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 'bio'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:47:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5036316&cid=t_92042_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Ftrimming-medicare-save-economy-social-media-reactions President Barack Obama seems desperate for a compromise with Republicans over the debt ceiling. In a press conference on Monday, he once again agreed to consider cuts in Social Security and Medicare. The deal would cut benefits within Medicare and Social Security, in addition to raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67. But as the weeks roll by, congressional Democrats are showing more displeasure on that endorsement, creating difficult choices for the administration. read more (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5036316 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:58:06 +0100 5036316 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4992995&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FrmAxL8gOtko%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Arno Therapeutics hired Alexander Zukiwski as chief medical officer. Most recently, he was executive vp for clinical research and chief medical officer at MedImmune, where he was responsible for developing and implementing clinical research, me... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4992995 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:56:35 +0100 4992995 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4747882&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F9c4NOuPTQQ8%2F The US Supreme Court tomorrow will review a highly controversial issue - the constitutionality of a Vermont law that restricts the sale of prescription drug info identifying prescribers and patients for commercial marketing purposes. The practice is known in the pharma world as data mining and has been building for some two decades ever since data was gathered by market research firms, but has since sparked heated arguments over free speech, health care costs and information privacy. The information at issue includes the name of a prescribing physician, patient age and sex, the type and strength of each drug prescribed, and the date and location of prescription. Pharmacies, of course, are required by law to collect and maintain data about each prescription that is filled, and are allowed c... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4747882 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:16:39 +0100 4747882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4709206&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fibms-new-solution-for-drug-resistant-bacteria-nanotechnology%2F2011.04.13 IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Shanghai have designed a new type of polymer that can detect and destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA. The polymer nanostructures also prevent bacteria from developing drug resistance. Moreover, because of the mechanism by which the nanostructures work, they don’t affect circulating blood cells, and, unlike most traditional antimicrobial agents, the nanostructures are biodegradable, naturally eliminated from the body rather than remaining behind and accumulating in tissues. From the Nature Chemistry abstract by Nederberg, et al.: (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4709206 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:00:58 +0100 4709206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636661&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FuVd-z-wEiP4%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that the Baker & Daniels national lawfirm has elected J. Patrick Fitzsimmons as a lead partner in its life sciences and health care practice group in the Chicago office, effective April 4. For the past six years, he has been associated with var... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636661 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:26:16 +0100 4636661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4360980&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ffarm-woo-and-our-food%2F2011.01.18 Google is an amazing thing — it occasionally tosses you a link that lands you in an alternate universe of folks you’d never encounter in real life. Like cattle ranchers. I’ve just spent the good part of an hour wandering their world — reading about their concerns (water, wolves, the economy), seeing how cattle breeding has changed (you pick a sire at Bullsemen.com, then do genomic profiling on your stock — did you know that cows bred for docility have more tender meat ?), and learning that ranchers are not immune to marketing from the world of scientific woo. Check this out — it’s called SOP Life Vibration or “Serio Bio-Hygienization.” They’re selling it to farmers and ranchers in Europe and the U.S. as the latest and greatest answer to bacterial growth... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4360980 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:00:17 +0100 4360980 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4349699&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fds9RJRBkBkE%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Camargo Pharmaceutical Services hired Ray Dawkins as chief medical officer. Before joining Camargo, he was executive medical director of medical affairs at Paragon Biomedical and senior medical director of clinical development at Talecris Bioth... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4349699 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 13:23:37 +0100 4349699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197009&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F007677.html About half the reforestry acreage in one country is balanced by increased logging and forest loss in other countries. In five of the six countries (with the exception of India), the return of native forests was accompanied by a reduction in timber harvests and new farmland, thus creating a demand for imported wood and agricultural products. "For every 100 acres of reforestation in these five countries, they imported the equivalent of 74 acres of forest products," said Meyfroidt, a postdoctoral researcher at Louvain and lead author of the study. "Taking into account their exports of agricultural products, the net balance amounted to 22 acres of land used in other countries." During the past five years, the net land-use displacement increased... (Source: FuturePundit) FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197009 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0100 4197009 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159508&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FsStxKsbjqm8%2F Last month, the government of Puerto Rico passed a law that imposes a 4 percent tax next year on companies that conduct manufacturing on the island, but are headquartered elsewhere. And the bill was apparently drafted, introduced and passed in just 72 hours - and without public comment. Congress should act so efficiently, yes? The intent was to close loopholes in the tax code involving local affiliated corporations, writes Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News. The bill was passed to “benefit the workers and employees…” according to Senate president Thomas Rivera Schatz. The bill “fulfills the promise of tax justice for all Puerto Ricans” and is “fundamental to the economic future of Puerto Rico,” Senator Migdalia Padilla, president of the Senate treas... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159508 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:10:40 +0100 4159508 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3876650&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fdoctors-in-cubicles-a-barrier-to-patient-care%2F2010.08.17 I present interesting cases to colleagues often because it’s educational and good for patient care and because I like to. But it has been many years since I was mandated to present a case. It seems that I’m not the only doctor exasperated by a pesky new barrier to patient care: Doctors in cubicles. An old friend and mentor, Dr. Richard Kovacs, now chair of the American College of Cardiology’s Board of Governors (and IU guy), has written about these same pre-certification barriers. Dr. Kovacs, being a professor and distinguished ACC official, kindly terms these obstructionists “radiology benefit managers” (RBMs). (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Dr John M* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3876650 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:00:00 +0100 3876650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831560&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FNC3tm0k_XjY%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is something that’s become a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Quintiles hired Kevin Gordon as chief financial officer, succeeding Mike Troullis, who moves to a new corporate role managing Quintiles investments. Gordon most recently worked as cfo at Telefex, which supplies medical d... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831560 Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:07:47 +0100 3831560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3854769&cid=t_92042_155_f&fid=38406&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FThe1xObjective%2F%7E3%2FcYPOf08KSOo%2F [via MedGadget] GEN (Genetic Engineering & BioTech News) is sponsoring a contest over at it’s website.  If you can decipher the posted cryptogram, you get a cash prize as well as a free... Catch the rest of the story after the break... (Source: The 1x Objective) The 1x Objective blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3854769 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:14:04 +0100 3854769 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3665942&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Feco-friendly-kitchen-robot-fridge-of-the-future%2F image via Inhabitat Refrigerators are boring. You open them, you shut them. And while they keep your food cold (hopefully), they really aren’t doing it in a cool way. Or an energy-efficient one, for that matter: In the average household, the fridge accounts for 8% of the total energy usage. Enter the Bio Robot Refrigerator. It uses zero energy. Instead, it has an odorless, non-sticky biopolymer gel with cooling agents that keep your food chilled. Weirdly, you just shove your food into the gel, and it stays there, suspended, until you pull it out. The downside: This fridge doesn’t actually exist yet. Its design is a finalist in the Electrolux Design Lab contest, which asked inventors to submit creations for appliances of the future. We like the way this is going, though: Eco-fri... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3665942 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 22:15:57 +0100 3665942 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3629869&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FtWSO5WagTa4%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is something that’s become a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Alnylam Pharmaceuticals hired Laurence Reid as senior vice president and chief business officer. He was previously at Ensemble Discovery, where was also chief business officer, and founded two start-up companies in stem ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3629869 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:22:15 +0100 3629869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3529894&cid=t_92042_117_f&fid=34808&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthebeautybrains.com%2F2010%2F05%2F04%2Fdoes-simengdi-bio-gold-pearl-cream-really-work%2F Jodoll asks…My mother bought me Simengdi Bio-Gold pearl Cream from China, telling me its what everyone uses and its really popular over there. In Canadian dollars, she bought one jar for 30 bucks. That is pretty expensive for creams, especially in China! Do you know if this cream really works? The Left Brain replies: According the information I could track down on this product, Simengdi Bio-Gold is indeed very popular, in fact one source described it as “the most famous skin care brand” in China.  Here’s what the website says about Bio-Gold Pearl cream. Bio-Gold: Beauty Science or BS? It effectively lightens and/or removes spots, reduces wrinkles and moisturizes skin. It is rich in BioGold (what ever that is), Pearl amino acids, and Ganoderma which has been descri... thebeautybrains.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3529894 Tue, 04 May 2010 06:01:12 +0100 3529894 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3530033&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FpRdqsbzwpcs%2F As the BIO convention gets under way today in Chicago and the thousands of attendees look forward to keynote speeches by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush on Tuesday, and former Vice President Al Gore on Wednesday, some folks will be precluded from the events. Who? The media. Not only will journalists be barred from the room, but there will be no feed to the press room, either. The stated reason, according to a BIO spokeswoman, is that the trade group is simply adopting this particular policy this year. No further explanation was given, although presumably speakers may feel freer to say certain things when the media isn’t around. Of course, this doesn’t mean some attendees won’t Tweet, unless BIO finds a way to prevent that as well. There is precedent for ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3530033 Mon, 03 May 2010 16:41:17 +0100 3530033 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3519440&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FpTnhFrfoYjA%2F By Indur GoklanyWhy does the Neo-Malthusians’ dystopian worldview — that human and environmental well-being will suffer with increases in population, affluence and technological change — fail the reality check? Why has human well-being improved in the Age of Industrialization despite order-of-magnitude increases in the consumption of materials, fossil fuel energy and chemicals? I offer some reasons in the last of a series of posts (1, 2, 3, 4) at MasterResource. I note that although population, affluence and technology can create some problems for humanity and the planet, they are also the agents for solving those problems. In particular, human capital and greater affluence have helped the development and adoption of new and improved technologies, which empirical data show have redu... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3519440 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:19:36 +0100 3519440 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3519710&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F4B6g7P-pE6M%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is something we hope to make a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that that Qforma, which traffics in analytics and predictive modeling, hired Judy Stein as director of client services. She most recently worked as a senior manager at GE Healthcare’s Performance Solutions unit, where s... