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 'cal'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:25:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4522189&cid=t_305703_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FEu6bR1jN2O4%2F Here is a fun and interactive version of the famous Stroop test. This test is used in neu­ropsy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tions to mea­sure men­tal speed and flex­i­bil­ity, the hallmarks of executive functions. Performing well on the test requires strong atten­tion and self-regulation. Your job is to name the colors of the words. Do NOT read the words but the color of the ink used to write the words. For example, if the word “GREEN” is printed in a red color, you should say “RED” (and refrain from saying “GREEN”!) Speed matters so try to say the colors as fast as you can. A nice feature here: You will be able to record your reaction times. Ready to have fun? GO (Source: SharpBrains) SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4522189 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:16:23 +0100 4522189 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4464497&cid=t_305703_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Ftickle-liposuction%2F2011.02.11 Liposuction (aka “lipo”) is plastic surgery’s “gimmick procedure” having had more angles applied to it than a child’s toy. But there’s money to be made in fat reduction, so the gimmicks will just keep coming. Enter “tickle” lipo, a new technology superimposed on the liposuction game. In this newer version of the basic liposuction technique, the cannula — the instrument used to remove the fat — vibrates like a whip inside your fatty layers. This supposedly helps remove the fat more evenly and with less pain. Tickle lipo looks like a hybrid between two other forms of lipo already on the market: Power-assisted liposuction (PALS) in which a motorized cannula breaks up the fat, and ultrasonic liposuction in which sound waves do it. Will tickle l... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4464497 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:00:59 +0100 4464497 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394744&cid=t_305703_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F-b4oJVcZs1A%2F Over the past few years, the feds have successfully forced numerous drugmakers to settle charges that they deliberately misreported pricing info in order to hike reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid. And behind this string of settlements is a pharmacy called Ven-A-Care of the Florida Keys, which created a whistleblowing cottage industry of its own by simply rummaging through data. For instance, a 2005 California suit alleged that a one-gram vial of the antibiotic vancomycin was sold to healthcare providers for $6.29, but billed to Medi-Cal for $58.37, while 50 milligram tablets of the atenolol blood pressure med were billed to pharmacies at $3.04 and to Medi-Cal at $70.30. Armed with such discrepances, Ven-A-Care filed lawsuit after lawsuit - and reaped big rewards. Since 2000, the li... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394744 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:21:49 +0100 4394744 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3861997&cid=t_305703_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FXBJxksfw9xI%2F By David BoazCal Thomas, who bills himself as “America’s #1 nationally syndicated columnist,” rose to fame as the vice president of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority in its heyday, though you won’t find that fact in any of his official biographies. But you could figure it out by reading his columns. In his latest, on the California gay marriage decision, he ranges from factual inaccuracy to a revelation of just how reactionary and authoritarian he really is to a really striking biblical citation. He starts by denouncing the “decision by a single, openly gay federal judge.” Not true. Judge Vaughn Walker may be gay, but he has never said so. And Salon magazine demonstrates that any such “evidence” is extraordinarily thin. So this is an extra... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3861997 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:06:16 +0100 3861997 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3318660&cid=t_305703_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FjT3MHE2a-cA%2F Three California officials who oversee billions of dollars in Medi-Cal drug spending failed to disclose free flights, hotel rooms and meals paid for by nonprofit groups funded by drugmakers, according to CaliforniaWatch. One official, Pilar Williams, accepted free travel even though she has a direct role in negotiating rebates with drugmakers. Williams, the pharmacy division chief at the Department of Health Care Services, also helped decide which drugs were among the $8.5 billion worth of meds the state dispensed to low-income patients in the past three years, the . The travel was paid for by several nonprofits that exist for the sole purpose of funding conferences and meetings, a chairman of one group told CaliforniaWatch, which adds that the groups charge registration fees up to $2,000... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3318660 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:47:41 +0100 3318660 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3101066&cid=t_305703_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FErvcBYlFz9k%2F The deal resolves allegations the drugmaker “deliberately inflated” the price of its Albuterol asthma med and other drugs, causing California’s Medicaid (Medi-Cal) program to overpay millions of dollars in pharmacy reimbursement, according to California attorney general Jerry Brown. “With healthcare costs spiraling out of control, it’s unconscionable that a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company deliberately inflated its drug prices to cheat California’s public healthcare system out of millions of dollars,” Brown says in a statement. “This is a company that made more than $12 billion in profits last year, yet still raided the pockets of California taxpayers.” The case began with a lawsuit filed by a whistleblower against several drugmakers... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3101066 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:37:18 +0100 3101066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2943757&cid=t_305703_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FY4k1jLOVBK4%2F You might recall that a  few weeks ago University of California at Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau co-authored a Washington Post op-ed calling on the federal government to provide direct support — meaning taxpayer dollars — to select public universities. Birgeneau decried decades of “material and progressive disinvestment by states in higher education,” despite, as I pointed out, no such disinvestment actually occuring. Well now we know where much of the precious investment in Cal was going — to subsidize sports. According to Inside Higher Ed, over just the past few years Berkeley has provided tens-of-millions of dollars in subsidies and loan forgiveness to its sports programs, which are supposed to be self-supporting. Now, the whole college athletics undertak... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2943757 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:59:30 +0100 2943757 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2258171&cid=t_305703_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F03%2F10%2Ftexas-state-hospital-heres-the-bus-station-see-ya%2F Just as you believe that maybe, perhaps, the tide is turning and the government that is charged with the responsibility and care of those most in need — the severely mentally ill who are hospitalized — actually “gets” it, you read a story like this one. Raquel Padilla was discharged from a state inpatient psychiatric hospital in San Antonio, Texas and dropped off at the bus station. That and a phone call to a sibling who also suffers from schizophrenia was apparently the extent of her discharge planning. Raquel suffered from schizophrenia herself and also apparently had mild mental retardation. Needless to say, bad things soon followed and three days later, she was found dead in a concrete ditch. She never made it on the bus. The family is rightfully outraged: &#8... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2258171 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:22:52 +0100 2258171 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1739490&cid=t_305703_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F377055393%2F A federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit brought by Santa Clara County against drugmakers for allegedly overcharging county hospitals for prescription drugs for Medi-Cal patients, in violation of a federal law requiring discounts, The San Francisco Chronicle reports. The ruling by the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is the first in the nation to find that counties have the right to sue manufacturers under a 1992 law requiring companies supplying medicines to the Medicaid program - called Medi-Cal in California - to sell them to public hospitals at a specified percentage of their average nationwide price, the paper writes. The county sued in 2005 after the US Department of Health and Human Services’ inspector general found that drugmakers had violated the price ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1739490 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:29:15 +0100 1739490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=791321&cid=t_305703_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F08%2F10%2Flandmark-agreement-in-california-for-students-with-diabetes%2F Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Childhood, Daily News, Support, Care, ComplicationsMost school cafeterias and vending programs feed our kids junk, but even worse, students with diabetes are not provided legally required care to manage the disease during school hours. Children with insulin dependent diabetes are heading to school without the assurance of regular blood glucose testing, the administration of insulin or other diabetes care tasks. In 2005, four California families and the American Diabetes Association (ADA) filed a suit in San Francisco, alleging some California school districts were not providing adequate diabetes care. In some cases, parents were called to give aid before summoning a school nurse. Michelle Ferry was one such parent. When her son was in first grade, this widowed... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=791321 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:00:00 +0100 791321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=755624&cid=t_305703_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F24%2Flow-sugar-watermelons-a-guilt-free-treat%2F Filed under: Type 1, Type 2, Diet, Daily News, ProductsThe low-sugar watermelon is creating a big buzz in the news right now. The watermelon, developed by plant breeders at the US Department of Agriculture, contains less than half the sugar of regular melons. It may fit the bill perfectly for diabetics who crave a generous helping of that luscious summer treat. Brilliantly, beneficial concentrations of vitamin A, potassium and the antioxidant lycopene stay the same in the low-cal version. Don't rush to the local supermarket looking for it though: the seeds have only just become available to melon growers, so mature fruits has not yet hit the market.The beauty of the low-cal melon is that it's all-natural. Okay, okay. It took some genetic engineering to get there. Still, noshing on a big st... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=755624 Tue, 24 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 755624