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 'carmen'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:27 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704567&cid=t_104423_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2011%2F04%2Ffake-plastic-surgeons-arrested-murder-patient-elena-caro-dies%2F Columbian nationals Ruben Dario Matallana-Galvas and his wife Carmen Olfidia Torres-Sanchez were arrested at the Las Vegas airport shortly before they were to board a flight to Columbia. The pair, masquerading as plastic surgeons, allegedly performed a butt enhancement on Elena Caro shortly before she died. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704567 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:11:58 +0100 4704567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3827066&cid=t_104423_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhich-five-drugs-would-you-take-on-a-remote-desert-island%2F2010.08.05 This post follows a lengthy conversation I had with my wife, a physician-scientist, about this very topic. Many of you who attended the ScienceOnline2010 conference here last January probably met Carmen Drahl, the Princeton-trained chemist who now writes for Chemical & Engineering News and their appropriately-named drug discovery blog, The Haystack, as well as their Newscripts feature. For the latter, Dr. Drahl pointed us toward a recent “Crosstalks” paper in Chemistry & Biology by Thomas U. Mayer and Andreas Marx of the University of Konstanz (and her interview with the authors) who mused as follows from their abstract: Which five molecules would you take to a remote island? If you imagine yourself as a castaway on an island you might pick water, glucose, penicillin, and e... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3827066 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:00:33 +0100 3827066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3052387&cid=t_104423_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FsCX47EFSY5g%2F By now, you probably have heard that Michael Loucks is leaving the US Attorney’s office in Boston, where he spent nearly 25 years and was the most visible and arguably influential prosecutor of health care fraud, especially fraud involving drugmakers. During his tenure, the Boston office prosecuted several of the largest drugmakers, including TAP Pharmaceuticals, Schering-Plough, Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline and, most recently, Pfizer, which paid a record-setting $2.3 billion fine. Among these were some landmark cases that have since set a tone for government prosecution of off-label marketing (here’s the laundry list). So what next for Loucks? And will the team he leaves behind retain a zeal for pursuing pharma wrongdoing? The In Vivo Blog speculates that prosecution of hea... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3052387 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:32:11 +0100 3052387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1798010&cid=t_104423_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2F394049702%2F 80s singer Eric Carmen was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1798010 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:41:51 +0100 1798010 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1542979&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F25%2Fcarmen-a-scalable-science-cloud%2F Paul Watson presents a talk on CARMEN a the Google Seattle Conference on Scalability. (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1542979 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:05:26 +0100 1542979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1512050&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F12%2Fcarmen-re-branded%2F We have gone through a bit of professional branding with a shiney new logo and some publicity material. The website has also been re-designed. The original drupal site was replaced with a Plone site, a decision I was not involved with. I am not sure I am a big fan of the big mug-shot which spills over the website template, the fact you have to scroll to the bottom of the front page to find out what the project is about is less than ideal. Feel free to comment (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1512050 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:22:58 +0100 1512050 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1344102&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F02%2Fthe-first-mibbi-workshop-day-1%2F MIBBI is a registry of scientific experiment reporting guidelines with the idea to foster a foundry of best practice to further develop and encourage modular development and re-use of reporting guidelines. The first workshop is being held at the EBI on the 2nd - 3rd April 2008 and is a relatively closed workshop to those developers and guidelines that are registered on the site. The schedule for day one is a whistle stop tour consisting of 5 min talks (adjusting for an academics interpretation of what 5 minutes means) for all the guidelines that exist, their scope and the people behind them. Due to this I am not going to comment on individual talks. I presented two talks during the day. One on CARMEN and the development of the MINI: Electrophysiology reporting guidelines, and one, standing... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1344102 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:36:39 +0100 1344102 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1331299&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F27%2Fa-data-model-for-life-science-experiments-fuge%2F This post may be one in a series of responses to Cameron’s post on “Proposing a data model for Open Notebooks“. When I originally read this post I commented on the fact that a data model for experiments actually exists and that he may get some mileage out of it rather than starting from scratch and re-creating the wheel. Several discussions have followed on from this original post and Neil has picked up on it as well, with sentiments that I agree with. I think a large part of this discussion confuses and conflates 3 issues which I believe to be separate; the representation of experiments - the data model the presentation or level of abstraction to the user (probably some what dependent on 3.) the implementation of the data model With these three issues in mind, to start... