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 'fighter'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4489639&cid=t_103666_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FflxXVeCtyNA%2F By Christopher PrebleI'm a bit late to the party in commenting on the passage of the Rooney Amendment, a successful effort on the part of 2nd-term Republican Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) to strip funding for the F-136, an engine that the Pentagon doesn't want for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. A few additional thoughts: unlike nearly all other amendments to the CR, Rooney's passed, and fairly easily. Part of the reason is strong administration support for the effort, key especially to securing votes from Democrats -- those who don't have F-136 plants in their districts, that is. But Gates had signaled his displeasure many times previously, so that alone doesn't explain this rare victory for budget hawks. I would guess that an additional factor is the slew of new Republicans elected on a platform of... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4489639 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:50:00 +0100 4489639 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4013347&cid=t_103666_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2Fczf-MSXQ8Qw%2F Excellent article about an emerging “small revolution” in mental health care: Marientina Gotsis, media lab manager at USC, started thinking about designing apps with therapeutic potential when she realized that her phone had joined her wallet and keys on the small list of things she never left home without. “It’s what keeps people connected, functional, feeling safe and entertained. So why not use what people hold on to close to deliver behavioral interventions?” It’s the kind of innovation that Kathleen Carroll, a psychology professor at Yale, says may be a “small revolution” in mental health care. These apps are part of the “brain fitness” industry, a category that includes computerized memory exercises and cognitive-impairment assessment programs, and that SharpBrain... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4013347 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 12:39:00 +0100 4013347 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3880829&cid=t_103666_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvaTwO4IGH6k%2F Today’s Los Angeles Times features an op-ed by Lawrence Korb of the Center for American Progress, and Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute, that is worthy of attention. The theme, cutting military spending, isn’t particularly original. It has grown into a regular topic of conversation across the media spectrum, with the New York Times featuring an editorial this past Sunday making the case for real cuts in Pentagon spending, not the half-hearted cost-shifting that Defense Secretary Gates is busy selling these days. Ben Friedman and I wrote about cutting military spending in the LA Times a few months ago, and I collaborated with Larry Korb on this same subject at The National Interest Online. Nothing particularly newsworthy there. Loren Thompson’s contribution is sig... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3880829 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:20:04 +0100 3880829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3366177&cid=t_103666_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FDHBQX-lT1GA%2F By Tad DeHavenThe Pentagon has informed Congress about another of its procurement projects that is plagued by cost overruns. In other news, the sun will rise and set today, and the pope is Catholic. Pentagon officials told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that costs for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter have jumped more than 50 percent since the program began in 2001. Testifying before the committee, the Government Accountability Office noted that it has reviewed the JSF effort five times and the findings haven’t been positive: We have consistently reported on the elevated risk of poor program outcomes from the substantial overlap of development, test, and production activities and our concerns about the Government investing in large numbers of production aircraft before varia... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3366177 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:50:34 +0100 3366177 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239550&cid=t_103666_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRzh6IhIoYQ0%2F By Christopher PrebleToday’s Politico includes an op ed that I co-authored with Heather Hurlburt of the National Security Network. It was the first time that the two of us collaborated, and I was very pleased with the end result. Most of the clever turns of phrase are Heather’s including the title, “The Wrong Manhood Test.” And I’m grateful to Harrison Moar and Charles Zakaib for helping me on Monday to sift through the gargantuan defense budget, and pull out the relevant facts. Heather and I don’t agree on everything. We faced off at Bloggingheads.tv several months ago to discuss my book, The Power Problem, and I’m sure that we’ll continue to spar from time to time in the future. But the bottom line from the op ed is this: …beca... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239550 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:58:39 +0100 3239550 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2510282&cid=t_103666_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8pUzeyDdSho%2F Jon Soltz over at VoteVets delivers a stinging rebuke of Congress’s plans to buy more F-22s — the $350+ million fighter aircraft designed to fight the Soviet Union, and that the Pentagon doesn’t want. If the F-22’s backers can round up the votes and the money, it won’t be the first time that Congress has overruled the combined wisdom of the SecDef and the Joint Chiefs. But you’d think that by now the specious arguments that military spending is an efficient way to stimulate the economy had pretty much run their course. Alas, they haven’t. In that resepect, I think that Soltz is taking the right approach. Rather than assaulting the Iron Triangle head on, he highlights the aircraft’s limited utility (as I have on this blog and in my book)... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2510282 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:56:14 +0100 2510282 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1868889&cid=t_103666_133_f&fid=37107&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aspieweb.net%2Feleven-year-old-aspie-firefighter%2F An 11 year old Aspie has built his own working firetruck, complete with on board computer, 10 gallon water tank with hoses, siren, first aid kits, and official firefighting decals from his local fire department. In the article in the Durham Region News 11 year old Sammy Xerri went to open houses at the local fire [...] (Source: AspieWeb.net) AspieWeb.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1868889 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:20:20 +0100 1868889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1728303&cid=t_103666_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2008%2F08%2F18%2Fmad-as-hell%2F Journalist and cancer patient Leroy Sievers is dead. He was 53 years old. Many National Public Radio fans know his name, as do former viewers of the TV news show Nightline. I became aware of Sievers on a subliminal level in April 2004 when I watched the controversial Nightline program “The Fallen,” which Sievers initiated. At that time I was almost paralyzed with fear of recurrence, and I saw myself in every solder’s face that passed across the TV screen. I became aware of Sievers in a more direct way after he responded to a comment made by Mitt Romney’s wife. From Sievers’ blog entry Cancer Is Not the Lesser of Evils dated July 27, 2007: I was reading the current issue of People magazine. Yes, I’m a subscriber. One of the articles is about Ann Romne... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1728303 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:12:06 +0100 1728303 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=481867&cid=t_103666_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F19%2Fthought-for-the-day-some-berry-good-news%2F Filed under: All Cancers, Research, Cancer prevention foods, Daily news, Thought for the DayOf 1,500 foods tested in a University of Oslo study, blackberries were identified as nature's top cancer fighter. Blackberries apparently have the highest antioxidant content per serving of any food tested. And a compound found in fresh blackberries appears to stop the development of skin tumors and lung cancer cells.Think about this:This sweet and juicy fruit, available year-round but plentiful and perfectly potent in April and May, was promoted in a television commercial that aired during the recent Michigan-Ohio State football game. Ohio State University is a recipient of federal grants to study the health effects of blackberries, and the student who appeared in the TV ad plugged the school's res... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=481867 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 481867