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 'eisenberg'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:37 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4399507&cid=t_292332_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FNb9gopEJD8o%2F By David RittgersIf you haven’t seen it already, I recommend the Frontline report Are We Safer? Since September 11, 2001, the government has gone on a spending spree without any regard for fiscal federalism, dumping $31 billion into grant programs. The program is based on The Washington Posts’ Top Secret America article, “Monitoring America.” Watch it below: Much of this spending has gone to local pork projects or allowed state and local governments to avoid the realities of budgeting – spend federal counterterrorism dollars on normal law enforcement requirements while spending the local tax base on unsustainable pensions for public employees. For a tally of this excess, check out the Price of Peril, an interactive map showing homeland security spending by state, courtesy of the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4399507 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:49:22 +0100 4399507 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3436248&cid=t_292332_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fpoll-of-the-day-crowdsourcing-your-kids-name%2F Photo: swissmiss.com Crowdsourcing news, videos, reviews, and even books is common practice these days, but what about your kid’s name? Tina Roth Eisenberg, known as Swissmiss on her popular design blog, just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on Valentine’s Day. His moniker was a given – she affectionately refers to him as swissmister on her site – but picking his real name proved more difficult. Like a true new media whiz, she went to the Web. She broadcast her search for a name, set the conditions (four-letter boy name), and crowdsourced it from her readers and Twitter followers. She got some 10,000 suggestions, and her final choice was Tilo (pronounced tee-lo). Is she the pioneer of a novel way to name kids, or just someone who’s way too addicted to the Web? The g... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3436248 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:18:09 +0100 3436248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828408&cid=t_292332_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FZBtBzUP6poc%2F The U.K.’s NHS Information Centre, citing autism rates among British adults as 1:100 and identical to the rate in children in that country, has said that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. If it did, the centre maintains, rates among children would be higher since the MMR has only been available since the early 1990s. Stipulating that the sample size was small and any conclusions “need to be tempered with caution,” the report suggests that despite popular perceptions prevalence of ASD remains broadly level across all age bands. According to the findings, while 1% of adults had an ASD, the rate for men was higher (1.8%) than for women (0.2%), which was in line with studies among child populations. The study also found many of these adults are failing to get the diagnos... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828408 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:00:47 +0100 2828408 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2757885&cid=t_292332_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fquality-meaningful-use-and-interoperability A reporter recently asked me to describe the quality measures and standards that are part of meaningful use. Floyd Eisenberg, Senior Vice President, Health Information Technology at the National Quality Forum, summarized the work nicely: (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2757885 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:04:43 +0100 2757885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2077343&cid=t_292332_88_f&fid=38203&url=http%3A%2F%2Fprecordialthump.medbrains.net%2F2009%2F01%2F01%2Fa-picture-worth-a-thousand-words-vi%2F Perhaps hospitals were a little hasty in becoming “smoke-free” zones - next time I lead a code I might see if anyone volunteers to be the pipe operator for a good old-fashioned tobacco smoke enema… From Eisenberg, MS. Life in the balance: emergency medicine and the quest to reverse sudden death. 1997; Oxford University Press. <betterworldbooks> One of the earliest and most graphic accounts of resuscitation by tobacco enema dates from 1746. A man’s wife was pulled from the water apparently dead. Amid much conflicting advice, a passing sailor proffered his pipe and instructed the husband to insert the stem into his wife’s rectum, cover the bowl with a piece of perforated paper, and “blow hard”. Miraculously, the woman revived. - Lawrence, G. Tobac... AEQUANIMITAS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2077343 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:10:30 +0100 2077343