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3519710 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:56:30 +0100 3519710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3467937&cid=t_92042_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FeOoSUACqtJU%2F Blisstree’s pretty impressed with Indiana State’s project of transitioning the small town of Reynolds into an entirely energy self-sufficient city or “Bio-Town”: Post from: BlissTree Video of the Day: Bio-Town, USA (Source: Genetics and Health) Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3467937 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:28:47 +0100 3467937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3433165&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fuf65sY_uqao%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is something we hope to make a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Michael Durand has joined Resolute Communications as managing director of its New York office. He was the founding director of Porter Novelli’s global health care practice and also served as managing director of health... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3433165 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:20:05 +0100 3433165 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3378524&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2Fto0Mk40Op8Q%2Fthe_annual_bio-link_summer_fel.php Every June, an incredible event takes place. Biotechnology educators gather in Berkeley, California, from across the US, to discuss new trends in biotechnology education, learn from each other and share information about educating students for the biotechnology workforce. There are tours of local biotech companies like Genentech and local research institutes like the cancer center at UCSF. New kits and techniques can be tried and practiced in hands-on workshops. And instructors get to practice new bioinformatics techniques like analyzing Next Generation DNA sequencing data or working with data from microarrays. This year Bio-Link has 18 fellowships to attend the conference. The fellowships cover registration costs, accommodations and meals. If you would like to be eligible for a fell... Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3378524 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:10:51 +0100 3378524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3354267&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fthe-great-soulmate-debate%2F Potential soulmates Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson (Photo: Getty Images) I love my husband, but he’s not my soulmate. Not that anyone else is, either. I’m not looking around or anything. Why not? Because I don’t believe soulmates exist. I’m pretty sure this long-held belief makes me unromantic, but I’m also pretty sure it’s the reason I have a solid marriage. Five years ago, on a sunny spring Saturday outside my parents’ home, my wedding vows went something like this: “Hi there. So, I don’t believe that people are “meant to be together.” I also don’t think there’s only one person in the world for you, and if you don’t find that person you’ll never be happy. I’m not into destiny. I’m into choice. You choose the person you want to be with…and ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3354267 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:50:52 +0100 3354267 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3302283&cid=t_92042_87_f&fid=34902&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futurepundit.com%2Farchives%2F006971.html Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is benefiting from marine reserve areas. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is showing an extraordinary range of benefits from the network of protected marine reserves introduced there five years ago, according to a comprehensive new study published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences. The scientific team, a ‘who’s-who’ of Australian coral reef scientists, describe the findings as “a globally significant demonstration of the effectiveness of large-scale networks of marine reserves”. “Our data show rapid increases of fish inside no-take reserves, in both reef and non-reef habitats ,” says Professor Terry Hughes, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, speaking today at the American Association for the A... FuturePundit blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3302283 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3302283 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3180424&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F01%2F16%2Fvideos-on-the-digestive-system%2F I found a few new video clips on YouTube, in 3-D that give you a good idea how the digestive system functions. These clips are updates to the prior post on The Digestive System from 2008. The first on the Digestive System traces a bite of food from the mouth until it is eliminated. (Click on the link to go to the YouTube site, if the video doesn’t display below). The second comes from the Louisiana Public Broadcasting and gives you a very detailed 3-D and 2-D look at Digestive System 101. (Click on the link to go to the YouTube site, if the video doesn’t display below). Other interactive online animation: Digestive System from the National Geographic has an interactive way of looking at the digestive sytem. You can click to view certain parts of the system. A normal, healthy... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3180424 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:24:52 +0100 3180424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3063470&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F2d0QQsTNoBE%2F The savvy former congressman from Pennsylvania has been effectively representing biotechs on Capitol Hill for the past few years, a period during which biosimilars have been a repeated flash point. And as head of the industry trade group, Jim Greenwood would appear to be a lobbyist like so many others, especially given his interactions with elected officials in the House and Senate. He is regularly protrayed this way in the press (see here). Yet a quick check of the lobbying forms filed with Congress by BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, reveals that Greenwood’s name isn’t listed. The reason? A BIO spokesman says Greenwood doesn’t pass the 20 percent threshhold, a reference to the amount of time spent lobbying (see here). To check the forms, please go to the Ho... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3063470 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:50:17 +0100 3063470 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2859134&cid=t_92042_137_f&fid=35426&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FTheAlzheimersReadingRoom%2F%7E3%2F0UrA7Kio5Y0%2Fangil-tarach-angel-among-us.html  Angil Tarach --The Angel Among US Angil Tarach (RN GCM) is a nationally known expert in senior care and advocacy. With over 30 years of experience, Angil brings a wealth of knowledge and compassion to the Alzheimer's Reading Room. Angil is also the owner of Visiting Angels in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  Angil writes about Caregiving, Health Care, and issues that affect seniors for the Alzheimer's Reading Room. Angil is the first of what I expect to be a number of new writers on the Alzheimer's Reading Room in the coming months. Readers will benefit from Angil's unique perspectives and experience. Angil's vision is to change the way seniors are perceived --especially in the medical community. Angil's goal is to change the thoughts, hearts, and minds of those working in healthcare,... Alzheimer's Reading Room, The blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2859134 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:19:09 +0100 2859134 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828483&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F09%2F23%2Fpreventing-the-h1n1-flu%2F A Pandemic awareness video explaining what you can do to help prevent the spread of H1N1 flu virus from the Disaster Resistant Community Colleges of California Task Force. Things you can do to prevent getting the H1N1 flu: Wash your hands. Cover a cough with a sleeve. Don’t touch your face with your hands. Eat healthy foods. Get enough sleep. Stay away from people who are sick. Stay home if you are sick. Make sure you know what is going on with the flu on campus. Be watching for when the vaccines become available. More information: Dyer KA. How to Prevent Getting H1N1 Flu or Swine Flu. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828483 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:15:07 +0100 2828483 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2766331&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F09%2F04%2Fuploading-documents-in-blackboard%2F For students who are new to online courses, knowing how to upload a document can be a bit challenging. This video clip from Mr. Owen used for an Intro to Computers class demonstrates how to upload a document as an assignment or attachment in Blackboard. Note that the version and colors of the Blackboard for the Nutrition course are different than the ones use in this Intro to Computers course, so the Blackboard interface may look a bit different. I’ve also added this video under the Online Page of this blog as “Tips for Uploading Documents.” (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2766331 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:05:19 +0100 2766331 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098290&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffgibson.com%2F2009%2F06%2F07%2Fthe-obo-foundry-principles%2F This week, is a week long ontology building week, consisting of two days at the OBO Foundry workshop followed by 4 days at the OBI workshop, all hosted at the EBI. In advance of the meeting (even though I am writing this during the meeting) Duncan asked “how can the ontology development principles be improved“. Ally and Melanie responded commenting on each principle, and I would pretty much agree with every issue the ontology ladies raise. These principles should be used to guide ontology developers to build a consistent resource and which are used to “peer-review” the ontology. However, my concern is that there is no indication or recommended methodology in how these principles could be met, during the development process. This was my motivation for reviewing all t... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098290 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:01:17 +0100 4098290 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2365245&cid=t_92042_117_f&fid=38158&url=http%3A%2F%2Famericanacupuncture.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fare-oprah-winfreys-hormones-for-you.html As a medical physician for over 50 years, I strive to give you the best medical information on controversial medical subjects and let you, the reader, come to your own conclusions. I have no ties to any organization, pharmaceutical, or lobby group. As an practicing medical acupuncturist since 1982, I find western medicine and medical acupuncture are very complimentary that results in astounding healing in pain management, addictions to cigarettes and food, and a host of other maladies. Let me know how we are doing. Find out why we are ranked in the top 40 medical blogs out of 15 million medical blogs, and in the top 50 of the over 54 million acupuncture blogs.Visit http;//www.americanacupuncture.com/ for more detailed information on healing.WHICH ESTROGEN IS FOR YOU? The advantages and ris... Dr. Needles Medical Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2365245 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:57:00 +0100 2365245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2342040&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F04%2F15%2Fshelbys-rules-alcohol-poisoning%2F I learned about Shelby Allen’s story listening to a local newscast following the season finale of E.R. The executive Producer of E.R. John Wells was inspired to base the series finale on the death of his 17-year-old niece, Shelby Lyn Allen. This storyline included a group of young girls doing shots at a party. One of them was still in a coma as the show and the season ended. In real life Shelby Allen didn’t survive the drinking game. Shelby’s Rules.com website was set up to tell her story: On December 20th 2008 17 year old Shelby Lyn Allen died at a friend’s home of alcohol poisoning. You would have liked her, she was fun, lively, silly and wise beyond her years, but what she didn’t know killed her. She and her friends were ignorant of the fact that approxima... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2342040 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:23:13 +0100 2342040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2654072&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F04%2F13%2Fsam-spady-alcohol-poisioning%2F It is not too often that my worlds of Nutrition and Grief overlap, but they did in the case of Sam Spady. I discovered one of my poems, “A Message from an Angel Above,” was being used as a tribute on a Memorial Page set up for a college student, Sam Spady, who died of alcohol poisoning on September 5, 2004. You can learn more about Sam Spady by watching the Video clips below: Death By Alcohol: The Sam Spady Story In June 12, 2006 Sam’s Parents Rick & Patty Spady and film producer Barry Bortnick appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America to discuss binge drinking and the new DVD on Sam’s death. You can watch the interview with co-anchor Charles Gibson here. More about the Sam Spady Foundation The mission of the Sam Spady Foundation is to educate all parents a... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2654072 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:43:15 +0100 2654072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2342041&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F04%2F13%2Fsam-spady-alcohol-poisioning%2F It is not too often that my worlds of Nutrition and Grief overlap, but they did in the case of Sam Spady. I discovered one of my poems, “A Message from an Angel Above,” was being used as a tribute on a Memorial Page set up for a college student, Sam Spady, who died of alcohol poisoning on September 5, 2004. You can learn more about Sam Spady by watching the Video clips below: Death By Alcohol: The Sam Spady Story In June 12, 2006 Sam’s Parents Rick & Patty Spady and film producer Barry Bortnick appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America to discuss binge drinking and the new DVD on Sam’s death. You can watch the interview with co-anchor Charles Gibson here. More about the Sam Spady Foundation The mission of the Sam Spady Foundation is to educate all parents a... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2342041 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:43:15 +0100 2342041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2267574&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2FkdrLlHQU7Ng%2F Image via Wikipedia I’m proud to present this initiative to keep old-school programmers in the cusp of Bio* development. After long discussions and controversy, I decided that it would be extremely important to stop neglecting a good portion of developers around the world that are still trying to catch-up with new, but yet completely unreliable, software and technology. So far, I haven’t contacted anyone regarding this project, but I guess people will be thrilled to learn about it and I expect massive signup to become a developer (first come, first served basis). The main goals and “project culture” (similar to a company culture, but in project, got it?) are: - develop a number of OCX and DirectX and VB classes and VB modules that can be used by anyone in the bi... Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2267574 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:53:59 +0100 2267574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2202584&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F02%2F19%2Freminder-of-basic-computer-skills%2F Two skills that many online instructor’s figure their students have coming into the course are knowing how to copy and paste information and also knowing how to save documents in different formats like .rtf or .pdf files. The new version of Microsoft creates documents as a .docx format, which is only readable if the person has the latest version of Microsoft (or has the program to convert files). Another issue with Microsoft documents even just .docs it that they are more likely to transmit viruses. The concern about transmitting computer viruses is the main reason that many instructors require that documents submitted as attachments (which will be opened by the instructor) are submitted as .rtf, .txt or .pdf files. I found a couple of great online Video resources on YouTube with rem... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2202584 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:34:40 +0100 2202584 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2202585&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F02%2F16%2Fyour-online-lectures%2F Just a reminder about the online lectures for the course. You can find them in the right hand side bar under “Additional Online Links” or by following this link, Lecture Links Recorded Lectures. All of the lectures for the course have been archived through CCC Confer so you can get them through your computer. Here is a rather amusing comment from one of the online students this semester about using the Virtual Lectures: “I just wanted to say I love the virtual lectures. I have never had an on-line class with narrated power point lectures, its just like being in class. My daughter enjoyed it, too. She thought it was neat that my instructor was inside the computer. In fact, when I went to close my laptop she yelled, “No, Mommy! Don’t close that! Your teacher is ... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2202585 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:32:41 +0100 2202585 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2132733&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F01%2F22%2Fwhats-in-easy-cheese%2F One of your classmates forwarded this Wired article on Cheez Whiz in response to a comment that I’d made in class, wondering if Cheez Whiz is the same as processed Cheese. The article takes a look at What’s inside Squirt Cheese. They found the following ingredients: Whey - Byproduct of cheese-making process used as a filler. Canola oil - Keeps the cheese from solidifying. Salt - Preservative, contains twice the sodium of typical organic cheddar. Sodium citrate - Emulsifier. Sodium phosphate - Degreaser, preservative. Calcium phosphate - Adding calcium makes it legal for Kraft to label every can “an excellent source of calcium.” Lactic acid - Byproduct of bacteria digest the milk sugar lactose. Sodium alginate - Gum to increase viscosity. Apocarotenal - Yellow-... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2132733 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:09:35 +0100 2132733 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2005586&cid=t_92042_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fdental-news-prodent-chewing-gum-for-gingivitis%2F About half of adults over 30 years old have some degree of gum disease. While scaling, root planing, Arestin, and good daily hygiene habits help deter and correct gingivitis, now there’s a chewing gum to enhance treatment. BioGaia developed the gum, Prodent, which contains Lactobacillus reuteri Prodentis, a bacterium that partners with the human immune system to reduce inflammation. Just one stick of Prodent reduced bleeding sites by 85% in a test performed by University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Periodontal pockets showed fluid reduction of about 50%, as well. BioGaia, based in Sweden, is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of probiotic products. (Source: dental blog for dentists about dentistry) dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2005586 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:41:06 +0100 2005586 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2008146&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day%2F World AIDS Day is 20 December 1, 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of celebrating World AIDS Day, a day set aside to recognize the disease that has killed over 25 million since it was identified in 1981. The focus on this 20th anniversary is how the response to AIDS has greatly changed, some for the positive, but an anniversary provides an opportunity to highlight how much more still needs to be done. Take the Test. Take Control. A unique campaign has been developed using text messaging to promote HIV testing. Mobile phone users can send a text message with their zip code to “KNOWIT” (566948). Within seconds, they will receive a text message identifying an HIV testing site near them. This mobile phone service connects users with CDC’s testing database found at www.HIVtest... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2008146 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:18:16 +0100 2008146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2008147&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F11%2F30%2Fsupersize-me-on-google-video%2F Supersize Me is available for you to watch on Google Video. If the video is not showing up below, click on the Supersize Me link or Google for it on Google Videos. SuperSize Me Video on Google Videos This is particularly an eyeopening film when viewed at the end of a nutrition course. Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2008147 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:01:53 +0100 2008147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1993647&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F11%2F25%2Freporting-on-driving-under-the-influence%2F I was able to find a short clip about a reporter who decided to become a volunteer drinker in a field sobriety test in this news report from 2007, on “How Much is Too Much?” His report shows some of the sobriety checks done by police officers to determine if someone has had too much to drink. Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1993647 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:02:54 +0100 1993647 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1970835&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F11%2F17%2Fmypyramidgov-now-for-preschoolers%2F In Fall 2008, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched the My Pyramid for Preschoolers Website just for Preschoolers, children aged 2-5. The site encourages parents and caregivers to Use MyPyramid to help your preschooler eat well, be active, and be healthy. Customized MyPyramid for Your Preschooler Visitors to the My Pyramid for Preschoolers Web site can “get a customized MyPyramid Plan for your preschooler” by entering the child’s first name, age, gender, and typical amount of daily activity. The site then generates a plan tailored to that child. At the My Pyramid for Preschoolers website parents and caregivers can explore ways to help preschoolers: Grow up healthy. Complete a growth chart especially for your child to find out more about normal development. ... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1970835 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:21:15 +0100 1970835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1926685&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F437953333%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here’s a new approach we hope to make a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Ian Spatz, who is Merck’s vice president of global health policy and a fixture on the Washington DC scene, will be leaving the drugmaker at the end of the year. Knowledgeable, articulate and gracious, Spatz h... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1926685 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:35:14 +0100 1926685 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1918200&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F434735858%2F Concerned about the image of the biotech industry, the BIO trade group has launched a web site in hopes of countering the ‘dramatic interpretations’ and ‘creative license’ purportedly found on the new CBS show, Eleventh Hour, which airs on Thursday nights. Here is how CBS describes its show… “Dr. Jacob Hood, a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government, as he investigates scientific crises and oddities. His jurisdiction is absolute and Hood is dogged in his pursuit of those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries and breakthroughs for their own gain. His passion and crusade is to protect the substance of science from those with nefarious motives. He is called in at the eleventh hour and he represents the last line of d... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1918200 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:02:32 +0100 1918200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1888459&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F423691950%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here’s a new approach we hope to make a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Surface Logix hired Keith Dionne as ceo and president, who was previously ceo at Alantos Pharmaceuticals, where he sold the company to Amgen for more than $300 million in cash. Prior to Alantos, Dionne held senior-... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1888459 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:10:13 +0100 1888459 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1873841&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F10%2F14%2Fchildren-need-vitamin-d%2F The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently revised recommendations for Vitamin D based in new information indicating that children need twice as much Vitamin D as originally thought. In the new clinical report, “Prevention of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency in Infants, Children, and Adolescents,” published in the November issue of Pediatrics, it is recommended that all children receive 400 IU a day of vitamin D, beginning in the first few days of life. The previous recommendation, issued in 2003, called for 200 IU per day beginning in the first two months of life. The New Recommendations include: Breastfed and partially breastfed infants should be supplemented with 400 IU a day of vitamin D beginning in the first few days of life. All non-breastfed infants, as well as ... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1873841 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:47:51 +0100 1873841 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1866452&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F10%2F04%2Fwhat-cereals-can-i-feed-my-child-healthy-wic-approved-cereals%2F This week’s release of the report by Consumer Reports may have parents wondering what cereals they should be feeding their child/children.  One way is to see what cereals are recommended by the WIC program. WIC is a federally-funded health and nutrition program for women, infants, and children.  WIC helps families by providing checks for buying healthy supplemental foods from WIC-authorized vendors, nutrition education, and help finding healthcare and other community services. What makes a cereal a WIC Approved Cereal? WIC-approved cereals are ones that are low in sugar and have a lot of nutrients, vitamins and minerals in them. Two of the vitamins included in many of the cereals: Iron Folic Acid List of WIC Approved Cereals in California for Children All of these cereal are lo... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1866452 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:00:28 +0100 1866452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1860611&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F10%2F04%2Fqueen-latifah-my-weight-is-healthy%2F I like the Queen Latifah ads because the focus isn’t so much on the numbers as it is losing weight to get to a healthy weight. I’ve lost 20 pounds and my cholesterol is down 20 points. I joined Jenny Craig to learn hot to make healthier choices and I’ve never felt better. According to Jenny Craig’s vice president of marketing Scott Parker “Queen Latifah joins forces with Jenny Craig to communicate the importance of how small lifestyle changes, in the areas of diet and exercise, can have positive effects on overall health.” These are the messages that need to be getting across to people. In a separate section of the Jenny Craig site, Queen Latifah, her friends and family talk about what is working for them on their journey to an “ideal size.”... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1860611 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:00:54 +0100 1860611 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1860612&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F10%2F03%2Ftyra-banks-retort-on-fat-comments%2F Tyra addresses rather effectively the unflattering bathing suit photos that were plastered across every tabloid and gossip website in 2007, claiming that she had gained 40 lbs. In calculating Tyra’s BMI, at 5′10″ and 161 lbs, she ends up right in the healthy range with a BMI of 23.1 You can read an interview with her at People Magazine online. Calculating BMI (Body Mass Index) BMI Formula BMI = [ Weight in Pounds / ( Height in inches ) x ( Height in inches ) ] x 703 BMI = ( kg/m² ) (weight in pounds * 703 ) height in inches² Metric BMI Formula BMI = [ Weight in Kilograms / ( Height in Meters ) x ( Height in Meters ) ] BMI = ( kg/m² ) weight in kilograms height in meters² Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1860612 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:21:54 +0100 1860612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1816125&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fmelamine-scandal-widens.html Four infants in China have died and at least 53,000 are reportedly ill, many seriously so, having been fed milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine. A three-year old girl in Hong Kong is also ill, but has now been released from hospital, she was the first reported case outside mainland China. Major formula milk producer Nestle says none of its products in China has been contaminated with melamine, although the Hong Kong government says it has found the contaminant in the company’s milk formula. I guess it’s no surprise that this scandal has emerged after, rather than before or during, the Olympic Games, but that is not something that would be peculiar to China. Governments the world over try to manage bad news and China certainly does not have a monopoly o... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1816125 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:22:34 +0100 1816125 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811674&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F09%2F20%2Funderstanding-metabolism-video-clips%2F Here are some video clips that may help in explaining the steps of Metabolism. Be advised that there is more information presented in these clips than you will be held for in lecture. Glycolysis TCA or Kreb’s Cycle Electron Transport Chain Another version of the Electron Transport Chain Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811674 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:20:43 +0100 1811674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811493&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F397159932%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? Taconic hired Hilton Klein as vp, quality systems and regulatory affairs; US Pharmacopeial Convention hired Matt Van Hook as assistant general counsel; Pulmatrix hired John Hanrahan as senior vp and chief medical officer; David Mott, former MedImmune ceo, joined New Enterprise Associates venture capital; Eli Lilly named John Lechleiter, ceo and president, as chairman of the... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811493 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:16:28 +0100 1811493 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811675&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F09%2F18%2Fprotein-synthesis-video-clips%2F Here are some good video clips that I found on Protein Synthesis that help explain the process a bit more. Part 1 & Part 2 not really discussed in class Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811675 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:56:17 +0100 1811675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811676&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F09%2F17%2Fmore-about-food-allergies%2F According to The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, eight foods account for 90% of all food-allergic reactions. The eight foods most likely to cause a food allergic reaction: Milk Egg Peanut Tree nuts (walnut, cashew, etc.) Fish Shellfish Soy Wheat In adults, the foods that most often trigger allergic reactions include * Fish and shellfish, such as shrimp, lobster and crab * Peanuts * Tree nuts, such as walnuts * Eggs Problem foods for children are eggs, milk (especially in infants and young children) and peanuts. Food Allergy Food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by your body’s immune system. Allergic reactions to food can sometimes cause serious illness and death. Tree nuts and peanuts are the leading causes of deadly allergic reactions called anaphylaxis. ... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811676 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:04:41 +0100 1811676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811677&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F09%2F16%2Fmay-contain-traces-of-nuts%2F he Food and Drug Administration is finally looking at ways to force food makers to use a standard label system for allergens. They have agreed to host a public hearing in order to decide what the best course of action would be. At issue is the statement “May Contain Traces of Nuts.” Many believe this statement is too ambiguous to prevent deadly reactions. Instead labels should list what they certainly contain. Clearer labels would be helpful for the 12 million Americans living with food allergies. Under the current system food companies are required by the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA) to place labels on packaged foods containing most common food allergens, such as milk, eggs, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts and soybea... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811677 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:41:48 +0100 1811677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1733949&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fstop-assuming-you-know-best%2F I came across the following in Michael Dowd’s Thank God for Evolution: To have a powerful relationship with your own intuition and instincts - and thus to have a clear channel of communication with the creating, sustaining Life Force of the Universe (whatever you may choose to call It/Him/Her) - one must cultivate humility in this sense: Stop assuming that you know best how things are supposed to go in the world. Rather, try on an attitude of gratitude - not just for what is easy to be grateful for, but also for those challenges and difficulties in life for which you cannot yet detect a silver lining. Having faith and being in integrity means trusting that each and every one of us is doing the best we can, given what we’ve got to work with at the time. It’s trusting that,... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1733949 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:51:25 +0100 1733949 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1730901&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F08%2F24%2Fgetting-started-in-bio50-nutrition-wellness-for-fall-2008%2F Tomorrow is the start of a new semester. Online students look for an email message sent to your email of record with the college. If you are stuck logging onto the Blackboard Course System, see the Blog Page on Blackboard. Face to Face students I will see you on Monday or Tuesday. Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1730901 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:42:21 +0100 1730901 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1724459&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F08%2F21%2Ftips-for-success-in-this-course%2F The most important thing for you to do during the first week is to take some time and determine a study plan. Figure out when your exams and assignments are due, mark them on a calendar or day planner. Decide how you are going to budget your time to learn the material and complete the assignments. The “Course” Page of this blog includes many helpful resources and assessments to help you figure out how to assess your study skills and manage your time. Also included are suggestions and tips that I have compiled for the Nutrition students including Tips for Success in Nutrition & Wellness, Tips for Learning the Lecture Material and General Study Tips. Taking a look at these resources early in the class, getting yourself organized for the semester will help you to succeed in th... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1724459 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:37 +0100 1724459 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1724460&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F08%2F20%2Ftips-for-online-success%2F The “Online” Page of this blog includes a variety of Tips for students to improve their success in distance education. This page includes “Are You Ready to Learn Online?” a great introduction from Cerro Coso College, on to determining if you are ready to take an online course. I highly recommend that all online students take some kind of self-assessment to determine if their learning styles, study and computer skills are in line with taking an online course. There are also some Suggestions for Being a Successful Online Student, part of the Online Orientation for Columbia College Students along with links to Other Online Self Assessments. For students who are near Columbia College, the College offers “How to Succeed as an Online Student” or CMPSC101 is offered bo... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1724460 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:45:30 +0100 1724460 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1715299&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F04%2F20%2Fmeet-professordoc-the-nutrition-course-voki%2F I am pleased to introduce My Voki,* or a talking voice character, a computer-generated version of myself, Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer a.k.a ProfessorDoc. She will give you a brief introduction to the Nutrition and Wellness Blog. I’ll probably use the Voki for other brief explanations in the course, especially for the Online Section of the course. To hear the message, simply click on the arrow in the frame below. * Voki comes from Vox + Loki = Voki. “Vox” is Latin for voice and “Loki” is a prankster character in Norse Mythology. More about Vokis You can see the another Voki that I created at the Ruminations of an Online Instructor / MD blog . Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1715299 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:26:08 +0100 1715299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1689196&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F358486494%2F Last week, the Massachusetts state legislature passed a compromise version of the Health Care Cost and Quality act, a controversial bill that angered drugmakers and biotechs with an initial effort to greatly restrict interaction between industry and doctors, such as an outright ban on gifts. (Here it is). The gift ban didn’t survive the compromise, but the bill would create an academic detailing program to provide unbiased information to prescribers; requires drugmakers to disclose payments to health care providers valued at $50 or more; directs the state’s Department of Public Health to establish regulations on marketing, using the industry’s own code as a minimum standard (so, this means no branded items, such as mugs and pens; limits on meals, gifts and travel support). The gi... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1689196 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:11:34 +0100 1689196 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1652327&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fjust-a-plain-ordinary-loving-proud-parent%2F I started writing about autism, specifically about being an autism parent, just over three years ago. One of my goals was to provide information that would be useful for parents who have recently received a diagnosis of autism for their child. This post is my attempt to give you, as a parent of a newly diagnosed autistic child, an idea of what you will likely find as you try to understand what that diagnosis means to you and your child. Parenting is a challenge, no matter who your kid is. No matter what you do, someone somewhere will tell you that you are doing it wrong. If you are already a parent, you know what I mean. How many times have you heard someone tell you that your kids should spend more time outside, less time on the computer or with their video games, more time reading, less... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1652327 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:29:23 +0100 1652327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1635188&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2331 Just discovered the “PCR Song,” which predates the Agilent video…with a “we are the world” theme.   High school biotech students are also flooding YouTube with Biotech rap  new dance forms…and this rather creative DNA Replication Song.   Lots of fun (but hope they didn’t submit these as their senior projects….) (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1635188 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:22:56 +0100 1635188 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1561612&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fspurious-health-benefits-of-indium.html Yet another health supplement hits the streets, this time in the form of indium sulfate. Never heard of it? Apparently, it “is a rare trace mineral that supports several hormonal systems in the body. Indium may strongly elevate immune activity and reduce the severity and duration of a myriad of human conditions.” That’s according to the NaturalHealthConsult.com website, which goes on to claim that the element will “normalize the hypothalamus and pituitary gland in the brain.” The site explains, that “As the conductor of various studies on indium, Dr. Schroeder (the scientist best known for inventing the means to take lead out of gasoline) found that possibly the most important function of Indium is to normalize the hypothalamus and pituitary gland in the... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1561612 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:23:12 +0100 1561612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531695&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2191 Karen King, President of DSM Biologics, discussed the implications of the company’s recent joint venture with Crucell, which has increased upstream productivity.  The technology, PER.C, has reportedly boosted fermentation yields in human cells to over 27 grams/L compared with 15 g/L a few months ago. Higher yields will enable smaller, more flexible and less expensive  production.(For [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531695 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:55:58 +0100 1531695 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531696&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2181 One session on Wednesday morning addressed the use of molecular modeling in drug development. Ian Wilson, Portfolio and Strategy Manager, GE Healthcare discussed the development of PET clinical biomarkers. He mentioned the need to collaborate early, and the fact that academic partners can be great partners.  One important question to ask, he notes, is whether [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531696 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:31:32 +0100 1531696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531697&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2171 Spoke briefly with one, Michael Kowolenko, SVP of biopharmaceutical manufacturing at Wyeth, who talked about the industry’s fear of change, why it exists and offered some suggestions on what to do about it. Below are some (raw) audio snippets of the interview. An Interview with Michael Kowolenko of Wyeth Biopharma, Part One An Interview with Michael Kowolenko [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531697 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:10:59 +0100 1531697 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531698&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2161 Missed Madame Piramal’s presentation, unfortunately, while running back and forth between segments of the building and the show floor. The message behind speakers at the session on Indian Biotech was clear: don’t think “low cost,” think innovation. BMS alumnus Rashmi Barbhaiya used the Nano, India’s new model car, as a metaphor. He and Ramesh Adige, director [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531698 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:27:42 +0100 1531698 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531699&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2151 Caution. People Crossing.. (San Diego’s only about 40 miles away from the Mexican border. BTW, these are highways that nobody should ever attempt crossing) Best radio station  by far– Channel 28 from Baja California, Mexico. AMS (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531699 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:03:56 +0100 1531699 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531701&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2131 At a session on Wednesday afternoon, Richard Friedman of CDER discussed FDA and foreign inspections of manufacturing sites, and mentioned proposed solutions that would harmonize requirements and lighten the load, while maintaining standards.  They include a global system of surveillance and mutual inspectorate acceptance.  