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 'assembly'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:11:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181898&cid=t_150435_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F08%2F31%2Fis-california-eliminating-mental-illness-treatment%2F According to DJ Jaffe, co-founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center which advocates for mandated outpatient treatment laws, California is “eliminating mental illness treatment.” This, of course, will be a surprise to the tens of thousands of mental health providers in California. Millions of Californians currently receive treatment for their mental disorders, both in the private and public sector. In fact, Californians wanted to make up for past deficiencies in funding their mental health services, so they passed a law in 2004 that set aside new money specifically to help fund treatment. Jaffe claims the money isn’t going to the programs it was intended to fund. Should we take his word for it? The easiest way to see whether Jaffe’s claims hold up are to look at the... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181898 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:13:20 +0100 5181898 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952798&cid=t_150435_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FtXqRQT_zECc%2F By Jason Kuznicki“Even Robert Nozick gave up on libertarianism,” says Stephen Metcalf, more or less. “So what’s wrong with you?” (Aside, of course, from the fact that Nozick didn’t give up.) I probably should hesitate before declaring my allegiance to the evil league of evil. But you’re reading this at the Cato Institute, so it may be too late for that. Metcalf’s piece falls into a large and (sadly) growing category for me, one labeled “People Condemning Libertarians for Strange Things That Never Occurred to Anyone, Let Alone to Us.” It never occurred to me, for example, that by citing Wilt Chamberlain as someone who became wealthy in a morally blameless way, Robert Nozick was playing the race card. Metcalf writes: “Wilt C... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952798 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:49:00 +0100 4952798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4294612&cid=t_150435_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fecq--hx6Qew%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoLast August I warned about the troubling signs coming from Panama’s president Ricardo Martinelli. Elected in 2009 on a free market platform, Martinelli has quickly embraced interventionist economic policies (particularly a sharp increase in public spending) that sooner or later will take a toll on Panama’s macroeconomic stability. More worryingly, I pointed at a disturbing pattern of cronyism, erosion of democratic checks and balances, and harassment of the media emanating from the Martinelli administration. A cable released by Wikileaks this week seems to confirm many of these fears. Dated August 2009 and signed by then U.S. Ambassador to Panama Barbara Stephenson, it describes Martinelli’s “autocratic tendencies” such as asking the U.S. government for help... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4294612 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:18:36 +0100 4294612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036632&cid=t_150435_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHG8SU1fNj8g%2F By Juan Carlos Hidalgo The video speaks volumes: During a “friendly” game played in La Paz, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales (wearing green jersey number 10) approaches a rival player to confront him for a previous foul. Suddenly, Morales takes justice into his own hands and savagely knees the player in the groin. The referee sees the action but doesn’t red card Morales. Even the teammates of the assaulted player don’t complain. Instead, the referee expels the attacked player. The game goes on and Morales scores the tying goal for a 4-4 match. It was later reported that Morales’ security detail tried to arrest the player. Evo Morales’ thuggish attitude towards his soccer rivals mirrors his attitude towards political opponents (actually, the team he was playing against was led ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036632 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:39:20 +0100 4036632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629866&cid=t_150435_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FaPuErsvrxto%2F The World Health Organization denied that the pharmaceutical industry influenced its planning for a flu pandemic, but new documents suggest that several key scientists who advised the agency had done paid work for the drugmakers - Roche and GlaxoSmithKline - that stood to profit from their guidance, BMJ reports. And while the WHO’s decisions led numerous governments to stockpile billions of dollars of antivirals, the agency failed to provide any details about conflict of interests involving the experts who were consulted and if any action was taken “despite repeated requests.” 
 The disclosure come just as a report was released today by the Council of Europe, which harshly criticized the lack of transparency around the handling of the swine flu pandemic. The WHO’s act... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629866 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:49:47 +0100 3629866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3321989&cid=t_150435_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.virology.ws%2F011_W3310_10.wmv Download: .wmv (354 MB) | .mp4 (104 MB) Visit the virology W3310 home page for a complete list of course resources. (Source: virology blog) virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3321989 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:07:35 +0100 3321989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139244&cid=t_150435_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FBhRTdzgW53Y%2F That’s the contention by more than a dozen members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which reportedly plans to conduct an inquiry into the influence that drugmakers may have had on the World Health Organization, scientists and governments. A resolution was introduced last month by Wolfgang Wodarg, a member of Germany’s Social Democratic Party who chairs the PACE health committee, and it reads: “In order to promote their patented drugs and vaccines against flu, pharmaceutical companies have influenced scientists and official agencies, responsible for public health standards, to alarm governments worldwide. They have made them squander tight health care resources for inefficient vaccine strategies and needlessly exposed millions of healthy people to th... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139244 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:09:04 +0100 3139244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3111374&cid=t_150435_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F12%2Faddressing-drug-biotechnology-and.html We have frequently discussed how financial relationships among physicians, other health care professionals, and health care academics, on one hand, and drug, biotechnology, medical device and other health care corporations may have adverse effects on patient care and medical teaching and research.  A first step towards addressing these relationships would be their full disclosure.  Here in the US, Senators Grassley (R-Iowa) and Kohl (D-Wisconsin) have been pushing for a Physician Payments Sunshine Act which would require all such companies to disclose all such payments.  