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 'chile'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:12 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139701&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5dtKfNMRi2s%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonEarlier this summer, I released a study comparing the performance of California’s charter school networks with the amount of philanthropic grant funding they have received. The purpose was to find out if this model for replicating excellence was consistently effective. The answer, regrettably, was no. But a new study we are releasing today finds that there is at least one place where better schools HAVE consistently scaled-up: Chile. Thanks to that nation’s public and private school choice program, chains of private schools have arisen, and they not only outperform the public schools, they also outperform the independent “mom-and-pop” private schools. For anyone interested in replicating educational excellence, this study by a team of Chilean sch... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139701 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:09:48 +0100 5139701 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4610796&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIdpiqIBq5kE%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoAs Ted Carpenter notes below, President Obama is departing on an important trip to Latin America. The countries that he will visit exemplify the macroeconomic stability and advancement of democratic institutions now found in much of the region. Brazil, by far the largest Latin American economy, has enjoyed almost a decade of sound growth and poverty reduction. Chile is the most developed country in the region thanks to decades of economic liberalization, a process that has also made it Latin America’s most mature democracy. And El Salvador is undergoing a delicate period in its transition to becoming a full-fledged democracy with its first left-of-center president since the end of the civil war in 1992. In an era when most Latin American nations are moving in the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4610796 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:54:10 +0100 4610796 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4318309&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FBEiefz25m7Y%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonWe all know there are too few good schools and too many lousy ones. The trouble is, we lack a mechanism for reliably scaling up the former and crowding out the latter. Competitive markets perform this service in other fields, from coffee-shops to cell phones. Can the same thing work in education? To find out, we’ve invited experts from both hemispheres to tell us what their nations have learned from decades of experience with private-school choice. Peje Emilsson founded the largest chain of for-profit private schools in Sweden’s nationwide voucher program. Humberto Santos has studied the academic performance of public schools, independent private schools, and chains of private schools in Chile’s voucher program. Responding to their findings and asking ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4318309 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:39:22 +0100 4318309 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159246&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fspace-medicine-above-and-below-earth%2F2010.11.11 The Chilean mine rescue was a great example of international cooperation and effort, much like the International Space Station. Another similarity between the two was some of the physicians involved. Dr. J.D. Polk and other flight surgeons at NASA had, years ago, made a contingency plan for how to make the limited Space Station food stores last for months if there was a problem with re-supply. So when the Chilean government asked if NASA had any advice for how to care for the miners trapped in a similar resource-limited setting, Dr. Polk and a team went down to help, and MedPage Today wrote up a great summary of their efforts. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159246 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:00:46 +0100 4159246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4065472&cid=t_106292_118_f&fid=34702&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fmspblog%2F%7E3%2FbmAzyUuTj6A%2F What a wonderful collaboration of science and humanity. (Source: MSSPNexus Blog) MSSPNexus Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4065472 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:17:17 +0100 4065472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899351&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fyou-know-youre-unwell-if-youre-trapped-inside-a-collapsed-chilean-mine-with-32-men-%25e2%2580%2593-for-4-months%2F They’ve been trapped inside a collapsed mine in the mountains of Chile for 18 days since the mine’s roof caved in. Thirty-three miners (ages 20s to 60s) are stuck 2, 257 feet below earth inside an area the size of a small apartment. The good news? They’re all alive and well. The bad news: They’ll be there til Christmas. Which is how long the delicate rescue operation will likely take. Have we mentioned how happy we are that we work at a website? via The Guardian Post from: BlissTree You Know You're Unwell If...You're Trapped Inside a Collapsed Chilean Mine With 32 Men – FOR 4 MONTHS (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899351 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:00:54 +0100 3899351 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508172&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3KRQCk2njTk%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoFollowing Rahm Emmanuel’s advice of not letting a crisis go to waste, the new center-right government in Chile now wants to extend the permanent rise in tobacco taxes—supposedly adopted as a measure to finance post-earthquake reconstruction—to foods with high concentrations of salt and trans fat [in Spanish]. Jaime Malañich, the Health Minister, said that the earthquake is opening up an opportunity to implement a measure that would increase the government’s revenue and fight obesity and that has been considered for many years. My colleague Ian Vásquez wrote a few days ago that, by announcing unnecessary tax increases as post-earthquake reconstruction measures, the recently-inaugurated administration of Sebastian Piñera was quick to disappoint those who expe... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508172 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:06:50 +0100 3508172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487039&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_DRd7kaHz24%2F By Ian VasquezThe presidential election in Chile that brought Sebastián Piñera to power last month was good news for Chile and the region. It confirmed once again that Chile is Latin America’s most modern country, one in which Chileans chose a center-right candidate to lead the country after 20 years of center-left governments that by and large stuck to the free-market model set in place in the 1970s and 1980s and that has made the country one of the most economically free in the world. In Chile, what’s at stake in presidential contests is not a radical change of the rules of the game, but rather policies that build on or depend on high growth. Chile’s mature democracy and economy serve as a model for Latin America. But in just over a month of being in office, Piñera has made two ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487039 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:48:06 +0100 3487039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3370681&cid=t_106292_151_f&fid=35805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Ftwelvestepfacilitation%2FwAgT%2F%7E3%2Fzq13ho7H55A%2F CONCLUSIONS: The Chilean version of the AUDIT is a valid and reliable tool for identifying adolescents with hazardous, harmful, and dependent alcohol use. The suggested cut-off points make screening with the AUDIT more accurate for adolescent populations. Research; Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009 Aug 1;103(3):155-8. Epub 2009 May 6. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a screening instrument for adolescents. Santis R, Garmendia ML, Acuña G, Alvarado ME, Arteaga O. See also; 12-Step Treatment More Effective than Alternative Brief-TSF ASSESSMENT Brief-TSF can assist patients cease alcohol consumption. Learn about the disease Youth With Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Escape from Bondage (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical, and Social Challenges) by Kenneth McIntosh ... Twelve Step Facilitation.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3370681 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:53:36 +0100 3370681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331367&cid=t_106292_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F03%2F04%2Fthe-situation-of-looting%2F Stephen Mulvey for BBC News had an illuminating article earlier this article, asking “Why Do People Loot?“  Here are some excerpts. * * * Chile could be mistaken for being in the throes of a political uprising rather than the aftermath of a natural disaster. “We understand your urgent suffering, but we also know that these are criminal acts that will not be tolerated,” President Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, condemning the “pillage and criminality”. * * * Social psychologists accept both that looting is criminal behaviour, and that it is natural when the forces of law and order disappear. They distinguish different types of looting, including: Looting of goods needed for survival Opportunistic theft of good such as TV sets Collective action, cond... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331367 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:37:35 +0100 3331367 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3326964&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYhuAB56NSM4%2F By Ian VasquezAlthough some comparisons between Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake in January and Chile’s 8.8 quake this weekend have attributed the massive differences in devastation and lives lost (230,000 vs. some 700 respectively) to different enforcement of building codes and planning, the real reason for Chile’s superior ability to endure the disaster has everything to do with its vastly higher level of economic freedom, reliable rule of law, and the much higher level of prosperity that results. Here are three good articles that make those points: Bret Stephens on “How Milton Friedman Saved Chile” John Stossel on “A Tale of Two Quakes” Anne Applebaum, “Chile and Haiti: A Look at Earthquakes and Politics” And here’s a piece I wrote on Haiti explaining how economic freedom ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3326964 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:17:37 +0100 3326964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2752147&cid=t_106292_151_f&fid=35805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwelvestepfacilitation.com%2Fidentifying-teen-alcohol-abuse-or-dependence%2F CONCLUSIONS: The Chilean version of the AUDIT is a valid and reliable tool for identifying adolescents with hazardous, harmful, and dependent alcohol use. The suggested cut-off points make screening with the AUDIT more accurate for adolescent populations. Research; Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009 Aug 1;103(3):155-8. Epub 2009 May 6. The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a screening instrument for adolescents. Santis R, Garmendia ML, Acuña G, Alvarado ME, Arteaga O. See also; 12-Step Treatment More Effective than Alternative Brief-TSF ASSESSMENT Brief-TSF can assist patients cease alcohol consumption. Learn about the disease http://alcoholcoach.com/5-stages-of-alcoholism/ Youth With Alcohol and Drug Addiction: Escape from Bondage (Helping Youth With Mental, Physical... Twelve Step Facilitation.