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 'deadly diseases'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:58:29 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4517206&cid=t_105366_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F24%2Feating-disorders-awareness-week-how-parents-can-help%2F This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, which is sponsored by the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA). Like I said in my post on Weightless, I believe that awareness means spreading accurate information about eating disorders. One of the biggest misconceptions is that parents cause eating disorders. They don’t! In fact, many complex factors are involved in predisposing a person to an eating disorder. According to eating disorder specialist Sarah Ravin, Ph.D: “…the development of an eating disorder is influenced very heavily by genetics, neurobiology, individual personality traits, and co-morbid disorders. Environment clearly plays a role in the development of eating disorders, but environment alone is not sufficient to cause them.” (Check out her blog post f... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4517206 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:04:30 +0100 4517206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2580270&cid=t_105366_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F5jYtoByyv6g%2F Are you ready for this? With the warnings we’ve all received over the last few months about swine flu, medical professionals are now saying that the disease might not be as lethal as originally thought. In fact, it may be up to 40 times less fatal. The latest figures show that “probability of dying from the pandemic flu strain may be 1 in 10,000 cases and possibly as low as 1 in 100,000.” It’s still a dangerous disease, to be sure, but probably not as deadly as the medical world once believed. Whenever I hear reports like this (that conflict), I basically try to take the whole of the information with a grain of salt. It seems as if with swine flu we need to take care of ourselves at the first sign of symptoms, but also enjoy our lives and not panic. (I think many o... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2580270 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:55:00 +0100 2580270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487651&cid=t_105366_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D13 Now I’m going to look at The Siege, by Clara Claiborne Park. This is the book that Catherine Maurice found inspiration for battle metaphors in. It’s another classic in autism literature by parents, and was originally written in 1967. The version I have here is a 1982 version with a newer epilogue. The first chapter of the book is called “The Changeling”. From page 5: Once a friend, seeing for the first time her pale skin and straight yellow hair, her clear blue eyes and the dancing grace of her body, called her a fairy child. And there was a fairy lightness in her movements, a fairy purity in her detached gaze. As time passed and she grew taller, leaner, older, her face seemed not to record time’s passage. She carried none of the stigmata of the defective; not... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487651 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:54:32 +0100 487651 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487652&cid=t_105366_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D12 , by Catherine Maurice, is considered a classic in narratives by parents of autistic children. Page 57: I was in a race against time, and either I found someone or something that truly helped or I had lost Anne-Marie forever. It was as simple as that. There is something about autism that to me gave meaning to the phrase “death in life.” Autism is an impossible condition of being there and not being there; a person without a self; a life without a soul This is more of what’s becoming almost standard in the entries on this blog. Autism as death. Autism as soullessness. Autism as being lost. Later on, Maurice describes her daughter in the following way on page 63: Anne-Marie was so far gone by this point that she spent the evaluation period curled on the floor in a fetal po... Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487652 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:12:36 +0100 487652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487653&cid=t_105366_133_f&fid=35092&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.autistics.org%2Fdemonized%2F%3Fp%3D11 From a thread called Are you neurotypical? awhile back: Autism is a way of life, didn’t you know. Just like bulimia and anorexia. What goin to be cool next? AIDS? Sickle cell anemia? This isn’t actually the first time that I’ve heard autistic liberation compared to pro-anorexia. But the comparison is no more real for its repetitiveness. And then we get into AIDS, etc, like usual. Of course, this is from a forum on one of those sites that is deliberately offensive or something, but it’s certainly a common thing for people to say even outside that kind of site. (Source: Autism Demonized) Autism Demonized blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487653 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:43:00 +0100 487653