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 'draft'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:00:48 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5057722&cid=t_105642_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-new-details-about-the-fda-regulation-of-mhealth-apps%2F2011.07.23 Since the beginning of this year, there have been clues that the FDA will be heading toward clarification of the complex regulatory issues posed by mobile health devices and software. We have previously reported on testimony and public comments by Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the  FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) alluding to coming guidelines. Today, the FDA finally released a detailed draft guidance of how it intends to regulate this rapidly exploding sector of mobile medical devices and software. This is what the Emergo group, regulatory compliance consultants, has gleaned from today’s FDA press release: (more…) *This blog post was originally published at iMedicalApps* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5057722 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:00:04 +0100 5057722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4175752&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2FV93uiNGcDM0%2Fmy-lucky-13-exam-tips-for-students.html My son and his friends are today heading into their first set of important high school exams, their “mock GCSEs”. They call them mock, but the results they achieve at this stage will determine where they go after they do their GCSEs proper, i.e. their 16+ options. So as a loving dad who has done more exams than I can remember and still has nightmares about turning up to finals in pyjamas without a pen and having done no revision. Here are my lucky 13 tips for those taking exams, finals, SATs, and other academic tests, whether you’re in middle school, high school, college, or at university and beyond. (a) Revision (b) preparation – do lots of it and don’t leave it till the last minute Cramming – do it only if you didn’t fulfil #1 (a) Water (b) sl... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4175752 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:58:02 +0100 4175752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155262&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2FSGRTPCC6DiI%2Fmaking-the-web-work-for-academia.html The internet has changed fundamentally the way we communicate, the way we work, even the way we live our lives. That much is obvious to anyone who has ever shopped at Amazon, looked up a reference on PubMed, or gone social via Facebook. Those of us who’ve been using email and the wider world tools of web 1.0 and then web 2.0 since the 1990s have seen dot coms come and go, bubble and egos inflate and then burst. There still exist luddites and every scare story about compromised privacy, Trojans, phishing attacks, wardriving (recently, most visible as the Firesheep plugin for Firefox), has those people running for their tinfoil hats and pulling the plug on their modems. Then there are organisations, such as academic institutions, that lack either the savvy or the will to overcome the i... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155262 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 13:00:02 +0100 4155262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151856&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSciencebaseScienceBlog%2F%7E3%2FW7sKLXuS_h0%2F6730.html Regular Sciencebase readers may recall that my family and I were recruited and took part in the participation in the 2009/2010 Flu Watch Project. During the whole period of the study we had just one cold or flu-like illness in the family, which was rather unusual for us. Personally, I almost reached the anniversary of not having had a cold until mid-October. Normally, I suffer at least 3 or 4 doses of man-flu during the year. Possibly down to my daily walk with the dog or just not getting out enough to be exposed to the viruses. Who knows? Anyway, the Flu Watch team just sent back their findings from the survey about flu and what happened in the H1N1 pandemic. The survey and swabs we all sent back when we had a cold/flu revealed that 15-20% of the population are infected, children more com... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4151856 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:00:25 +0100 4151856 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4045138&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Funlocking-nano-secrets.html An open or shut case for nanotechnology secrets Should nanotechnology R&D be more open to allow it to thrive in the commercial world, or should companies working in this field be more secretive? Paradoxically, the answer seems to be that keeping secrets stifles innovation and reduces patent success. According to Associate Professor of Management at Pennsylvania State University Abington, Steven McMillan, companies should adopt an open policy towards publication of their R&D results as is common in research institutes, university research departments and academia in general. McMillan points out that his team’s earlier research has demonstrated that for the pharmaceutical industry, openness is rather important. In that arena, companies are keen to put results into the public ... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4045138 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:00:54 +0100 4045138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4036711&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fnobel-prize-for-chemistry-2010.html Watch the announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry live: Winners: Heck, Negishi, Suzuki – carbon coupling (real chemistry). Three chemical reactions of major importance. Given that a chemical won the Physics prize this year, perhaps it will be something entirely physical that wins chemistry… Past Nobel chemists Related Posts:K Barry Sharpless LivePeriodic Table of Google ElementsReal chemistry at the periodic table partyParty tricks for scientistsYou Are a MonkeyNobel Prize for Chemistry 2010 is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog (Source: Sciencebase Science Blog) Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4036711 Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:26:11 +0100 4036711 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4031294&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fblood-pressure-anxiety.html Is it a sign of hypochondria to get white coat syndrome when measuring your own blood pressure? I asked this question on my personal Facebook page as a little joke with a hint of seriousness. My doctor and I are currently re-evaluating my blood pressure medicine, and I have been instructed to keep tabs on my bp and pulse for a couple of weeks. Now, I am well aware that a visit to the doctor causes anxiety in a lot of people, especially when they have to have their blood pressure taken. Just the site of a sphygmomanometer’s pumping cuff can cause a hypertensive spike. It’s known in the trade as white-coat syndrome, although I don’t think I’ve ever had a doctor in a white coat measure my blood pressure. Anyway, hypertensive or pensive, I am curious as to whether WCS i... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4031294 Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:00:46 +0100 4031294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4027206&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fnew-sciencebase-element.html I’ve updated the Sciencebase tumblr account, for those of you who would like an alternative one-stop shop for science and technology news and views from David Bradley. The site aggregates the Sciencebase, Sciencetext, SciScoop, and Reactive Reports newsfeeds as well as my “likes” in Google Reader. To celebrate, I’ve created a new element icon and based it, this time, on an actual chemical element mashed with the tumblr floral logo. In case you missed it there’s also a sciencebase elemental delicious icon floating around on the site somewhere. The links I bookmark in delicious usually include science and technology posts and news items that catch my eye at random times throughout the week. Related Posts:Science is DeliciousHow to get your fill of Sciencebase go... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4027206 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 09:34:24 +0100 4027206 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3999035&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fcalculating-science-writer.html Fellow science writer and author of Black Bodies and Quantum Cats, Jennifer Ouellette has a new book out – The Calculus Diaries – which she attempts to de-traumatize those of us who were force-fed derivatives and integrals but perhaps never got past pi-r-squared. The marketing blurb explains how mathematics can help you lose weight, win in Vegas and survive a zombie apocalypse. The book itself bridges the gap between one’s mathematical dysfunctionality and the real world. It’s the math(s) of everyday life and Ouelette immersed herself in it for a year in order to conquer and calculate. If De Niro and his ilk “live the life of their characters” in method acting, then this is “method science writing”. There was no single factor that led Ouellet... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3999035 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:00:53 +0100 3999035 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3993992&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fhow-many-stars-can-you-see.html Ask a child how many stars they can see on a clear night, and the answer is likely to be some rather precise and yet strangely diffuse number like 200 and twenty-nine billion million thousand. An adult might suggest millions(?) with an inflection in their tone of voice to suggest that they are uncertain of that number and think it might be much higher. Of course, the real answer is way, way lower. On a really clear night away from city lights and air pollution and with the best eyes in the world you would struggle to count just a couple of thousand visible to the naked eye. With a decent telescope you could see many more and, of course, there are literally (to paraphrase the late, great Carl Sagan) billions upon billions of the astral orbs in the universe as a whole. See “Ask a Scien... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3993992 Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:00:17 +0100 3993992 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3972940&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fthanking-your-facebook-fans.html In the spirit of exploiting the three principles of uber-link bait titles mentioned over on sciencetext, I wanted to express my thanks to a few people who are fans, or “likers”, of the Sciencebase Facebook page. These diamond people have all been particularly active recently on the fan page, liking, commenting, debating on wall posts. I hope I’ve caught the most active of you, if not let me know. So, in no particular order: Jones Murphy – Caltech Hamada Shingo – STFC Jacob Cox – Green Science Research Foundation Robert Slinn – University of Liverpool Eur van Andel – Fiwihex Alan Crooks – Visiting chemistry lecturer in the UK Arpit Dave – Gujarat University Lisa Shaw – Maine librarian Paul Shin – CSU Northridge Jacque... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3972940 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:00:18 +0100 3972940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899436&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F08%2F25%2Fgood-life-better%2F Discussions about human cognitive enhancement are in different ways based on assumptions about neuroscientific knowledge production and applicability of neuroscientific results. But what is it in neuroscience that relates to discussions about human enhancement? How has the production of knowledge within the neurosciences anticipated or dismantled the hopes and wishes for cognitive enhancement? Have neuroscientific practices related to such notions as ’successful ageing’ offered new perspectives to the human enhancement debate? Drawing on a historical analysis of the concept of successful ageing in neuroscience publications from the 1980s till today, this paper will discuss how the aims and the production of knowledge within age-related neuroscience are connected to ideas about ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899436 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:00:14 +0100 3899436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3885380&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fwhats-the-point-of-the-semantic-web.html I was scanning journal tables of contents as usual this week and it occurred to me that there must be a better way to find relevant and timely research information that would be of interest to Sciencebase readers…and, of course, out pops the following title: Technically approaching the semantic web bottleneck Sounded, perfect…kind of…but what’s the semantic web, why’s there a bottleneck and what can be done to lube the tube? Tim Berners-Lee’s original vision for the semantic web was that information would be just as readable (and understandable) to a person or to a machine. Digital objects, whether web page, image, video, or some other file, would have embedded within them meta data that would provide context to the content and allow software to extract ... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3885380 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:26:11 +0100 3885380 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3854561&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fsocial-impact-of-science.html The social impact of science and knowledge evolution – New research that analyses 500 years of scientific history comes to the perhaps obvious conclusion that those nations that support science and the evolution of knowledge through education, infrastructure and funding, produce stronger societies the members of which have a better standard of living and are healthier. Luiz Miranda of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais of the São José dos Campos and Carlos Lima of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in São Paulo, Brazil, have looked at five centuries of scientific discoveries and 125 years of patent publications to reveal the evolutionary nature of science and technology and their social impact. The ability to understand Nature (science) and partially dominate it (te... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3854561 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:00:39 +0100 3854561 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3831304&cid=t_105642_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fdr-vishal-michael-shah-reports-nfl-players-return-acl-injury-related-high-draft-status%2F Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Vishal Michael Shah of the Richmond Bone and Joint Clinic in Richmond, Texas has compiled statistics that show that less than two thirds of NFL players who sustain tears of the anterior cruciate ligament ever return to play – and that those that do are usually high draft picks. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3831304 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:58:23 +0100 3831304 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3784297&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fsweet-sensors.html Nothing new under the sun, as the bard said, and how true it is sometimes. No sooner had I posted a news article on spectroscopynow.com entitled “Sweet sense of GOD” than Santhosh Challa, a Senior Scientist at Merck & Co in New Jersey, USA, got in touch to tell me that his team had also recently published work on a similar technique using ionic liquids in glucose sensing. In the “GOD” work, researchers had developed a glucose sensor based on a room-temperature ionic liquid rather than a conventional solvent to give it much better acid-resistance than other sensors used in diabetes and blood sugar monitoring. Challa and his team seem to have extended the concept somewhat. “In this particular work, we applied an amino acid based fluorescent ionic liquid, th... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3784297 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:16:25 +0100 3784297 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3385371&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F03%2F20%2Fhow-shall-science-technology-and-medicine-museums-handle-the-problem-of-new-acquisitions%2F The journal NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin is currently running a series of articles about university collections and museums. These articles raise a number of interesting issues, which are otherwise rarely brought up in discussions about the historiography of science, technology, and medicine. In nr 4/2008, Anke te Heesen (Tübingen) pointed to the often forgotten fact that university collections are an integral part of many fields of university research and teaching; this active role of the collections in these primary functions of the university is therefore an important parameter to take into account when developing acquisition and exhibition agendas for university museums. In the following issue (nr 1/2009), Christian Sichau (Deutsches Mu... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3385371 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:00:15 +0100 3385371 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3354302&cid=t_105642_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3DM13Mv6d28%2F By Neal McCluskeyThree days ago I reported that draft, grade-by-grade, national curricular standards would soon be released by the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Yesterday, they were. (If you want to get a sense for what the proposed standards are follow the link to them. Don’t bother with the appendices, though, unless you really want to get into the weeds.) Naturally, in the coming days lots of people will be offering heaps of commentary about what the standards do or do not contain. That’s not my main concern (though reading through the English standards I am dubious that mastery of them could be easily or consistently assessed). You see, the content of the standards is largely irrelevant because the main problem isn’t what the standards are, but stan... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3354302 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:45:38 +0100 3354302 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3197696&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F01%2F22%2Fa-genealogical-study-of-the-concept-of-successful-aging-iii-%25e2%2580%2599successful-aging%25e2%2580%2599-in-the-neurosciences-and-the-link-to-cognitive-enhancement%2F This is the last part of my project description for the Ph.D.-project called “A genealogical study of the concept of ’successful aging’ and its relation to the idea of ‘human enhancement”. See the first two parts here and here.  ’Successful aging’ in the neurosciences and the link to ‘cognitive enhancement’ In order to narrow the problem field, the project will look closely at how the notion of ‘successful aging’ has been understood and defined in the field of neuroscience in the last decades, and how ‘successful cognitive aging’ has played together with discussions — both in the scientific literature, in science policy documents and in general public discourse — about the possibility for so called ‘cognitive enhancement’ (‘neuro... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3197696 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:00:42 +0100 3197696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3189178&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F01%2F20%2Fa-genealogical-study-of-the-concept-of-successful-aging-ii-the-relation-between-%25e2%2580%2599successful-aging%25e2%2580%2599-and-%25e2%2580%2598human-enhancement%25e2%2580%2599%2F This is the second part of my project description for the Ph.D.-project called ‘A genealogical study of the concept of ’successful aging’ and its relation to the idea of ‘human enhancement’. See the first part here. The relation between ’successful aging’ and ‘human enhancement’ The project will particularly focus on an analysis of the possible connection between ideas about the prevention and treatment of age-related diseases, on the one hand, and the current merging discourse on ‘human enhancement’, on the other. Like ‘successful aging’, the notion of ‘human enhancement’ — including a large variety of different ideas about the future possibilities for technological improvements of human bodies — became widely spread in the 1980’s and... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3189178 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:00:10 +0100 3189178 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3182201&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2010%2F01%2F18%2Fa-genealogical-study-of-the-concept-of-successful-aging-i%2F I’ve just begun my ph.d.-project here at Medical Museion. Titled ”A genealogical study of the concept of successful aging and its relation to the idea of human enhancement”, the project is financed by the new Center for Healthy Aging at the Faculty of Health Sciences. Below is the first part of the project description concerning the notion of successful aging. In two following parts I will first introduce the possible relation between successful aging and human enhancement, and then my attempt to narrow the project to cognitive aspects of ageing and cognitive enhancement. Comments to one or all three parts are much appreciated. The genealogy of the notion of ’successful aging’ At present there is much focus on the notion of successful aging (healthy aging, opti... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3182201 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:00:39 +0100 3182201 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3167063&cid=t_105642_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F01%2F13%2Frecent-statutory-instruments-related-to-human-resources-and-payroll%2F SI 2010 No. 19 Social Security. The Social Security (Contributions Credits for Parents and Carers) Regulations 2010 SI 2010 No. 10 (C. 2) Pensions. The Pensions Act 2008 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2010 SI 2010 No. 6 Pensions. The Transfer Values (Disapplication) Regulations 2010 SI 2010 No. 5 Pensions. The Employers’ Duties (Registration and Compliance) Regulations 2010 SI Statutory Instruments 2010 No. 4 Pensions. The Employers’ Duties (Implementation) Regulations 2010 SI Statutory Instruments 2010 No. 3. Pensions. The National Employment Savings Trust Corporation Naming and Financial Year Order 2010 SI 2010 No.1. Pensions. The Occupational Pension Schemes (Levy Ceiling – Earnings Percentage Increase) Order 2010 Draft Statutory Instruments 2010 No. Pensions. The Occupational Pension... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3167063 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:00:58 +0100 3167063 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2977514&cid=t_105642_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FsOB9FGMX-6Y%2Fa-new-amylia-poem-in-lieu-of-a-new-post-today.php Hexagenia I didn’t know you were aquatic. I looked for you under stone and silt. I didn’t find you in the sediment, nor living in streams. There were rumors you could be found among the decay. I crept knee-deep in vegetation, all the while wondering if you were more prolific than once thought. I found out you were; laidupon the surface, hatchedon a crest of wave and sinking. A bottomed out nymph in search of fresh water. You couldn’t feel your body, already immersed and swimming home again. I felt it for you Read more at Diabetes Daily! (Source: Diabetes Daily) Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2977514 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:23:23 +0100 2977514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510990&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2009%2F06%2F14%2Fsplit-and-splice-fragments-from-the-age-of-biomedicine-new-exhibition-at-medical-museion%2F Last Thursday, we opened our new temporary exhibition Split and Splice: Fragments From the Age of Biomedicine (Danish: Del and Hel: Brudstykker fra biomedicinens tid) here at Medical Museion. In the next couple of days, we will hopefully be able to upload some images from the opening (depends on when Benny has sorted out the hundreds of pictures he took). Until then — why did we make this particular exhibition? The decision actually goes back five years in time, to the spring of 2004, when we were beginning to restructure the old medical-historical museum here in Copenhagen — a task we were thinking of in three ways: First, we wanted to integrate the practice of a museum (cultural heritage and exhibition making) with the logic of the university (which is research and teaching),... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510990 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:17:49 +0100 2510990 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1930510&cid=t_105642_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F11%2F04%2Fthe-changing-situation-of-the-nbas-age-limit%2F Situationist contributor Michael McCann was interviewed for a story in Sunday’s New York Times on high school basketball phenom Renardo Sidney and how the NBA’s age limit–which requires that a player be at least 19-years-old and at least one-year removed from high school before he can play in the NBA–affects his life and those around him.  