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 'brown university'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4952845&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fmedical-school-to-require-incoming-students-to-purchase-ipads%2F2011.06.20 In a little seen nugget published in an article of the Chronicle, the Ivy League medical school, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will be requiring their incoming medical students to use the Inkling e-book app for key medical textbooks in their first year of medical school. They will be requiring their incoming first year class to purchase iPads as well. We have been the first to report how and why Inkling is a game changer in the arena of medical e-books when we reviewed Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology: Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology for the iPad allows you to highlight, write notes, view innovative multimedia modules, and easily search for content — taking what you can do on a paper based textbook to a higher level — and taking e-learning to a comple... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4952845 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:00:38 +0100 4952845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4775601&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FEBgixMvO-Qc%2F Back in 2001, the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry published a paper concluding the Paxil antidepressant was “generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents.” But the study, known as 329, was later discredited amid charges that outcomes were conflated, unflattering results were omitted and ghostwriting was involved. The details became known more than two years ago as documents emerged from investigations by UK regulators (look here) and the former New York Attorney General (read this), as well as lawsuits charging GlaxoSmithKline hid the risks of its Paxil pill. More recently, there was a call for the paper to be retracted (read here). One of the 22 co-authors was Stan Kutcher, a physician who is running for the Canadian par... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4775601 Mon, 02 May 2011 14:49:06 +0100 4775601 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4405779&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhope-for-those-with-body-dysmorphic-disorder%2F2011.01.26 The Science Daily article entitled Body dysmorphic disorder patients who loathe appearance often get better, but it could take years discusses the disorder as highlighted in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (JNMD).   The JNMD article reports the results of the longest-term study so far to track people with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). The study was conducted by researchers at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. The good news? The researchers “found high rates of recovery, although recovery can take more than five years.” This is a small study with only 15 BDD patients who were followed over an eight-year span. An excerpt: After statistical adjustments, the recovery rate for sufferers in the study over eight years was 76 percent and the recurrence rate was 14 p... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4405779 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:00:00 +0100 4405779 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3275761&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Funiversity-president-but-no-longer.html A frequent topic on Health Care Renewal is how leaders of not-for-profit health care organizations now frequently value their "margin," that is, revenue generation more than mission.  (One good example here shows how medical school leaders value faculty most for how much money they bring in, rather than the quality of their teaching, research, or patient care.)  "Masters of the Universe" as Leaders of Academic MedicineAs we have cast about for reasons behind this important and unfortunate transformation, we noticed that many of the members of the boards of trustees of some of the most prestigious universities that house medical schools, medical schools, and teaching hospitals seemed to be leaders in the finance industry. The importance of that finding became more relevant after t... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3275761 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:48:00 +0100 3275761 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3059819&cid=t_126606_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F1-zIraMoooo%2F Our inaugural SharpBrains Summit continues to grow momentum – here goes a quick update. New Speakers: Thomas M. Warden is Assistant Vice President and Leader of Allstate’s Research and Planning Center (ARPC). He helps sets ARPC’s research agenda and manage its execution by 60-member ARPC staff, leading the development of significant innovations that contribute to Allstate’s profitable growth. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Dr. Laurence Hirshberg directs the NeuroDevelopment Center and serves on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior of the Brown University Medical School as Clinical Assistant Professor. The NeuroDevelopment Center is one of the 20 research sites worldwide participating in the largest study ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3059819 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:28:53 +0100 3059819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977574&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fn9EXinVDdso%2F There are five of them - Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University - will release a pledge to encourage companies to give poor countries better access to drugs and medical products based on discoveries made on their campuses, Bloomberg News reports. Their promise is supposed to guide how drugs developed by scientists at their universities are licensed to companies, a Harvard spokesman tells Bloomberg, adding that the schools signed their pledge after campus student groups pushed for policies to make new drugs available at low cost to poor patients. The statement commits the schools to make “vigorous efforts” to promote global access to drugs through licensing strategies, Bloomberg writes. For example, the schools will w... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977574 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:42:32 +0100 2977574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2364986&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fpension-fund-scandals-payment-agents.html As we get closer to graduation season for most institutions of higher education, another story about the leadership and governance of higher education, involving an institution housing a prominent medical school, has come into view, albeit indirectly. Let me try to explain this complex story, which on its surface has something to do with the ongoing financial crisis, but nothing to to with academia, by quoting, as usual, from media coverage.We start with an article from the New York Times last week:The man leading the Obama administration’s efforts to restructure the auto industry has been described in Securities and Exchange Commission documents as having arranged for his investment firm to pay more than $1 million to obtain New York State pension business.Although he is not named in th... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2364986 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:43:00 +0100 2364986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2110588&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2F1-million-ceo-for-27-million.html From the Seattle Times comes a story of how top executives in biotechnology may be paid for lack of performance,Even in a disastrous year on Wall Street, Cell Therapeutics stood out in 2008. Its stock price dropped 99.25 percent.But the cash-strapped Seattle biotech's top five executives had reason to celebrate Dec. 31: That day they were awarded year-end bonuses totaling more than $1 million.Chief Executive James Bianco, who has run the company since founding it in 1992, was awarded a $487,500 bonus to supplement his $650,000 salary and other perks.Cell Therapeutics' eight board members, who include Bianco, chose to pay 75 percent of the bonuses in cash, and will decide March 1 whether 'the company is sufficiently liquid to pay the remaining amount.' In other words, the board wasn't certa... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2110588 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:37:00 +0100 2110588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1825537&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fbrown-university-student-journalists.html This article provided confirmation that Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and the US Senate Finance Committee is, in fact, investigating Dr Keller and Brown University in connection with the controversy. It also included other original reporting, including an acknowledgement from GlaxoSmithKline Director of US Media Relationships Sarah Alspach that the company had provided the committee with full information about the compensation it gave Dr Keller.The second provided a quite clear explanation of the allegations about the manipulation of Study 329. This article also included results of an interview with Dr Jon Jureidini, the author of an article that dissected study 329, and suggested that it had been manipulated to enhance the apparent benefits of paroxetine, and diminish its apparent ris... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1825537 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:33:00 +0100 1825537 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1826214&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F400853763%2F How’s this for school spirit? A pair of Brown University students have worked up a nicely done look back at the infamous professor. Keller, you may recall, is among the 30 or so physicians at two dozen universities the Senate Finance Committee is probing concerning disclosure of grants from drugmakers. The Brown psychiatrist is a controversial figure for his role in studying Glaxo’s Paxil antidepressant. Why? He was the lead author of an infamous study published in 2001 in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry that Paxil was “generally well tolerated and effective for major depression in adolescents.” Study 329 was used to widely promote the pill, which became a huge seller, but was plagued by ghostwriting charges, and results were worse tha... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1826214 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:35:18 +0100 1826214 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1769138&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F383216828%2F Under pressure from an ongoing US Senate investigation, the National Institutes of Health last week sent reminders to universities that “proper stewardship of Federal funds includes ensuring objectivity of results by protecting federally-funded research from compromise by FCOI,” or financial conflicts of interest. The August 25 e-mail was written by Norka Ruiz Bravo, the NIH deputy director for extramural research, who last March told The New York Times that “for us to try to manage directly the conflict-of-interest of an NIH investigator would be not only inappropriate but pretty much impossible.” She added that “I think (the system) is working to the extent that people are being honest and I think most people are honest.” Honesty aside, the Senate Finance Co... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1769138 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:38:08 +0100 1769138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1655670&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F345833615%2F The ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee wants the National Institutes of Health to revoke grants to academic scientists who fail to report financial conflicts of interest to their institutions, the Iowa Senator tells The Chronicle of Higher Education. His remarks come after targeting Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Cincinnati, because some academics underreported their own financial interests in research projects supported by the NIH. Institutions are required by federal regulation to report the existence of those conflicts to the agency. Grassley is seeking info from 20 other institutions about financial conflicts among their scientists, including Brown University’s Martin Keller, and the American Psychiatric Association. Since 1995, an N... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1655670 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:01:05 +0100 1655670 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1626165&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=36939&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscientific-misconduct.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fcrooked-academics-and-universities-that.html It's all very well blaming pharmaceutical companies for the decrepit state of integrity in medicine.The chief villians remain our academic institutions and medical leadership. They have colluded with and have acted as apologists for commercial scientific fraud. They have tolerated the telling of lies by senior academics. They have encouraged the prostitution of medicine. They have allowed abuse of the most fundamental safeguards of science. Most importantly, they have set terrible examples for our students.Last week I posted a copy of my letter to the new Dean of Medicine at Brown University, Professor Ed Wing. The letter was about scientific integrity at Brown, the problem of Professor Martin Keller, and the silence over Brown's treatment of Professor David Kern.I have not had a response.... Scientific Misconduct Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1626165 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:43:00 +0100 1626165 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1622999&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F335299832%2F Among the 30 or so physicians at two dozen universities that the Senate Finance Committee is probing concerning disclosure of grants from drugmakers is Martin Keller, a psychiatrist at Brown University who is a controversial figure for his role in studying Glaxo’s Paxil antidepressant. The committee, according to sources familiar with the investigation, sent a letter to Brown as part of its investigation. We are awaiting a reply from Brown and will update you shortly. In recent weeks, the committee has acknowledged focusing on three academic psychiatrists - Harvard University’s Joe Biederman, Stanford University’s Alan Schatzberg and the University of Cincinnati’s Melissa DelBello. Last week, Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on the committee, also asked the Am... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1622999 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:09:11 +0100 1622999 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1583157&cid=t_126606_150_f&fid=36939&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscientific-misconduct.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F07%2Fdean-edward-j-wing-and-integrity-at.html One thing will be obvious to anyone who has spent time looking at scientific misconduct and academic bullying. Publicly known instances tend to aggregate within particular institutions.It may be a denominator effect. "Bad apples" might arise in productive institutions with a large number of apples. Ineffective (or corrupt) leadership might also permit fraud and bullying. Unprincipled leadership is also associated with sham investigation and attempted cover-up, which in turn precipitates public discussion.True "bad apple" aberrations never leave an institutional stain. The fraud of Jan Hendrik Schön did not alter the reputation of Bell Laboratories. Other so called "bad apple" cases are nothing of the sort. The fraud of John Darsee at Harvard, or Vijay Soman at Yale involved collusion of l... Scientific Misconduct Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1583157 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:12:00 +0100 1583157 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526330&cid=t_126606_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F314709790%2F Electrical pollution linked to autism in children? Actually, you already heard of this latest idea about what causes autism here. Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, brown university, Cause, david kirby, disabilities blog, environment Parenting, Family, family blog, mercury, pdd-nos, pollution, VaccinesShare This (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526330 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:54:53 +0100 1526330 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1522225&cid=t_126606_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F312652186%2F Just as he announced that he would be addressing the House of Lords in the UK earlier this month (an event attended by 1 MP, 4 Lords, and some others), so journalist David Kirby has noted that he will be speaking in June at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; New York University Law School; and Northeastern University in Boston (he lists the times and dates on the Huffington Post). The event at NYU Law School is hosted by Mary Holland, Esq., who is the Director of the LLM Lawyering Program at NYU Law School, and the event at Northeastern is hosted by  Richard Deth, Ph.D., professor of Pharmeceutical Sciences at Northeastern University. Ms. Holland also blogs about the Autism Omnibus proceedings on the Age of Autism website, and Professor Deth, who has done research on autistic c... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1522225 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:26:28 +0100 1522225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=760650&cid=t_126606_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Foscar-and-predictive-personalized-death.html I just had to post on this today. In the New England Journal of Medicine there was a brief article on an Uncanny ability by a unique cat. From the article:Oscar takes no notice of the woman and leaps up onto the bed. He surveys Mrs. T. She is clearly in the terminal phase of illness, and her breathing is labored. Oscar's examination is interrupted by a nurse, who walks in to ask the daughter whether Mrs. T. is uncomfortable and needs more morphine. The daughter shakes her head, and the nurse retreats. Oscar returns to his work. He sniffs the air, gives Mrs. T. one final look, then jumps off the bed and quickly leaves the room. Not today. Making his way back up the hallway, Oscar arrives at Room 313. The door is open, and he proceeds inside. Mrs. K. is resting peacefully in her bed, her bre... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=760650 Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:20:00 +0100 760650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=720387&cid=t_126606_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fblogscan-tenth-anniversary-of-case-of.html On the Scientific Misconduct Blog, Dr Aubrey Blumsohn continues to mark the tenth anniversary of the "Dr David Kern affair," one of the most important cases of attempted suppression of research of the late twentieth century. We only posted a bit about this case, for example, here, partly because I am still a Brown University faculty member, albeit a voluntary one, and have never completely lost hope that the Brown University administration will someday see fit to revisit this case. After all, the University mission statement once included, "discovering, communicating, and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry." But that may simply demonstrate that even after seeing Dr Kern, who was formerly my direct supervisor, lose his job because he dared to present a case r... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=720387 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:57:00 +0100 720387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687116&cid=t_126606_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fdr-collins-reports-from-front-lines.html In the second of my 3 maybe 4 part post I will detail Dr Collins' report from the Front Lines of the Revolution!First some notable quotes"2007 is going to be a landmark year in Genomics and Medicine""We all have ticking timebombs in our genome, you could guess most of them from family history.........But not all of them""We shall have the major genetic risk factors for common diseases in 2-3 years or less"Without further ado I will break his talk down into sections. Dr Collins', feel free to correct anything in this."Notes From the Front Lines"DNA sequencing is undergoing a revolution. I almost felt that he had been reading The Sherpa prior to giving this lecture. I had commented on 454 recently. On powerpoint he showed the technology behind 454 and Illumina. he did not comment on nanopore... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687116 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:15:00 +0100 687116 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687117&cid=t_126606_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fwatson-francisand-sherpa.html Remember how I said that June is going to be one heck of a ride? Well, what a way to kick it off. Yesterday I attended the "Personalized Medicine Revolution" at Brown University. My team drove 3 hours from NYC to Rhode Island to attend and trust me....It was worth it. I want to recap in some coherent and readable fashion so I will break it into 3 posts throughout the day. Post 1 The Welcoming Remarks by Dean of Brown Medical School Eli Adashi and Rep. Patrick Kennedy.I find it interesting that the introductory remarks are given by an REI specialist. Especially after what was disclosed to me."Future Pundit talks about the role of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis and its ever expanding uses. The specter of looks and intelligence for PGD rears its ugly head. Do I think this is a slippery slo... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687117 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:10:00 +0100 687117