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 'countdown'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:46 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2236487&cid=t_122381_81_f&fid=38248&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCostellokidsNews%2F%7E3%2FwOPLOfro-cE%2F I would like to say a BIG thank you to all our families who wrote letters and helped to promote rare diseases day. In the UK and USA we have had great success in raising awareness of Costello Syndrome. With only 300-400 known people diagnosed with this syndrome it is a very rare disorder indeed. Through mutual support our organisation learns from each other, a global community of knowledge, each individual able to help others. Please Drop by the USA  rare Disease day website http://www.rarediseases.org/ Or visit the  UK Rare Disease day website at http://raredisease.org.uk/ Take care and enjoy our site. (Source: CostelloKids News) CostelloKids News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2236487 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:52:50 +0100 2236487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2046923&cid=t_122381_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F12%2Ftips-for-sanity-in-holiday-season.html Thirteen Things about top tips for sanity int he holiday season 1. Buy yourself a chocolate filled Advent Calendar regardless of your faith so you can reward yourself at the end of each productive day.2. Write holiday cards and mail on 12th. Realize that the last mailing date for Europe is the 11th.3. Buy wrapping paper on sale in bulk. Realize once home that it is Wedding paper.4. Splash out on an extravagant festive tree. On return realize it is too tall to be housed.5. Stick to new rule that carelessly scratched DVD’s will not be replaced. Will power melts in the face of “Polar Express.”6. Yield to whining children and buy cheapo stockings for the cats. Realize, once home, that they are for dogs.7. Label your pies carefully before freezing, as mashed potatoes, vegetables and appl... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2046923 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:40:00 +0100 2046923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1152569&cid=t_122381_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Frethinking-dark-ages-of-treatment-for.html When I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a 7 year-old kid on July 24, 1976, not much had really changed since the discovery of insulin. I began this trip using Clinitest urine testing and that lasted for over a decade. I made slight adjustments to my short-acting insulin if my test results were on the high-end of the scale. Blood glucose monitors were introduced in the mid-1980's, and I recall my family was one of the first to get a meter (since there were two of us who had it, I guess the price was justified); but the other kids I knew used color-coded strips and they told stories of how they could slice the strips in half and double the number of tests they got from a single vial. I remember thinking that was pretty cool.When I was quite young, I did experience some problems with noc... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1152569 Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:00 +0100 1152569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1122561&cid=t_122381_85_f&fid=36195&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealth.tesstermulo.com%2F%3Fp%3D402 (Source: Prudence, M.D.) Prudence, M.D. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1122561 Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:40:41 +0100 1122561 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=650726&cid=t_122381_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1666 There’s panic in Metropolis! Jimmy signals Superman with his watch, has some adventures, and then a short time later, Superman arrives. Superman: Sorry I’m late — I was out near Vega when I got your… Vega is a star that is 25.3 light years from Earth. Just how fast is the signal from Jimmy’s watch traveling to be able to reach Superman in that span of time? Generally speaking, electromagnetic waves (including radio waves) travel at the speed of light and sound waves travel even slower Vega is 1.49 × 1014 miles from Earth. Assuming it took the signal 15 minutes to reach Superman, that means that the signal traveled at 5.96 × 1014 miles per hour, or 1.65 × 1011 miles per second. In other words, the signal from Jimmy’s watch traveled nearly 900,000 time... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=650726 Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:20:59 +0100 650726