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 'brooklyn'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4532570&cid=t_113738_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F8IsrwzAqM_A%2F Top of the morning to you. A sunny day is unfolding here on the Pharmalot corporate campus, where we are, once again, hustling short people off to this or that school house. Nonetheless, we are also reaching for our mandatory cup of stimulation - our flavor today is Cinnamon Cream Swirl - and looking about for interesting items. Please let us know if you spot something yourself. Meanwhile, have a great day… Daiichi To Buy Plexxicon For Up To $935M (Bloomberg News) Pharma Job Outlook Bleak In Europe As Sites Are Closed (Reuters) Forest And Nycomed Win FDA Approval For COPD Drug (Associated Press) Elan Pleads Guilty In Zonegran Marketing (Boston Business Journal) Feds Award $215M For Flu Vaccine Development (Associated Press) UK’s NICE Wants More Data On Roche Cancer Drug (Dow Jo... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4532570 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:02:23 +0100 4532570 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3798563&cid=t_113738_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhen-medical-professionals-turn-their-backs%2F2010.07.28 A few weeks before Christmas, Eutisha Rennix, a pregnant restaurant worker, collapsed while working. She started having a seizure and her co-workers were screaming for help. There were two EMT workers in line at Au Bon Pain shop in Brooklyn and they refused to help. They told onlookers to call 911 and they walked out of the store after picking up their bagels, presumably because they were on a coffee break. An ambulance was called and the 25-year-old woman and her baby girl died shortly afterward. She is survived by a 3-year-old son. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at EverythingHealth* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3798563 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0100 3798563 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3742239&cid=t_113738_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Ftop-10-blisstree-posts-of-the-week-2%2F Been busy all week? So have we. But we don’t want you to miss out on anything, so here are links to our top (and favorite) Blisstree posts from last week: 1. Day 1 of BOOTYCamp! With Fitness Trainer Lacey Stone: Owww 2. Coke and Diet Coke: Sodas We Love to Hate (and Drink) 3. What’s In Your Wallet? LearnVest CEO Alexa von Tobel Shows the Contents of Her Money-Bag 4. Feminine Hygiene: 8 Dumb Douches, Sprays, and Wipes 5. Summer Food: Cool Raw Recipe From Our Hot Vegan Chef 6. Beauty Product Review: ~H2O+Sea-Derived Oasis Collection 7. Eco-Friendly Shopping: 10 Camping Gear Essentials Under $10 8. 7 Fast-Food Slushies and Smoothies: Just How Fattening Are They? 9. Jennifer Aniston vs. Brooklyn Decker: Bikini Body Face-Off 10. Foodie Secrets to Staying Slim: Gail Simmons and Frank... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3742239 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:00:57 +0100 3742239 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3552546&cid=t_113738_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fu5xnfU-IeWo%2F Seven years after receiving millions of dollars in tax breaks to create jobs in New York, Pfizer is eliminating up to 1,400 workers amid a vast consolidation that was accelerated by its $68 billion purchase last year of Wyeth. Along with the cuts and musical job chairs, which come on top of 2,000 other positions already eliminated, the drugmaker is also putting a midtown office building up for sale, The New York Times notes. Pfizer will retain its midtown headquarters on East 42nd Street, as well as 4,400 employees, but now faces an angry and embarassed Bloomberg administration, which wants to recover twice the $12 million in tax breaks awarded in 2003. A spokesman for the city’s Economic Development Corporation tells the paper the city can pursue twice the amount of breaks if Pfizer... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3552546 Tue, 11 May 2010 12:14:43 +0100 3552546 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3395095&cid=t_113738_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F3-cool-things%2F Layla in Brooklyn (photo: Marina Berio) Three things we like, in no particular order, from Blisstree to you: 1. Vlaemsch: A super-slick Belgian home design site that lets you shop online. Love the moose. 2. Layla: Alayne Patrick’s tiny shop filled with pretty things to put in your home or on your body, located in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill neighborhood. 3. Chicago Reader: Very cool paper about a very windy town. Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3395095 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:44:18 +0100 3395095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3385334&cid=t_113738_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fwomen-who-rule%2F Blue Marble Ice Cream shop co-owners Jennie Dundas and Alexis Miesen (photo: bluemarbleicecream.com) Check out these three super-cool charitable non-profits run by smart women who help empower other smart women: The Tia Foundation: Dedicated to providing health care strategies (not relief) for residents of rural Mexico. What makes Tia (“aunt” in Spanish) different from other NGOs is that it’s more of a support system. Its founder, Laura Libman, doesn’t believe in creating dependency on an outside source. She practices the “teach a woman to fish” rather than the “give a woman a fish” model. Tia trains women to be medical workers, and promotes sustainable health care. Bueno. Safe Passage: Guatemala City’s landfill is one of Central Americ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3385334 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:47:44 +0100 3385334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3374096&cid=t_113738_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2F3-things-we-think-are-cool%2F photo: Thinkstock From Blisstree to you, three things we like, in no particular order: 1. Crowdrise: A philanthropic social-networking site for hipsters? You had us at “philanthropic”. 2. Natural Wines: Different than organic wines. Cloudy, funky, unfiltered, sulfite-free, and weirdly delicious. 3. Milk Paint: Beautiful, old-timey, and environmentally friendly. What’s not to love? Post from: BlissTree (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3374096 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:01:06 +0100 3374096 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251192&cid=t_113738_87_f&fid=36941&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mazecordblood.