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 'fitzpatrick'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:32:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3331547&cid=t_308590_136_f&fid=39022&url=http%3A%2F%2Flifesandwiches.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F03%2Fhockey-players-rock.html I just want to share a brief little note about our city's fine athletes. Last night six Rochester American hockey players dropped by our center to play a little Kan Jam with our teens in the Al Sig Center gym. Each teen was assigned an Amerk as a teammate and the fun began. Most of the guys, who had never played Kan Jam--might possibly be hooked on this simple 'yard' game now. Afterwards the guys snacked on some ice cream and other goodies with teens and their families and chatted briefly, answering questions that even reporters never get to ask. Off the record, of course.These guys were just 'class acts'- truly connecting with the teens and families in a way that shows that these tough guys love to play nice. I want to thank Rory Fitzpatrick for allowing us to have some time with these fa... Life is like a sandwich...enjoy the big bites. blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3331547 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:22:00 +0100 3331547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2916167&cid=t_308590_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Fnami-nearly-75-percent-of-funding-from-pharma%2F As we noted in April, NAMI gets a significant portion of its funding from pharmaceutical companies. We had to guess at what that percentage was, however, because the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) refused to detail their pharmaceutical grants and donations in their annual reports and IRS filings. At the time, I was generous and said that it’s likely that 30 to 50 percent of NAMI’s funding came from pharmaceutical companies. I was off. Way off. The New York Times reported yesterday that nearly 75 percent of NAMI’s funding comes from pharmaceutical companies — $23 million over 3 years’ time: The mental health alliance, which is hugely influential in many state capitols, has refused for years to disclose specifics of its fund-raising, saying the det... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2916167 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:07:40 +0100 2916167 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2920247&cid=t_308590_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Fnami-nearly-75-percent-of-funding-from-pharma%2F As we noted in April, NAMI gets a significant portion of its funding from pharmaceutical companies. We had to guess at what that percentage was, however, because the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) refused to detail their pharmaceutical grants and donations in their annual reports and IRS filings. At the time, I was generous and said that it’s likely that 30 to 50 percent of NAMI’s funding came from pharmaceutical companies. I was off. Way off. The New York Times reported yesterday that nearly 75 percent of NAMI’s donations come from pharmaceutical companies — $23 million over 3 years’ time: The mental health alliance, which is hugely influential in many state capitols, has refused for years to disclose specifics of its fund-raising, saying the de... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2920247 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:12:58 +0100 2920247 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871924&cid=t_308590_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F9MLSjyfo_A4%2F It all started when I read about the mystery of the “Unknown Child” who drowned in the Titanic. In 1912, a small child, wearing a petticoat, frock, socks and leather shoes, was found among the wreckage of the Titanic and buried in Nova Scotia. The boy became known as The Unknown Child, and a symbol for all 53 children who died. Nothing was left in the grave of the child except three little teeth, and clues that lead to two possible identities: 13-month old Eino Panula of Finland, and 19-month old Sidney Goodwin of England. So the U.S. U.S. Armed Forces DNA Identification Lab turned to someone who was great at finding people – DNA Detective Colleen Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick is a nuclear physicist who gave up her day job to become a forensic genealogist, one finds people – dead or a... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871924 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:57:41 +0100 2871924 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1984958&cid=t_308590_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FPUQEWVOuJHI%2F Is the “warrior mother” not—as proclaimed in the Warrior Mothers book put together by Jenny McCarthy—the opposite of the “refrigerator mother” of the previous generation, but rather her “distorted mirror image”? So argues Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, author of another new book, Defeating Autism: A Damaging Delusion, argues in yesterday’s Spiked. As Fitzpatrick writes in his essay, The ghost of the ‘refrigerator mother’, The ‘warrior mom’ is yet another reflection of the culture of mother-blaming and a manifestation of the burden of guilt carried by parents as a result of the influence of pseudoscientific speculations about the causes of autism…… ……. A number of common themes link McCarthy’s ‘warri... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1984958 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:38:57 +0100 1984958 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=836881&cid=t_308590_133_f&fid=35081&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmikestanton.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F09%2F03%2Fmmr-and-autism%2F In any debate there are bound to be different interpretations of the facts. If the debate gets really heated the facts themselves may be called into question. But when it come to MMR and autism it seems that one side of the debate is able to ignore facts that are a matter of public record and ought [...] (Source: Action For Autism) Action For Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=836881 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:14:55 +0100 836881 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=486980&cid=t_308590_133_f&fid=35081&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmikestanton.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F01%2F13%2Fthe-mmr-gravy-train%2F Dr Michael Fitzpatrick has just published an excellent commentary on the recent revelations about the anti-MMR gravy train. This refers to the multi-million pound bonanza paid out by the Legal Services Commission(LSC) to fund a legal case on behalf of 1200 children whose autism was alleged to result from exposure to the MMR vaccine. Funding began in 1992 and was stopped by the LSC in 2003, “as we were not satisfied the evidence demonstrated a sufficiently strong case.” (scroll down to read the whole letter.) Now, if I was one of those parents I would want to know why, after 11 years of collecting evidence and running up massive legal bills in the process, my legal team was not yet ready to take the case to court? The answer was simple. The evidence did not exist. At the ti... Action For Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=486980 Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:59:55 +0100 486980