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 'fox'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 01:54:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997780&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=39212&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbahtocancer.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fbah-tuesday-book-the-somnambulist-by-essie-fox%2F As promised on Saturday, I have asked Essie over to talk more about ‘The Somnambulist’, which is a rollicking good gothic read. SB: Hello Essie, and welcome to Bah! to cancer. How is life as a first-time-published author? EF: Hello Bah! Well…it is a little bit like a dream come true. I’m absolutely thrilled – although I’m not really sure that the reality has sunk in just yet. SB: One of the things that fascinates me about this book is the sleepwalking theme. There’s the Millais painting that gives the novel its title, of course, but it seems to me that almost every character here is sleepwalking through some element of their life. How did that theme develop? The painting inspired the novel’s name. It came about in a rather convoluted way when, early on the pro... Bah! to cancer blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997780 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:03:23 +0100 4997780 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4902406&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6ndcmZQKaWo%2F By Ilya ShapiroIt hasn’t happened that much under my watch, but it’s gratifying when the Supreme Court overwhelmingly endorses Cato’s position in a given case.  Not a 5-4 split dependent on what Justice Kennedy had for breakfast or some narrow “win” that doesn’t reach the issues we care most about, but a solid across-the-board victory for our first principles. But such was the case in Justice Kagan’s (!) opinion for a unanimous Court in Fox v. Vice, in which Cato filed a brief last December that I discussed here: Private lawsuits challenging government violation of civil rights are notoriously difficult and expensive to bring and win. To address such impediments to the vindication of civil rights, Congress passed a law that, among other thi... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4902406 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:21:59 +0100 4902406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4829221&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F16%2Fblunting-the-activity-of-protein-abcc10-may-help-counter-taxane-drug-resistance-in-ovarian-cancer%2F New findings by Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers identify one protein, Abcc10, as being intimately involved in resistance to certain drugs used to treat breast, ovarian, lung, and other cancers. The results suggest that blunting the activity of Abcc10 might help counter resistance and extend the effectiveness of these anticancer drugs. Today’s anticancer drugs often [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4829221 Tue, 17 May 2011 04:02:49 +0100 4829221 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4813367&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F25864520%2F0%2Fneuromarketing%7EStudy-TV-Branding-Beats-Online.htm Television ads are far more potent than online ads for viewer engagement and brand resonance, according to a new study by Fox Broadcasting and neuromarketing firm Innerscope Research. According to information released by Innerscope, “television ads across the spectrum of familiarity evoked 38x more emotional engagement, a combination of intensity of and time spent in [...] CommentsI'm sure that this will change within a few years by Frugal LivingMatt, the online ads are described only as “rich media” – ... by Roger DooleyPlus 3 more...Related StoriesNeuromarketing Study at OxfordWalmart CEO Confirms Payday Timing EffectSimple Slogans Double Sales (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4813367 Wed, 11 May 2011 12:16:34 +0100 4813367 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4714727&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoDEj_uRdXlk%2F By Roger PilonToday POLITICO Arena asks: Given that Planned Parenthood’s online donations have shot up over the last two months, is Mike Pence (R-Ind.) correct to say it could — and should — operate without taxpayer funds? My response: Given that many Americans believe that abortion is murder, of course Planned Parenthood, the nation’s leading abortion provider, should not be publicly funded. (And please don’t say that no taxpayer funds go for abortions: money is fungible.) Democrats think that almost everything should be publicly funded – education, health care, retirement, the arts. What’s next? News? Entertainment? Oh, I forgot: NPR and PBS. But only that programming that meets their exacting standards. FOX News? Faget about it! Where you from? Kansas? And they won... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4714727 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:16:19 +0100 4714727 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4626886&cid=t_106999_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FuP93TL-iZGE%2F The slams on Dr. Donald Berwick, frankly, are getting pathetic. Today, Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel dismissed Berwick as a “basically a policy wonk” who “hasn’t really practiced since 1989.” Siegel tried to score points with sound bites. “This guy has more quotes than Yogi Berra, and let me tell you something, these quotes are an indictment on people that want clinicians to make decisions,” Siegel said on Fox this afternoon. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com According to Siegel, comparative effectiveness “doesn’t work in the real world.” Well, sure, that’s the point of clinical decision support. Best practices are for common conditions, and clinical decision support is to help physicians either foll... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4626886 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:11:49 +0100 4626886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4575078&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2F2dP-32QneO0%2F Wardrobe screwed up big time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4575078 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:55:20 +0100 4575078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4575055&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Funiversal-cardiac-screening-for-all-young-athletes%2F2011.03.11 It’s heart wrenching when young athletes die of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Last week the death of Wes Leonard, a Michigan high school star athlete, was especially poignant since he collapsed right after making the game-winning shot. This sort of tragedy occurs about one hundred times each year in America. That’s a lot of sadness. The obvious question is: Could these deaths be prevented? Let’s start with what actually happens. Most cases of sudden death in young people occur as a result of either hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), an abnormal thickening of heart muscle, or long QT syndrome (LQTS), a mostly inherited disease of the heart’s electrical system. Both HCM and LQTS predispose the heart to ventricular fibrillation — electrical chaos of the pumping chamber of the he... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4575055 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:00:35 +0100 4575055 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4536247&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2011%2F03%2Ffox-doesnt-even-try-any-more.html My takeway: If you are stupid enough or ignorant enough to think there could be palm trees in Madison Wisconsin, you might still be watching Fox News. Or at least, that's likely the calculus over at Faux, so why put any effort into that Journalism stuff? It's not like the core audience cares...For the rest of humanity, let the mockery commence. Oh, as for CNN, and other "Liberal Media," - maybe it might be time to spend more time on the real issues of the day, and less time on Charlie Sheen. (Source: Graphictruth) Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4536247 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 04:43:00 +0100 4536247 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4507275&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2F3pDlY-_h3go%2F Susannah Fox of Pew Internet talks about Healthcare Out Loud, the concept of people using the internet to gather and share information in a very public way.  Watch video Susannah presents trends over time as related to internet access in general, for example: Not that long ago in 1995, 10% of American adults had access to the internet, as compared to 75% today. In the year 2000, 5% of American homes had broadband. Today that number is about 66%.  She also discusses how mobile and broadband are multipliers to what people do online, and asks the question: “What’s the ROI on love?” Related posts:Transforming Health Through Broadband Help for Rural Patients from the FCC Improving Medication Adherence with a Cell Phone (Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care) Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4507275 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:00:12 +0100 4507275 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4477704&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYGTW9YOSXeY%2F By Neal McCluskeyAfter House Republicans' weak first attempt at offering cuts to gargantuan federal spending -- a proposal that included nary a flick at education-related outlays -- and the Obama administration's hinting that it would leave education totally untouched, there is a tiny bit of good news: Both the GOP and the administration are apparently willing to trim funding putatively intended to help educate people. But these are just tiny bones they're throwing to people who know that the federal government likely does zero net good when it comes to actually educating people, and that there is no acceptable excuse not to make big cuts to federal "education" programs. House Republicans, for their part, scheduled lots of education programs for shaves in their second attempt at mak... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4477704 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:33:36 +0100 4477704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4438995&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2011%2F02%2F05%2Fglenn-beck-and-his-tower-of-babble%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Politics Daily. Glenn Beck and His Tower of Babble. Are you staying up tonight? It’s the looney eclipse. Filed under: Music - TV - Film, Politics Tagged: fox news, glenn beck, robert donna trussell, tea party (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4438995 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:18:35 +0100 4438995 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419114&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F91SBgyn8c6M%2F By David RittgersThe ongoing war of words between Glenn Beck and Frances Fox Piven over the prospect of workers rioting in the streets isn’t just a