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 'ate'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:37 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4337938&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcontraceptive-failures-a-reality-check%2F2011.01.12 The media has been buzzing over recent reports of pregnancies occurring in women using Implanon, a single rod progestin-only contraceptive inserted under the skin of the upper arm and lasting for up to three years. The headlines make it sound horrifying: “Hundreds Become Pregnant Despite Contraceptive Implanon” and “British Pregnancy Scare in UK Implicates Implanon.” I love how terminology can make something so common sound so frightening. Actually, what happened was that 584 pregnancies occurred in Britain among about 1.3 million women using Implanon, for a failure rate of .04 percent. In other words, the method had an efficacy of over 99 percent. That’s a pretty effective contraceptive if you ask me. But it should have been better than that As good as it may seem, this failur... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4337938 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:00:45 +0100 4337938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4018180&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fan-obesity-causing-virus%2F2010.09.29 Finally, the answer to the obesity epidemic. [According to the LA Times], it’s a virus: New evidence indicates that children who are exposed to a virus called adenovirus-36 are more likely to be obese than those who are not exposed to it, and to be heavier than other obese kids who were not exposed to it, researchers said this week. The virus…is one of 10 bacteria and viruses that have been associated with a propensity for putting on plural poundage. Maybe this explains why I and two of my sisters all became fat in the same year. Well, that — combined with the fact that we had just moved to a new neighborhood where there were no kids we knew to play outside with, and we started taking a bus to school instead of walking, and “Dark Shadows” had just started, leadi... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4018180 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:00:08 +0100 4018180 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395089&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fblisstree-video-of-the-day-3%2F Health Care Reform is no joke. When it comes up, tensions do, too. But however you feel about Sunday’s Congressional vote, be grateful you don’t have these kids’ health problems: Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395089 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:35:40 +0100 3395089 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2270332&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Ftragedy-of-jade-goody-would-she-have.html A couple of days ago, we looked at the excellent article on The Tragedy of Jade Goody in the “Blog that ate Manhatten”.  It is well worth taking a look at the comments that the article has generated. Having worked in the USA, I know that there is a general assumption amongst Americans that the NHS is not competent. Americans fear anything with the word “socialist” in it, and the NHS is seen from afar as “socialised” medicine.There is a theme running through some of the comments in the Blog that ate Manhattan that Jade Goody’s problems are a direct result of the failings of the NHS and a consequent implication that “nothing like this could have happened in the USA”. None us know exactly the circumstances in which Jade Goody rejected medical intervention until it was too ... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2270332 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:34:00 +0100 2270332 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2263929&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fjade-goody-lessons-to-be-learnt.html Details of the tragedy of Jade Goody have now reached the United States. As so often via Kevin, (and if you ever want a quick overview on what is happening in the USA medical world, Kevin MD should be your first port of call) I arrive at a thoughtful, though in places wildly incorrect, article by Dr Margaret Poplaneczky an American physician and gourmet who lives, works and cooks in New York. She writes the excellent “Blog that ate Manhattan”Margaret writes sympathetically about Jade.Whatever you think of Jade, the publicity generated by her illness has led to a 20% upswing in the number of women getting Pap smears in Britain.And this is a good thing. Because if Jade's story causes even one young woman to get the smear that saves her life, it will mean Jade’s death will not have been... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2263929 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:57:00 +0100 2263929 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1615961&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F07%2F11%2Fperuvian-man-gives-the-term-iron-stomach-new-meaning%2F Ever eat a huge lunch and feel like your gut was full of lead? Well, if you’re 38-year-old Luis Zarate of Peru, your guts really is full of lead. And other things. Doctors took X-rays of Mr. Zarate after he complained of sharp stomach pains. What they found was 17 different strange objects littering his stomach and colon. Among them: screws, bolts, barbed-wire, nails, pens, a knife and a watch clasp. Wow. Not surprisingly, these unusual delicacies had caused Zarate’s stomach to expand, and surgery was performed to remove the unwelcome objects. Doctors have said that Zarate is mentally ill, but the reasons he went heavy metal are unknown. I guess I’ll think differently about all that pizza I ate for lunch today after this now, how ’bout you? Source Tags: Eating Weird... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1615961 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:07:20 +0100 1615961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1451992&cid=t_192101_151_f&fid=35793&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thejunkyswife.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fdetaching.html The dogs at my husband's methadone. I'm not joking. It really happened.He just phased up, which means that he gets to take home a few doses of methadone at the time. Those of you who have been reading for some time might have noticed that my husband is rather irresponsible. He left one of his doses on a table in the living room, and one of the dogs got it. The bottle was all chewed up, and there was red and sticky methadone goo all over the floor. He likes to learn everything the hard way.So today, he didn't have a dose. He became convinced that he was dopesick well before it was anything anywhere near physically possible for him to feel the effects of missing a dose, and it sent me to a real bad place. Immediately, I'm trying to figure out how this is a ruse. I'm thinking that he isn't re... Heroin Addiction Codependence blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1451992 Mon, 19 May 2008 02:48:00 +0100 1451992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1347314&cid=t_192101_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fprivate-polyclinics-us-style.html Physician and ChefThe Blog that ate Manhattan discusses the impact of "employer-based" health clinics in the land of the free.While Hillary and Obama are debating how to save health care and we all rail against the drugstore clinics, a quiet revolution is primary care delivery is happening right under our noses. I'm talking about employer-based health clinics. In-house clinics operated on site at the job, usually staffed by mid-level practitioners and maybe a doc, sometimes including a pharmacy.What got me thinking about workplace clinics?Well, a few days back, a young patient who I had not seen in 3 years arrived for an appointment, abnormal pap smear in hand, requesting a coloposcopy. She had been referred back to me by the nurse practitioner at her job, where she had been getting free p... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1347314 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:59:00 +0100 1347314