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 'bbc news'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:22 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4302886&cid=t_306419_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F01%2F01%2Fpsych-central-by-the-numbers-2010%2F In October 2010, according to comScore Media Metrix, Psych Central had 820,000 unique U.S. visitors to the site, and in November 2010, we had 933,000 visitors. That puts us in the top 50 most-visited of all health websites on the Internet today — a first for us! Combined with our international audience, Google Analytics tells us we reach over 1.5 million unique visitors each and every month. Astounding, considering our humble beginnings of indexing other psychology and mental health resources online 15 years ago. To put this in some context, more people visit Psych Central every month than any one of these sites: The American Cancer Society The American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association combined The American Medical Association The American Diab... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4302886 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:00:52 +0100 4302886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4258865&cid=t_306419_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhrt-no-wonder-women-are-confused%2F2010.12.14 Confused about hormone replacement therapy (HRT)? I can’t imagine why… *This blog post was originally published at tbtam* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4258865 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 19:00:57 +0100 4258865 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3885346&cid=t_306419_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fvending-machines-for-prescription-drugs-a-uk-trial%2F2010.08.19 The UK supermarket chain Sainsbury’s is running a trial with two different drug vending machines in two of its West Sussex stores. Basically you can drop your prescription at the machine, the pharmacy will collect the prescriptions and deliver the medications which you can later pick up. As the machines are placed in stores with an in-store pharmacy service, the only benefit seems to be the lack of face-to-face contact (for those people who consider that a benefit). The trial will run for a year after which it will be decided whether they will be rolled out across all of England. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3885346 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:00:46 +0100 3885346 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3617810&cid=t_306419_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Frear-view-mirror-10-things-we-women-stick-up-our-butts%2F In keeping with our recent post Vagina Monologue: 10 Things We Shove All Up In There, and the follow-up Inside Story: 10 More Things We Stick Up Our Vaginas, we now present the final part of the trilogy: 10 Things We Women Stick Up Our Butts. Please enjoy responsibly. 1. Hemorrhoidal Suppositories – Preparation H-ell, yes. 2. Anal Dildos – Her name is Vibrating Mistress and she’s pleased to meet you – at the motel of your choice. ($60 at Babeland) 3. Butt Plugs – Pretty in Pink. Great, now I’m craving a Ring Pop. (from $18 at Babeland) 4. Butt Beads – More bulbous back-door action. ($18 at Babeland) 5. Thermometers – Old-school method of temperature-taking (mercury or digital). Use Vaseline. 6. Fingers – Gyno during rectal exam; partner during sex; insert... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3617810 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:01:07 +0100 3617810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2950776&cid=t_306419_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F11%2F02%2Fdepression-lifestyle-and-processed-food%2F We know that people who are depressed don’t eat as well as people who don’t have depression. So not surprising to anyone, diet and what we eat remain linked to depression. But despite new research, we still don’t know which way the relationship goes — does diet cause depression, or do people with a certain lifestyle or with depression eat poor diets? They split the participants into two types of diet - those who ate a diet largely based on whole foods, which includes lots of fruit, vegetables and fish, and those who ate a mainly processed food diet, such as sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy products. After accounting for factors such as gender, age, education, physical activity, smoking habits and chronic diseases, th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2950776 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:53:32 +0100 2950776 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2772561&cid=t_306419_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F07%2Fthe-bbc-asks-does-brain-training-work%2F Dr. Adrian Owen, of the UK Medical Research Council’s Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, takes a critical look at the growing field of “brain training” programs and notes some of the same issues I’ve previously written about (more than once). It appears the “news” article is in support of a BBC program airing tonight called, Bang Goes the Theory, which is running a brain training “experiment” on its website, the Brain Test Britain experiment. Ironically, the experiment designed for the web has four of the five problems listed below! I guess nobody who designed the experiment talked to Dr. Owen first. Oops. The five reasons Dr. Owen gives for brain training not quite “being there” in terms of the research support are: Research of... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2772561 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:37:51 +0100 2772561