two-way dance. Stanley Kurtz has provided insight into Piven’s work over the years in his book, Radical-in-Chief, and a prominent figure of the left, Barbara Ehrenreich, has fired back. In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Ehrenreich said that the reaction to Piven’s writings shows that America is “no longer a democracy but a tyranny of the heavily armed.” Ehrenreich’s position contains a kernel of truth, but the real armed tyranny is the one Piven seeks to impose. We have a window into Ehrenreich’s thoughts on violent struggle from her book on the subject, Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. I attended a pr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419114 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:57:20 +0100 4419114 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4338215&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2011%2F01%2F12%2Fthe-right-tones-down-the-rhetoric%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Politics Daily. The Right Tones Down the Rhetoric. The medium is the meringue. Filed under: Politics Tagged: arizona shooting, fox news, Media, robert donna trussell, talk radio, tea party (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4338215 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:03:50 +0100 4338215 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309588&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F-YnuTvqPiM8%2F By Ilya ShapiroPrivate lawsuits challenging government violation of civil rights are notoriously difficult and expensive to bring and win. To address such impediments to the vindication of civil rights, Congress passed a law that, among other things, awards attorneys’ fees to the prevailing parties in certain cases. As noted by the House Judiciary Committee, this was necessary because “a vast majority of the victims of civil rights violations cannot afford legal counsel, they are unable to present their cases to the courts …. [the law at issue, 42 U.S.C. § 1988] is designed to give such persons effective access to the judicial process.” Congress thus harnessed market principles, creating an economic incentive for citizens to vindicate their civil rights directly ra... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309588 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:21:31 +0100 4309588 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4249039&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fx7Qwj2kIF3c%2F By Julian SanchezMy onetime professor Jorge Castañeda—later better known as Mexico’s foreign minister under Vicente Fox—used to speak with grudging admiration about the “Economy of Repression” practiced by the long-reigning Partido Revolucionario Institucional. He used the phrase in a dual sense: It was repression carried out by economic means, as papers that strayed too far from the PRI line would suddenly find their lucrative government advertising revenue drying up, state-controlled suppliers jacking up prices, and PRI-linked union workers threatening strike. But it was also an economical (that is, a parsimonious)means of repression, operating indirectly and relatively invisibly, and allowing more heavy-handed mechanisms—the censor’s pen and the truncheon�... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4249039 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:35:22 +0100 4249039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4238098&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FiSdMuFqKQ6w%2F I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not. — Fran Lebowitz Filed under: qotd Tagged: Fox News, Fran Lebowitz, qotd (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4238098 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:26:11 +0100 4238098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4183581&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F19%2Fits-a-disease-not-a-diet-gluten-free-diets%2F By: Carlene Helble It seems like the latest fad diet, is one associated with a serious disease. Going gluten free has become the latest ‘weight loss’ plan among many, but dropping pounds doesn’t come with dropping gluten. Rebecca was recently interviewed by Fox 5 on Gluten Free dieting as a way to lose weight, made popular with “The G-Free Diet”  book written by Elisabeth Hasselbeck. See the video on Rebecca had to say on this myth. (Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog) Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4183581 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:14:28 +0100 4183581 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4172296&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F11%2F16%2Fbend-it-like-glenn-beck%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on Politics Daily. Bend It Like Glenn Beck. Also known as freeper association. Filed under: Politics Daily Tagged: cancer humor, fox news, glenn beck, political cartoon, republican, robert donna trussell, tea party (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4172296 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:35:12 +0100 4172296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4159216&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F_PDcoXDQU_g%2F By Julian SanchezI see ACLU’s Jay Stanley has penned a reply to my post from a couple weeks back on the civil liberties group’s report arguing for the urgency of net neutrality regulation. The main thrust of my post was that many of the examples advanced to show there’s an imminent threat to the open Internet, requiring regulatory action on the double, don’t really show anything of the sort. Stanley allows that some of their examples are “not violations of Internet network neutrality in the strictest sense” but that they “speak to the motives, intent, and trustworthiness of major telecommunications firms in treating the speech of their customers fairly.” But I’m not sure they really show that either. In fact, if I can be forgiven a litt... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4159216 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:40:33 +0100 4159216 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4118760&cid=t_106999_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fpatients-facing-shortages-lifesaving-drugs%2F To an unprecedented degree, patients in the United States are facing shortages of potentially life-saving drugs. Patient Bob Dierker tells his story of needing and not being able to get the cancer drug leucovorin and Erin Fox of the Utah Medical Center comments. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4118760 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:25:13 +0100 4118760 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3929220&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfsrhCElgO7c%2F By Walter OlsonI’m a guest on tonight’s John Stossel program on the Fox Business Network, on the subject of the consequences of the twenty-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The show was shot live to tape yesterday in New York and was fascinating throughout; even those who think they know this subject well will learn a lot. I’m also quoted in John’s latest syndicated column on the same issue. Among the highlights of the taping: a disabled-rights lobbyist defended several extreme applications of the law, including the notion that it might be appropriate to force networks to hire someone who suffers from stuttering as on-air television talent. We also shed some light on the state of California’s up-to-$4,000-a-violation bounty system for freelancers... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3929220 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:33:06 +0100 3929220 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3913294&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F28%2Ffour-things-i-learned-in-a-week-at-green-mountain%2F My week at Green Mountain at Fox Run came and went super fast. In my last few moments at this wonderful women-only healthy lifestyle retreat, I took some time to reflect on my take-aways from my short stay. 1. You are not alone. I think so many times people feel isolated when their trying to lose weight. They’re living inside their head and bodies — wanting things like less pain, to feel better, less judgment from themselves and others. I think that when you arrive here you realize there are other anxious, lonely, and frustrated women here too. You can start the process of changing your mindset and behaviors together. Knowing there is support and community is very comforting. I met a group of women who were strangers, became friends over 4 weeks, and are already planning their ... Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3913294 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:51:31 +0100 3913294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3911884&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F27%2Fa-typical-day-at-green-mountain-at-fox-run%2F It’s been a great week at Green Mountain at Fox Run! If you have not read my earlier posts, please catch yourself up! I wanted to describe what a typical day is like here… so here it goes. You wake up and get ready for the day – workout clothes is the attire of choice as you’ll be sweating before 11 a.m. for sure! If you like your morning coffee, you can get that bright and early at 7 a.m. and breakfast will begin anywhere from 7:15/7:45 depending on the schedule of the day. This is a great time to practice eating for hunger and mindfulness while eating. (I learned quickly to leave my blackberry and laptop in the room or I wouldn’t get food — how’s that for conditioning?!) After breakfast you either have education classes on behavior, fitness, or n... Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3911884 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:44:18 +0100 3911884 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3911885&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F25%2Ffood-fitness-and-fun-at-green-mountain-at-fox-run%2F I’m on my third day at Green Mountain at Fox Run in Ludlow, VT. Catch up on my blogs: learn more about the resort or learn about why I’m here and what check in was like. Fitness Yesterday I had to do a training run in the morning — 16 miles in the hills of the mountains. It was glorious! I used www.mapmyrun.com and the expertise of the wonderful fitness staff to help me. I’m running Chicago marathon 10/10/10 and my schedule has been a bit hectic so I wanted to take a chance to run in the cool air. That’s something to keep in mind. If you aren’t sure if this place is for you, give them a call and ask. If you want to work on your body image, but you are pretty good with the exercise, you can do running on your own — trail running on the Appalachian t... Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3911885 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:08:59 +0100 3911885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3896125&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F23%2Fchecking-in-at-green-mountain-at-fox-run-part-1%2F The home page at Green Mountain at Fox Run says it all: Imagine a life free of weight worries For many people, that above promise sounds too good to be true. With 50% of all women constantly dieting and 90% of all diets failing after spending, oh, $33 MILLION a year on wasteful “gimmicks” full of empty promises, it’s no wonder most women get a little jaded to the notion they could possibly “live a life free of weight worries”. Well, I’m spending the next week going through the Green Mountain experience to find out if it’s true — and I’ll be blogging all about it. What Is Green Mountain? And what is it NOT? From my experience so far — and I’ve only been here 12 hours (with 8 of them sleeping) — Green Mountain is a pla... Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3896125 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:14:46 +0100 3896125 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3767100&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2F0r7-LXKo8jc%2F Dr. Shoib Myint is a skilled... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3767100 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:16:23 +0100 3767100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3753783&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fdoctors-on-impaired-or-drunk-colleagues-not-my-problem%2F photo: ABC If you ever watched Lost, you’d know that many of the demons torturing the hunky-yet-annoying surgeon, Jack (played by Matthew Fox), are a product of turning his father in for performing an operation while drunk (Don’t worry — definitely not a spoiler. Jack’s daddy issues are evident from the first episode.) It turns out that pretend Jack is more responsible than many doctors in the real world. A recent study shows that more than a third of doctors who knew that a colleague was impaired by incompetence, substance abuse, or a mental health issue didn’t report them. In fact, 31% of doctors said that reporting incompetence wasn’t their responsibility, even though many professional medical organizations require doctors to rat out inadequate colleague... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3753783 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:13:57 +0100 3753783 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3726720&cid=t_106999_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F07%2Flongevity-gene-study-hype-cycle-must.html You know what I love. I love a good story. Magic research discovers Longevity genes, now humans live to 900. Just like Methusaleh. Great headline. Unfortunately, this may not exactly turn out what it was cracked up to be.From the WSJ 1 July 2010"Scientists discover keys to long life""By analyzing the DNA of the world's oldest people.......They expect soon to offer a test...."Tranlsation, here is why you should read this story about this amazing discovery, because soon you can take a test to discover if you will live a very, very long time. Ok, this assumes1. The study is correct2. The statistics are correct3. The findings are replicatedWhat's worse about the article is that there isn't even One Iota of, this is a preliminary and needs to be backed up.Instead! Instead, they say "The free te... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3726720 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:57:00 +0100 3726720 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3718377&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5vs-YmLC2Xk%2F By David BoazJohn Stossel, usually seen on Fox Business Network, will have a special on the Fox News Channel this weekend, well targeted to Independence Day: “What’s Great about America.” He’ll interview Dinesh D’Souza and immigrant businessmen, among others. Saturday and Sunday, 9 p.m. ET both nights. Fox News is on lots more cable systems than Fox Business, so if you don’t get Fox Business, this is your chance to see Stossel. Tonight at 9 p.m., I think it’s a rerun of his recent show on Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose, featuring . . . me. Along with Johan Norberg, Tom Palmer, and Bob Chitester. For some of my own thoughts on what’s great about America, see this article. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3718377 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:50:33 +0100 3718377 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3703116&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F28%2Fthinking-of-acai-for-weight-loss-think-again%2F So when acai was making the rounds as a super fruit, I needed to find out more. As it turns out, yep, it’s a berry! It is different from some of the other wonderful berries like raspberries, blueberries, cranberries, and strawberries because it does not have natural sugars and it is higher in omega-9 fat (which unlike omega-3, it is not essential). As a result, pure acai berry (if you are in Brazil) or the pulp (if you’re at a store that sells it) tastes like dirt. In order to use it, you need to add sugar. So, sure, try the berry if you want, but mix it with other fruits that naturally contain sugar. If your acai is sweet, read the label… I bet there is added sugar. What I don’t like about acai is that because of its excessive, over-rated hype, marketers have tried to pull the w... Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3703116 Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:58:48 +0100 3703116 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3690825&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FjzAYlRUzEhc%2F By David BoazJohn Stossel’s weekly show has a new time: 9 p.m. and midnight every Thursday on the Fox Business Network, plus Fridays at 10 p.m., Saturdays at 9 p.m. and 12 midnight, and Sundays at 10 p.m. (Don’t get Fox Business? Tell your cable company you want Stossel!) On this week’s show Stossel will interview 76-year-old Otis McDonald about his lawsuit seeking the right to protect himself with a gun, which is now before the Supreme Court. He’ll also talk to John Lott about the new edition of his book More Guns, Less Crime. While you’re waiting for Thursday night, check out Stossel’s show on Milton Friedman, which featured interviews with Johan Norberg, Tom Palmer, and me. Or indeed his classic ABC special on politics and limited government, where I ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3690825 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:49:49 +0100 3690825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3683652&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2FRQK2dlnL3iw%2F A fan of the site sent me new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3683652 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:57:07 +0100 3683652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3676704&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2FYHyVNdvMi8o%2F I’ve been getting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3676704 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:28:42 +0100 3676704 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3676625&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F06%2Fpatient-communities-at-walgreens.html By Susannah Fox In May, I spoke at the Chronic Care and Prevention Congress about my most recent report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet.” I talked about the social life of health information and the internet’s power to connect people... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3676625 Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 3676625 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3662636&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fgasland-documentary-reveals-risks-of-natural-gas-drilling%2F Natural gas drilling is happening across the country right now. It’s a process that’s dangerous to the environment and water supplies, as well as people in the affected communities, although the government hasn’t done anything to protect any of these things from gas drilling (which, by the way, can be even less environmentally-friendly than oil drilling). When filmmaker Josh Fox was offered the chance to sell his land for drilling rights, he decided to investigate, Erin Brockovich-style, the devastating impact that this “fracking” process has on the residents surrounding the drilling sites. What he finds is terrifying, and that’s putting it lightly. He captured his investigation on film, and the result is the documentary Gasland. It’ll premiere on ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3662636 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:00:59 +0100 3662636 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3621981&cid=t_106999_167_f&fid=38271&url=http%3A%2F%2Frebeccascritchfield.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F02%2Fsmall-changes-for-big-results-rebeccas-interview-on-fox-5%2F By: Carlene Helble-Elite Nutrition Intern Healthy eating should not make you stressed out. Making small changes to move towards a more nutritious and beneficial diet can help by leaps and bounds in the long run. Rebecca’s interview with Fox 5 DC gave great pointers on tips you can use to start improving your diet this summer. Americans are notorious for drinking their calories so by replacing a soda with a Fruit2O or 100 percent fruit juice with sparkling water to make a spritzer, you can easily shave off excess sugar intake and calories. Another thing many of us are guilty of is ignoring our bodies ‘hungry/full’ signal. By keeping small snacks like SunSweet Ones (Delicious and it takes four to equal 100 calories!) or nuts in the car or in your bag, you can keep yourself in check by ... Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3621981 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:26:34 +0100 3621981 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3588852&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fthao-and-dianna-agron-on-oxfam-america-videos-we-like%2F There’s a very particular type of excitement that results from finding out that celebrities you love from afar are actually cool in real life. Usually, this feeling is immediately followed by a surge of depression, as you realize that you probably will never be friends with them – but let’s focus on the positive here. Thao (one of our favorite indie-rockers) and Dianna Agron (our favorite former mean girl of Glee fame) have collaborated on a video for one of Thao’s latest songs, “Body.” Dianna directs the video, and it’s an awesome take on a great song. But the coolest thing to come out of this collaboration is the fact that they decided to premiere the video on Oxfam America, to increase awareness of the effects of climate change on the world’s ... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3588852 Fri, 21 May 2010 21:37:23 +0100 3588852 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3508396&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F26%2Fon-the-path-to-early-detection-fox-chase-sloan-kettering-researchers-identify-early-ovarian-cancers%2F Researchers at the Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center discover early tumors and precancerous lesions in cysts that fold into the ovary from its surface, called inclusion cysts. “This is the first study giving very strong evidence that a substantial number of ovarian cancers arise in inclusion cysts and that there [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3508396 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:01:54 +0100 3508396 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3443645&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fwho-guards-guardians-case-of-boston.html The fallout from the case of the faulty implantable cardiac defibrillators continues.  