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 'center for science in the public interest'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:30:15 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3160001&cid=t_124742_167_f&fid=37833&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnutrition.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F11%2F22%2Fmovie-popcorn-gets-rotten-tomatoes-and-two-thumbs-down-from-cspi%2F Think you are getting a “healthy” popcorn snack when you visit the Movie theater? Think again. A new study released by the Center for Science in the Public Interest is giving a big two thumbs down on Movie Popcorn and snacks. According to their findings: A medium combo at Regal has 1,610 calories and 60 grams of saturated fat. That’s roughly the saturated fat of a stick of butter and the calories of two sticks of butter. The medium combo is equivalent to eating three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with 12 pats of butter. For many people, that combo has all of the calories that they need for an entire day. In the Video Clip below, Dr. Jennifer Ashton of CBS News shows Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith just how much saturated fat movie popcorn and soda can have. You can ... Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3160001 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:02:23 +0100 3160001 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2999848&cid=t_124742_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FQ9nbEgjH6rg%2F Dozens of researchers, clinicians, and ethicists sent a letter asking the NIH to fund research on medical ethics, conflicts of interest, and industry influence on prescribing behavior. Why? They note that stimulus funding has increased the NIH budget significantly, but the agency has “no mechanism for funding research on how commercial interests affect the choice of medical therapeutics.” In their Nov. 17 letter, they write NIH director Francis Collins that the “NIH funds a substantial portion of the generation and dissemination of evidence, but the uptake of that evidence and its translation into clinical practice is strongly affected by the complex web of relationships that exists among industry, academicians, medical educators and clinicians… “..we ask that... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2999848 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:41:10 +0100 2999848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2122058&cid=t_124742_117_f&fid=36026&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fzimney%2Fthe-vitaminwater-scam%2F I’ve long held that most bottled water is a scam either because it’s simply way overpriced or because it’s falsely and/or misleadingly advertised as being good for you thanks to some added ingredient gimmick its marketers came up with. In fact, I previously wrote Water: A scambuster report, which deals with the issues of cost, the amount of water you need to drink each day, and safety (as in which is safer, tap or bottled water?). So it came as no surprise to me, and with a resounding “here, here” when I learned that the Center for Science in the Public Interest  (CSPI) had sued the Coca-Cola company for “deceptive and unsubstantiated claims” on its vitaminwater line of beverages.  The vitaminwater products are made by a company Coke owns called ... Dr. Z's Medical Report blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2122058 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:15:05 +0100 2122058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1692136&cid=t_124742_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F08%2F08%2Fdirty-dancing-dining-in-a-city-near-you%2F Okay, here’s a report that you might want to read (or not). It’s an analysis of 539 restaurant inspection reports from 20 cities around the USA. And trust me, it’s not for the faint of heart…unless you like reading about live roaches, mouse droppings, and inadequate hand washing in a restaurant near you. The cities involved in this report, listed from worst to best, are… Austin, Texas Boston Milwaukee Colorado Springs, Colorado Kansas City, Missouri Pittsburgh Denver Las Vegas Washington, D.C New York Atlanta Portland Baltimore Minneapolis, Minn Chicago St. Louis Seattle Philadelphia San Francisco Tucson, Ariz Many will argue that the results are only a snapshot of what’s going at a restaurant at a specific point of time, and that with each city have dif... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1692136 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:37:47 +0100 1692136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1067907&cid=t_124742_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F194453363%2F Last month, the FDA declared that it would be difficult to create advisory committees free from conflicts of interest. The study, which cost taxpayers $60,000, according to FedSpending.org, also claimed the advisors granted conflict-of-interest waivers had greater expertise than those without conflicts serving on the committees. But the Center for Science in the Public Interest went back and did its own reanalysis of the data and claims the FDA and the report should have drawn the opposite conclusions. The report examined four committees created during 2006 that granted 17 waivers. It took just 88 person-hours to identify 30 independent experts with all the expertise needed to fill those slots. Each of the 30 affirmatively declared in the medical literature that they had no conflicts of i... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1067907 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:49:04 +0100 1067907 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=918142&cid=t_124742_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F163722310%2F Next month, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will nearly double the number of journals that oncologists can use to justify payment for off-label use of cancer meds and procedures. But at least one of the 11 cancer journals added by CMS - called Bone Marrow Transplantation - doesn’t require publishing an author’s conflict of interest disclosure statements (see page 3), and more than half don’t require registration of clinical trials prior to publication of results, according to a Center for Science in the Public Interest survey. In comments submitted to CMS last year, the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, which represents the nation’s 20,000 cancer docs, balked at the requirements, even though it moved quietly in the wake of the protests to adopt both po... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=918142 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:47:24 +0100 918142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=675449&cid=t_124742_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F06%2F14%2Fkellogg-vows-to-limit-ads-aimed-at-kids%2F Filed under: Type 2, Childhood, Diet, Daily NewsShrek, Cocoa Krispies, Frosted Flakes. You don't have to be a health nut to find the breakfast cereal and snack treat aisles at your local supermarket a bit disturbing. Sugar, sugar and more sugar: seems that's the main ingredient in most of the cereals pitched at children. And the appalling effect of all that consumption on the nation's children is evident in record (and rising) levels of childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes. But it seems the food industry is beginning to respond to these concerns. The New York Times reports that the Kellogg Company plans to quit advertising some of its least nutritious products to children younger than twelve. Those products are the ones packed with so-called "empty-energy" calories derived from sugar and ... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=675449 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:00:00 +0100 675449