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2752147 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:40 +0100 2752147 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2678604&cid=t_106292_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRPEp7p5HLe4%2F After a morning workout and attending Mass this Sunday, I read El Mercurio (Chile’s paper of record) online. Although I seldom read Chilean newspapers blogs (too many attacks and too much dirt), I did so that morning because I was impressed by the indignation expressed by my friend Luis Larraín in his Sunday blog (titled “Canallas” – Shameless). I had named Larraín Superintendent of Social Security when he was 25 years old. At that time I was 30 and Secretary of Labor and Social Security. With astonishment I discovered that a certain “Mr. Murillo”, in the comment number 10 on the blog (which I copied immediately, and backed up electronically), explicitly attacked another commenter, Mr. José Fregoso Edelstein, by saying that his previous comment was due to the fact that he is... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2678604 Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:20:12 +0100 2678604 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1876154&cid=t_106292_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2F419957799%2F Well, I was both a dutiful cook and dutiful blogger: I made the curry soup that I mentioned previously. And therein lies my problem. The recipe says to put in a chile or two, so I did. However, the result was so hot, neither Buck nor I can eat it. Therefore, I am being even a better blogger by letting you know that, if you follow that recipe, leave the chiles strictly out of the recipe. No chiles is the right amount of chiles in this case. Copyright © 2008 white pebble. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@www.white-pebble.net so we can take legal action immediately.Plugin by Taragana Technorati Tags: chile, cooking, dinner... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1876154 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:52:59 +0100 1876154 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1603404&cid=t_106292_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F331631040%2F For the first time in its history, Chile’s Public Health Institute has shut down a drugmaker, which had a years-long track record of quality and safety concerns, The Santiago Times reports. BestPharma had accumulated 56 write-ups and over $7.4 million in fines between June 2006 and June 2008 for cleanliness and hygiene violations, noncompliance with operational safety measures, inconsistency of medication quality, defective packaging and mislabeling medicines and lab reagents, which are chemicals used to test other chemicals, the paper writes. In one case cited by the paper, a piece of thread was discovered in a bottle of an intravenous antimicrobial. Epilepsy pill sheets were found with capsules missing, and the agency noted dilution consistency problems in hydrocortizone. Health in... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1603404 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:51:26 +0100 1603404 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1237108&cid=t_106292_151_f&fid=35818&url=http%3A%2F%2Frecoveryissexy.com%2Finternational-official-alcoholics-anonymous-websites%2F Argentina   www.sinectis.com.ar/u/aa_osg Australia   www.aa.org.au Austria   www.anonyme-alkoholiker.at Belguim  www.aavlaanderen.org Britain; www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk Canada; www.aacanada.com Chile    www.alcoholicosanonimoschile.cl Denmark   www.anonyme-alkoholikere.dk Ecuador   www.aae.org.ec Europe; www.aa-europe.net/ Finland  www.aa.fi France   www.alcooliques-anonymes.fr Grapevine; www.aagrapevine.org/ Guatemala   www.aa.com.gt Hungary   www.anonimalkoholistak.hu Iceland   www.aa.is India    www.aagsoindia.org Ireland; www.alcoholicsanonymous.ie Italy    www.alcolisti-anonimi.it Japan    www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/aa-jso/ Korea    www.aakorea.co.... Recovery Is Sexy.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1237108 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:48:19 +0100 1237108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=493357&cid=t_106292_135_f&fid=35263&url=http%3A%2F%2Fronhudson.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F12%2Fya-eres-todo-un-muerto-by-guest-poet.html I welcome most enthusiastically, as guest poet, my friend and gifted poet, Mario Meléndez of Talca, Chile, South America. Mario has agreed to participate in the International Carnival of Pozitivities as the first contributor from South America. I first "met" Mario a couple of years ago when I was asked to translate his poetry for the Other Voices Poetry Project. Since then, I have been working with Mario to translate a number of additional poems that should soon be available in print. When I learn the name of the publisher and the title of the book, I will give you an update. In the meantime, please join me in welcoming Mario Meléndez, Chilean poet and ally of the HIV/AIDS community around the world. (A special thanks to Mario's Canadian/Canadien friends who proofed my translation.)Ron H... 2sides2ron blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=493357 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:44:00 +0100 493357