MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with '500'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:18:43 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4984496&cid=t_108529_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F30%2Fthe-sports-illustrated-jinx-exposed%2F Does being featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated cause future decrements in performance? Many coaches, athletes, sports fans and sports commentators seem to think so.  It’s common to hear talk of a so-called “Sports Illustrated Jinx,” that is, the notion that being featured on the cover leads to bad-luck that negatively affects future performance. Examples of the Sports Illustrated Jinx (Wikipedia excerpts): “May 26, 1958: Race car driver Pat O’Connor appears on the cover of the magazine. He dies four days later on the first lap of the Indianapolis 500. August 7, 1978: Pete Rose appears on the cover the same week that his 44-game hitting streak ended. May 8, 1989: Jon Peters, of Brenham High School in Texas, sets the national high school record for games won b... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4984496 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:40:48 +0100 4984496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3515318&cid=t_108529_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fwomen-in-the-workplace-is-it-2010-or-1910%2F photo: Thinkstock Bad news about the fight for workplace equality. Only 15 of this year’s Fortune 500 companies have woman CEOs – the same percentage as last year. Robin Marty of Care2 points out that most of the companies women lead are “women focused” companies – your food and cosmetic businesses. But Marty also points out that there are a few positive points about this year’s list. Xerox replaced one woman CEO with another – a first for the Fortune 500 companies. And almost half of the companies with female CEOs are in the top 100. Marty also questions what’s keeping women from succeeding to the extent that men do in business, especially since now, two women earn a business degree for every man who does. And women are steadily reaching positions of po... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3515318 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:00:17 +0100 3515318 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366187&cid=t_108529_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2F6OWgvF3mIog%2F By Lynn Shapiro Snyder. There is nothing like a cold, hard statistic to hang your hat on. What better way is there to drive home your point in the courtroom, the conference room, the Senate chamber? But as much as numbers illuminate, they also obfuscate. Take, for instance, a recent New York Times article announcing that women outnumber men on our  nation’s payrolls. We have reached an historic milestone. But before you break out the champagne, take a closer look. You actually do not need to search very hard. In fact, all it will take is a glance—one brief, passing glance into any of the thousands of corporate board rooms across America. As of 2009, a wan 15.2 percent of Fortune 500 board members were women.  That means, for the average 10-person corporate board, there aren’t even ... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366187 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:31:29 +0100 3366187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2580350&cid=t_108529_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Fzimney-health-and-medical-news-you-can-use%2Fcaffeine-cures-alzheimers-and-other-misleading-headlines%2F Not really, but I’d imagine that headline caught your eye and grabbed your attention, which is what it was supposed to do. The study on which that claim is based was widely and often quite misleadingly trumpeted across the Internet yesterday (July 6, 2009). Although some responsible sites included in the headline that the tests were done in mice, many concealed this important fact until you were well into the article and had already been exposed to whatever advertising was on the page. I’d already seen several misleading headlines before I realized the studies were in mice and I’m sure that many people didn’t ever get the full story. The entire webisode was set in motion by the University of South Florida Health’s press release, a slick piece of PR entitled &#... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2580350 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:37:16 +0100 2580350 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473185&cid=t_108529_87_f&fid=36941&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mazecordblood.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D150 M.A.Z.E. Cord Blood Laboratories is offering a $500 savings bond giveaway. Dedicated to helping parents save money, M.A.Z.E. will give one lucky family a $500 savings bond to help you start saving for college.  No purchase is necessary to win. While you are on the site reading about cord blood banking, vist the savings bond giveaway page for a chance to win! (Source: Cord Blood News) Cord Blood News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473185 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:29:19 +0100 2473185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1775604&cid=t_108529_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Finsulin-in-news.html It's not everyday that insulin is in the news. In fact, far more attention seems to hit the press over irrelevant diabetes studies and dumb PR dressed as "news" intended to position yet another new type 2 diabetes drug favorably for investors and regulators which occurs almost daily. Comparatively speaking, insulin seldom makes any sort of news, which is why today was quite unusual.FDA Unveils List of 20 Drugs In Side-Effect ProbesFirst of all, on Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a report listing 20 drugs that the agency is investigating for potential side effects, as part of a new policy to warn patients and health-care professionals as early as possible. One of those drugs happened to be Humulin® R, and the issue was pertaining to the ultra-highly concentrate... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1775604 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:00:00 +0100 1775604 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=733632&cid=t_108529_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F13%2Fwal-mart-settles-insulin-death-claim%2F Filed under: Type 2, Drugs, Daily NewsWal-Mart Stores Inc. has settled out-of-court a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a man killed by an insulin overdose. The man, Keith Scofield, died in January 2006 after receiving a dose of insulin that was far too strong for him. Scofield normally used a low-strength insulin to treat his Type 2 diabetes. In December 2005, staff at a Virginia Wal-Mart mistakenly gave him Humulin R (u-500), rather than the Humulin R (u-100) that he had apparently requested. Scofield did not realize he had been given the wrong dose. He went ahead and injected himself with the medication, then fell into a coma. Sadly, he died twelve days later.The Associated Press report on the subject says that no admission of fault or liability was made by either party. I... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=733632 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 733632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=511184&cid=t_108529_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F30%2Fthought-for-the-day-cooking-out-cancer-with-pizza%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Research, Cancer prevention foods, Thought for the DayPizza just might have the power to fight cancer -- not the pizza loaded with cheese and pepperoni and tons of tempting toppings, the kind that may have your mouth watering at this very moment. But a version of pizza as we know it may fend off heart disease, obesity, and cancer.The secret is in the crust -- the cooking of the crust, that is.Think about this:It seems baking pizza faster and at higher temperatures can release disease-fighting antioxidants. And it's this one small change to pizza preparation that has scientists at the University of Maryland claiming there is such a thing as a healthy pizza.Scientists baked pizza at 500 degrees for six minutes and were able to increase antioxidant levels 100 percent... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=511184 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 511184