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 'era'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:56:39 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5169679&cid=t_367549_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FUtPImgqQd7o%2F Image by lisby1 via Flickr Buck and I have been awash lately in British Victorian period dramas, thanks to Netflix. We’ve just finished Middlemarch and are now working on Anthony Trollope: He Knew He Was Right. And so we are also awash in great silk and satin dresses with complicated laces. Buck: “I thought Trollope was a comedy writer.” Nope, heartfelt sorrows abound, though not with quite the inevitability that they do in Thomas Hardy. For me, reading Hardy is like watching a cat play with its food for about five hundred pages before he kills and eats it. Up next: The Way We Live Now. First chapter: I meet Mrs. Carbury, writing letters to editors. I want to have started it before the disks get loaded into the DVD player, to have a feel of the words in the printed book that no vide... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5169679 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:49:45 +0100 5169679 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4934114&cid=t_367549_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsskDnGcrBaw%2F By Jim HarperIf you like innovation, and if you’re interested in intellectual property, you probably already know about the Committee on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era. That’s a group assembled by the National Academies to, well, analyze the impact of copyright policy on innovation in the digital era. Long-standing consensus holds that copyright, by creating artificial scarcity in information goods, allows creators to enjoy rewards from their creations sufficient to justify creating them. In other words, copyright’s incentive structure encourages creation and innovation, the end result being more and better information goods for the society to enjoy. Information technologies such as digitization and the Internet are rejiggering the balance... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4934114 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:44:22 +0100 4934114 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642978&cid=t_367549_147_f&fid=39266&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCreationInteractive%2F%7E3%2FNdK_QgHHT_0%2F In essence, we are mobile and arguably much more today than ever before. And in the connected world in which we live, we want to have access to the same services during our “mobile day” that we do at work or at home. Devices such as the iPhone and the iPad opened new ways to stay connected to all the knowledge that the Internet gives us access to. Moreover they allow people to always stay in touch with their online communities, by having multiple screen access to their favourite social media platforms or communities. In the healthcare industry, new ways of using mobile devices, and changes in user behaviour, will continue to give us lots of new opportunities to engage with different stakeholders. At the same time, they will give us the chance to improve the way we are communicating, ma... Creation Interactive blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642978 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:27:52 +0100 4642978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3592312&cid=t_367549_125_f&fid=36046&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdentistrylibrary.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fera-ranked-journal-list.html The ARC has released the full ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) 2010 ranked journal list. Subscribe in a reader (Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney) DentistryLibrary@Sydney blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3592312 Sun, 23 May 2010 23:34:00 +0100 3592312 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508172&cid=t_367549_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3KRQCk2njTk%2F By Juan Carlos HidalgoFollowing Rahm Emmanuel’s advice of not letting a crisis go to waste, the new center-right government in Chile now wants to extend the permanent rise in tobacco taxes—supposedly adopted as a measure to finance post-earthquake reconstruction—to foods with high concentrations of salt and trans fat [in Spanish]. Jaime Malañich, the Health Minister, said that the earthquake is opening up an opportunity to implement a measure that would increase the government’s revenue and fight obesity and that has been considered for many years. My colleague Ian Vásquez wrote a few days ago that, by announcing unnecessary tax increases as post-earthquake reconstruction measures, the recently-inaugurated administration of Sebastian Piñera was quick to disappoint those who expe... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508172 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:06:50 +0100 3508172 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3487039&cid=t_367549_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_DRd7kaHz24%2F By Ian VasquezThe presidential election in Chile that brought Sebastián Piñera to power last month was good news for Chile and the region. It confirmed once again that Chile is Latin America’s most modern country, one in which Chileans chose a center-right candidate to lead the country after 20 years of center-left governments that by and large stuck to the free-market model set in place in the 1970s and 1980s and that has made the country one of the most economically free in the world. In Chile, what’s at stake in presidential contests is not a radical change of the rules of the game, but rather policies that build on or depend on high growth. Chile’s mature democracy and economy serve as a model for Latin America. But in just over a month of being in office, Piñera has made two ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3487039 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:48:06 +0100 3487039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=702194&cid=t_367549_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F128664983%2Fwelcome_to_an_era_of_neuroplas.html If the 1990’s ushered in "The Decade of the Brain" the 2000’s have spotlighted an “Era of Neuroplasticity” - which changes our daily operations through reprogramming neuron pathways. Fortunately, this era will improve business for those who draw from its vast potential. Sadly, the opposite is also true. The Hebbian Hobo workplaces are increasingly left behind. How so? People are rewiring their brains for more of what they want in ways that change the way they work. Under plasticity spots -  1. Age is seen in new colors. While some decline in working memory hits between the ages of 45 and 75, for instance,  mental operations vary widely from person to person. With brain breakthroughs people can learn how to outsource their memory and draw fro... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=702194 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:38:52 +0100 702194 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471467&cid=t_367549_109_f&fid=34754&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstaffpsychologist.com%2Findex.php%3Fitemid%3D190 The January issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry has a special focus on randomized controlled trials for psychotherapy that is encouraging and thought provoking. Three different trials were showcased: 1. Integrated group therapy (Cognitive-Behavioral focus) was more effective than a drug counseling group (abstinence focus) for treating people with substance abuse and Bipolar Disorder. 2. 4-weeks of brief Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) significantly increased the speed of recovery from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder compared to a waiting list, although the differences were not significant after 4 months, except for those who also presented with depression. 3. CBT and paroxetin (Paxil) were superior to a placebo group in treating Hypochondriasis, but did not differ significan... Staff Psychologist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471467 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:55:00 +0100 471467