The story, titled “The Next Big Thing” and authored by Tommy Craggs, also examines the relationship between the NBA and the NCAA, as well as developing opportunities for players shut out by the NBA’s age limit to instead go to Europe for a year and earn a six-or-seven figure salary. Here is an excerpt: * * * That this comes from the same groups that in 2005 cheered the adoption of the N.B.A.’s minimum-age rul... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1930510 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:45:32 +0100 1930510 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1668412&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F31%2Fscience-blogging-science-communication-and-the-multitude%2F Here’s the audience gathering for the session on ‘The Public Engagement of Science and Web 2.0′ organised by Gustav Holmberg for the 10th Public Communication of Science and Technology conference (PCST-10) held in Malmö a month ago (read more on our joint session blog). And here’s my own paper for the event (responses are welcome, it needs a lot of improvement and re-writing before it can go to publication): Abstract: Within a few years, science blogging has emerged as a new genre for science communication. But is science blogging really best understood in terms of ’science’ and ‘the public’? Or does the phenomenon of science blogging suggest other dichotomies? This paper argues that ’science communication’ is better conceptualized in terms of �... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1668412 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:39:15 +0100 1668412 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1596400&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F08%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-7-art-is-smart-art-is-chic%2F At last, here’s my final post in the series of rationalities for bringing art and science together in science, technology and medical museums. This one also has to do with the issue of identity formation (see last post), but now among museum curators. Here’s the argument: In the eyes of the general adult public, STM-museums are usually perceived as either nerdish, unsmart, dusty, serious (in the bad sense), etc.—or childish. In other words, our kind of museums either appeal to specialists with a deep interest in scientific instruments or, more commonly, to children, especially if we display dinosaurs, robots, human skeletons, and so forth. In other words, our kind of museums have difficulties appealing to a generally educated, culturally interested audience between the age of ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1596400 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 09:43:31 +0100 1596400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1582945&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F07%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-6%2F In five earlier posts I have discussed why science, technology and medical museums are increasingly employing art in their exhibitions. The fourth reason in my list of ideal-typical rationalities for bringing art and science together goes like this: If you believe in what some sociologists have recently called ‘biocitizenship’, i.e., the biomedical version of what European bureaucrats call ‘scientific citizenship’ – then, STM-museums are among the most crucial media institutions involved in the formation of such citizenship (cf. Elam and Bertilsson, 2004). This is the phenomenon of ‘governmediality’, to use Christoph Engemann’s term. There is of course a strong discursive aspect to the formation of biocitizenship. In other words, it is partly through texts that individual... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1582945 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:07:02 +0100 1582945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1577306&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F04%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-5%2F The third item on my list of ideal-typical reasons why museums want to bring art and science together is that art is a great cross-disciplinary integrator. The argument goes like this: As culturally established factories for the production of meaning in the knowledge society, the humanities have a strong disciplinary function. In other words, our research practices tend to lie within the disciplinary boundaries of pre-established conceptual power-games (philosophy, sociology, political science, history etc.). Such games are keeping our universities orderly and are holding professors and students safely away from the scandal of real global problems. (I guess Slavoj Zizek could have said this.) And here is where art comes in. Thinking about biomedical laboratories and practices in aesthet... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1577306 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:36:17 +0100 1577306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1563895&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F02%2Fwhy-do-medical-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-4%2F As I wrote in the last post, our co-operation with the Danish Museum of Art and Design in 2004 was the founding rationale for our pilgrimage into art, design and science. Then things went rapidly. In 2006 we engaged Canadian-British artist-curator Martha Fleming to help us organise a workshop on ‘Biomedicine and Aesthetics in a Museum Context’, followed by a public conference on ‘Art and Biomedicine: Beyond the Body’ hosted by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. We also began experimenting with different kinds of art exhibitions and installation, for example the street exhibition ‘The Face of Disease’, the photo collage exhibition ‘100 Light Years’, and the installation ‘Labyrinthitis’, a medical technology-inspired installation by Be... