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 'alain'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:10 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4789248&cid=t_328002_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fannouncing-better-health%25e2%2580%2599s-new-spanish-content-partner-diario-medico%2F2011.05.05 I am so pleased to announce a new content partnership between Better Health and Diario Médico (DM), Spain’s leading news outlet for physicians. We will now be featuring regular content from the DM bloggers, translated for our readers from Spanish to English. The medical blogging community is a global family, and we proudly embrace our Spanish innovators overseas. I first met the DM team two years ago on Twitter. Their lead social media guru, Alain Ochoa-Torres (@alainochoa), was the first to reach out to me – eager to learn about social media trends in the United States. We arranged to do a live “Twitterview” to talk about how U.S. physicians are engaging in social media, especially blogging. That Twitterview (screen shot shown to the left) was translated into Spanish and became t... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4789248 Thu, 05 May 2011 12:00:57 +0100 4789248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197069&cid=t_328002_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhy-the-french-dont-go-to-the-gym%2F2010.11.23 Like their counterparts in other first-world countries, French people know about the health benefits of exercise. And French culture has emphasized, even worshipped, good looks (which these days translates to “fit and trim.”) So it’s surprising that the French avoid fitness centers as vigorously as factory-produced croissants. But they do. According to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, just 5.4 percent of French people were members of a fitness club in 2008. That’s substantially less than their counterparts in Italy (9.5 percent), the UK (11.9 percent), and Spain (16.6 percent). “It appears that more people are sitting in cafes smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee than working out … the French don’t see fitness as a lifestyle,” American-born f... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197069 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:00:10 +0100 4197069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3976487&cid=t_328002_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-Sb79C4_7uY%2F By Michael F. CannonI must be losing my touch. I’ve let nearly two months pass without responding to Ezra Klein’s defense of RomneyCare, ObamaCare, and other centrally planned health care systems.  (For those who want to get up to speed: his original post, my reply, and his response.)  So here goes. Klein notes that he and I had each used flawed measures of RomneyCare’s impact on health insurance premiums in Massachusetts.  Fair enough.  But Klein ignores the study I cited by John Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, and Dan Kessler, which estimates that RomneyCare increased premiums in Massachusetts by 6 percent.  The CHK study has limitations, but it is the best estimate available.  I hope Klein addresses it. Klein’s fallback position is that even if RomneyCare increases p... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3976487 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:50:05 +0100 3976487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239589&cid=t_328002_105_f&fid=36987&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FIvorKovicMd%2F%7E3%2FYDZs7IjV63Q%2F Today, journalist Alain Ochoa (@alainochoa) conducted an interview on Twitter with me for Diario Médico (@diariomedico), Spain’s leading medium for health professionals. We mainly talked about mobile technology and its use in medicine. Follow the link to read the whole tweeterview titled Mobile health from Croatia. Tweet This Post (Source: Ivor Kovic, M.D.) Ivor Kovic, M.D. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239589 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:19:19 +0100 3239589 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2153830&cid=t_328002_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Flets-reboot-americas-hit-conversation-part-1-putting-ehrs-context This blog entry first appeared at The Health Care Blog. -Ed. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2153830 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:09:36 +0100 2153830