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 'alison'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:26:43 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028486&cid=t_351365_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F07%2F14%2Fu-cant-touch-this%2F Look around and you will see countless examples of how we conceptualize luck as following the “logic of contagion”: the star baseball player who refuses to change his socks during his record-breaking hitting streak; the basketball player who takes a shower during halftime of a playoff game after going 0-12 from the field; the students rubbing the foot of a lucky statute on their way to a big exam. Luck, good or bad, seems to have a certain “stickiness.” Over the weekend my friend Norbert Schwarz sent me a fascinating new article that he has just published with Alison Jing Xu and Rami Zwick in the Journal of Experimental Psychology that investigates this very phenomenon.  The abstract of the paper appears below: Many superstitious practices entail the belief that good or bad luck c... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028486 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:48:08 +0100 5028486 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4478157&cid=t_351365_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FyEiOE2hyMY4%2F In the latest test of its legal strategy over damages attributed to Fosamax, a New Jersey state court jury decided that the osteoporosis med did not cause Alison Rosenberg, 67, to develop jaw damage known as osteonecrosis. This was the first state court trial to reach a verdict and only the fourth to go to trial. Merck previously won two of three lawsuits that reached federal juries. In reaching its decision, the jury in Superior Court in Atlantic City determined that Rosenberg, who used the med from 1999 to 2006, did not develop osteonecrosis due to Fosamax, that Merck did provide adequate warnings to her doctor and that her doc would have changed the prescription if proper warnings were communicated (read the Merck statement). The verdict is likely to encourage Merck to continue battlin... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4478157 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:50:20 +0100 4478157 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4361082&cid=t_351365_109_f&fid=38951&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcarlatpsychiatry.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F01%2Fso-you-want-to-be-health-and-science.html On Wednesday, January 19, I'll be part of a panel of experts on blogging about health and science for an event at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, Mass, sponsored by the the New England Science Writers. You can hear all about how I've channeled my outrage about medical education corruption into blog form. It's a relatively mature defense mechanism that we shrinks call "sublimation." I'm flattered to be invited to join such talents as Gary Schwitzer, whose Health News Review blog was named best medical blog of 2009 by Epocrates; Ivan Oransky, the Executive Editor of Reuters Health who blogs at Embargo Watch and Retraction Watch; and former Wall Street Journal reporter Rachel Zimmerman, who writes the CommonHealth blog for Boston's NPR station, WBUR.The event's moderator will be A... The Carlat Psychiatry Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4361082 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:36:00 +0100 4361082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508154&cid=t_351365_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Ffast-companys-most-influential-women-in-technology-2010%2F Blisstree loves Women Who Rule, but in the tech industry they’re usually overshadowed by shining male stars with better job titles and pay. So today, when Fast Company released its list of the Most Influential Women in Tech in 2010, it felt like a breath of double-X fresh air. Here’s a quick roundup of Fast Company’s roster, which includes executives, entrepreneurs, media-whizzes, “brainiacs”, and more, and is a great reminder that technology isn’t just for Dads and geeks: Jen Bekman Founder, 20×200 Fernanda Viegas Co-founder, Flowing Media Darlene Liebman Co-founder and Vice President of Production, Howcast Studios Shireen Mitchell Founder, Digital Sisters Elizabeth Stark Co-founder, Open Video Alliance Susan Wu Co-founder and CEO, Ohai Alison... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508154 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:41:58 +0100 3508154 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2834467&cid=t_351365_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofhealing.com%2F2009%2F09%2F26%2Finternational-medicine-2008-conference-and-revisits%2F I had so many posts planned for the months past when my schedule and flow took a turn—in a very good and mostly fun way. I have been occupied with our wedding celebration, teaching and other projects, medical electives, mouse jogging through my studies, plus my occasional will of glorious procrastination to begin writing. For those who gave me a-okay for my Media In Medicine series e-interviews, I hope they can still remember me when I start knocking on their email doors again with my finally-written down Qs. For those whose correspondence I am all too happy to receive but have not replied yet, I hope you won’t tire checking in and seeing if I have actually risen from my blog-grave yet. And, of course, thank you for reading. Conference A little over a year ago in May, I flew to t... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2834467 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:20:06 +0100 2834467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2796688&cid=t_351365_133_f&fid=35130&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautisticbfh.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fmoney-speaks.html No, this post isn't about the salaries of Autism Speaks' executives, although that interesting detail does seem to get mentioned a lot. Rather, it's about the online discussion of why autistic people don't like Autism Speaks, which—after more than three years—finally drew a response from Alison Singer on just what she was thinking when she made that infamous statement about driving off the George Washington Bridge with her autistic daughter Jodie in the car:From the Autism Science Foundation blog:The point I was trying to make in the film was that the lack of appropriate services and the thought of putting her in a terrible school made me want to drive off the bridge; not that Jodie did……After Jodie and I had visited several schools that day I remember I pulled the car over to the ... Whose Planet Is It Anyway? blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2796688 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:49:00 +0100 2796688 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2556306&cid=t_351365_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2F18rxdn03yf4%2Fwhat-a-great-visual.php My friends from "across the pond", Tim and Alison, blog at Shoot Up or Put Up, and it is one of my favorite blogs to read.  Tim has this really awesome sickly twisted sense of humor, and much of what Alison posts really resonates with me.  When I read Alison's recent post "Not even a spoonful", I just knew that I would have to post about it.  Please, go take... (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2556306 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:32:41 +0100 2556306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=979401&cid=t_351365_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F174998096%2F The evidence isn’t entirely clear yet, but the latest court filing by a non-profit group, which filed a lawsuit against the FDA for not approving the Dendreon prostate-cancer vaccine, indicates an NIH doc named Alison Martin (see picture) may have helped write the letter. Which mysterious letter? And why is it mysterious? For those who haven’t followed the Provenge controversy, we will repeat some background: After an FDA advisory panel last spring recommended full agency approval, a curious thing happened - two FDA panel members wrote the agency urging a go-slow approach, and the FDA shortly thereafter decided to delay approval. The behind-the-scenes machinations caused a firestorm - the two cancer docs received threats, cancer patients have rallied outside FDA offices, and a deb... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=979401 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:42:09 +0100 979401