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 'atlas'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:51:00 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5158948&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXEZiNWNBQiA%2F By Tom G. Palmer John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of a substantial wealth-creating business enterprise, explains the moral significance of business.  A longer interview with Mackey, along with other thinkers, can be found in The Morality of Capitalism, available here.  (The book is being distributed by the Atlas Network and Students for Liberty.) The Morality of Business Enterprise is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5158948 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:03:33 +0100 5158948 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5077651&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fk-GVclYFIbo%2F By Daniel J. MitchellIn a perverse way, I’m glad that there are places such as Greece and Illinois. These profligate jurisdictions are useful examples of the dangers of bloated government and reckless statism. There also are some cities that serve as reverse role models. Detroit is a miserable case study of big government run amok, so I enjoyed a moment or two of guilty pleasure as I read this CNBC story about the ongoing decay of the Motor City. Here are some excerpts: Detroit neighborhoods with more people and a better chance of survival will receive different levels of city services than more blighted areas under a plan unveiled Wednesday that some residents fear may pit them against each other for scarce resources. …[T]he boundaries of the 139-square-mile city aren’t ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5077651 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:12:19 +0100 5077651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050521&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJA4uHq64LKQ%2F El Universo, the newspaper with the largest circulation and the paper that publishes my weekly column, ran a mostly blank front page today that features only this quote from Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. This quote is from Francisco D’Anconia’s speec... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050521 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:12:09 +0100 5050521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5050778&cid=t_101073_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.drmalpani.com%2F2011%2F07%2Ffarmers-doctors-and-society.html I was just reading a great book called, Food for Thought – Towards a Future for Farming. This is what the blurb on the back cover had to say. “ The French radical farmers union Confederation Paysanne.., has led the world in demonstrating the possibility of a socially progressive future for training. Rejecting the increasing intensification and industrialization of agriculture, the Confederation has argued for the need for local food production by small, independent farmers-both for the sake of the quality of the food we consume and to support the kind of societies we want to live in. .. the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture are both designed to encourage an increasing free-market, profit-maximizing, destructive agriculture. The majority of farmers have lost out and continue to lose. Agr... The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5050778 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:28:00 +0100 5050778 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952845&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-school-to-require-incoming-students-to-purchase-ipads%2F2011.06.20 In a little seen nugget published in an article of the Chronicle, the Ivy League medical school, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will be requiring their incoming medical students to use the Inkling e-book app for key medical textbooks in their first year of medical school. They will be requiring their incoming first year class to purchase iPads as well. We have been the first to report how and why Inkling is a game changer in the arena of medical e-books when we reviewed Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology: Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology for the iPad allows you to highlight, write notes, view innovative multimedia modules, and easily search for content — taking what you can do on a paper based textbook to a higher level — and taking e-learning to a comple... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952845 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:00:38 +0100 4952845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4841441&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fh83wI2sGJyQ%2F By George ScovilleThe free market needs and deserves a moral defense. Cato senior fellow Tom G. Palmer delivers part of that defense, regarding economic profits, in a new video: This is an installment in a series entitled “The Morality of Free Enterprise,” a joint project of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, where Palmer serves as the vice president of international programs, and the John Templeton Foundation. Palmer is also the director of Cato University; so if you’d like to hear more from him, we hope you’ll register today and join us July 24-29 in historic Annapolis, Maryland for our annual summer seminar on political economy. Students may also apply for a scholarship. The Morality of Profit is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cat... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4841441 Tue, 17 May 2011 18:02:35 +0100 4841441 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4758741&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fer8WI4V0fNA%2F By David BoazOn NPR, Mara Liasson tells Melissa Block that we’re in a “libertarian moment” in politics: BLOCK: And Ron Paul appears to be running. Again, he got a lot of devoted followers on the Internet last time during the 2008 bid, not so many votes in the primary. So this time around, is he a significant addition to the Republican field or more of an asterisk? LIASSON: Well, I don’t think he’s a huge factor in terms of the nomination. In the 2008 GOP primary, he got only about 6 percent of the Republican vote. However, as you said, he does have a devoted following, lots of libertarian-leaning young people. He can raise millions of dollars online in a single day in one of his famous money bombs. So he brings energy to the party, and the Republican Party bas... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4758741 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:02:33 +0100 4758741 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4696620&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fbook-review-atlas-of-ultrasound-guided-procedures-in-interventional-pain-management%2F2011.04.10 Narouze SN, ed. Atlas of Ultrasound-Guided Procedures in Interventional Pain Management.  Springer 2011, 372 pages, 465 illustration, $189.00. In 1941, Dr. Karl Theodore Dussik of Austria introduced the idea of using ultrasound waves as a diagnostic tool. Over the next few decades he, along with others like Professor Ian Donald of Scotland, developed the practical technology and applications of ultrasound in the field of medicine. Since then, ultrasound (US) has become progressively more useful across a wide range of medical specialties, for both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. US is quickly becoming the imaging modality of choice to guide practitioners in pain management and musculoskeletal interventions. Although fluoroscopy has long been a mainstay in image-guidance for such pro... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696620 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:00:11 +0100 4696620 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684263&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQPvbHPrpY8g%2F By George Scoville DON'T FORGET: Our fiscal policy conference, "The Economic Impact of Government Spending," featuring Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), former Senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), Representative Kevin Brady (R-Tex.), and other distinguished guests, begins at 2:00 p.m. Eastern today. Please join us on the web--you can watch the conference LIVE here. Atlas Shrugged Motors presents the Chevy Volt. The parable of the Good Samaritan teaches us about the moral value of voluntary charity toward the needy--it says nothing about using coercive government programs of the modern welfare state. It is not the role of the Court to rewrite laws for Congress. The failed "war on drugs" has reshaped our budgets, politics, laws, and society--and for what? Thursday Links is a pos... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684263 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:50:14 +0100 4684263 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4670095&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FesbVSDUr5i4%2F By George Scoville They passed the bill, and now we're finding out what's in it. We're finding out that the war in Libya could really be about protecting European interests. In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand described a world in which government both partly produced and partly subsidized goods; we're finding out she wasn't far off the mark. We're finding out that "American exceptionalism" is a cloak for military adventurism. The longer America fights a war on drugs, the more we find out about how detrimental it is to our fiscal outlook: Friday Links is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4670095 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:45:22 +0100 4670095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4470466&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=37835&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iqscorner.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fthecognitive-atlas-project-way-cool.html Very intriguing article and description of the Cognitive Atlas Project, a scientific social collaborative knowledge project.Poldrack, R. A. (2010). Mapping Mental Function to Brain Structure: How Can Cognitive Neuroimaging Succeed? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(6), 753-761AbstractThe goal of cognitive neuroscience is to identify the mapping between brain function and mental processing. In this article, I examine the strategies that have been used to identify such mappings and argue that they may be fundamentally unable to identify selective structure–function mappings. To understand the functional anatomy of mental processes, it will be necessary for researchers to move from the brain-mapping strategies that the field has employed toward a search for selective associations. Th... Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4470466 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:04:00 +0100 4470466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455262&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fintegrating-major-health-systems-could-make-things-worse%2F2011.02.09 Health reformers propose the proliferation of integrated health systems, like the Mayo Clinic or Kaiser Permanente, which, according to the Dartmouth Atlas, lead to better patient care and improved cost control. To that end, accountable care organizations (ACOs) have been a major part of health reform, changing the way healthcare is delivered. Never mind that patients may not be receptive to the new model, but the creation of these large, integrated physician-hospital entities that progressive policy experts espouse comes with repercussions. Monopoly power. To prepare for the new model of healthcare delivery, physician practices have been consolidating. In many cases, they’re being bought by hospitals. Last year, I wrote how this is leading to the death of the private practice physician... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455262 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:00:58 +0100 4455262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4179354&cid=t_101073_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2F_XBOzQdpEkc%2Fscience-sightings-from-sciencebase.html My latest science news updates First stem cell trial in stroke patient, how did the media do – In its regular assessment and critique of reporting on medical happenings, NHS Choices looked at the recent early test of stem cell therapy for a stroke victim and reports (amazingly) that "In general, the media coverage has been accurate." Sex and CERN and Rock ‘n Roll – Forget mini Big Bangs, benchtop black holes and the God particle, scientists at CERN are releasing an album called Resonance Music from their LHC Atlas Experiment. You'll have to ask them if the first bit of my title is relevant or not. Brain size and a trip to Disneyland – Could the enormous relative size and complexity of the human brain be explained by that trip to Disneyland your paren... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4179354 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:00:05 +0100 4179354 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3993914&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fprimary-care-has-it-been-oversold%2F2010.09.21 Citing a new study by the Dartmouth Atlas, the Wall Street Journal’s health blog provocatively asks: “Has the notion of ‘access’ to primary care been oversold?” The Dartmouth researchers found “that there is no simple relationship between the supply of physicians and access to primary care.” That is, they found that having a greater supply of primary care physicians in a community doesn’t mean that the community necessarily has better access to primary care. Some areas of the country with fewer primary care physicians per population do better on access than other areas with more primary care physicians. The researchers also report that the numbers of family physicians is more positively associated with better access than the numbers of internists... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3993914 Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:00:00 +0100 3993914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3982002&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F09%2Fmatthew-holt-matthew-holt-of-the-health-care-blog-and-i-am-just-absolutely-delighted-today-that-my-interview-subject-is-vi.html By Matthew Holt I was absolutely delighted that after several polite "maybe later" responses I was able to recently interview Victor Fuchs, the Henry J. Kaiser Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. Vic is best known as the "Father of Health... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3982002 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3982002 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3880859&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnew-york-times-lou-gehrig-may-not-have-had-lou-gehrigs-disease%2F2010.08.18 This was one time when the headline was okay, but the story that followed had our heads spinning. “Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic Lou Gehrig’s Disease” is a story that was troubling on a number of fronts. It reported on a study which at the time had not yet been published suggesting that some “athletes and soldiers given a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…might have been catalyzed by injuries only now becoming understood: concussions and other brain trauma.” To be clear — and please don’t anyone miss or miscontrue this point — this is an important and fascinating area of research. But the story did not exhibit the best of health/medical/science journalism: 1. It was based on a study of 3 people. (The ALS Association says th... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3880859 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:00:38 +0100 3880859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683577&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F06%2Fdoing-their-homework-times-reporters-respond-in-dartmouth-atlas-spat.html By MERRILL GOOZNER Over the weekend, the two New York Times reporters who challenged the core findings of the Dartmouth Atlas of Health stuck to their guns in a detailed response to the rejoinder to their critique. The Dartmouth Atlas,... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683577 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3683577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3635728&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1RPluDhZbJk%2F By Michael F. CannonResearch by scholars at Dartmouth Medical School suggests that Americans waste gobs of money on medical care.  Last week, The New York Times ran a fairly lame critique of the Dartmouth research, by Reed Abelson and Gardiner Harris.  Kate Steadman of Kaiser Health News provides a good synopsis of expert reaction to the story and writes, “Conservative and libertarian health policy bloggers were largely silent, ignoring the debate.”  Although this libertarian wasn’t exactly ignoring the debate, the categorization is largely fair.  More about that in a moment. Abelson and Harris’s portrayal of the Dartmouth research is completely at odds with my understanding of that research. Source: www.dartmouthatlas.org Decades ago, Dartmouth researchers stum... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3635728 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:20:51 +0100 3635728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3424827&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fp7y_KPndu78%2F By Daniel J. MitchellTom Palmer of the Atlas Network has a very concise — yet quite devastating — video exposing the Keynesian fallacy that the destruction of wealth by calamities such as earthquakes or terrorism is good for economic growth. Tom cites the work of Bastiat, who sagely observed that, “There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.” As you can see from the video, many who pontificate about economic matters today miss this essential insight. I can’t resist the opportunity to also plug a couple of my own videos that touch on the same issues. Here’s one ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3424827 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:09:53 +0100 3424827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331276&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPF4QysQiVgg%2F By Daniel J. MitchellFiscal crises have a predictable pattern. Step 1 occurs when the economy is prospering and tax revenues are growing faster than forecast. Step 2 is when politicians use the additional money to increase government spending. Step 3 is that politicians do not treat the extra tax revenue like a temporary windfall and budget accordingly.Instead, they adopt policies – more entitlements, more bureaucrats – that permanently expand the burden of the public sector. Step 4 occurs when the economy stumbles (in part because more resources are being diverted from the productive sector to the government) and tax revenues stagnate. If the resulting fiscal gap is large enough, as it is in places such as Greece and California, a crisis atmosphere is created. Step 5 takes pla... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331276 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:53:29 +0100 3331276 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139006&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F01%2Fthe-five-things-to-pay-attention-to-in-2010.html By Matthew Holt There’s no doubt that despite my thoughts that Obama wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) have pushed health reform in 2009, it was a very big year for health care. Death panels, public options et al—one hundred thousand visits to... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139006 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3139006 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3059715&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQK8uAGrFCoc%2F The Wall Street Journal has an interesting column that asks whether Ayn Rand, the famous libertarian novelist and philosopher, is a net plus for the free-market movement. This seems like an odd question. After all, her books (especially Atlas Shrugged) have been hugely influential, exposing countless people to a libertarian message. But the column’s author, Heather Wilhelm of the free-market Illinois Policy Institute, has a good point. Rand’s emphasis on individual freedom is laudable, but she makes herself an easy target by asserting that this requires über-individualism and leaves no room for altruism. Indeed, I’ll always remember being somewhat put off by the scene in Atlas Shrugged where one of protagonists rents, rather than lends, his car to a friend. And even tho... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3059715 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:22:14 +0100 3059715 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2890615&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQV4M6WVbZ0k%2F Our friends at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation are offering prizes for the best essays on sound money by students and young faculty and policy analysts: The Atlas Economic Research Foundation invites you to participate in its Sound Money Essay Contest, which has a deadline of November 24th, 2009. The contest is open to students, young faculty, and policy writers who are interested in the cause of sound money.  It aims to engage you in thinking about sound money principles with relevance to today’s economic challenges. The overall winner will receive a cash prize of $5000.  Two additional prizes of $1000 each will be given to outstanding essays written by junior faculty, graduate students, or policy writers.   And three additional prizes of $500 each will be given to outsta... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2890615 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:16:29 +0100 2890615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871608&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FHa0wmbppsG4%2F Well – sadly it’s been one year since I have posted a blog with Disruptive Women in Healthcare so I really need to update you all on the fascinating science occurring in the genomics community. Shortly after I wrote my last blog in October 2008, I attended a meeting at one of our country’s finest scientific institutions– Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories – where some of the world’s foremost scientific discoveries have occurred. At this inaugural meeting entitled “Personal Genomes”, scientists discussed the tremendous potential for understanding the genome and translating this knowledge into our quest for the personalization of healthcare – yet at this meeting one year ago, we were acknowledging that we had sequenced less than a handful of genomes, the task at hand enorm... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871608 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:05:33 +0100 2871608 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2621753&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsCMpV_2jsXo%2F Cato’s new staff writer, Aaron Powell, told me he had recently seen two people on the Washington Metro reading The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. That prompted me to check the sales figures for Road to Serfdom at Nielsen’s Bookscan. And whattaya know? Sales have increased this year at an even faster pace than sales of Atlas Shrugged. (Atlas sells 10 times as many copies, but the percentage increase over last year is less.) So far this year the most popular edition of Road to Serfdom has sold 11,366 copies. That compares with 3,131 copies at the same point last year. That’s a 263 percent increase for those of you keeping score at home. Why? Well, no doubt huge new government spending programs and attempts to massively expand the welfare state send people looking for class... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2621753 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:20:56 +0100 2621753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2556347&cid=t_101073_150_f&fid=38374&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FEPharmaSummit%2F%7E3%2F2hWMhA9sF8s%2Fcompany-looks-to-health-20.html (Source: ePharma Summit) ePharma Summit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2556347 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:17:00 +0100 2556347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510467&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fmcallen-is-now-a-tale-of-three-counties.html By DANIEL GILDEN Daniel Gilden is a health services researcher with 20 years of hard core quant experience.He's the President of JEN Associates which provides highly specialized analysis of Medicare and Medicaid data. He contacted THCB regarding the fuss about... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510467 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:00:00 +0100 2510467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2477588&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fthe-road-from-mcallen-to-el-paso.html By HAROLD S. LUFT Dr. Atul Gawande has provided a chilling description of the problems facing true health reform in his recent New Yorker article. In The Cost Conundrum he describes how medical care is provided in McAllen, Texas, which... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2477588 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2477588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464159&cid=t_101073_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F06%2Fevidence-based-lobbying.html Leaders of the medical-industrial complex wonder if the Dartmouth research findings might be a touch overblown. I dunno - maybe. But don't we doctors do a lot else based on much less evidence? What fraction of hallowed medical practice is based on no more than class IIb recommendations?Heck, I'm ready for New York to get less medical money. I don't think the kinds of places I'd rather practice are the ones that are overspending. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464159 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:47:00 +0100 2464159 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2458089&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fdatadriven-health-care-an-interview-with-jerry-reeves-md.html An under-the-radar debate is occurring in health care between those who say data shows that practice variations across the land are “unwarranted” and those who maintain that such variation is inevitable given socioeconomic population differences and cost of practice differences... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2458089 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2458089 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2416801&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FT59DO-gId_w%2F Sales of Atlas Shrugged have risen sharply this year, and various observers from the Ayn Rand Institute to the Economist have attributed the jump to “uncanny similarities between the plot-line of the book and the events of our day,” in the words of ARI’s Yaron Brook. The Economist writes, Whenever governments intervene in the market, in short, readers rush to buy Rand’s book. Why? The reason is explained by the name of a recently formed group on Facebook, the world’s biggest social-networking site: “Read the news today? It’s like ‘Atlas Shrugged’ is happening in real life”. Brook told CNN: “So many people see the parallels with actually what’s going on, with the government taking over the banks, with the government kind of taking over the autom... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2416801 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:53:51 +0100 2416801 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405141&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F05%2Fconnecting-value-to-coverage-a-first-glimpse.html By MICHAEL PAINTER Would you take a virtual walk with me across the Dartmouth Atlas map on RWJF's web site? Just follow the link. Now, move your cursor first over, say, anywhere in Minnesota. There, you'll see that 2006 Medicare... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405141 Thu, 14 May 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2405141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2380728&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTH9YJzJh5n4%2F A coalition of more than 70 groups around the world, from Canada to Brazil to Kyrgyzstan to Germany to China to Japan to Kenya, has joined together to stop the dangerous stirrings of protectionism.  The FreedomToTrade.org coalition (coordinated internationally by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the International Policy Network) has circulated a petition (signed by over 1,000 economists and thousands of others) and is now producing documentaries to alert the public to the dangers posed by protectionism.  This one is on the role the Smoot-Hawley Tariff played in turning a serious recession into the Great Depression. The mini-documentary is also being made available in 12 other languages.  The Spanish version will be available on Cato’s Spanish-language project, ElCato.or... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2380728 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:41:00 +0100 2380728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2195235&cid=t_101073_129_f&fid=36038&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.everydayhealth.com%2Fblog%2Ftrevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms%2Fwhat-ms-looks-like-in-other-parts-of-the-world%2F A long time ago on this blog I conducted an informal poll of our readers asking them where they were from.  We ended up with a number that consisted of 20 different countries; that’s some coverage! One thing I think of a lot is the prevalence (or lack thereof) of multiple sclerosis in some countries versus others.  I’ve wondered: is it possible to live in a place where no one has ever even heard of multiple sclerosis?  What is it like to try to get MS services in those places?  How hard is it to find a neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis?  I recently found out that I’m not the only one to wonder. Last fall the World Health Organization (WHO) compiled all of its data into a very user friendly “Atlas” of MS.  This data updates a previously published version of 2006... Life with MS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2195235 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:12:52 +0100 2195235 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2006368&cid=t_101073_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2F4-days-and-crazy-ht-happens.html Did you ever notice how everyone drops out at Thanksgiving, leading to a 4 day weekend? I did, and I dropped out......a little. But I did keep my ear to the ground and found some interesting news I want to share with my wonderful readers!1. JAMA publishes an article which says, poor glucose control in diabetics puts you at risk for heart disease.....but if you have a 9p21 genetic polymorphism it REALLY puts you at risk....Ok, so what does that mean? Well, they studied patients who had cardiac catheterizations. In those who had 50% or greater blockage of a vessel, you were 4 times more likely to have poor diabetic control AND 9p21 polymorphisms. If you just had poorly controlled diabetes......2 times more likely. What is the clinical take away? Is it ok to have poorly controlled diabetes if... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2006368 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:27:00 +0100 2006368 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1838137&cid=t_101073_105_f&fid=36987&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FIvorKovicMd%2F%7E3%2F406790067%2F Modality has just released their two new educational apps for the iPhone. They started with fantastic Netter’s anatomy flash cards and now they moved on to one of the most respected step-by-step guides to general surgery procedures, Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations. Zollinger’s Atlas of Surgical Operations consists of several parts devoted to gastrointestinal, miscellaneous abdominal, vascular, gynecologic and additional procedures. So far Modality has released upper and lower gastrointestinal procedures. Here is what they say…. The classic guide to general surgery procedures is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch. Based on the renowned Eighth Edition as available on AccessSurgery, Zollinger’s iPhone applications allow you to access step-by-st... Ivor Kovic, M.D. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1838137 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:29:33 +0100 1838137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1740472&cid=t_101073_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F08%2F28%2Fpresidential-proclamation-begins-national-ovarian-cancer-awareness-month-september-2008%2F “During National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, we remember those whose lives have been affected by this deadly disease, and we underscore our commitment to battling ovarian cancer for the sake of women around the world. …” “For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary August 26, 2008 National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, 2008 A Proclamation by the President of the [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1740472 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:00:58 +0100 1740472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1631185&cid=t_101073_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fmore-health-care-is-not-better.html What explains the large variation in health care costs across the country? You would expect that the regions with the highest health care expenditures have the sickest patients, or have the highest prevalence of chronic health conditions. But you would be wrong. Health care expenditures are highest where health care supply is the highest. As the number of hospital beds, doctors, and medical technologies (”supply-limited health care”) increases, the use of these goods increases as well.More in Clinical Correlations, the blog of NYU Internal Medicine. (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1631185 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:18:00 +0100 1631185 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1433968&cid=t_101073_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F10%2Fian-rand-and-the-situation-of-ideas%2F Last week Clark Davis had a piece titled “Ayn Rand Studies on Campus,” on NPR’s Morning Edition, May 6, 2008. The story illustrates one of the many ways in which dispositionism is promoted (and, by implication, situationism is undermined). To listen to the story (roughly 4 minutes), click here. We have excerpted portions of the transcript below and added two videos (the first and second parts) of a remarkable Dan Rather interview of Ayn Rand. * * * John Allison, CEO of banking giant BB&T, calls Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged “the best defense of capitalism ever written.” He says that Rand changed his life, and he’s working to ensure that the deceased author isn’t left out of the nation’s college curricula. Since 2005, the BB&amp... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1433968 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:42 +0100 1433968 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1112061&cid=t_101073_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F204263616%2F A relatively new and anonymous web site devoted to defending pharma is generating some curiosity. Known as BigPharmaRealPeople, the site portrays itself as home to the ordinary pharma employee, unabashedly defends the pharmaceutical industry and gleefully attacks individuals and groups branded as enemies for programs and legislation that are seen as encroaching on the industry’s mission - saving lives. Among those on the Nixon-like enemies list: Washington DC council member David Catania, who wants to license sales reps, and New Jersey attorney general Anne Milgram, who recently convened a task force to probe interactions between docs and pharma. Another enemy: the National Physicians Alliance, which eschews ties to drugmakers. Government intervention, for instance, is blamed for tho... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1112061 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:15:35 +0100 1112061 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1063588&cid=t_101073_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2007%2F12%2F01%2Fatlas-shrugged-and-environmentalism%2F I just wish to share this press advisory I received via email, since I’m subscribed to ARI’s mailing list. Atlas Shrugged and Environmentalism Who: Dr. Keith Lockitch, resident fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute What: A talk and Q&A on Atlas Shrugged and the application of Ayn Rand’s ideas to environmentalism When: Saturday, December 8, 2007, at 3 pm Where: Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, 1623 N. Ivar Ave., Hollywood, CA 90028; Phone: (323) 856-8260 Sponsored by: Los Angeles Public Library and the Ayn Rand Institute Admission is FREE Description: Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957, about a decade before the rise of the modern environmentalist movement.  Yet the ideas in Atlas Shrugged are indispensable to understanding and ev... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1063588 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:38:23 +0100 1063588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1035016&cid=t_101073_105_f&fid=36673&url=http%3A%2F%2Fweb2097.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fweb-20-tool-to-study-histology-by-your.html I am thinking about what we can learn at home without the necessity of moving out of there, and without the necessity of spending lot of money in tuition fees, books, transportation, etc. While doing that I start with these posts. The links I put here are all around the blog, but because I notice people do not spend time checking all the blog, I decide to select the best links and share them directly with all of you. This post is about Histology, like many other courses of basic sciences I studied at medical school, I did it in black and white only, from photocopied books I could afford. Now internet allows new generation of doctors avoid this, and study from really good material they can access for free. The photo above is "Santiago Ramón y Cajal at work", to learn more about him click i... Web 2.0 and Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1035016 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:10:00 +0100 1035016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=628314&cid=t_101073_90_f&fid=34474&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcasesblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Ffree-ophthalmology-atlas.html DavidRothman.net links to RedAtlas.org -- a free online atlas of ophthalmic disorders in existence since 2002.The atlas has sections for Anterior Segment, Glaucoma, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics, Pathology, Retina and Uveitis. It is case-based but almost all cases lack the history part and only the images are shown, which is the most important feature of an atlas after all.Image source: RedAtlas.org. (Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog) Clinical Cases and Images - Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=628314 Sun, 20 May 2007 20:43:00 +0100 628314 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510352&cid=t_101073_87_f&fid=34969&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FUnboundedMedicine%2F%7E3%2FKQRBlEa9btc%2F Artist Koen Hauser is a specialist in digital picture manipulation. This collection is called Modische Atlas der Anatomie. Lovely work I said. Via atlas der anatomie, digital manipulation (Source: Unbounded Medicine) Unbounded Medicine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510352 Sun, 06 May 2007 19:10:42 +0100 2510352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486861&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=35074&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrainmaps.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fbrainmapsorg-featured-on-cover-of.html - Shawn MikulaBrainMaps.org was featured on the March 15, 2007, cover of NeuroImage for the article entitled, "Internet-Enabled High-Resolution Brain Mapping and Virtual Microscopy". This is only the beginning.BrainMaps.org is far more than a cool online high resolution brain atlas, it is also a research tool. When used in conjunction with tools like BrainMaps Analyze, it is possible to download image data from brainmaps.org and apply image analysis routines. It is also possible to do 3D reconstructions and morphological analyses. Expect to see upcoming publications emphasizing this point. (Source: Brain Maps) Brain Maps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486861 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:20:00 +0100 486861 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486859&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=35074&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbrainmaps.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fgoogle-earth-for-brain_24.html - Shawn MikulaUsers of BrainMaps.org have often described it as a Google Maps for the Brain, which is interesting because we have taken Google Maps as an inspiration and a guide for what mapping the brain should be like. In line with this, one of the developers at BrainMaps.org, Issac Trotts, has released a veritable Google Earth for the Brain, called StackVis. In a nutshell, StackVis is a 3D viewer of neuroanatomical sections. But it is revolutionary in the sense that it permits rapid interactive viewing of arbitrarily large images. Conventional microscopy, electron microscopy, and imaging techniques such as MRI and PET commonly generate large stacks of images of the sectioned brain. In other domains, such as neurophysiology, variables such as space or time are also varied along a stack a... Brain Maps blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486859 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:36:00 +0100 486859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471533&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=34757&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbraintechsci.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fsynapse-resolution-whole-brain-atlases.html In conclusion, for purposes of obtaining information about whole-brain connectivity, a nanometer-resolution whole-brain scan is required, and current-day tracer experiments are suboptimal and will always leave room for ambiguities that can only be resolved by completely mapping every synapse and axon in the brain. However, constructing a synapse resolution (or nanometer resolution) whole-brain atlas for even a mouse brain is so formidable as to be seemingly beyond today's technological capabilities. Maybe in 10-20 years. (Source: BrainTechSci) BrainTechSci blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471533 Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:45:00 +0100 471533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471539&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=34757&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbraintechsci.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F10%2Fpaul-allen-brain-atlas-misconceptions.html I had noticed last Tuesday a blip on the visitor activity site statistics for this blog, and when I looked into it further, saw that increasing numbers of people were coming to this blog by searching for the Allen Brain Atlas. Apparently, this visitor activity 'blip' corresponded to a publicity campaign launched by the Paul Allen marketing department on that same day to publicize that all the genes in the mouse brain had been mapped. I have posted some things that were critical of the Allen Brain Project, but not unrightly so. I want to see the project succeed and not merely create illusions and spread disinformation through the media. With this in mind, I would like to correct some the media hype and falsehoods about the Allen Brain Project that have been widely circulated.Common Allen Br... BrainTechSci blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471539 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:12:00 +0100 471539 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471538&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=34757&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbraintechsci.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F09%2Fgoogle-earth-for-brain.html If BrainMaps.org is like Google Maps for the Brain, StackVis is Google Earth for the Brain. Welcome to StackVis, a 3D viewer of neuroanatomical sections.Figure Caption. The development of additional desktop application tools for interacting with brainmaps.org image and database data includes the one shown here, StackVis, which is a 3D viewer of neuroanatomical virtual slide image stacks that is integrated with high resolution viewing of and interaction with individual sections comprising the image stack. (A) horizontal image stack of nissls of the macaque brain viewed from below. (B) same image stack as in (A) but from a different perspective, with increased inter-section spacing, and with areal and nuclear labels. (C) coronal image stack of nissls of the mouse brain. (D) a section from (C... BrainTechSci blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471538 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 06:08:00 +0100 471538 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=472271&cid=t_101073_109_f&fid=34794&url=http%3A%2F%2Fadseg-shu.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F09%2Fjust-in-case-i-have-forgotten-to_12.html Just in case I have forgotten to mention it, my cousin is the author of the definitive Atlas of Micronesia. I am quite proud of his accomplishments. This sort of thing seems to run in my family. But so do knuckleheads... (Source: Turn Your Head and Scoff) Turn Your Head and Scoff blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=472271 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:56:00 +0100 472271 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471536&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=34757&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbraintechsci.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F08%2Fvirtual-microscopy-disruptive.html Virtual microscopy is a method of posting microscope images on, and transmitting them over, computer networks. This allows independent viewing of images by large numbers of people in diverse locations.Prior to recent advances in virtual microscopy, slides were commonly digitized by various forms of film scanner and image resolutions rarely exceeded 5000 dpi. Nowadays, it is possible to achieve more than 100,000 dpi and thus resolutions approaching that visible under the optical microscope. This increase in scanning resolution comes at a price; whereas a typical flatbed or film scanner ranges in cost from $200 to $600, a 100,000 dpi slide scanner will range from $80,000 to $200,000.Virtual microscopy has been characterized as potentially a disruptive technology. A disruptive technology is a... BrainTechSci blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471536 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:32:00 +0100 471536 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471537&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=34757&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbraintechsci.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F05%2Fwhy-is-everyone-leaving-paul-allen.html I have been able to confirm the reason why so many people are leaving the Paul Allen Brain Project in droves. Apparently, Paul Allen's sister, Jody Patton, who manages the Paul Allen Brain Project, is an "arrogant", "overbearing", and "incompetent" "dictator" who micro-manages in excess, and whose winning personality poisoned the work atmosphere and smothered creativity, motivation, and initiative. Patton says her management style is "tough but fair", but I say, face reality, Jody Patton got the top management position because her brother is the billonaire Paul Allen, not because she was qualified. Evidently, she is not qualified to manage a project of this size and complexity. The proof is in the pudding; If Jody Patton could manage a project properly, then why is everyone bailing out of ... BrainTechSci blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471537 Sat, 27 May 2006 08:07:00 +0100 471537 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471535&cid=t_101073_122_f&fid=34757&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbraintechsci.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F04%2Fcollaborative-digital-brain-mapping.html Google Maps and related geomapping services provide high-resolution satellite maps to anyone with an internet connection and have set the standard for online digital mapping. We are now beginning to witness similar digital mapping technologies spilling over into other non-related fields, one of the more interesting of which is neuroscience and the collaborative digital mapping of the brain.Launched less than a year ago, BrainMaps.org has rapidly developed to lead the field in digital brain mapping technologies. With several terabytes of ultra high-resolution brain image data, consisting of several dozen mouse, monkey, and human brains, its online brain image database is the largest and most diverse currently available. This massive image data is integrated with structural information regar... BrainTechSci blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471535 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:57:00 +0100 471535