Whether it will become law, as part of health care reform legislation or independently, is now anyone's guess.Since we are based in the US, we tend to discuss such issues from a US viewpoint.  Just to s... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3111374 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:13:00 +0100 3111374 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3056617&cid=t_150435_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FP1wbE-cyLCA%2F That is one of the conclusions in my new paper, “Made on Earth: How Global Economic Integration Renders Trade Policy Obsolete.” For hundreds of years, trade policy has been premised on the assumptions that exports are good, imports are bad, and the interests of domestic producers are tantamount to the “national interest.” Though that mercantilist worldview has never been accurate, its persistence as a pillar of trade policy into the 21st century is especially confounding given the emergence and proliferation of disaggregated production processes, transnational supply chains, and cross-border investment. Those trends have blurred any meaningful distinctions between “our” producers and “their” producers and speak to a long chain of interdepende... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3056617 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:57:28 +0100 3056617 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851790&cid=t_150435_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fgalgal-ha-machzor.html The Rabbinical Assembly continues to be liturgenic. Before Yom Kippur I got a look at a PDF (uncorrected, not for distribution, highly radioactive, not proofread, and under the strictness of Conservative cherems. Also available here) of the new RA High Holiday machzor, scheduled for publication in May, 2010. Readers of this blog (hi, Dad) might know that I have bitched and moaned in the past about the Conservative machzor, vintage 1978, with its worst translation in the world and assorted theological missteps (confessing our sins against the victims of the Holocaust!). Features of the new machzor, or at least what I saw of it, that I like:Retaining (or reviving) the double-acrostic al-chet.Revising and in many cases improving the English translations.Including piyyutim (liturgical poetry) ... Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851790 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:09:00 +0100 2851790 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464095&cid=t_150435_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpjPfPUU8O18%2F Earlier today, Doug Bandow weighed in with some commentary on the problems that Buy American provisions are creating for both Canadian and American businesses. Let me reinforce his view that such rules are anachronistic and self-defeating with some thoughts from a forthcoming paper of mine about the incongruity between modern commercial reality and trade policies that have failed to keep pace. Even though President Obama implored, “If you are considering buying a car, I hope it will be an American car,” it is nearly impossible to determine objectively what makes an American car. The auto industry provides a famous example, but is really just one of many that transcends national boundaries and renders obsolete the notion of international competition as a contest between “our” pro... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464095 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:34:17 +0100 2464095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1828035&cid=t_150435_111_f&fid=34615&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emergiblog.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fena-annual-meeting-i-made-it.html I can’t believe I am actually here in beautiful Minneapolis (land of James Lileks, my blogfather!) for the ENA Annual Meeting and Scientific Assembly! I already have a ton of post ideas - six, to be exact, and that was just from the keynote address! I did want to mention, before going on, that I met Zippy’s cousin today! This is Eenah the Lobster (get it? E-N-A = Eenah) and she is the mascot for the 2009 ENA Meeting in Baltimore! Zippy himself should be arriving at my door any day now. Hubby is expecting him! I hope I can show him as good a time as everyone else has. Hope he likes coffee. And NASCAR! And the Cleveland Browns! And Notre Dame! I’ll turn Zippy into such a Notre Dame fan he’ll turn irish green! ******************** The lovely lady on my left is Ms. Can... Emergiblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1828035 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:41:15 +0100 1828035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1522207&cid=t_150435_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F313315361%2F This is a research blog so I though I'd post some quick numbers we are seeing for de novo assembly of the Neurospora crassa genome using Velvet. The genome of N.crassa is about 40Mb and sequencing of several flow cells using Solexa/Illumina technology to see what kind of de novo reconstruction we'd get. I knew that this is probably insufficient for a very good assembly given what has been reported in the literature, but sometimes it is helpful to give it a try on local data.  Mostly this is a project about SNP discovery from the outset. I used a hash size of 21 in velvet with an early (2FC) and later (4FC) dataset. Velvet was run with a hashsize of 21 for these data based on some calculations and running it with different hash sizes to see the optimal N50.  Summary contig size numbers c... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1522207 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:38:37 +0100 1522207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=505072&cid=t_150435_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fmy-favorite-gay-and-lesbian-teshuvah-it.html My favorite gay-and-lesbian teshuvahIt took me this long to read Rabbi Gordon Tucker's teshuvah? It's as if all the questions and problems I have been having, all the points I have been fumbling after (and wasting precious bandwidth on, inelegantly and ineloquently, in this blog) have been encapsulated and justified. Go read. Let's talk. Dov W., are you out there? Come challenge. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=505072 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:38:00 +0100 505072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487477&cid=t_150435_122_f&fid=35072&url=http%3A%2F%2Fforebrain.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F11%2Fcannabinoids-spike-timing-and-cell.html Nature Neuroscience: Cannabinoids reveal importance of spike timing coordination in hippocampal functionDavid Robbe, Sean M Montgomery, Alexander Thome, Pavel E Rueda-Orozco, Bruce L McNaughton & György BuzsakiHow does cannabinoids, the primary psychoactive component of marijuana, impair episodic memory? The authors showed that intrahippocampal infusion of cannabinoids reduces oscillation power at theta, gamma and ripple range. This manipulation also impairs the performance of a delayed alteration memory task. The extent of memory impairment is correlated with the decrement of theta oscillation power (which can not be trivially explained by a change in running speed).The intriguing finding of the paper is that, despite the lack of change in average firing rate at the time scale of >20... SCLin's neuroscience blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487477 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:10:00 +0100 487477