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D413 New Yorkers!  Rally behind Jennifer Jones Austin! The Brooklyn-based mother, lawyer and family advocate has been stricken with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and has become the face of a city-wide blood and bone marrow drive in conjunction with New York Blood Center (NYBC) and The City University of New York (CUNY). After feeling tired, believing it was just a virus, Jennifer was diagnosed.  Once she confirmed, unfortunately, that her siblings were not a match for a transplant, she turned to the “Be The Match” blood drive going on now at Borough of Manhattan Community College.  According to statistics, only 10% of the donors registered with the National Marrow Donor Program are African American, and the changes for a match improve greatly when race and ethnic synergies exist.  Th... Cord Blood News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251192 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:35:26 +0100 3251192 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3200631&cid=t_113738_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F22%2Fvox-populi-how-do-your-define-tragedy%2F How do you define tragedy? … The loss of Archibald “Moonlight” Graham and Sue-Louise Newmann is certainly tragic, however, their lives exemplify hope and inspiration. Alabama Crimson Tide 37 — Texas Longhorns 21.  That was the final score of the Citi BCS National Championship football game, which was played in the Rose Bowl on January 7, [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3200631 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:58:05 +0100 3200631 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2035857&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FJ9vZGdd_fzg%2F As in, school closures and budget cuts to programs for autistic children. In Brooklyn, a nationally recognized program for speech and language delayed children, The Little Room, will either be moved from its location in the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School or closed, according to the December 13th New York Times. The Little Room, which has been in operation since 1970, is “one of the most popular and best regarded [preschools for special education students], not just for those enrolled but for dozens of other families who receive evaluations and support services at the school.” Among the factors being cited as reasons for moving or closing The Little Room are the costs incurred from maintaining a small class size (The Little Room’s classes are capped at nine students) a... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2035857 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:45:18 +0100 2035857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1560798&cid=t_113738_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F01%2Fkings-county-hospital-lets-woman-with-mental-illness-die%2F The below hospital surveillance video shows a dying woman while people around her, including a hospital security guard, did nothing to help. Apparently hospitals aren’t good places for people with mental illness to be (click here to read the full entry and view the video): After a full hour, another patient alerted hospital staff of the woman dead on the floor. But it gets better: Worse still, the surveillance tape suggests hospital staff may have falsified medical charts to cover the utter lack of treatment provided Esmin Green before she died. And while I’d like to say this is a rare, unfortunate accident, indifference among staffers at hospitals toward people with mental illness is actually fairly common. This is not the first time this hospital has ha... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1560798 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:55:19 +0100 1560798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1488323&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F302743819%2F Yes, our family (as in all three of us) attended two parties this weekend. On Saturday afternoon we drove into Queens via the Goethals Bridge, the Verranzano Bridge (Charlie sat up to get the full view of being close to the ocean), and Brooklyn (after going through Sunset Park and seeing too many interesting looking Chinese and Asian restaurants, and then East New York). One of Jim’s friends’ two sisters (count the s’s and the apostrophes in that) were both celebrating their birthday somewhere off of Fresh Pond Road. Charlie put his hands over his ears at the music and the party noise; a woman who works with autistic children at a school out on Long Island came and sat with him and talked; Charlie looked relaxed. He sat and ate while Jim and I socialized. Driving back to... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1488323 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:28:25 +0100 1488323 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1336878&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F260608792%2F Brooklyn is to Manhattan as California’s East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley) is to San Francisco: Today’s New York Times draws these comparisons: ….there is a young, earnest population that is beating a path between artsy, gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn and their counterparts in the Bay Area, especially East Oakland and the area south of Market Street in San Francisco, or SoMa. The New York Times describes some 20- and 30- something year olds who, in search of a place with a “messy urbanism”—-a urban, creative vibe of the sort found in edgier city neighborhoods before gentrification sets in—-shuttle between the East and West—the Left—coasts. Maybe this transcontinental connection is now found among “creative people” in searc... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1336878 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:38:07 +0100 1336878 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1280997&cid=t_113738_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F246101184%2F Last year, Pfizer announced it was laying off 600 workers and ending production at the historic Brooklyn factory where the company was founded back in 1849. The last employee at the Williamsburg plant will be gone by the end of this year. Yet, writes a columnist for The New York Daily News, the drugmaker is milking New York City for lucrative tax breaks by promising to create jobs - only to turn around and cut its workforce. Four years ago, Pfizer signed an agreement for nearly $10 million in tax breaks with the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In return, the company promised to increase total employment at its Manhattan headquarters and its Brooklyn plant (see photo) from 5,735 to 8,659. In 2004 alone, the first year of the agreement, Pfizer was supposed to add 1,000 jobs, colu... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1280997 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:42:06 +0100 1280997 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1237604&cid=t_113738_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofhealing.com%2F2008%2F02%2F17%2Fmedia-in-medicine-dr-stark-zocdoc-imedix%2F Dr. Stark Reuters report about Dr. Howard Stark, a physician with a unique practice. In the same article, it shows a photograph of a smiling man in front of the computer. And the reason for the smile? Stark has moved most of his practice, based in Washington, onto the Internet and he couldn’t be happier. Since he started his Web-based service two years ago, he has received 14,000 e-mails. And yet, he feels more like an old-fashioned family doctor in a small town than a modern, harried physician. “That’s 14,000 phone calls that we did not have to answer and that patients did not have to make,” Stark said. He does not charge for answering an e-mail. “You have to come in one time a year for an annual exam,” Stark said. Dr. Stark’s is another example... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1237604 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:40:41 +0100 1237604 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=988393&cid=t_113738_120_f&fid=34721&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnurse2be.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F10%2Fbreezy-brooklyn-birds.html Click To Play QuicktimeClick To Play Flash Ok, it's a little long. Getting back into the videoblogging groove. I have seen pigeons around town do this flying sun dance before and have always wanted to catch it. While running some errands on a beautiful day yesterday, I finally did. Also some random driving footage on a glorious fall day. Pink Floyd, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" from the Ummagumma album provides the perfect spacey soundtrack. (Source: Becoming a Nurse) Becoming a Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=988393 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:01:00 +0100 988393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=789227&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F142296713%2F There was no hot water in the shower at the YMCA so Charlie waited till we got home. He has been liking to shower long and leisuredly and has been taking an interest in the soap and in soaping himself (you never know when a “life skill” might emerge………). On a day of 90-degree-plus heat and torrid humidity—-and a tornado in Brooklyn, flooding, and, due to this, a four-hour commute to get from the Newark Airport to the Pulaski Skyway on roads speckled with overheated cars and weary motorists—-swimming and showering struck me as essential for Charlie. (Me, after noting that hot air was coming out of my car’s AC vents this morning, I was feeling glad to sit down in a cool room.) Humidity often makes Charlie wilt and become anxious, plus Wednesday... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=789227 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:29:07 +0100 789227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=645214&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F120408496%2F This was what Jim likes to call a “triathlon” weekend for Charlie: On Saturday, he went swimming in a lake at a state park with some friends; on Sunday and Monday he went for long bike rides; on Monday, the three of us walked on the Brooklyn Promenade and then over the Brooklyn Bridge. Charlie had woken up distraught at the prospect of yet another day without school—-it was Monday, was it not? should he not be waiting under the pine trees for the schoolbus to pull up, according to his internal clock? After Jim and I had repeatedly said “School tomorrow! School’s tomorrow!” to Charlie’s queries, he sighed and went to sit in the back seat of the white car with a take-out container of rice that he had put into his lunchbox and accompanied Jim on some ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=645214 Tue, 29 May 2007 04:16:14 +0100 645214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=557514&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F110645149%2F It was past midnight when we got home from Brooklyn on Thursday, after MothersVox’s and my reading with Brooklyn Reading Works at The Old Stone House. She has written up a lovely summary of what she read and what I read. Thank so much to all who came—I would like to sit down with each of you (with coffee, perhaps) and just talk, and just listen. Thank you. There is always time to describe the kind of good feeling and warmth that emanated from the second floor room of The Old Stone House, of the immediate connections—the bonds—I feel when I meet parents and relatives of autistic persons. I will be writing more about what was said, and about the whole adventure of the evening (Charlie had a lot of subway rides). When I came home, though after getting Charlie into his ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=557514 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:32:29 +0100 557514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=554737&cid=t_113738_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F110370713%2F “We’re taking the train to New York tomorrow and meeting Dad,” I said to Charlie last night, and pointed at the boxes for “Wednesday” and “Thursday” on his picture calendar. “Train to New York,” said Charlie and then, “socks! shoes!” I repeated talking and pointing, adding that it was getting close to bedtime and he was wearing his pajamas; after a few more rounds, Charlie mentioned his teachers’ names and “school tomorrow” and walked off. When it comes to language both what Charlie hears and what he says seem to be strictly in the present, or to be understood in that way. Mentioning “train to New York” means we’re taking the train right now. I can point to Thursday as “tomorrow&#822... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=554737 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:30:07 +0100 554737