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 'chains'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:34:19 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5181895&cid=t_252681_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F09%2F02%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-september-2-2011%2F It starts at a young age. Schools encourage it. Our families help define it. We begin our lives with the labels they give us like big brother, baby sister, only child. And as we get older, they just get more serious. Sometimes the way we’re perceived such as the “good one,” the “bad one,” the “troubled one,” the “drama queen,” inevitably follow us throughout the rest of our life. Sometimes these seemingly harmless labels take on a life of their own. If we don’t achieve our own sense of self, they begin to define who we are. And we grasp on tight. These lyrics from the Barenaked Ladies song What a Good Boy reminds me of the pressures they can have on us: “When I was born they looked at me and said What a good boy, what a sma... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5181895 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:04:52 +0100 5181895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069530&cid=t_252681_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F07%2F27%2Flunch-wars-win-the-battle-for-our-childrens-health%2F Oh how happy I was to see the new book Lunch Wars: How to Start a School Food Revolution and Win the Battle for Our Children’s Heath by Amy Kalafa, producer of the award-winning documentary “Two Angry Moms.” I get on my soapbox all too often about this very issue, because I have one child who is so sensitive to food that teachers can tell if he ate a cookie at lunch, and the other possesses about as much will power as I have when it comes to saying no to cinnamon-flavored soft pretzels. Why, in the world, would they offer seven-year-olds the option to buy Klondike bars, cinnamon-flavored soft-pretzels, Doritos, and Gatorade? I think the answer has to do with budgets. But in the process we are raising fat kids whose academic progress is compromised by all the crap they shove in their ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069530 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:56:50 +0100 5069530 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3671653&cid=t_252681_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fbest-buy-discovers-that-women-like-electronics-too%2F photo from Flickr user tshein Best Buy’s executives have been scratching their heads for decades, wondering why women don’t shop at their stores. But they haven’t actually done anything about it until recently, when a bright, enterprising, and might we add, female, executive came up with the idea to actually ask women customers what they wanted. Male executives have dismissed the idea as a silly, “Oprah Book Club” even after sales among women began to increase. (Uh, yeah, because Oprah’s Book Club is not successful. At all.) Women in focus groups across the country told Best Buy that cavernous, gray warehouse style stores weren’t welcoming or comfortable, as well as other ideas about the chain. Best Buy is implementing some suggested changes, and ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3671653 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:48:54 +0100 3671653 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1840961&cid=t_252681_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F09%2Fwalgreen-settles.html Here is the next story in what seems like an endless succession of prominent health care companies settling lawsuits alleging improper behavior, via the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:Walgreens has paid the United States and Minnesota and three other states nearly $10 million to resolve allegations of falsely billing Medicaid, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday, with some of that money going to two Twin Cities pharmacists who turned in the industry giant.Illinois-based Walgreens charged Minnesota, Florida, Michigan and Massachusetts as if some Medicaid recipients were uninsured, the Justice Department said, when those members were actually covered by Medicaid and by private insurance. The department said Walgreen was entitled to a copay, but instead, charged the difference between what... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1840961 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:40:00 +0100 1840961 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1126380&cid=t_252681_85_f&fid=36195&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealth.tesstermulo.com%2F%3Fp%3D410 Maybe it won’t be long before you see a menu board, such as the one depicted above, setup in many major restaurants in the country. Marikina Representative Marcelino Teodoro has filed a bill in the House of Representatives that would require restaurants to put nutrition information on their products.  The requirement is covered by House Bill 2939 and is hoped to give encouragement to Filipinos to be aware of healthy food choices. This move isn’t particularly new.  Though nutritional labeling of food products have been in existence in various parts of the U.S. in the 1940’s, the common nutritional labeling that you see in supermarket products have been seen since the 1990’s.  And in 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug administration has proposed some rules that would req... Prudence, M.D. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1126380 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:43:17 +0100 1126380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=877511&cid=t_252681_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fblogscan-more-on-prescription-data.html On the Carlat Psychiatry Blog, this post reviews how "pharmacy information companies" get data about which physicians prescribed what drugs from pharmacies, combine it with data on physicians from the American Medical Association (AMA), and package the result, which identifies how many prescriptions each doctor wrote for each drug, to pharmaceutical companies. The post features some delightful sarcasm on how the "pharmacy information companies" defend their lucrative work, as increasing "transparency." (Source: Health Care Renewal) Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=877511 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:30:00 +0100 877511 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=611602&cid=t_252681_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fquick-in-store-health-care-clinics.html There has been a lot in the media lately about quick in-store health care clinics, an issue which we blogged about previously here and here. In Illinois, as reported by the Chicago Tribune, the state medical society is pushing for more regulation, which is predictably not making clinic operators happy.The Illinois State Medical Society, which represents more than 13,000 doctors, is pushing a proposed law to more closely monitor hundreds of in-store clinics being opened by retail giants Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Walgreen Co. and CVS/Caremark Corp.The doctors claim the clinics, staffed by advanced-degree nurses and physicians' assistants, are largely unregulated and therefore put patients' health at risk.The potential loss of business for doctors is great because most health insurance companies ... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=611602 Mon, 14 May 2007 15:31:00 +0100 611602