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1331299 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:55:50 +0100 1331299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1327424&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F26%2Fminimum-information-about-a-neuroscience-investigation-mini%2F The idea behind the CARMEN project is that we provide a system to store electrophysiology data and analysis services so that data can be shared and analysed in the “Neuro-cloud”. An important factor in realising this system is that the stored data and the services have to be described in a way that is both human and computationally amenable. The first stage of this is agreeing what information should actually be ascribed to the data. In other words, the balance between what the experimentalist want to say about their data and what informaticians need to know about a particular data set in order to perform their analysis. To this end we have defined what we believe to be the minimum information that must be ascribed to an electrophysiology experiment for submission to the CARMEN... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1327424 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:40:28 +0100 1327424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1239179&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F18%2Fsshh-dont-tell-anyone-about-data-sharing-for-computational-neuroscience%2F I described in an earlier post that data sharing in Neuroscience is relatively non-existent. Some commentary on the subject has appeared since then via the 2007 SfN Satellite Symposium on Data Sharing entitled Value Added by Data SharingLong-TermPotentiation of Neuroscience Research, published in Neuroinformatics. I was also excited to see an article published last week Data Sharing for Computational Neuroscienc, also in Neuroinformatics. However, there is a caveat or two. Apart from ignoring all the data representation issues presented in other domains such as bioinformatics, the re-use of data models such as FuGE, or contribution to ontology efforts such as OBI, all these articles are not open access! How ironic, or should that be how embarrassing. Phil also covers this issue in his blog... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1239179 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:40:25 +0100 1239179 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=994884&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F31%2Fcarmen-at-sfn-demonstration-advert%2F Several members of the CARMEN project, including myself, will be travelling to the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting next week in San Diego. We will be presenting the current status and future plans of the project on Monday 5 November from 1.30pm - 4.30pm in the Exhibition Hall at the INCF (International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility) Booth (4924). Come along and say hello if you are about. I hope to put the slides and the demo up as a screen cast on Bioscreencast sometime next week. (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=994884 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:08:55 +0100 994884 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=994885&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F31%2Fontology-crowdsourcing%2F I have the unenviable task of developing an ontology for the CARMEN project which will allow the process of electrophysiology experiments, the generated data, the analysis of the data and the services that perform the analysis, to be described, and in addition be computationally amenable. Collecting the words that are required to described these tasks are relatively trivial. However, getting the scientists to realise they have assigned numerous meanings to the same word or term requires a little bit more patience on my part. It also requires me to educate the scientists, in that building an ontology for electrophysiology is a little more complicated than putting some “words” in a text file. The words in an ontology have to be explicitly defined so as to be completely unambiguou... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=994885 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:43:20 +0100 994885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=977293&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F10%2F25%2Fe-science-blog%2F A new blog has appeared over the last month entitled e-science ramblings. This blog is edited by Hugo Hiden who is the technical director of the North Eastern Regional e-Science centre which is based at Newcastle University. As described in his first post: The reason for this blog is, primarily, to document my experiences with writing a prototype e-Science research platform using Microsoft tools instead of the more traditional approach of fighting with Open Source. This way is easier, supposedly. The task I have set myself is to recreate, at a basic level, the software being developed by the CARMEN project. I think this should be an interesting read both on the technical aspects and the usability of Microsoft products compared to open source software for e-science. (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=977293 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:25:05 +0100 977293 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=696751&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F06%2F26%2Fdo-scientists-really-believe-in-open-science%2F I am writing this post as a collection of the current status and opinions of “Open Science”. The main reason being I have a new audience; I am working for the CARMEN e-Neuroscience project. This has exposed me, first hand, to a domain of the life-sciences to which data sharing and publicly exposing methodologies has not been readily adopted, largely it is claimed due to the size of the data in question and sensitive privacy issues. Ascoli, 2006 also endorses this view of the neuroscience and offers some further reasons why this is the case . He also includes the example of exposing neuronal morphological data and argues the benefits and counters the reticence to sharing this type of data. Hopefully, as the motivation for the CARMEN project is to store and share and facilitate t... peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=696751 Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:39:34 +0100 696751 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485484&cid=t_104423_132_f&fid=35016&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeanutbutter.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F11%2F20%2Fcarmen%2F Today is my first day in my new job as a RA for the CARMEN project, which stands for Code, analysis, repository and modelling for e-Neuroscience. My role in this exciting project, is as a Metadata researcher for experiment context, which should involve ontology development and data representation in neuroscience. Just as a matter of interest I thought I would compare bioinformatics and neuroinformatics on Google Trends. Looks as if I have plenty of work to do! (Source: peanutbutter) peanutbutter blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485484 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:00:47 +0100 485484