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 'february'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:01:51 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4520811&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F02%2F25%2Flebanon%2F Beirut – December 2010 Little girl coming back from school. Burj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. Millions of Palestinian refugees still live in camps, where – more than 60 years after being forced to leave their homes – they face a future of seemingly unending exile. More than 200,000 Palestinian refugees are registered in Lebanon, about half of whom live in a dozen camps dotted around the country. Some 60 percent of Palestinian refugees are unemployed and a similar number live below the poverty line, according to figures from UNRWA. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4520811 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:01:50 +0100 4520811 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4507352&cid=t_113308_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F02%2F22%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-february-22-2011%2F This article looks at bipolar disorder in Hollywood. (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4507352 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:54:13 +0100 4507352 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4464486&cid=t_113308_87_f&fid=36941&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mazecordblood.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1125 In general, passion-friendly foods are those that improve blood flow, support the nervous system, increase energy and raise testosterone levels (in both men and women). These are usually foods that are rich in zinc, B vitamins, proteins, amino acids or fatty acids (such as Omega 3).  Eggs, steak and fruit and of course, chocolate……. who would have thought????? We all know that eating healthy during pregnancy is of the utmost importance , read here for extra info, but for a Valentine’s Day treat, why not splurge just a little!!! And speaking of splurging,  when was the last time you took the time to stroke, caress and massage your significant other?  Sometimes, setting the mood right can really help. Candles and oils and creams can make your Valentine’s day extra... Cord Blood News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4464486 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:03:20 +0100 4464486 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4441972&cid=t_113308_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fis-february-heart-marketing-month%2F2011.02.06 Heart disease and February: What relationship could be more cozy? From the scary risks of shoveling snow (yep, you could die, so be sure to lift a little at a time), Mercedes-sponsored red dress parades and government-sponsored National Wear Red Day®, to tips for identifying heart attacks in women (men, you need a different month I guess), February has all the important stories to improve your awareness. Such a polite term “awareness.” But I wonder, now that the Internet is upon us and people are seeing their insurance rates and co-pays skyrocket, if maybe we’re shooting ourselves in the foot with all this heart-month marketing hype. People are sick and tired of testing “just to be sure.” It’s starting to directly cost them a fortune, and people are fr... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4441972 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:00:00 +0100 4441972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4427764&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38795&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2011%2F02%2F02%2Fsouth-sudan-6%2F%3Futm_source%3Drss%26utm_medium%3Drss%26utm_campaign%3Dsouth-sudan-6 Makpundu refugee camp – November 19, 2010 Widows from Lord’s Resistance Army attacks Ngbitimo 45 (left) and Letina (right) during a Medecins Sans Frontieres counselling session in Makpundu refugee camp, South Sudan. With the world’s attention on the recent referendum determining the separation of southern and northern Sudan, the south of the country continues to face a dynamic that instils alarm and anxiety and exacerbates the situation of an already vulnerable population. MSF continues providing medical assistance to people who have been affected by the Ugandan rebel group Lord Resistance Army (LRA) violence in Yambio, Western Equatoria State in southern Sudan. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4427764 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:05:26 +0100 4427764 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4429047&cid=t_113308_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fspectroscopynow-february-1-issue.html Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men when they looked at photos of their spouses to whom they had been married an average of 21 years. The results? Apparently, love lasts. Grapes of worth – The position in which a grape in a bunch matures on the vine seems to influence the production of different metabolites more than the specific genetic clone from which the vine is raised, according to new NMR data. Researchers have turned to NMR spectroscopy to help them analyse and characterise the chemistry of grape berries. T... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4429047 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:09:50 +0100 4429047 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419182&cid=t_113308_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fspectroscopynow-february-1-issue.html Valentine’s Day science – Spring may not quite be in the air, but Valentine's Day is on the way and love is certainly on the minds of researchers in the US. A small functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to investigate love. The study revealed brain activity in 10 women and 7 men when they looked at photos of their spouses to whom they had been married an average of 21 years. The results? Apparently, love lasts. Grapes of worth – The position in which a grape in a bunch matures on the vine seems to influence the production of different metabolites more than the specific genetic clone from which the vine is raised, according to new NMR data. Researchers have turned to NMR spectroscopy to help them analyse and characterise the chemistry of grape berries. T... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419182 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:09:50 +0100 4419182 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3313870&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F02%2F26%2Fmozambique-2%2F Vilanculos – August 2009 Children playing in the beach. 17.000 children die in one year due to AIDS. Access to treatment is on the rise, at the end of 2008, 9393 children were on ART treatment and 48,000 in care. But it is estimated that 81.000 mozambicans will die yearly due to AIDS, leaving 400.000 orphans. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3313870 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:57:58 +0100 3313870 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3282558&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F02%2F18%2Fbangladesh-4%2F Kutupalong makeshift camp – December 2009 A violent crackdown on stateless Rohingya living in Bangladesh has led thousands of people to seek safety at Kutupalong makeshift camp. Driven from their homes in the Cox’s Bazaar area by local authorities and vigilante groups, around 2,000 people arrived in January alone, swelling camp numbers to nearly 30,000. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3282558 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:22:36 +0100 3282558 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3253277&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F02%2F09%2Fitaly-2%2F Torino, Italy – October 27, 2009 Migrants behind bars that surround the residential blocks of the Centre for Asylum Seekers in Torino. Five years after an initial survey in 2003, MSF returned to the detention centres for migrants without residence and transit permits. “On the other side of the wall” provides a second snapshot of the reality of life inside the CIEs, CARAs and CDAs (Reception Centres) in Italy. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3253277 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:13:16 +0100 3253277 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3230357&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38787&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fphotos%2F2010%2F02%2F02%2Fhaiti-12%2F Port-au-Prince – January 28, 2010 Patients at Hospital Isaie Jeanty, in Chancerelle. MSF started working in Isaie Jeanty one week after the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince. The MSF team provides orthopedic surgery, maternity services, post-operation care and psychosocial activities. (Source: MSF Blogs) MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3230357 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:11:36 +0100 3230357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3227953&cid=t_113308_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fits-heart-month.html It’s February. The month of sweet tarts and sweet hearts (and far too much candy being tossed around, if you ask me). Fittingly, it also happens to American Heart Month, a time to call attention to cardiovascular diseases (CVD), including stroke, which are our nation’s No. 1 killer (!)  A full 50% of people with diabetes [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3227953 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:04 +0100 3227953 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609158&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38789&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fcholera%2F2009%2F02%2F26%2Fin-good-hands%2F Back in the car I stare out the window thinking about the situation. I ask Precious if she like so many of her country-people is thinking of leaving the country. “No,” she says shaking her head. “Sometimes it is not about you, it is about the next person, about the next vulnerable person. You have to think about that other person,” she explains. We reach another section of Mabvuku where 160 households have not had water and electricity for over a year. But worse than this is that not only do their toilets not work, but the sewage blocks up and spills into their houses. “The woman that lives there,” says Precious pointing to a house to our right, “was weeping to me last week in despair because the sewage had covered all the rooms in her house. She didn’t have anything to pro... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609158 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:24:31 +0100 2609158 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609159&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38789&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fcholera%2F2009%2F02%2F25%2Felephants-giving-water%2F “So why do they call them elephant pumps?” I asked Precious, as I stand in front of an aqua blue round concrete that comes up as high as my head. To each side are handles and in front of me is a protruding pipe. Precious Matarutse, 24, has worked for MSF for a year in implementing water sanitation programs and her positive and enthusiastic attitude are still indomitable. As long as she is out with communities helping people nothing is hard for her, “just don’t put me behind a desk,” she tells me laughing. Now she smiles and asks me to step a little back from the pump. “You see on the ground the round formations where people stand to turn the handles are like elephant ears and then under the faucet there is a small trench which is like the snout. She’s right, it does look like... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609159 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:11:06 +0100 2609159 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609160&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38789&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2Fcholera%2F2009%2F02%2F21%2Flifelines%2F By now it is quite sunny. We’ve got a while to go until we reach our next destination. We exchange stories with Georgina about our lives; she shows me mobile phone-photos of her 4-year daughter who I in all honesty exclaim over since she does look absolutely adorable. Both she and her husband are nurses and they both have work now, but even so if things don’t improve in the country she is considering moving to Botswana. We eventually both nod off to sleep in the softly bumping ride with the warm sun making it cozy inside our cholera van. Photo: J Stavropoulou | The Oral Rehydration Points situated in Harare's townships are often located in remote areas which are reached only through difficult inaccessible roads. MSF monitors these areas through the ORPs and transfers patients with cho... