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 'filtering'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:47:13 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3921100&cid=t_92672_180_f&fid=38607&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fsuccessbeginstoday%2FBHWQ%2F%7E3%2FK6plMEwinvk%2F One of the great mysteries of life is this. How can you drink water (Which is heavy) and lose weight? I have pondered this many times, but over time, drinking 2 to 3 liters of water a day, will help you lose weight and keep it off. It also helps you perform better during exercise, reduces fatigue, and can even help you feel better by reducing back pain and headaches. So if water is so good for you, is widely available and inexpensive (or in most cases free), why is it so hard to drink enough to keep hydrated through the day? Here are my thoughts… Water is boring and pretty well tasteless Water is heavy and cumbersome to lug around There are a lot of better tasting competitors to take its place Drinking a lot of water equals a lot of bathroom trips In my struggle to drink more water, I... Success Begins Today blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3921100 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:13:08 +0100 3921100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3272975&cid=t_92672_113_f&fid=34933&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpalmdoc.net%2F%3Fp%3D2830 One of the things about the medical profession is having to be careful about who knows your mobile number. If it gets into the wrong hands, then one might get disturbed or harassed by an endless number of phone calls at odd hours, including folks who deem every ache and pain to be a medical emergency. The worst ones I had were late night calls because “running out of medicines” and “forgot the appointment” were “medical emergencies”! While the iPhone claims that “there’s an App for that” for practically everything, the Palm Pre has an active homebrew community, and what the stock OS does not have, we can say “there’s a patch for that”. Homebrewer elryon steps on the plate with his contribution Call Block/Ignore patch. ... The Palmdoc Chronicles blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3272975 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3272975 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2616722&cid=t_92672_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F20%2Fthe-situation-of-homogeneity%2F This summer, I have finally gotten around to reading Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s book Nudge and, unsurprisingly, there is much in the book that parallels situationist work.  Indeed, many (if not most) of the referenced social psychology experiments and dynamics should already be familiar to readers of this website. One paragraph that I came across this morning particularly struck a chord with me because it took up a topic that I addressed not a month earlier in an op-ed in the Baltimore Sun: the problem with “collaborative filtering,” whereby consumers are given recommendations based on the preferences of others with identical tastes.  As Thaler and Sunstein explain, [S]urprise and serendipity can be fun for people, and good for them too, and it may not be entirely wonderful... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2616722 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:01:47 +0100 2616722 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=397044&cid=t_92672_86_f&fid=34466&url=http%3A%2F%2Fclinicalevidence.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F12%2Fquick-survey-interest-in-online-course.html For those who may be interested in providing feedback on a web-based course on filtering and critical appraisal of the literature, or participating in such a course:Re-posted with permission by Nila Sathe, Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt:Given the increasing number of training requests we receive each year andthe positive response to a case-based tutorial column we have begun publishingin the JMLA, the Eskind Biomedical Library at Vanderbilt University MedicalCenter is considering developing an advanced training program covering facets ofcritically assessing and synthesizing the biomedical literature. The coursewould also discuss techniques for developing a biomedical knowledge base andintegrating library resources with the institutional clinical and researchenterprises. The progra... Clinical Evidence, Searching Tidbits, and Other Minutiae blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=397044 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:52:00 +0100 397044