
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 13, 2012 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: HealthLawProf Hodnicki Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Protein folding game
A&P students should be aware of the basic elements of protein folding:Your textbook describes how the primary structure (a sequence of amino acids determined by the genetic code) is folded into a twisted and pleated secondary structure, then folded again into a complex tertiary structure. Sometimes, tertiary proteins are combined to form quaternary proteins. Sort of like origami, but way more useful. And way tinier.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 anyb...
Source: The A and P Student - July 12, 2012 Category: Medical Students Tags: resources games animations free stuff chemistry cell Source Type: blogs