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 'confirmation'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:42:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036722&cid=t_221198_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F21198644%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EBit-Pickles-amp-Fuzzy-Olives.htm In The Million Dollar Pickle (retitled after a reader suggested the original title When Stories Don’t Sell wasn’t that good), I retold a story about how a single bad customer service experience turned a business author and speaker into a negative PR machine for a local supermarket. What sparked that post was my OWN version [...] CommentsRoger - This reminds me of a discussion with a good friend who ... by Ron WrightDefinitely true, Daniel. If you have heard a lot about an ... by Roger DooleyPlus 3 more...Related StoriesHoly Branding! Religion Gives Brand ImmunityThe Dark Side of AnecdotesWhy Stories Sell (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036722 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:59:05 +0100 4036722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3753804&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZthdcmVWQls%2F By Michael F. CannonBack in May, I suggested: Senate Judiciary Committee members should be sure to ask Solicitor General and Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, during her upcoming confirmation hearings, whether she or her office played any part in crafting ObamaCare or the administration’s defense to the lawsuits challenging that law. If Kagan helped to craft either, that would present a conflict of interest: when those lawsuits reach the Supreme Court, she would be sitting in judgment over a case in which she had already taken sides… If Kagan played a role in drafting ObamaCare or formulating the administration’s legal defense, and is confirmed by the Senate, propriety would dictate that she recuse herself from any challenges to that law that reach the high court. Committee memb... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3753804 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:10:31 +0100 3753804 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3714157&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAtQ5zIAnbUM%2F By Ilya ShapiroI agree with Jillian Bandes’s characterization of the Democrats’ “bottom of the order” questioning (the committee being stacked 12-7, the day began with the junior Dems) and indeed was dreading having to sit through all sorts of parochial bloviations.  Even Al Franken wasn’t too exciting, just making the point Justice Kennedy was wrong not to consider in legislative history in arbitration cases and expounding at length on the theme that money in politics is bad and so therefore was Citizens United.  Kagan responded that “Congress’s intent is the only thing that matters [to statutory interpretation]”—a position sure to infuriate her future would-be colleague Justice Scalia—but also that the Court “should not re-write the law,” instead allowing Congre... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3714157 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:00:43 +0100 3714157 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3714398&cid=t_221198_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F06%2F30%2Felena-kagan-confirmation-project-beltway%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Politics Daily. Elena Kagan Confirmation: Project Beltway. Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: chaos theory, confirmation, elena kagan, hearing, political cartoon, scotus, senate, supreme court (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3714398 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:14:11 +0100 3714398 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3714166&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FOh1t0eckg08%2F By Ilya ShapiroMore highlights from Day 2 of the Kagan confirmation hearings: •  In addition to backing away from President Obama’s empathy standard, Elena Kagan, under questioning by Senator Grassley, backs away from her “judicial hero” Aharon Barak, saying that she does not share his judicial philosophy, which involves judges making policy decisions and affirmatively shaping society.  This is an important concession.  Grassley also elicits the statement that only the president and Congress should worry about American influence in the world. •  The wily Arlen Specter, in his last Supreme Court hearing (unless Justice Ginsburg retires over the summer), treats his questioning as a prosecutor would.  Technical questions and cutting off responses when Kagan begins to expound on... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3714166 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:32:58 +0100 3714166 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3710547&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FVkb0Y47ekDQ%2F By Ilya ShapiroHere’s what you have missed if you don’t have the luxury of watching C-SPAN all day: Senator Sessions went after Kagan hard on the Military-Recruiting-at-Harvard imbroglio.  I don’t think he did any damage—which I’ll define as convincing someone on the fence to go against her—but the thing to keep in mind here is that the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy that so enraged then-Dean Kagan was federal law, not military policy.  Punishing the military for an act of Congress you disagree with—one on which you advised President Clinton—is disingenuous at best.  And I say this even though Cato supports ending DADT and filed a brief against the Defense Department in the Rumsfeld v. FAIR case involving denial of federal funds to schools who hamper military recruit... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3710547 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:02:47 +0100 3710547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3641008&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3JIuoBWqLOU%2F By Ilya ShapiroFrom the first round of Clinton Library documents regarding Elena Kagan’s White House service, we can now all be shocked – shocked! – that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is a liberal.  It’s a mystery why the punditocracy thought someone who despaired at Ronald Reagan’s election, staffed the Michael Dukakis campaign, clerked for Thurgood Marshall, and advised Bill Clinton would be anything else.  But this is what passes for news in Washington these days. We already knew that the solicitor general was a genial but cautious careerist, rarely expressing her own opinions but forever strategizing over the next rung on the ladder that would take her to her high school dream of sitting on the Supreme Court.  And we knew that she was a moderate legal academic ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3641008 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:22:21 +0100 3641008 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3453882&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fg4LmRk2HifM%2F By Roger PilonThe retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term, and the coming nomination and confirmation process, will doubtless further complicate and delay the Obama administration’s already complicated agenda during this mid-term election year. And the timing cannot be good news for Democrats running for reelection, because the process will serve to highlight their understanding of the Constitution as a document authorizing all but unlimited government in a year in which, thanks to the Tea Party movement, the Constitution is likely to have a prominent place in reelection debates. Regarding a replacement for Justice Stevens, the nominee will almost certainly come from the Democratic Party’s liberal ranks. As a result, the ideo... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3453882 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:42:25 +0100 3453882 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3235896&cid=t_221198_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F02%2F03%2Fkids-and-depression-parents-call-to-action-part-3%2F How To Monitor and Stabilize Depression in Teens and Children Each time I write a prescription, I have a certain amount of trepidation. Although I know that medications can help, I am also aware of their limitations. It is also important to be vigilant as to whether there are other key factors that are causing a teenager to be overwhelmed (i.e., trauma, substance abuse). However, when children and adolescents are having difficulty functioning because of how impaired they are, medication can be critical. If a teenager is so depressed that she is thinking of tying a phone cord around her neck or jumping out a window, or if she finds it impossible to find the energy to get out of bed, or can’t concentrate long enough to read one page and her grades are dropping, an antidepressant along with... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3235896 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:43:40 +0100 3235896 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2648965&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FboOpO8ZP3vY%2F The judiciary committee’s vote to endorse Sonia Sotomayor is not surprising. None of the Democrats are from red states and so have little to fear from voters, while the quixotic Lindsey Graham—in what can only be described as a triumph of hope over experience—was the only Republican to have set aside legitimate qualms and voted for the “wise Latina.” But voting on a Supreme Court nomination is more than a matter of deciding whether a nominee is “qualified”—even if Sonia Sotomayor had been a leading light of the judiciary rather than just the best available Hispanic woman—or deferring to the president. Instead, Senator Dick Durbin had it right when he said during John Roberts’s confirmation hearings that “no one has a right to sit on the Supreme Court” and that the �... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2648965 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:06:18 +0100 2648965 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2630333&cid=t_221198_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F07%2F22%2Fchaos-theory-sotomayor-in-wonderland%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily: Sotomayor in Wonderland. Posted in Politcal Cartoons Tagged: confirmation, gender, race, scotus, sotomayor, supreme court (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2630333 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:54:02 +0100 2630333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2630051&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJ3w8Wlgi7cs%2F Having sat through the entire gavel-to-gavel coverage of last week’s confirmation hearings, I still don’t know if I would vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor if I were a senator, I really don’t. Deciding how to vote on this is more than a simple matter of deciding whether she is “qualified” to sit on the Supreme Court—which is hard enough given there is no fixed qualification standard. It also has to include how much deference you want to give the president, in general terms but also taking into account that Sotomayor will likely be confirmed and you want to position yourself politically for the next nominee. And it has to include, of course, how your constituents feel; while it’s cowardly to follow opinion polls blindly, you are accountable to those who sent you to Washingto... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2630051 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:04:59 +0100 2630051 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2601960&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fw4taOuS9Z7c%2F The first day of the Sotomayor hearings yielded many baseball references but little in the way of home runs and strikeouts—or surprises. Democrats lauded Sotomayor’s rags-to-riches story and career achievements. Republicans questioned the “wise Latina’s” commitment to objectivity, whether she would be a “judicial activist” and—most interesting to me—whether she planned to use foreign law in helping her to interpret the Constitution. These would clearly be the lines of attack and counterattack. It was all “set pieces”—prepared statements that often said more about the senators themselves than about the nominee. The stars of the show were unquestionably Senators Sessions (R-AL), Graham (R-SC), and Franken (D-SNLMN). Sessions, the ranking member, is armed for bear and ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2601960 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:41:09 +0100 2601960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2598190&cid=t_221198_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_Bwiq7SVLCY%2F Cato senior fellow Randy Barnett has a piece in the Wall Street Journal on the Senate’s confirmation hearing for Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court.  Excerpt: Supreme Court confirmation hearings do not have to be about either results or nothing. They could be about clauses, not cases. Instead of asking nominees how they would decide particular cases, ask them to explain what they think the various clauses of the Constitution mean. Does the Second Amendment protect an individual right to arms? What was the original meaning of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment? (Hint: It included an individual right to arms.) Does the 14th Amendment “incorporate” the Bill of Rights and, if so, how and why? Does the Ninth Amendment protect judicially enforcea... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2598190 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:01:58 +0100 2598190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2447697&cid=t_221198_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F05%2F30%2Fwhy-we-believe-medical-myths%2F Why do we keep clinging to myths, even when research or other facts tell us the myths aren’t true? That’s the question posed by Newsweek’s Sarah Kliff, discussing a new book put out by Vreeman and Carroll, who blow away 66 new medical myths in their new book, Don’t Swallow Your Gum! The research offers only a few answers as to why we keep believing things like we must drink 8 glasses of water a day (myth) and the belief that vitamin C helps cure the common cold (myth): The body of research on belief formation is relatively sparse. One expert in the field, York University psychologist James Alcock, admits that it’s difficult to trace where beliefs start. “Even as individuals we usually can’t explain where beliefs come from,” says Alcock, who... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2447697 Sat, 30 May 2009 14:48:10 +0100 2447697