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609160 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:01:20 +0100 2609160 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2609170&cid=t_113308_46_f&fid=38788&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsf.ca%2Fblogs%2FChrisH%2F2009%2F02%2F11%2Fplanning-ahead%2F We are invited by an Australian HIV/AIDS NGO to speak about our clinic at a training session they have arranged. Rugby Captain introduces us for 10 minutes, I talk about MSF for 10 minutes and a nurse talks about the services we provide, including treatment that is given to those who may have been in contact with HIV.   Our hosts give out free condoms, as do we in our clinic and all places of work. Later in the vehicle, rugby captain and I are chatting about condoms. “Do you think we could give our female condoms in the clinic?” he asks. I joke about how difficult female condoms are to use. Then he explains: “Women on long bus journeys wear them. Just in case they get raped”. I stop smiling. We had another earthquake last week. It woke me up. I don’t know the... MSF Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2609170 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:26:02 +0100 2609170 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1287876&cid=t_113308_136_f&fid=35300&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.metastaticlivercancer.org%2F2008-03-08-cancer-treatment%2Flydia-shum%2F Lydia Shum Din-Ha, one of Hong Kong’s most popular comedian actress, died of liver cancer and other complications on 19 February 2008 at Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong . Hong Kong Lydia Shum has been on the front to prevent and educate about breast cancer… The actor was also known as Fei-Fei or Fatty. She was 60 years old. Shum was born to a well-of large family in Shanghai , China and she was fifth among the family’s eight children. In 1960 she made her debut as a child actor. She was survived by a daughter, Joyce Cheng Yan-Yee from her failed marriage to an actor and singer, Adam Cheng Siu Chow. They were married in 1985 after living together for 11 years. She wore a Chinese cheongsam at her wedding due to her weight and years later, she said she regretted not wearing a we... Metastatic liver cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1287876 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:50:48 +0100 1287876 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1222458&cid=t_113308_136_f&fid=36051&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FCancerCommentary%2F%7E3%2F233142143%2F Here at b5media Science and Health Channel, it is not just the red heart month, but also a month of contests. I am a sucker for freebies. And since I have been blogging, I have won quite a few stuff from contests in the blogs I often visit. So. Speaking of contests, check out the following from this channel of wonderful science and health bloggers: Grace of Kid Health Notes: Loving Moments With Your Child Contest Alicia of Mental Health Notes: Love: It’s All In My Head Valentine’s Day Contest Angelique of Breaking The Mirror: The Challenge: Fall In Love…With Your Self If there are other ones I missed, just check out the rest of the Science and Health Channel. Tags: b5media-Science-and-Health-Channel, blog contests, February, Valentine's DayShare This (Source: Cancer Comme... Cancer Commentary blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1222458 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:38:56 +0100 1222458 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1219504&cid=t_113308_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F231950874%2F I have a contest going on over at my other b5media site Diabetes Notes. It is all about loving yourself and knowing how to toot your own horn, haha. If you get a chance go check it out. The winner will receive a $30 Visa gift card. If you do stop by feel free to enter and let me know that you came over from this lil’ ol’ A Hearty Life blog. Tags: contests, diabetes, february, love, personal reflectionShare This (Source: A Hearty Life) A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1219504 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:57:00 +0100 1219504 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1219514&cid=t_113308_134_f&fid=36049&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesnotes.com%2Fa-diabetic-february-contest-love-yourself%2F Here is the contest for February… I would like to know 5 things you love about being a diabetic. It can be anything from how something makes you feel, look or even how it has changed you to be or handle something you couldn’t previous. I will share mine with you as the month goes on. And remember you can make them serious, funny or whatever you please. After all it is all about you on this one! I want everyone to remember why they are wonderful and that each of us has so much to be thankful for even among the diabetes. Now go on and love yourself! Just leave your list as a comment on this post. The prize will be a $30 visa gift card. I will collect all entries through February and then I will pick a winner on March 1st and send you your winning gift card. It is as easy as that.... Diabetes Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1219514 Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:28:00 +0100 1219514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=552121&cid=t_113308_140_f&fid=35457&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBattling-schizophrenia%2F%7E3%2F102758544%2F I have been posting around the week of the 10th of each month (or so).. a “THANK-YOU” post, like this one, to all the advertisers from the previous month listed as at month end. That’s a permanent link in this blog, under the category heading which I call .. “Sponsor Appreciation”. I know it’s hard out there trying to figure out where to spend your advertising dollars .. and well .. THANKS for considering the Battling Schizophrenia Blog. I have compiled a new advertising page for the HART-Empire Network of sites for your perusal. Please Support Our Sponsors From February 2007 Interviewing Interesting Bloggers T D Hedengren’s Blog All things MMORPG Everything Xbox Live Arcade Thank-You Sponsors! (Source: Battling-Schizophrenia) Battling-Schizophrenia blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=552121 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 09:19:53 +0100 552121