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 'acorn'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:25:26 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4724034&cid=t_207073_117_f&fid=38856&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timemastermd.com%2F%3Fp%3D2258 Forget  libido boosting, Testosterone, or Growth Hormone promoting herbs, power bars, and high-tech memory boosters: The single best supplement for a guys’ or girls’ diet could be two cheeks full of nuts!  (you can start the jokes now)  As far as I can tell, there are health nuts,  nuts who love health, and then there a whole bunch of people who either vote for, or love people who are nuts! Two Cheeks Full News:  A new research study  demonstrates that naturally occurring antioxidants in pecans may help contribute to heart health and disease prevention. Apparently eating all those bowls of nuts on the bar down the street while drinking beer was the best preventive medicine strategy of all time?! Ever wonder “Why do we love Acorns so much?”  Acorn Bi... Timemaster MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4724034 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 15:34:09 +0100 4724034 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3710533&cid=t_207073_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Feco-friendly-music-cutest-speakers-ever%2F On a recent trip to the beach, we were wishing for some small, portable speakers to plug into our iPods. Who knew our wish would be granted so adorably? This little eco-friendly cutie is handmade out of natural cut apricot wood, can be recharged via a USB connector, and can plug right into your headphone jack. We wonder how it sounds. Though, honestly, we might trade sub-par sound quality for this awesome design. It can be yours for $44.50 on Delight. photo via Inhabitat Post from: BlissTree Eco-Friendly Music: Cutest Speakers Ever (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3710533 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:06:18 +0100 3710533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908892&cid=t_207073_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F-vJlz5NOb5k%2F Now that Pfizer agreed to pay $2.3 billion for illegally marketing several drugs, including Bextra, Zyvox, Geodon and Lyrica, over several years, one Congresswoman wants to punish stop such behavior - at least among those that do business with the federal government (background is here). And so Betty McCollum, a Democrat from Minnesota, has introduced a bill that prohibits companies with a felony conviction from receiving any federal funding for five years after a conviction; prohibits corporate felons from making federal campaign contributions for five years, and limits the lobbying the corporation can do during that period to $1 million. She calls her legislation the ACORN Act, or Against Corporations Organizing to Rip-off the Nation Act of 2009. Why? A significant target of recent Congr... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908892 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:24:51 +0100 2908892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2904857&cid=t_207073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FCi50C2kTAYs%2F Last week, editors at Politico posed two questions to an online panel to which I contribute: “ACORN: Underplayed or overblown?” and “Will the Dems ever get their act together on healthcare?” The two are intimately connected by a simple proposition: “Most people want more housing and health care than they can afford.” Of course, for “housing” or “health care” one could substitute whatever one wishes: food, clothing, cars, education, entertainment, vacations, you name it. Economists call this the problem of scarcity, and it’s the beginning of economics. In a free society, most individuals, families, and firms will deal with that problem through such homely measures as creating and husbanding wealth, planning for the future, an... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2904857 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:27:00 +0100 2904857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828185&cid=t_207073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlFIK3nLroGA%2F Republicans are all over the ACORN scandal and calling for an end to federal subsidies for the group. Well that’s great, but it’s not exactly going out on a limb and pushing for a major budget reform. Why doesn’t the GOP use this as an opportunity to call for completely ending the programs that funded ACORN? Wouldn’t it be better to save the $13 billion a year that HUD spends on so-called “community development” programs, rather than just the few million dollars a year that taxpayers spend on ACORN? The federal programs that funded ACORN are particularly wasteful ones, including Community Development Block Grants, Housing Counseling Assistance, and others as Tad DeHaven has explained. At a minimum, the GOP should be arguing that with deficits of $... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828185 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:55:05 +0100 2828185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2820192&cid=t_207073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F4P79iw81mD0%2F A Sept. 18 Page One article about the community organizing group ACORN incorrectly said that a conservative journalist targeted the organization for hidden-camera videos partly because its voter-registration drives bring Latinos and African Americans to the polls. Although ACORN registers people mostly from those groups, the maker of the videos, James E. O’Keefe, did not specifically mention them. –Washington Post, September 22, 2009 Original article here. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2820192 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:04:29 +0100 2820192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2820559&cid=t_207073_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F09%2F22%2Fchaos-theory-acorn-gets-smashed%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily: ACORN Gets Smashed. Posted in Politcal Cartoons Tagged: acorn, brother embezzled, democrat, republican, scandal (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2820559 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:32:54 +0100 2820559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2807846&cid=t_207073_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F09%2F18%2Facorns-bureaucratic-ballet-the-coda%2F My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up: Perhaps some service organizations are meant to die natural — or even self-inflicted — deaths. The artist Marcel Duchamp put it this way: “After 40 or 50 years a picture dies, because its freshness disappears. . . . There’s a huge difference between a Monet today, which is black as anything, and a Monet 60 or 80 years ago, when it was brilliant, when it was made. . . . Men are mortal; pictures too.” I assume that when ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) got started some 40 years ago, it was with the best of intentions. However, recent news suggests the organization has seen better days and may be irredeemable. So be it… Read the rest on AOL’s Politics Daily: ACORN’s Bureaucra... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2807846 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:50:46 +0100 2807846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2803877&cid=t_207073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F9pPwTucFt0g%2F The ACORN scandal provides a good opportunity for citizens concerned about profligacy in Washington to explore some of the tools available to find out where their tax money goes. A good place to start your research is the Federal Audit Clearinghouse on the Census website. All groups receiving more than $500,000 a year from the government are required to file a report. Just type in “ACORN” as the entity and the system pops up the group’s filings. My assistant John Nelson summarized the federal programs and amounts received by ACORN in recent years: 2003 Housing Counseling Assistance $1,168,388 Community Development Block Grants $388,273 Home Investment Partnership $8,000 Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity $204,082 Fair Housing Initiatives Program $85,000 Total $1,85... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2803877 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:54:11 +0100 2803877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800374&cid=t_207073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fwj5ohzXfHXk%2F Sabrina Schaeffer (yes, related) over at IWF’s Inkwell wonders when the NEA is going to sever its ties to ACORN, given recent revelations that its employees are willing to help set up a brothel with child prostitutes. Good question. I’m sure a lot of union members would be none too pleased with where their dues money ends up. From the Examiner: Teachers unions have contributed over $1.3 million to ACORN and its affiliates, since 2005, according to U.S. Labor Department financial disclosure forms. Many education reformers would call the NEA criminal in their resistance to effective policy change. But that’s a figure of speech. They do, however, need to be more careful with their money. The NEA, really any activist group on the Left with a shred of dignity, should publicly end their re... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800374 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:14:19 +0100 2800374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796624&cid=t_207073_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F2009%2F09%2F15%2Fday-by-day-by-chris-muir-september-15-2009-the-company-we-keep%2F Day By Day by Chris Muir Chris, there will be plenty of Obama CANNON FODDER for the 2010 and 2012 elections – if and only if the GOP nominates someone who will use it. John McCain would NOT and lost. Flap cannot say the same for Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin. We will get an inkling of what is to come by the Spring of next year when the Nevada Senate race of Harry Reid begins to heat up.Previous: The Day By Day Archive Technorati Tags: ACORN, Barack Obama, Day By Day Bookmark/Search this post with: (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796624 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:25:52 +0100 2796624 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464351&cid=t_207073_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FlLQjvj5Tri0%2Fmy-victory-garden.php In an effort to become more economically savvy and also to embrace my inner domestic goddess, I have planted my first vegetable garden.  Well, it wasn't without a lot of help from my mom, my husband, and a helpful landscaper.  But I have so far done way more gardening than I ever have in my life.  You see, when I was in college (who am I kidding, to this day)... 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