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 'ambition'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:01 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3761404&cid=t_121003_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Frepeated-practice-not-always-perfect-how-to-improve-your-game%2F photo: Thinkstock It’s sad when something that everyone told you as a child turns out to be a lie. Santa Claus isn’t real; the only person willing to exchange your baby teeth for money is your mom; and practice doesn’t actually make perfect. This explains why we were never able to perfect our jump shot even though we practiced in the driveway for hours on end. So what are you supposed to do if you’re determined to be the next LeBron? Mix up your practice. Instead of doing 100 lay-ups, engage in variable training and practice a mixture of skills. Do a lay-up, then a jump shot, then dribble for a while. Studies show that variable training produces better results regarding the skill you want to improve. So, practice kind of makes perfect — you just have to make sure ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3761404 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:58:13 +0100 3761404 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3746708&cid=t_121003_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fflawless-to-a-fault-are-you-a-perfectionist%2F photo: Thinkstock We’ve all known since high school that perfectionism is a double-edged sword. While we might envy a golden girl’s body or brain, we certainly aren’t jealous of her bad temper or control-freak tendencies. Now there’s evidence that the stress of being a perfectionist has even higher stakes than we previously thought: Poor health. Researchers say that perfectionism is liked to bad health and death. In a study following 450 adults over 65 for 6.5 years, those who had high perfectionism scores had a 51% increased risk of death compared to those with low scores. We’ll be taking this new research as an excuse to act a little less than perfect today (which will be difficult for us). Like maybe we’ll pick off half our nail polish so we have weir... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3746708 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:09:59 +0100 3746708 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3542660&cid=t_121003_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F05%2F07%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-may-7-2010%2F I love the sense of community that’s building over on our Twitter and Facebook pages. If you’re not already following us, please do so. The conversation is getting good! One of our Twitter followers this week called yesterday, “Therapy Thursday,” which I thought was quite catchy. I’d add to this and name it, “Thankful Thursday.” Thankful for all of you who I’m getting to know in the Psych Central community and who I admire for your strength, ambition and impervious spirit. While you’re struggling along trying to better yourself, I hope you take some time and feel a sense of gratitude for where you’ve been and how far you’ve come in the process. Life can be difficult, but you’re getting through it beautifully! With that... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3542660 Fri, 07 May 2010 11:49:35 +0100 3542660 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3526745&cid=t_121003_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fipad-x-rayed%2F2010.05.02 An orthopedic doctor in Japan wanted to see what made the iPad tick, so he threw it under an X-ray machine and posted the images to his blog. We guess the good doctor (whose name is Dr. Ambition, according to his blog) wasn’t happy with all of the teardown photos and videos of the iPad. Or maybe he just wanted to see what happens when you pump it full of radiation. Appropriately enough, the iPad’s X-ray was processed with OsiriX DICOM medical imaging software for Mac.The good news for the iPad is that nothing was broken and, as long as the stool samples come back negative, it seems it can look forward to a long life. *This blog post was originally published at Movin' Meat* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3526745 Sun, 02 May 2010 18:00:00 +0100 3526745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2469609&cid=t_121003_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F09%2Ftwitter-is-the-new-blogging-with-a-twist%2F It’s always interesting to me to see technology data trends repeat themselves, even when the technologies themselves are seemingly completely different and designed for different purposes. Case in point: blogging versus Twitter. Although Twitter is often referred to as a micro-blogging service, some have also suggested it is better compared to a social network, like Facebook. But the data clearly show how Twitter is simply another form of blogging, on a much smaller scale. Last week, The New York Times’ Douglas Quenqua wrote a story examining all of the orphaned and abandoned blogs on the Internet: According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 day... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2469609 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:00:27 +0100 2469609 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=637973&cid=t_121003_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F25%2Fcareer-by-cancer%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Cancer SurvivorsI'm not sure where I was headed professionally before cancer. I knew I was happy as a stay-at-home mom, and I didn't give much thought to what might come next. I was pretty certain I would not do what I did before kids -- college administration and counseling -- and that's as far as I'd gotten in my decision-making process. It seems cancer would have further confused my future intentions. But it didn't. Instead, it led me in a direction I may have otherwise never discovered. First, it guided me to a part-time position at my kids' preschool. Just after surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation and in the midst of Herceptin breast cancer treatment, I felt a strong urge to reenter the world of the living. One day as I was dropping off my oldest child at ... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=637973 Fri, 25 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 637973