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 'divide'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:09:25 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133708&cid=t_109526_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Freaching-doctors-in-the-virtual-world%2F2010.11.04 It’s the great migration to digital. And as civilization makes its move, the pharmaceutical industry is trying to figure out how to reach out to physicians. Pharmaceutical reps are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Branded medication portals leave most doctors cold. Email outreach is marginal. Pharma strategists ask me how to reach doctors in the new world. I don’t have an answer. It isn’t that I can’t come up with an answer. It’s just that a good one doesn’t exist. Why? Doctors aren’t anywhere right now. They’re stuck somewhere between the analog and digital. Socially they’re nebulous. Their virtual communities are non-existent. Public social networks are sparsely populated. When they participate they watch and rarely create or discuss. Our profession is going ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133708 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:00:49 +0100 4133708 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3866960&cid=t_109526_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fvacation-unplugging-how-important-is-it%2F2010.08.14 It’s a post you’ll see periodically: Blogger goes on vacation and goes dark from his blog and Twitter. This spawns the requisite post detailing how nice it was to be away. Refreshed and all the stronger, we hear about the lessons from playing parchese, listening to the crickets sing, and ignoring the purr from Tweetdeck. [Recently] I have been on vacation, but I didn’t necessarily unplug. I screened for critical emails once a day. I had prewritten and scheduled a couple of posts, but they didn’t require much maintenance. Besides that, I was too busy boogie boarding, kayaking, and eating crab cakes to really look at Twitter. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3866960 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:00:17 +0100 3866960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3802458&cid=t_109526_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F30%2Fattributional-divide-top-10%2F This article, the first of a multipart series, argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less accurate dispositionist approach, which explains outcomes and behavior with reference to people’s dispositions (i.e., personalities, preferences, and the like), and the more accurate situationist approach, which bases attributions of causation and responsibility on unseen influences within us and around us. Given that situationism offers a truer picture of our world than the alternative, and given that attributional tendencies are largely the result of elements in our situations, identifying the relevant elements should be a major priority of legal scholars. With such information, legal academics could predict which indiv... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3802458 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:01:43 +0100 3802458 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2904948&cid=t_109526_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2009%2F10%2F19%2Felderly-and-internet-and-computer-skills-an-update%2F Social Capital Divide between the young and the elderly A social capital divide between elderly and younger people on the Internet is best described as a difference in resources that are created in social networks and relationships between people and that have a certain value or benefit for individuals participating in this network/relationships. Social capital can be created with participating in online networks such as Myspace. Age differences in online networking in Myspace exist. Elderly have fewer friends and mostly from age groups outside their own age compared to teenagers. Older people tend to be more careful and selective when choosing their friends on MySpace and only want to add to their friends list people that they know very well. Older people tend to represent themselves in a... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2904948 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:19:06 +0100 2904948 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2606168&cid=t_109526_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Frhinotillexomania-nose-picking.html I am busy picking my nose in a precious moment of privacy, when he bursts into the bathroom to use the facilities, “ooo what you are do?”I put down the tweezers to explain myself, “well I’m pulling off all the dead sunburnt skin from the tip of my nose.”“Rudolph!”“Yes……thank you. It’s very sore actually.”“Why it burn?”“The sun……when we were in England.”“It is being polite?”“Polite?”“Er…….English style nose pickin.”“!”If you like what you read, send it to someone in 'need.' (Source: Whitterer on Autism) Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2606168 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:43:00 +0100 2606168 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1423793&cid=t_109526_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F05%2Fnaive-cynicism-in-election-2008-dispositionism-v-situationism%2F This post was originally published on April 23rd. Because the “elitism” card continues to played, we thought it worthwhile to republish this post for those who might have missed it the last time. * * * In case you missed it, the last week and a half have been a bit rough for the golden boy from Chicago. To boil down hundreds of hours of cable news commentary, political punditry, and radio talk-showery: Obama called certain working-class Midwesterners bitter, and everyone else called Obama elitist. The conventional wisdom is that Hillary’s success in Pennsylvania last night was at least partially the result of Obama’s remarks. The storm began when, speaking to a private group in San Francisco, Obama offered this take on the effects of economic stagnation in certain p... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1423793 Tue, 06 May 2008 02:00:10 +0100 1423793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1407418&cid=t_109526_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F29%2Fthe-great-attributional-divide-abstract%2F This article, the first of a multipart series, argues that a major rift runs across many of our major policy debates based on our attributional tendencies: the less accurate dispositionist approach, which explains outcomes and behavior with reference to people’s dispositions (i.e., personalities, preferences, and the like), and the more accurate situationist approach, which bases attributions of causation and responsibility on unseen influences within us and around us. Given that situationism offers a truer picture of our world than the alternative, and given that attributional tendencies are largely the result of elements in our situations, identifying the relevant elements should be a major priority of legal scholars. With such information, legal academics could predict which indiv... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1407418 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:08:44 +0100 1407418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1394022&cid=t_109526_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F04%2F23%2Fnaive-cynicism-in-election-2008-dispositionism-v-situationism%2F This post is co-authored by Situationist contributors Adam Benforado and Jon Hanson. * * * In case you missed it, the last week and a half have been a bit rough for the golden boy from Chicago. To boil down hundreds of hours of cable news commentary, political punditry, and radio talk-showery: Obama called certain working-class Midwesterners bitter, and everyone else called Obama elitist. The conventional wisdom is that Hillary’s success in Pennsylvania last night was at least partially the result of Obama’s remarks. The storm began when, speaking to a private group in San Francisco, Obama offered this take on the effects of economic stagnation in certain parts of Pennsylvania: “You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the j... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1394022 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:26:25 +0100 1394022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1338194&cid=t_109526_147_f&fid=35750&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FHealthCareVox%2F%7E3%2F261423634%2Fthe_new_digital_divide_upcomin.html In February, traditional analog television signals will cease to exist.  While Americans with cable or satellite television will be unaffected, those who receive their television signals via old-fashioned rabbit-ears will be out of luck.  To continue watching television, they will have to purchase a converter box at their local electronics retailer or subscribe to a more expensive cable or satellite service. This move threatens to ignite a new digital divide.  Already, the elderly and low-income Americans are less connected to the Internet.  These same individuals are least likely to be aware of the upcoming digital transition or have the resources to become educated about it.  According to the Washington Post: “The digital conversion presents a huge logistic... HealthCareVox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1338194 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:46:26 +0100 1338194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1321797&cid=t_109526_145_f&fid=35710&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstoryofhealing.com%2F2008%2F03%2F23%2Fcan-our-art-and-science-keep-pace-with-technological-evolution%2F This article explores further its possible medical use. The arrival this June of an enterprise-friendly iPhone is exciting to more than just business users. Doctors, too, are eyeing Apple’s handheld and wondering if it could kill off the old-fashioned clipboard and X-ray light box once and for all. “If you could use the gesture-based way of manipulating images on the iPhone and actually manipulate a stack of X-rays or CT scans, that would be a huge selling point,” says Adam Flanders, director of informatics at Thomas Jefferson University and an expert in medical imaging. To date, such a feature has remained a pipe dream due to most smartphones’ inability to handle the sophisticated compression techniques used on large medical images. Also, most phones lack the requ... the story of healing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1321797 Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:39:16 +0100 1321797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1239241&cid=t_109526_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F18%2Fpsychotherapy-and-the-divide-between-practice-and-research%2F If you’re a therapist, you can get frustrated by the lack of research into easy-to-use techniques that can be readily integrated into your existing set of techniques. Most research into psychotherapy requires use of a specific “program” or manual of instructions or exercises that most therapists, in the real world, have trouble sticking to. Because if you’re been practicing for 5, 10 or 20 years, you’re not likely to throw out everything you’re currently doing just because some new research suggests a different technique might be more effective. Researchers, on the other hand, have a hard time understanding what it’s like to be a clinician. Most researchers work within a very small niche or section of psychology, studying just one well-defined asp... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1239241 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:48:38 +0100 1239241 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1147299&cid=t_109526_93_f&fid=36697&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjeffreyleow.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F04%2Fmental-preparation-for-days-to-come%2F I was browsing the StudentDoctor forums and caught sight of this and thought it might be good to share with some of my classmates who have been newly promoted to year 3. Yay! I don’t think i’m going to dedicate one post to this yet. Below are the average length of the common general surgeries, [...] (Source: monash medical student) monash medical student blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1147299 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:03:39 +0100 1147299 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=518723&cid=t_109526_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F03%2Fthought-for-the-day-stopping-cancer-in-its-tracks%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Research, Daily news, Thought for the DayIt might not be possible at this time to eradicate cancer altogether. But we may be able to stop cancer cells in their tracks through a process called senescence. In senescence, cells don't divide. And when cells don't divide, they don't grow. In such a scenario then, cancer cells wouldn't divide and therefore couldn't grow.Think about this:According to lab tests on mice, triggering senescence in certain cells hampers the growth of some tumors.Researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston are the ones behind the scenes on this project -- the study appears online in EMBO Reports, a publication of the European Molecular Biology Organization -- and all eyes are on the p53 gene.The p53 gene lives... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=518723 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 518723