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1563895 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:07:15 +0100 1563895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1560829&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F01%2Fone-aesthetically-corrupted-always-corrupted-why-do-museums-want-bring-art-and-science-together-part-3%2F Which were Medical Museion’s reasons for going into art and aesthetics? The first on my list of ideal-typical rationalities is what I call “once-aesthetically-corrupted, always-corrupted”. The argument goes like this: As Sepp Gumbrecht pointed out in his seminal 2004 book The Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey, most humanities scholars, including historians, are engaged in interpretative and hermeneutic practices. But rarely in aestethic practices, i.e., what he calls the ‘production of presence’. Same for historian-as-curators in the world of science, technology and medical museums: Most STM-curators see their museums as sites for historical narration, interpretation and contextualisation, but rarely as sites where visitors are engaged in sensual and aesthetic ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1560829 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:04:11 +0100 1560829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1556321&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F07%2F01%2Fwhy-do-medical-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-3%2F Which were Medical Museion’s reasons for going into art and aesthetics? The first on my list of ideal-typical rationalities is what I call “once-aesthetically-corrupted, always-corrupted”. The argument goes like this: As Sepp Gumbrecht pointed out in his seminal 2004 book The Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey, most humanities scholars, including historians, are engaged in interpretative and hermeneutic practices. But rarely in aestethic practices, i.e., what he calls the ‘production of presence’. Same for historian-as-curators in the world of science, technology and medical museums: Most STM-curators see their museums as sites for historical narration, interpretation and contextualisation, but rarely as sites where visitors are engaged in sensual and aesthetic ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1556321 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:31:49 +0100 1556321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1554434&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F06%2F30%2Fwhy-do-medical-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together-part-2%2F Why has art and aesthetics then entered the science, technology and medicine (STM) museum sector? This was not the case 15 or 20 years ago. What has happened in the last two decades? I will not attempt to give any historical, sociological or political explanations for the flow of art and aesthetics into STM-museums; that’s a topic for a serious research project and even a book. Instead I will take on a more preliminary task: I will try to reconstruct a handfull of ideal-typical rationalities for why STM-museum curators around the world are engaged in bringing art and the biomedical sciences together. I hasten to add that I haven’t done any fieldwork, or asked curators to fill in any questionaires. The reconstructions that follow in the next couple of posts are based primarily on websit... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1554434 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:59:55 +0100 1554434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1551358&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F06%2F28%2Fwhy-do-museums-want-to-bring-art-and-science-together%2F Museums are a significant part of the global science learning and experience economy. There are many hundreds, maybe thousands, of science, technology and medical museums and science centers around the world. The Association of Science-Technology Centers presently lists 447 institutions, but they don’t list small, regional and local museums. This STM-sector of the museum industry (let’s forget about science centers) spans everything from small, regional, amateur-driven collections and displays run by retired scientists, engineers and medical doctors to large professional-driven institutions supported by state grants and having hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of visitors each year Like the Science Museum in London, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the Powerhouse... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1551358 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:54:13 +0100 1551358 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1494402&cid=t_105642_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F06%2Ffda-needs-your-input-on-islet.html The May 22, 2008 Edition of the Federal Register had another announcement that people with type 1 diabetes should be interested in. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) has issued draft guidance similar to the guidance I announced back in March on diabetes drug and biologic treatments -- the very same guidance that the American Diabetes Association thought was NOT important enough to comment on!(See http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/E8-11516.htm OR the regulations.gov/fdmspublic for the announcement and the guidance documents, search under the docket number, which is FDA-2008-D-0293-0001)"Guidance for Industry "Considerations for Allogeneic Pancreatic Islet Cell Products", Docket #: FDA-2008-D-... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1494402 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:25:00 +0100 1494402 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1439674&cid=t_105642_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F05%2Fadas-silence-is-deafening.html It seems that almost every month, we hear yet another news story about problems at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Last December, even an internal report produced by the FDA itself entitled "FDA Science and Mission at Risk" (which can also be found at the Food and Drug Administration's website) concluded that the FDA was desperately short of money and poorly organized, which is putting people's lives at risk. This has Congressional lawmakers finally giving more serious consideration to their oversight (or rather, their lack of oversight) for the FDA, but money won't solve all the Agency's issues, more careful oversight is needed, too.Back in early March 2008, I wrote that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was soliciting public comments on the Agency's Draft Guidance for Diabetes... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1439674 Tue, 13 May 2008 16:45:00 +0100 1439674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1420445&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F05%2F05%2Fbiomedicine-on-display-via-the-participatory-web%2F I’ve promised to write a chapter with the provisional title ‘Biomedical curating and the participatory web’ for our planned joint project anthology with the (also provisional) title Curating Biomedicine: Collecting, writing and displaying contemporary medicine. Here’s the abstract of the chapter (to be included in the book proposal; we haven’t found a publisher yet): For more than a decade, museums in general have been exploiting the Internet for making their collections and exhibition available online. In the last 4-5 years museums have also begun to explore the potentials of the participatory web (web 2.0) for drawing users more actively into the production of the heritage. In this chapter I will explore, one the one hand, how museums actively promote th... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1420445 Mon, 05 May 2008 17:10:22 +0100 1420445 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1377953&cid=t_105642_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F16%2Fcan-you-trust-the-research-not-always%2F For everyone who trumpets the invincibility of peer-reviewed research, here’s another nail in the coffin… Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association today described how multiple Vioxx studies were ghostwritten for the researchers by, yes, you guessed it, Merck & Co.-paid writers. Researchers were welcomed to edit or change the writing, but not all researchers did. And at the end of the day, it’s not really the same thing as composing the prose yourself, is it? Sadly, Merck is claiming this is a widespread, accepted practice within the industry: A Merck legal spokesman said the company sometimes uses outside companies to draft articles that summarize research on its drugs. “That’s a common evolving practice in the industry,&#... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1377953 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:25:54 +0100 1377953 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1354055&cid=t_105642_131_f&fid=35005&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Ffungalcompgenomics%2F%7E3%2F265427447%2F The Broad Institute has made available the Schizosaccharomyces octosporus genome sequence producing another model system (S.pombe) with several related species for comparative genomics.  I believe S. octosporus genome was entirely sequenced with 454 technology.   The other genome sequences in the Taphrina clade include the S. japonicus genome. S. octosporus is pretty interesting as it grows filamentously and is 8-spored unlike S. pombe. The origin of this filamentous growth would be quite important to understand how reversions to simpler fission yeast forms form and whether this is loss of whole gene families or remodeling of gene networks. There is also some preliminary (old) sequence from Pneumocystis (although it is hard to track down that sequence, a paper from 2006 says there is... Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1354055 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:50:17 +0100 1354055 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1354005&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F04%2F06%2Fbiomedicine-aesthetics-and-garbage-at-shot-2008%2F The program committee of the Society for the History of Technology 2008 Annual Meeting has kindly accepted my proposed paper on ‘Biomedicine, Aesthetics, History, and Garbage: Engagements with the materialities of recent medical technology’. The conference will take place in Lisbon on 10-14 October and marks the second and final leg of the celebrations of SHOT’s fiftieth anniversary. The program comimittee made a call for papers “that concern the history of technology as it may or ought to be practiced in the future. Papers or sessions devoted to the question of how we shall write the history of technology in the future are particularly encouraged”. I thought the activities at the Medical Museion, especially our attempts to integrate the historiography and ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1354005 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:11:21 +0100 1354005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1314107&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2Fscience-blogging-participatory-computing-and-the-public-engagement-in-science%2F Swedish scholarly blogging pioneer Gustav Holmberg (Det Perfekta Tomrummet), popular science blogger Malin Sandström (Vetenskapsnytt) and myself (part of the Biomedicine on Display blog team) have just got our session proposal titled “The Public Engagement of Science and Web 2.0″ accepted as a seminar at the 10th conference of The International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST-10) in Malmö-Lund, 23-27 June 2008. Here’s the session abstract and our individual abstracts: Session abstract: “The Public Engagement of Science and Web 2.0″ In parallel with calls for more public and democratic involvement with science and technology, the theoretical and in some cases empirical basis for studies of science communication has change... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1314107 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:26:57 +0100 1314107 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1280795&cid=t_105642_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Ffda-needs-your-input-on-diabetes.html On Tuesday, I wrote about the opportunity for people with diabetes to attend the NIH/NIDDK's jointly-sponsored (along with JDRF) "Artificial Pancreas Workshop" in July. But I also mentioned that it was merely the first opportunity for you as patients to contribute something by representing real-life patient needs to our Government-funded agencies.Another opportunity you should be aware of is that the FDA has just issued a document with Draft Guidance for Industry for Diabetes Mellitus: Developing Drugs and Therapeutic Biologics for Treatment and Prevention, which provides recommendations to industry regarding the development of drugs and more specifically, therapeutic biologics regulated within the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1280795 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:00:00 +0100 1280795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1274855&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F03%2F03%2Finvisibilites-the-politics-practice-and-experience-of-surveillance-in-everday-life%2F The third Surveillance & Society conference will be held at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield, 2nd to 3rd of April 2008. The conference will focus on everyday experiences of surveillance and feature keynote speakers Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and John McGrath. As announced on the conference homepage, participants are encouraged to present empirical case studies that document our everyday exposure to the networks of postpanoptic surveillance society, particularly the different technologies and administrative regimes that make us visible in partial and not necessarily oppressive ways. Susanne and I are giving a joint presentation on the topic of distributed surveillance and digital registries in non-invasive medicine and health policy today. This is an exce... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1274855 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:37:17 +0100 1274855 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1222336&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2Fbioscience-communication-between-empire-biopower-and-multitude%2F (Here’s the second fragment of my paper on ’Science Communication, Blogging, and the Multitude of Technoscience’ for the workshop  ‘Science Communication as the Co-Production of Sciences and Their Publics’ at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm last Friday — for the first fragment, see here). As science (qua technoscience) is turning into a truly global phenomenon, science communication too is increasingly turning into a practice of national/transnational governance. (The 10th Public Communication of Science and Technology conference to be held in Malmö this summer – enthusiastically supported by the Swedish science council, Vetenskapsrådet – is a case in point.) Consequently, science communication is gradually becoming integrated into the sum total of ... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1222336 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:50:11 +0100 1222336 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1067746&cid=t_105642_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F12%2F03%2Fpalpating-the-history-of-medicine%2F Thomas and I have written this abstract for the “Sculpture and Touch” symposium to be held at the Courtauld Art Institute, London, 16-17 May next year (see earlier post here). Due to the profound impact of vision on modern Western culture, the history of medicine has mostly been conceived in ocular terms. This is true both for medical historiography and the way that medical collections, no matter how object dominated, are exhibited in museums. However, given the crucial role of touch in medical practice as well as the abundance of three-dimensional objects in medical museum collections, the emphasis on the visual neglects an essential aspect of medical history and medical objects. In this paper, we will focus on the tactile dimensions of medicine as manifested in medical mu... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1067746 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:46:52 +0100 1067746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=716524&cid=t_105642_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F05%2Fformer-friar-piston-jimmy-walker-dies-of-cancer%2F Filed under: Lung Cancer, Daily news, SportsJimmy Walker, former Providence College basketball star and first pick in the 1967 NBA draft, died Monday of lung cancer. He was 63.Walker played three seasons at Providence and held a school record with a total of 2,045 scored points. His record stood for 38 years. Ryan Gomes surpassed his total in 2005."He was an amazing phenomenon," says Jim Cox, who played with Walker in 1964. "That he ended up at Providence College was a remarkable development. He was so good, so blessed. He was ahead of his time." Walker, father of NBA player Jalen Rose -- part of Michigan's Fab Five of the 1990s -- was drafted by the Detroit Pistons and averaged 16.7 points a game in nine NBA seasons. At one time, Walker and Rose held the NCAA Division I record for most ca... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=716524 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 716524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=530928&cid=t_105642_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F09%2Fcollege-basketball-grad-coby-karl-resting-up-for-nba%2F Filed under: Thyroid Cancer, Daily news, Cancer Survivors, SportsIt's been a rough road for former Boise State basketball player Coby Karl, son of Denver Nuggets coach George Karl. The younger Karl, 23, had his thyroid removed 13 months ago due to papillary carcinoma, a treatable form of cancer. And he returned to the operating room just last week for the removal of cancerous lymph nodes.Karl's recent surgery, intended to take two to three hours, lasted for seven hours. This worried Dad. ''When it goes longer and longer, you always think the worst, and start worrying about things like being under anesthesia that long and all the nightmares you have about surgeries,'' George Karl said. But it turns out Coby was just fine -- doctors just wanted to be thorough -- and the ambitious young man p... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=530928 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 530928 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=489979&cid=t_105642_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F21%2Fson-of-denver-nuggets-coach-battles-cancer%2F Filed under: Thyroid Cancer, Daily news, Sports, SurgeryBoise State basketball player Coby Karl, son of Denver Nuggets coach George Karl, had surgery 13 months ago to remove his thyroid after he was diagnosed with papillary carcinoma, a form of treatable cancer. And while Karl received chemotherapy to kill off any lingering cancer cells, he must undergo cancer surgery once again.Karl, who plans to play in the NABC All-Star game in Atlanta on March 31, will return to Boise on April 2 for surgery to remove cancerous lymph nodes.The lymph node cancer was identified in January, but Karl, 23, kept his condition private until his team lost to New Mexico State in the Western Athletic Conference tournament semifinals. This ended the Broncos' season. And now begins Karl's second go-round with cance... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=489979 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 489979