In this plan, FDA and EU inspectors who had inspected certain [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531701 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:01:16 +0100 1531701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531702&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2121 Unfortunately, missed meatier case studies, only to hear motherhood and apple pie presentations about what contract manufacturers need to offer their customers, although Dr. Wiltrud Treffenfeldt, Director of Bioprocess Development, Dow AgroSciences LLC mentioned some innovative German CMOs, including Greenovation and Rentschler as well as Richter-Helen Biologics. Dr. Uwe Marx of ProBioGen AG discussed [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531702 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:56:40 +0100 1531702 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531703&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2111 On Tuesday afternoon, a panel discussed ways in which corporations might be able to stimulate the development of more therapies for serious diseases—-the world’s top killers such as malaria. The topic is one that I’m very interested, but, unfortunately, I arrived late and missed much of the discussion. Genzyme has been doing some pioneering work with [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531703 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:49:31 +0100 1531703 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1531704&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2091 Scheduled meetings kept me from the events I’d most wanted to attend: • the live versions of Schwarzenegger’s and Craig Venter’s keynotes (I made it to the tail end of the “overflow” line, where we were treated to lunch and the keynotes on video) • a meeting of former FDA commissioners, “A Blueprint for FDA” in which [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1531704 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:35:10 +0100 1531704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526783&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2021 That’s how Control magazine’s executive editor Jim Montague described the pharmaceutical industry in a recent and very memorable op-ed (read it here), in which he interviews experts including E-55 insider Gawayne Mahboubian-Jones. Jim brings to the the “so what” detachment of one who has covered PAT and process control as it has advanced in other industries over [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526783 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:20:32 +0100 1526783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1522435&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F313289318%2F File this one under the carrot, not the stick. Drugmakers and biotechs are peeved that Massachusetts is considering a health care bill that would ban various goodies industry can give docs. In fact, the governor, Deval Patrick, was expected to be given a cool reception at the BIO convention being held in San Diego this week. Instead, in what may be an inspired move, the association will bestow its ‘Governor of the Year‘ award on Deval at a luncheon ceremony. Patrick, you may recall, hopes to use a $1 billion, 10-year life sciences initiative to lure biotechs to Massachusetts, a bill that was signed into law today. What could have prompted such warmth? And what might this mean for that annoying health care bill? When we hear from the governor’s office, we will let you know... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1522435 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:56:19 +0100 1522435 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1516786&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D2001 Just wanted to update this blog a bit; time has been extremely scarce, so I marvel at steady bloggers (Pharmagossip, Pharmalot, Mack et al), at our competitors (PharmTech editors are doing a nice job) and at Christiane Truelove and Bob Ehrlich who are now doing daily updates and e-newsletters on pharma blogging.   Will be heading off to BIO [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1516786 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:16:03 +0100 1516786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1492117&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2F304042084%2Ffinding_a_job_in_life_sciences.php A little over ten years ago, Dr. Elaine Johnson obtained funding from the National Science Foundation to start Bio-Link, an Advanced Technology Education center, focused on biotechnology. Since that time, Dr. Johnson has become a national leader in biotech education, enlisting the country's top educators and industry captains to ensure that community college students receive a quality education and the best preparation possible for entering the workforce. In this radio interview from Tech Nation, Dr. Johnson talks with Dr. Moira Gunn about the easiest way to a biotech career. A Career in Biotech Tech Nation 23 minutes, 10.7mb, recorded 2008-05-21 Play Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World... Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1492117 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:08:12 +0100 1492117 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1437093&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F288692424%2F When three of the state’s politicians, led by Governor Deval Patrick, visit a major biotech conference in San Diego next month, they’re likely to receive a cool reception. They hope to use a $1 billion initiative to lure biotechs to Massachusetts, but biotechs are upset over a provision in bill aimed at controlling health care costs that also would ban industry from giving docs any kind of gift, the Associated Press writes. “Strictly interpreted, the `anything-of-value’ ban could bring clinical trials to a halt in Massachusetts, severely cut into necessary and mandated continuing educational studies undertaken by physicians and mean that fewer new medicines are readily available to patients in the state that is the global hub of medical innovation,” the Massac... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1437093 Mon, 12 May 2008 13:42:29 +0100 1437093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1432533&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2F286786338%2Fworkforce_shortages_in_biotech.php Workforce shortages are a growing problem in the biotech industry. Communities are concerned that a lack of trained workers will either keep companies away or cause companies to move. If companies do have to move, it's likely those jobs might be lost forever, never to return. According to Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor, now a professor at UC-Berkeley, biotech companies that can't hire in the U.S. will recruit foreign workers or open research centers overseas (Luke Timmerman, Seattle PI). Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World) Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1432533 Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:57 +0100 1432533 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1429085&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2F286188358%2Fyou_tell_em_arnold.php Community colleges are such extraordinary places that even California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger credits his time at Santa Monica community college as one of the secrets to his success. From the SF Chronicle: "People always ask me 'What is the secret of your success?' " he said Tuesday. "I always say, 'Come to America. Go to community college. And marry a Kennedy. It's all very simple.' " HT to Jim DeKloe. Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biology in a Digital World) Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1429085 Thu, 08 May 2008 17:30:28 +0100 1429085 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1715302&cid=t_92042_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2008%2F04%2F18%2Fwelcome-to-nutrition-wellness-blog%2F Welcome to the Nutrition and Wellness Blog established for Bio 50, the Nutrition course taught by Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer at Columbia College. This blog will be used in addition to the Course WebCT shell for teaching the Biology 50 Nutrition & Wellness course. The purpose of creating the blog is for Announcements about the course that can be accessed through a RSS Feed to find out about a change in schedule, sick day or snow day. Offering Tips for Success to make it through the Nutrition course. Information and Tips for Being a Successful Online Student. Interesting Updates in Nutrition News. The blog will be launched and available for use with the Fall 2008 session. Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1715302 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:07:51 +0100 1715302 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1366677&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fthey-shoot-horses-dont-they%2F The anecdote The Family Doctor , published by Julie Obradovic on Age of Autism a couple of months back, is a well told story of how she finally succeeds in converting her brother, a pediatrician, to her understanding that vaccines are bad and likely a cause for autism. If you are new to the question of autism and its causes, and come across this story early on in your search for answers, chances are it might be pretty influential. But something has been bugging me about the story since I first read it. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, so I haven’t written about it until now. It was a discussion I had with Autistic Bitch From Hell in the comments to my recent post A View From the Middle that made me realize what was so troubling to me about the story. Here are Obradovic&#82... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1366677 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:51:00 +0100 1366677 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1362421&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fwhose-decision-is-it%2F A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to give a short talk on autism. Here’s a rough transcript of what I said. A few years ago, a friend asked me the question: “If someone told you there was a pill you could give your son that would cure his autism overnight, would you give it to him?” Sounds like an easy question, right? (general murmur of agreement from the small audience) I hadn’t really thought much about it for some time, as it had been nearly ten years since his autism diagnosis, so I answered with a very non-committal, “I don’t know, I guess so.” That evening I gave the question some more serious thought, and was surprised by I learned. If the child study team that gave us the diagnosis had asked that question right after giving us the diagnos... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1362421 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:13:08 +0100 1362421 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1358552&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fhow-much-risk-is-too-much%2F In a comment to Lisa Jo Rudy’s brief examination of some of the issues in the autism-vaccine debate, Dadvocate had this to say: Rather, it is that some, in their zeal to promote public health may be erroneously accepting a level of adverse reaction risk that is too high (and possibly avoidable by reverting to a more conservative schedule)…. The obvious (to me) question from this is, “Given that the current vaccine schedule results in an unacceptably high risk of autism in vaccinated children, what level of risk is acceptable? If the current risk is 1-in-150 (which, I should note is actually the prevalence and not the odds of being autistic), what risk is acceptable? 1-in-500? 1-in-1000? 1-in 10,000? None?” This question is really for those who believe that vaccines ... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1358552 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:52:05 +0100 1358552 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1352282&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F264219028%2F C is for contraction. C is also for convulsion. Both describe what pharma is experiencing these days. And the number of jobs being cut makes it all too clear. The trend - whether one calls it layoffs, restructuring, downsizing or reorganization - was under way a few years ago, of course, when Merck began eliminating thousands of jobs. But since early last year, the bloodletting has been particularly severe, which is only reinforced by the latest cuts by Wyeth and Schering-Plough. The list, by the way, includes both cuts recently made and those forthcoming. Of course, C is also for collateral damage. This list doesn’t count all the layoffs in the supporting industries and vendors: advertising agencies, marketing companies, med-ed agencies, printing companies, mail houses, and venues f... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1352282 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:07:32 +0100 1352282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1349537&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fa-world-without-autism%2F On one side of the autism debate are those whose mission it is to eradicate autism, remove it from the face of the earth. Which got me thinking, and brought the following questions to mind that I would like to ask those who would see autism disappear: If autism could be cured, and if we, as a society, chose to cure it, what would the world be like? How would it impact our lives, and the lives of our children (and descendants many generations down the line)?  What would society look like 50 years from now?  100 years from now, when autism (or autism-like traits) had stopped influencing things? If you can, I’d also like to know what you think would actually be removed from individuals and society by curing autism, in terms of behaviors, (dis-)abilities, etc.  In other words, what do... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1349537 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:47:25 +0100 1349537 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1347372&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fa-view-from-the-middle%2F I had lunch with an old friend recently, and the topic of conversation wound its way to autism. I, of course, am the parent of an autistic son. As it turns out, his nephew is also autistic. He wanted to understand autism, and I wanted to help him understand. But I didn’t know where to start. Sure, there are many angles from which to approach the question. I could start with: Vaccines cause autism, once they have it, it’s a long struggle to recover them. Or how about: Nothing “causes” autism, it is just another aspect of this neurodiverse world we live in. As far as treatment: Chelation, to get rid of the mercury and other metals. Or: A special diet that is almost impossible, and incredibly expensive, to adhere to. Or: ABA. Or: (add your favorite treatment here). To ... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1347372 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:15:00 +0100 1347372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1296069&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2Fautism.gbrettmiller.com%2F2008%2F03%2Faaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh%2F (Source: 29 Marbles) 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1296069 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:41:33 +0100 1296069 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1287789&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F247816885%2Fbioblogs-19-bioengineering.html This months edition of Bio::Blogs is now available at Duncan's blog and it is mostly focused on (bio)engineering. Click the link for a summary of interesting things that were blogged about in the past month. I will be hosting issue number 20 here in the blog, without a clear topic. Possibly with some emphasis on data integration. Email your top picks of the month until the end of March to bioblogs at gmail .com (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1287789 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:35:00 +0100 1287789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1287823&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2F29marbles.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Faaaaarrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh.html (c) by Brett Miller 2005-2008 Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. (Source: 29 Marbles) 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1287823 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:48:00 +0100 1287823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1271914&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Frubbing-up-the-gene-genie.html Sciencebase is this week proud to play host to the Gene Genie Blog Carnival thanks to an offer from Bertalan “Berci” Meskó over on the excellent ScienceRoll. For those who don’t already know, a Blog Carnival doesn’t usually involve a lot of be-costumed revellers dancing through the streets to the sound of the samba band, but is a gathering of like-minded bloggers brought together through the power of the tubular Interwebs to share their latest posts on a given subject. The Gene Genie carnival has an obvious theme. No, it’s not the songs of aging but outlandish popster David Bowie. No, it’s not the magical character of Arabian Nights entombed in a lamp, and no it’s nothing to do with quasi-sci-fi-retro-fit BBC cop show Ashes to Ashes. It’s ab... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1271914 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:00:07 +0100 1271914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1252846&cid=t_92042_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F240340912%2F   A Wellcome Trust study published in the journal Brain reports that a computer algorithm designed to diagnose Alzheimer’s from brain scans proved more accurate than the current standard — blood tests, family interviews, and clinicians looking at the brain scan themselves. The experiments were conducted by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuro-imaging at University College London.  Automated bio-imaging correctly diagnosed Alzheimer’s in 96% cases compared with 85% for standard testing. The method involves teaching a standard computer the difference between brain scans from patients with proven Alzheimer’s disease (a condition caused by the build-up of plaques and tangles of tissue in the brain) and people with no signs of the disease at all. The two... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1252846 Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:02:11 +0100 1252846 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1250124&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F239542755%2Fcall-for-bioblogs19.html Duncan Hull has volunteer to host the next issue of Bio::Blogs (a bioinformatic related monthly blog journal). It will be out in the beginning of March on the O'Really? blog. The suggested theme for this month is the relationship between Biology and Engineering inspired on the interview published on Edge.org "Engineering and Biology": A Talk with Drew Endy. Anyone can send links for this issue on this topic but also for other interesting bioinformatic posts to bioblogs at gmail.comWe could also try to format if automatically using FeedJournal as suggested by Neil. (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1250124 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:01:00 +0100 1250124 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1245268&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F238281403%2F A group of activists and academics have written Thailand’s new health minister, Chaiya Sasomsab, to resist pressure from drugmakers and biotechs to roll back Bangkok’s policy of issuing compulsory licenses. A recent example came when BIO, the biotech trade group, wrote the US Trade Representative, urging that Thailand be placed on the Foreign Priority Country list, which is reserved for the most severe offenders of intellectual property rights. Thailand is already on the rung below, the Priority Watch list. Thailand’s review of compulsory licenses on three high-priced cancer drugs should not be distorted by groundless threats of potential trade sanctions from the brand-name pharmaceutical industry…PhRMA says it will push the US Trade Rep to impose trade sanctions if... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1245268 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:14:27 +0100 1245268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1207499&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fwordy-wednesday-incredible-5-point.html “Aha! No guessing required then?”“Indeed. I thought I’d make it easy this week.”“So how much is your commission?”“Oodles upon oodles.”“No link to Amazon?”“You don’t need it, just some coloured paper, a black pen, cardboard and some sticky backed plastic?”“Sticky backed what?”“Laminater to you dearie.”“And why exactly would I want one of these. I don’t have any autistic kids?”“Well try it on yourself and if it works then you might have a go with the kiddie winkies.”“Again, why?”“Well maybe you have little kids that don’t have many words, or kids that lose their words when they get all het up.”“The word "tantrum" does spring to mind.”“Do you always know what’s upsetting them?”“Sometimes is obvious but other times they’re w... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1207499 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:07:00 +0100 1207499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1204659&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2F29marbles.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fautoimmune-epidemic.html While wandering the aisles in the local Borders book store, I saw Donna Nakazawa's new book, The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World out of Balance and the Cutting Edge Science that Promises Hope. This description is from the book's official site:Multiple sclerosis, lupus, Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and nearly a hundred other chronic autoimmune illnesses are part of this devastating epidemic, in which the human body, acting on misread signals, literally begins to destroy itself. Alarmingly, the occurrence of many of these diseases has more than doubled in the last three decades, signaling a disturbing trend that can be directly tied to environmental factors in everyday modern life—including our daily exposure to a dizzying array of toxic chemicals.With the con... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1204659 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:53:44 +0100 1204659 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1195852&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2F227516833%2F Don’t forget your hot cocoa when reading the last edition of the Bio::Blogs, at the Bioinformatics Zen. (Source: Blind.Scientist) Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1195852 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:17:35 +0100 1195852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1190000&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2F29marbles.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fnot-in-my-backyard-vaccines-autism-and.html In her post The AAP vs. Eli Stone (January 2008), Ginger Taylor at Adventures in Autism tells the AAP that her son is not "an acceptable loss in the war against TREATABLE viruses" (emphasis hers). The steel trap that is my mind (ha!) remembered that Ginger had brought this up before when talking about vaccines. In Where I stand on vaccines (June 2005), Ginger wrote:The CDC’s vaccine policy is based on the principle that the good done for the many outweighs the harm to the few. And that is fine if you are making vaccine policy for 300 million people. But I am not responsible for holding back another Rubella epidemic; I am responsible for two little boys who just may fall into that sliver of the population that the CDC considers an acceptable loss. (my emphasis)An anonymous commenter resp... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1190000 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:14:00 +0100 1190000 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1179633&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F223432422%2Fsubmissions-for-bioblogs18.html I am slowly re-connecting to the online world again, trying to pick trough the thousands of blog posts and other RSS feed alerts piled up in GReader. Way before I manage to do that (unless I press the read all button) the next edition of Bio::Blogs will be up at Bioinformatics Zen. Michael Barton has kindly agree to host the 18th edition of Bio::Blogs with a particular emphasis on Open Science and Open Notebook Science. It is scheduled for February 1st and anyone can participate by sending a link of their submissions to bioblogs at gmail.com.To get in the spirit of the upcoming edition and to inspire some related blog posts go check out his recent movie. What do you think ? Will there be a significant increase of people sharing and collaborating online this year ? (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1179633 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:27:00 +0100 1179633 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1163224&cid=t_92042_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fksdescartin.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F20%2Fwelcome-to-the-17th-edition-of-medicine-20-blog-carnival%2F The Truth, Is It Still Out There? Life, as we know it to be so far, always reserves space for seeking answers. The truth. And in our search for truth along the avenues and paths of explorations, lie many dimensions and perspectives. Other’s truths may be some other’s lies. While unfortunately, as knowledge unfolds, some opposing and constricting force, covers the light and distract those whose quest is simple–to know the truth.  Medicine, had its share in this unraveling and evolution. It too had its share of dark times. Though these days are definitely not dark times for understanding Medicine and Life, the current state is also neither the absolute truth. I have the opinion that we are in a spasmic process–breaking down walls, tearing off false attachments fro... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1163224 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:18:18 +0100 1163224 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1152540&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2008%2F01%2F15%2Fwhos_the_daddy_pcr ♫ PCR, When you need to know who the Daddy is ♫ ... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1152540 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:05:00 +0100 1152540 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1140027&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F214008771%2F The BIO exec and former congressmen recently chatted with PharmAsia News* about various pressing issues of the day. This excerpt touches on the row in Thailand, which wants to extract lower prices on meds. For those who may not recall, Thailand is in the process of breaking patents on several popular drugs (here’s some background). PharmAsia News: How can biotech companies protect their intellectual property rights in Asia when they are up against emerging biosimilars such as Dr. Reddy’s biosimilar of rituximab? Greenwood: Intellectual property rights are under assault in this country and around the world. In some instances, that is for commercial reasons, but in other instances it is because either policy makers and others are understandably feeling a sense of urgency to get a... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1140027 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:24:30 +0100 1140027 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1139826&cid=t_92042_97_f&fid=35050&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmaGazette%2F%7E3%2F213998995%2Fcompounded_menopause_hormone_t.html The U.S Food and Drug Administration announced that it sent out warning letters to seven pharmacy operations that had made claims about the safety and effectiveness of their "bio-identical hormone replacement therapy" (BRHT) products which were unsupported by medical evidence.The FDA considers the claims to be false and misleading and is concerned that the unfounded claims are misleading to women and health care professionals. The pharmacy operations' claims include that their drug, which contains hormones such as estrogen, progesterone and estriol (which has not been proven safe by the FDA) are better than FDA approved hormone replacement therapies and that the drug also treat diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, stroke and different types of cancers."We want ... PharmaGazette blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1139826 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:00:22 +0100 1139826 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1134632&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2F29marbles.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fwhat-would-it-take-or-why-debate-will.html Before you read the rest of this post, please take a moment (or, if you read as slow as I do, several moments) to read these two posts, by different authors, discussing the study Continuing Increases in Autism Reported to California’s Developmental Services System: Mercury in Retrograde and the accompanying essay Thimerosal Disappears but Autism Remains published in this month's Archives of General Psychiatry:Thimerosal Exposure Declines, Autism Rates Increase (Autism Vox)Making Sense of the California Autism Numbers (Age of Autism)So, what do you think? Does the study prove anything? Disprove anything? If you believed before reading these posts that autism is caused primarily by thimerosal (or mercury in general), did reading these posts change your mind, or cause you to doubt that posi... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1134632 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:16:00 +0100 1134632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1124868&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2F29marbles.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fideology-and-partisanship-of-autism.html In US politics, we've got Republicans and Democrats, also known as the Conservatives and the Liberals. (Please feel free to substitute the two main political parties from your country if you are not from the US.) I don't know if the following is accurate, but I remember hearing it somewhere in the seemingly constant barrage of US election year news: 30% of the population is Republican, 30% Democrat, and 40% Independent. Kind of makes sense if you think about it in terms of the "bell curve" and normal distributions in a population.I've come to think that the same may hold true in the world of autism ideology. I use the term ideology quite deliberately here. From dictionary.com, ideology is defined as:the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual, social movement, inst... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1124868 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:38:00 +0100 1124868 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1123739&cid=t_92042_134_f&fid=36049&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FDiabetesNotes%2F%7E3%2F209305480%2F A bigger and better diet may be only a prick away. Your nutritional needs could easily be detected by a small blood sample much like a fingerstick. By analyzing the unique metabolic changes in an individual’s body, researchers hope to develop more personalized dietary guidelines for improving health and fighting diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Amen to that! Metabolomics, an emerging field whose practitioners study how foods affect metabolism, may provide new tools and data for customizing today’s one-size-fits-all dietary guidelines for an individual’s own body, the article notes. By being able to monitor the hundreds of compounds in a totally objective way, we would allow practitioners to determine exactly what works for each individual patient and also ser... Diabetes Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1123739 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 07:01:29 +0100 1123739 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1103487&cid=t_92042_107_f&fid=35041&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fscienceblogs%2Fdigitalbio%2F%7E3%2F202229381%2Fhunting_for_huntingtin_i.php How do you go about researching a genetic disease? This multi-part series explores how digital resources can be used to learn about Huntingtin's disease. Reposted and updated from the original DigitalBio. A bit of background Alice's Restaurant is a movie with an unforgettable song that mostly revolves around Arlo Guthrie hanging out with his friends. Somewhere in the movie, the conversation turns to Woody, and someone asks the question that no one wants to touch. Does Arlo's girlfriend know about Huntington's? ...dead silence... Now, I did see the movie quite a few years ago, so my memory of the plot is kind of fuzzy but, as I recall, no one in the movie was prepared for that kind of discussion. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Discovering Biol... Discovering Biology in a Digital World blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1103487 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:45:48 +0100 1103487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1064824&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F193911559%2Fmerry-bioblogs-everyone.html Paulo Nuin hosted the 17th edition of Bio::Blogs. The number of submissions was very low so I suspect I am not the only one rushing to finish everything before going on holidays. Should we skip the edition of the 1st of January or maybe postpone it for a few days ? Anyone interested in hosting ? I have been thinking of changing the format a little bit to try to increase the incentives for participating but I'll leave this for another post. (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1064824 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:18:00 +0100 1064824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1064565&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F02%2Fbioblogs-17%2F Glancing through my November archive, I note (1) few if any bioinformatics posts and (2) few posts of any kind. Well, sometimes blogging has to take a back seat. It seems many of us are snowed under in the run-up to the holidays. Despite this, Paulo has compiled an excellent edition of Bio::Blogs, number 17. Go there for a summary of news from the bioinformatics blogosphere in the past month. Remember, volunteers to host future editions are always welcome. (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1064565 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 06:01:05 +0100 1064565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1064575&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35024&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBlindscientist%2F%7E3%2F193715996%2F Yep, Santa dropped by before the busy Holiday Season to help with the 17th edition of the Bio::Blogs digest. Welcome and enjoy! New blogs This last month we welcomed one interesting blog that will have a lot to add to the community. Alexei Drummond is showing us his bag of goods at the Computational Biology and Evolution, self described as “a heady mix of computational science, evolutionary biology and other things that matter”. Also Pedro suggested a good look at Thirst for Science, a blog that is surely “drinking the koolaid” and has opinions on a myriad of scientific subjects, from RNAs to population genetics. Not camera shy Deepak, from bbgm is definitely not camera shy, and he pitches his opinions on business and scientific intelligence. I believe there will ... Blind.Scientist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1064575 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:25:35 +0100 1064575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1054766&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F191421191%2Fbioblogs-17-call-for-submissions.html The 17th edition of Bio::Blogs will be hosted by Paulo Nuin at Blind.Scientist . Submissions of interesting bioinformatic related blog posts of this month can be sent, until the end of the November, to the usual address (bioblogs at gmail dot com) or to nuin at genedrift dot org. There is also still time to submit blog posts to the OpenLab 2007 compilation. (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1054766 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:41:00 +0100 1054766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1045153&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Ftry-to-praise-the-mutilated-world%2F Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of them had a long trip ahead of it, while salty oblivion awaited others. You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere, you’ve heard the [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1045153 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:11:57 +0100 1045153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1041575&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F21%2Fbugs-animals-and-literally-like-rats%2F Excerpted, via CBS4: A controversial practice regarding the treatment of the mentally ill in Florida’s maximum security prisons has some attorneys and mental health experts raising concerns over its use. “Here they are just gassing him. You can see they are just spraying him in the face,” said Miami attorney Leon Fresco. “I would describe it as [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1041575 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:27:59 +0100 1041575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1022131&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F184111494%2Flast-call-for-open-laboratory-2007.html Bora has issued a last call for submissions to the Science Blogging anthology of 2007. As last year, the objective is to collect some of the best science blog posts of the year and compile it into a book to print on demand (deadline on December 20th 2007). Submissions can be sent using an online form and they will be reviewed by a panel that will compile the final list.Anyone interested in participating can send in links to their favorite blog posts of the year and also volunteer to be part of the reviewing process (see instructions here). (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1022131 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:08:00 +0100 1022131 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=998570&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F178234183%2Fbioblogs-16-one-with-halloween-theme.html The 16# edition of Bio::Blogs is know available at Freelancing science. Jump over there for summary of what has been going on during this month in the bioinformatic related blogs. If not for anything else then just to have a look at the pumpkin. Thanks again to everyone that participated. Paulo Nuin from Blind.Scientist has volunteered to host the 17# edition that is scheduled to appear as usual on the 1st of December. (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=998570 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:21:00 +0100 998570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=996487&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F01%2Fbioblogs-16%2F We have a first for Bio::Blogs this month: a holiday-themed edition. Pumpkins are involved. Pawel has done a great job and put together lots of interesting material from the bioinformatics blogosphere. The categories this month are scientific communication, bioinformatics workspaces and software tips. Go and have a read. Volunteers to host future editions are always welcome; email bioblogs at gmail dot com. (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=996487 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:49:09 +0100 996487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966967&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F21%2Fyour-weekender-thingamajig%2F QUOTATION: “Today’s patients, discontented, unhappy, fragmented and confused by an increasingly frantic, alienating and violent society, come to psychiatrists for help, only to have their illusions shored up by an increased dose of a technologic fix. They are told they have illnesses that are biologic and can be fixed, instead of being allowed to speak about [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966967 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:33:57 +0100 966967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=966877&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpedrobeltrao%2F%7E3%2F172908514%2Fbioblogs-16-call-for-submissions.html The next edition of Bio::Blogs (bioinformatics blog journal) will be hosted at Freelancing science on the 1st of November. If you find anything this month that you think is interesting to add to this addition send an email to bioblogs at gmail. com until the end of the month. Anyone interested in hosting future edition can also send an email to volunteer. (Source: Public Rambling) Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=966877 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:35:00 +0100 966877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=965274&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F20%2Fsofter-times-will-be-had-by-all%2F I went to 2 policy meetings today, which usually leads to the cussing, not-safe-for-work diatribe you’ve come to expect following these forays into the lions den. But institutional mental health is being re-organized in Texas, on the local, state and federal levels, and some demonstrable, incremental changes have happened since just last [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=965274 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:33:21 +0100 965274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=957347&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F17%2Fbecause-enduring-ennobles-we-wont-be-discussing-that%2F I’m still having a hard time recovering from mental illness awareness week, migraines, can’t sleep and nightmares when I can, plus waking up crying. I woke up and hollered “Molly!” a few hours ago, and I’ve been drinking a bit to take the edge off, which is nothing to me but a clue. Molly Ivins [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=957347 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:59:50 +0100 957347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=944645&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F11%2Fdear-god-your-sockpuppets-are-calling%2F That would be the self-named Chosen who speak as icons of lucidity, praying to the Flying Spaghetti Monster on behalf of the crazy folk. Included in this week’s devotion to exploiting the children they deny they drove insane, NAMI held their National Day of Prayer for Those with Mental Illness on Tuesday. Though [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=944645 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:39:21 +0100 944645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=912198&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D1323 One thing I was definitely surprised by was how many Americans were perusing the booths lectures at EuroBio…especially when I stumbled into the BioPartnering booths which were reserved for collaboration opportunities between industry and academia as well as tech transfer. Over 600 companies were represented as well as 100 academic institutions/organizations participated in the BioPartnering [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=912198 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:33 +0100 912198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=908673&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F27%2Fthe-pedagogy-of-the-oppressed%2F I’m back from the SHAC. My first impression is that the consumers are infantilized, they didn’t want to engage the medical director, they wanted to squabble with each other about soda and pizza. Not much dialogue, lots more when is the pizza coming? God! One consumer asked if there could be MORE [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=908673 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:29:08 +0100 908673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=908791&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35779&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pharmamanufacturing.com%2Fonpharma%2F%3Fp%3D1322 Well I have successfully landed in Lille, France after an always-encouraging 3-hour flight delay at O’Hare. Fortunately enough this delay was quickly made up by Europe’s high speed TGV, and I was off to explore the small city of Lille which is located one hour north of Paris and half an hour south of Belgium [...] (Source: On Pharma) On Pharma blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=908791 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:09:43 +0100 908791 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=906160&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F26%2F374%2F Someone asked me if I believe in the biopsychosocial model of illness and recovery. This is the wrong direction to take regarding the previous post. It’s not important what I believe. I don’t need you to believe what I do. What’s important is what policy makers and mental health providers believe. I personally work to [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=906160 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:27:54 +0100 906160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=894279&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F23%2Fwhat-i-spurned-on-my-summer-vacation%2F For the last few years I’ve been holding off on buying Nick Cave’s double-CD Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus until I do something sufficiently awful that I don’t have to but probably should if I’m to get along with my better self. I’ve met my share of challenges since the CD came out, and each [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=894279 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:41:21 +0100 894279 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=883877&cid=t_92042_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F158515595%2F In a teleconference chat yesterday afternoon with a few bloggers, Jim Greenwood spent some time sharing the BIO point of view on the pressing matters of the day - follow-on biologics legislation, patent reform legislation and the FDA reform bill, which is otherwise known as PDUFA. Here are some excerpts…. FDA Reform: We think we’ve done pretty well…We’re not happy that Congress included $250 million in PDUFA fees after we spent last year negotiating with Congress…But PDUFA expires in 12 days and morale at the FDA is not good. If Congress doesn’t grant a temporary extension, it’ll be another morale killer. They (FDA staffers) really do start thinking about other offers, since government doesn’t pay.” Follow-on Biologics: This is “... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=883877 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:14:22 +0100 883877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=843921&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F05%2Fremember-the-children-they-remember-you%2F Calling all NAMI! Yoo-hoo! Hi! ((((((HUGS!!!1!!)))))) Read the LA Times this week? Gonna pull on your coat a second, k? Thanx! Dr. Gabrielle A. Carlson, a psychiatrist at Stony Brook University, said only 1 of every 5 children referred to her with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder actually has it. Carlson, who has studied the increase in bipolar diagnoses, said some parents seemed to prefer a diagnosis of the disorder because the illness, thought to be largely genetic, absolves them of blame. “They don’t have to deal with their chaos, their psychiatric disorder, their marital troubles or abuse.” Won’t somebody please think of the children? Yes, indeed, one of these days I believe we will. via. (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=843921 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:31:49 +0100 843921 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=801465&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F15%2Fwhats-more-loaded-than-a-skid-row-bum%2F TAC rhetoric! Hands down the most mind-blown example of Orwellian doublethink going on in the national discourse. Alison Hymes correctly identifies TAC as a political action committee that promotes wicked discrimination while claiming itself a leading advocate for the mentally ill. The following is from her post about TAC’s Craig’s List ad for a new director. Here I attempt to unpack their language and get to the bottom of it: The Treatment Advocacy Center seeks a dynamic and passionate leader who can continue a commanding track record of success into its second decade. The Treatment Advocacy Center (www.TreatmentAdvocacyCenter.org) is a national nonprofit based inside the Washington Beltway (Arlington, VA). TAC has an expert legal, communications, and support staff in place ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=801465 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:46:00 +0100 801465 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=794244&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F12%2Fprocess-entails-stages-we-can-see-ourselves-in%2F Wait, work with me here. From A Fragile Revolution, a book about our little niche liberation movement: Lord and Hutchison (1993) found that the process of empowerment usually begins with individuals getting angry or, more properly stated, becoming aware of their anger. In the context of their new awareness, they also have to have the opportunity to try out new behaviours and, paradoxically, the freedom to fail. Further, it is critical that they are supported by the external material resources that constitute the most basic of human needs, secure housing and an income, so that they can have at least some measure of control over their public, as well as private, selves. Finally, Lord & Hutchison insist that no one can become empowered on their own. They must have the company of their pee... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=794244 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:54:24 +0100 794244 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=781452&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F08%2F05%2Fdesperate-times%2F I just read this paper by Shery Mead, describing what’s become of alternative support systems in the age of accreditation. It resonates totally with my own experience, for which I’m grateful, as I’m still trying to get my bearings in understanding how mental health took such a bad turn, and why the old models, which do exist and to put it mildly, have not been officially discredited, are, nevertheless ignored in making policy. In the past 25 years I’ve been a client, paraprofessional, support group member, paid direct care staffer and worked in all types of mental health agencies and settings. The difference in how things were 20 years ago compared to today are stupifying, more so because the blatant devolution is touted as progress. The origins of peer support is ... Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=781452 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:32:48 +0100 781452 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=777759&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F140453324%2F Hosted by Neil, who does a fabulous editorial job as usual. This is one of the better bio::blogs, a very encouraging sign Technorati Tags: bio::blogs (Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules) business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=777759 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:53:05 +0100 777759 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=771644&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F139427035%2F You have some extra time to get in a bio::blogs entry. Neil always does a great job, so looking forward to his editorial. Technorati Tags: bio::blogs, blog carnival (Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules) business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=771644 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:20:36 +0100 771644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=762997&cid=t_92042_133_f&fid=35082&url=http%3A%2F%2F29marbles.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fcanaries-in-coal-mine.html If you ask Dr. Bryan Jepson he will tell you why he thinks the "new" autism is different from the "old". As a medical doctor (now a Director of Medical Services) and parent of a young autistic son, Jepson has been doing some research lately and has come up with some (not always so) new ideas. Here are some excerpts from a story in the Deseret News (Utah) about Jepson and his new book Changing the Course of Autism: A Scientific Approach for Parents and Physicians:Soon he was convinced that autism is a complex metabolic disease that has as much to do with the gut as it does with the brain.It's an epidemic, he says, "and there's no such thing as a genetic epidemic."At the same time, the "new autism" is less likely to show up within the first six months or year of a baby's life, and is much m... 29 Marbles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=762997 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:40:00 +0100 762997 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=733676&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35014&url=http%3A%2F%2Fharijay.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F13%2Fback-on-the-ncbi-horse%2F I have been working a lot with alignments in Jalview and had blogged about how Google can find Uniprot IDs better than NCBI ..well it turns out that NCBI did indeed have most of the Uniprot sequences I was looking for. The fault was mine! for not using the correct form of uniprot id.. The catch I had to say just Q57T52 instead of the Q57T52_SALCH and Q325Y4 instead of Q325Y4_SHIBS Which brings to me to one incredible thing about google. The google suggest and spelling correction. NCBI recently added the spelling correction feature. But still does not have something that would have told me that I should try Q57T52 instead of the old style Q57T52_SALCH uniprot id query. So all in all out of the 742 sequences that the manually curated PFAM database had used in its voltage_clc gamily alignmen... The Omics world blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=733676 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:51:13 +0100 733676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=716710&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F07%2F05%2Ffound-a-punk-rock-pro-science-critical-psychiatrist%2F No shit, and I will not sleep tonight. Anyone heard of the Candid Psychiatrist? He’s got articles, a blog, forum and a mission statement! And he’s nice! I’m gonna do some reviewing here while reading his articles. Mission Statement: I believe that too much of contemporary psychiatric practice indulges in half-truths, often avoiding the sort of frank [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=716710 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 10:26:08 +0100 716710 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=707192&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35011&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fmndoci%2F%7E3%2F129266780%2F You can still enter something for Bio::Blogs #12 Technorati Tags: Bio::Blogs (Source: business|bytes|genes|molecules) business|bytes|genes|molecules blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=707192 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:44:37 +0100 707192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=700653&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35013&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpbeltrao.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fcall-for-bioblogs-12-i-am-collecting.html Call for Bio::Blogs #12I am collecting submissions for the 12th edition of Bio::Blogs. Send in links to blog posts you want to share from your blog or that you enjoyed reading in other blogs to bioblogs at gmail until the end of the month. The next edition will be up at Nodalpoint on the 1st of Jully. Maybe it could be cool to try out a section on papers of the month as voted by everyone (Neil used to do this once in a while). Anyone interested in participating just has to send a link to a paper, published last month and related to bioinformatics, with a short paragraph explaining what is nice about the paper. Mike over at Bioinformatics Zen is asking how to continue the Tips and Tricks section of Bio::Blogs. He has put up a wiki page on open science in Nodalpoint to collect information fo... Public Rambling blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=700653 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:23:00 +0100 700653 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687081&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F21%2Fscience-medicine-and-the-gullible-left%2F An op-ed by cool observer Mickey Z in Online Journal, January/2007: In a recent National Football League game, Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Chris Simms suffered a ruptured spleen. Simms was rushed to the hospital, his spleen was removed, and he is now on the road to recovery. This much talked about injury inspired Robert N. Jenkins [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687081 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:40:30 +0100 687081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687082&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F21%2Fpissed-off-psychiatrist-calls-bullshit%2F And fingers Joseph Biederman, kingpin of the Harvard bipolar child mafia, which directs child psychiatry the world over. Biederman is of course a pharma whore and therefore arrogant prick and major mouthpiece for biopsychiatry, the theory that dysfunctional home environments are irrelevant in the cause of bi-polar disorder, which he maintains can start “from [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687082 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:32:28 +0100 687082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=683525&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F19%2Fthird-times-a-charm%2F I wrote 2 long and demoralizing posts today that made me loopy. I’m arguing with another commenter at Amanda’s blog and can’t make heads or tails of what’s going on. I see some folks are here today, I tell you what, I’ll just download the chat function so we can talk in real time when things [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=683525 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:20:41 +0100 683525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676770&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F13%2Fstart%2F This is a cut and paste of the usual fare here. I collect these pieces, in anticipation of the disappearing. I have to say reading it scared me, not because of what it says, but that it needs to be said at all. These are new times. Mind over medicine Guardian UK Mental health professionals should look beyond [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676770 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:02:13 +0100 676770 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676774&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F10%2Fwhoopsie%2F Time to have a go at the do-gooders, the latest critique on the anti-stigma campaigns finds a few bugs in the system. Who asked for an anti-stigma campaign, anyway? No one I know, everyone I know says nothing about us without us, good day. I swear to god this is the edited version. A definitive worldwide [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676774 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:23:04 +0100 676774 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=676775&cid=t_92042_140_f&fid=35438&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwrithesafely.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F09%2Fdont-believe-what-hype%2F This hype, silly wabbit, at Mixing Memory, via Dr. X.: About a year ago, there was an article in Seed Magazine titled “Seduced by the Flickering Lights of the Brain,” in which Paul Bloom argued that people are too easily seduced by neuroscience, believing that it made for good science, even when it doesn’t. At the [...] (Source: Writhe Safely) Writhe Safely blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=676775 Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:03:29 +0100 676775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=658928&cid=t_92042_132_f&fid=35014&url=http%3A%2F%2Fharijay.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F05%2Ferror-bars-and-experimental-biology-and-the-bbgm-podcast%2F I will try to keep this post real short. The Journal of Cell Biology carries a very useful article on error bars in experimental biology. Sadly the article is only available with a subscription, but here is a link to the abstract on pubmed. The article talks about error bars in different context and how they should be used. Targeted at the non-statistics geek the article is easy to follow and quite useful. My good friend Deepak who got me into blogging , recently started podcasting. Like his excellent blog the bbgm podcast is mostly about technology and computing and other things biotech . Deepak is extremely well plugged-in to the web 2.0 world and his podcast is fun medley of the things that catch his attention and the biotech-Bio IT business world . Recently he interviewed me on the fif... The Omics world blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=658928 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:31:37 +0100 658928