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 'compass'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4872475&cid=t_176573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FQv7sASpsCEI%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Pfizer named Craig Lipset as head of clinical innovation. Most recently , he was venture partner in Pfizer Venture Investments, which oversees a $50 million budget for private investments in diagnostics and health technology. Before that, he wa... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4872475 Fri, 27 May 2011 12:09:20 +0100 4872475 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4377571&cid=t_176573_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fpersonal-genetic-testing-psychological-and-behavioral-effects%2F2011.01.20 In conclusion, personal genetic testing does not seem to generate a lot of distress, although the study was clearly limited by a high dropout percentage of 44 percent and the self-selection of participants who opted to do the test. Article in New England Journal of Medicine: Effect of Direct-to-Consumer Genomewide Profiling to Assess Disease Risk Flashback: An Interview with Navigenics… *This blog post was originally published at Medgadget* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4377571 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:00:21 +0100 4377571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3865456&cid=t_176573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FVdgbM3QaGSA%2F For months, US Federal Trade Commission commish Jon Leibowitz has argued that passing legislation to restrict pay-for-delay deals between brand name and generic drugmakers will save consumers billions of dollars over the next decade (back story). He has pointed to a Congressional Budget Office study forecasting nearly $2 billion in savings over 10 years and an FTC study that estimates savings of $3.5 billion annually. And he has maintained restrictions would speed the arrival of low-cost generics by more than a year onto pharmacy shelves. Now, a new study claims the CBO report “is flawed and likely substantially overestimates the budgetary savings,” and also claims that restrictions may have the opposite effect. “Under many circumstances, reverse payment patent settlemen... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3865456 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:28:09 +0100 3865456 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1826213&cid=t_176573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F400887726%2F Maria Ester, 23, lives in a crumbling, one-room stucco cottage with her mother and daughter in Santiago del Estero, an Argentinean province northwest of Buenos Aires, according to ABC News. She had another daughter, but the 5-month-old died in May and had been one of more than 13,000 Argentinean children to participate in a Glaxo clinical trial begun last year. And Ester tells ABC News that if her infant hadn’t participated in the study Michaela would still be alive. “Protocol Compas” is the name of the study designed to test the efficacy of Synflorix, Glaxo’s experimental pediatric pneumonia vaccine, which can also ward off the bacteria that causes meningitis and ear infections. But at least 12 babies in the trial have died over the past year in Argentina, and cri... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1826213 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:25:17 +0100 1826213 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1689068&cid=t_176573_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fassertiveness-training.html My oldest son talks less frequently than some other children, but he does "talk." When he was younger than he is now, people often saw fit to remark upon his early attempts at communication in a less than complimentary manner. Stutters and stammerers are used to such treatment. The struggles of speech production are rarely appreciated, merely mocked. Initially I was ill equipped to either retaliate or educate. I took solace in the lonely thought that "I knew otherwise." I knew that his instincts were "keen." Empowerment is an annoying but popular word. As a natural born wimp from birth, at some moment on the journey I decided to adopt this approach for my own children, not the wimpy but the empowering. I would learn to speak up, not be mealy mouthed, challenge and stand tall, but I’m ... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1689068 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:47:00 +0100 1689068 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1446016&cid=t_176573_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F05%2F16%2Fmy-pick-healthbolts-top-5-posts%2F I suddenly realized that Liberty and I have just passed our 5 month anniversary as Healthbolt bloggers. Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun. And it is fun. Getting to research and post on all the interesting, informative, bizarre, and oddball health and medical things is like a dream come true… I did some maths and five months working on ‘the Bolt’ equates to around 250 posts between us. That’s a whole lot of words. My choice for Top 5 Posts… Doing a Hasselhoff…new medical slang and it’s companion piece Pumpkin Positive - more medical slang would be my all time favorite post to write. I simply laughed my way through it. On the other hand, it was tears and laughter when writing Randy Pausch’s ‘The Last Lecture’ Revisit... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1446016 Fri, 16 May 2008 11:52:25 +0100 1446016 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1419288&cid=t_176573_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F05%2F04%2Fdid-you-take-healtbolts-vitality-compass-challenge%2F Earlier this week Liberty and I took the Vitality Compass quiz to see where we sit in the longevity stakes. But then we asked ’why should we have all the fun’. So we issued a Healthbolt Vitality Compass Challenge. Here’s the brave souls who took up the challenge and not only completed the Vitality Compass quiz but also shared their results with us… Lisa from Best Health Magazine found that she is 6 years younger that her real age. A’Lyn is 4.4 years younger. Alicia from Mental Health Notes is 4 years older…but she explains, with good reason. ME, with a life expectancy of 97, will outlive all of us. Steph declared she was in the blue but thinks she could definitely do better. (BTW: love the blog title - waiting for my real life to begin) Gabrielle from F... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1419288 Sun, 04 May 2008 11:39:55 +0100 1419288 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1404053&cid=t_176573_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F04%2F28%2Ftesting-the-vitality-compass%2F I’m not one for questionaires and surveys but this Vitality Compass, an online longevity calculator, had me intrigued. I wanted to know…was I in the Blue Zone? What was my life expectancy? And were my current life habits going to lead the way to a grand old age of 100 plus? So I headed on over and took the Vitality Compass quiz. Thirty five questions later, I got my answer. I exist in the Blue Zone. I’m 6.5 years younger biologically than my real age. Of course I’d rather it was 10 or 15 years younger but still any number less that the real one works for me. My life expectancy is 95.8. But my healthy life expectancy is only 84. Looks like I’m not on track to reach 100 but maybe that’s just as well given the last decade or two might not be that healthy. S... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1404053 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:26:23 +0100 1404053 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1347613&cid=t_176573_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F263479204%2F Actually, we just returned from the bank and the post office, but could use a good cup of coffee. So while our water is boiling (we fancy that metaphor), we thought this would be a good time to catch up with some of the stray items that were rattling around our computer while we were out. And of course, thanks for your patience. Hope your day is going well…. The UK’s National Health Service is spending nearly $4 billion annually to treat patients who had adverse reactions to drugs, according to new figures from the Compass think tank. The amount of money spent on hospital care for those given the wrong med or who suffered a side effect could pay for 10,000 new midwives or easily cover the estimated cost of combating MRSA infections, The Guardian writes. Pfizer plans to launch a... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1347613 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:08:29 +0100 1347613 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1064615&cid=t_176573_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2007%2F12%2F02%2Ffew-more-days-until-the-golden-compass-movie%2F And so the countdown begins. A lot of people are anticipating the movie adaptation of Philip Pullman’s first book in the trilogy, His Dark Materials. However, this movie is being heralded by a lot of controversies. Protests are increasing about the atheist content of the book and most fear that even the “watered-down” version of the book in the film will still be inappropriate for children. However, I note that most people who’re protesting the movie and the trilogy are those who haven’t read the trilogy IN ITS ENTIRETY. Now, it is common sense to think that the opinion of someone who’s not even read or seen what he’s proclaiming judgment over does not have the same credibility as someone who did read and see it. Most are making a fuss about God be... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1064615 Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:50:59 +0100 1064615 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1045157&cid=t_176573_85_f&fid=36194&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftesstermulo.com%2F2007%2F11%2F22%2Fbetter-a-doubt-than-blind-obedience%2F It seems that the Christian groups protests again will be increasing as the day for the launch of “The Golden Compass” movie, based on the first book of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy, gets nearer. Emails have been circulating, warning Christians to beware of watching the film because it “promotes atheism for kids”. An example of such email is this: There will be a new children’s movie out in December called “The Golden Compass”. The movie has been described as “atheism for kids”and is based on the first book of a trilogy entitled “His Dark Materials” that was written by Phillip Pullman. Pullman is a militant atheist and secular humanist who despises C. S. Lewis and the “Chronicles of Narnia”. His motivation for writing this tril... Prudence and Madness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1045157 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:42:40 +0100 1045157