To summarize the story thus far,We started posting about Boston Scientific's travails in 2005, starting with allegations that Guidant, which is now a Boston Scientific subsidiary, hid information about defects in the implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs) the company manufactured. As we noted in early 2005 here, Guidant executives allegedly knew that ICDs made from 2000-2002 were at risk for short-circuiting and failing, thus making them unable to deliver potentially life saving electrical shocks meant to prevent cardiac arrests, but the company only revealed the problem in 2005. By failing to notify physicians and the public, Guidant executives let expensive and profitable, but po... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3443645 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:28:00 +0100 3443645 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3440762&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fkid-friendly-dog-breeds%2F When the day comes (and it will come) that you run out of excuses for why your children cannot get a puppy, do some research to ensure that your kids will remain safe, and you will remain happy with (if resigned to) the choice. Here’s a look at a few handsome dog breeds that do well living with human siblings. Weimaraner puppy (Image: sxc.hu) Wire Fox Terrier The American Kennel Club recommends this terrier for families with kids due to the breed’s small yet sturdy build and its friendly nature. An added bonus for mom and the allergic: This dog hardly sheds. Labrador Retriever Although Labs may not be right for families with small children, they are the perfect breed for tweens and teens. This popular pooch became a favorite thanks to its active lifestyle and easygoing temperam... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3440762 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:03:55 +0100 3440762 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3429311&cid=t_106999_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F2010%2F03%2F30%2Fday-by-day-march-30-2010-bite-me%2F Day By Day by Chris Muir Apple Computer can advertise where and when it wants. This is private enterprise. More than 200 companies have joined a boycott of Beck’s program, making it difficult for Fox to sell ads. The time has instead been sold to smaller firms offering such products as Kaopectate, Carbonite, 1-800-PetMeds and Goldline International. A handful of advertisers, such as Apple, have abandoned Fox altogether. Network executives say they believe they could charge higher rates if the host were more widely acceptable to advertisers. However, Fox News and Glenn Beck in particular have a following and should a competitor arrive to rival Apple’s products (particularly thinking the new i-Pad) that competitor may very well pick up this business. It is not politics or politic... FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3429311 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:24:15 +0100 3429311 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3416007&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKsQzcQ3YE6w%2F By Chris MoodyHe did it again: Florida governor and senatorial candidate Charlie Crist cited Cato’s 2008 Governors’ Report Card as evidence of his fiscal conservative credentials, this time in a Fox News Sunday debate with his primary opponent Marco Rubio. Trouble is, the report card’s author, Chris Edwards, has gone on the record again and again explaining how Crist has fallen hard off the fiscal responsibility wagon since the report was released two years ago. The Florida media has publicized Edwards’ correction of the record numerous times since Crist began citing the Cato rating in his political ads. It is difficult to believe that Crist can be unaware of that. Here’s Edwards in October 2009: Since I wrote the report in mid-2008, the governor seems to have fallen off ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3416007 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:46:03 +0100 3416007 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3385322&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fdid-we-just-have-sex%2F Girls: Apparently, sex is all in our heads. According to a recent Fox News article, a whopping 64 percent of the time we don’t even know we’re aroused, because our brains and our va-jay-jays aren’t synced up so well. But even if that’s true, we can still blame the guy. Post from: BlissTree (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3385322 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:19:25 +0100 3385322 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3378436&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Frelationships-love-on-the-front-burner%2F My biggest relationship problem is that I rarely understand the problem. Instead, I develop back pain. I’m not a particularly reflective person. I’m constantly in motion (except when I’m watching “House”). In relationships, this usually means that I’m doing something for my boyfriend – cooking, or attempting to improve his footwear choices. I rarely take a moment to sit and think about the relationship in any context. I’m always trying to make something better: My apartment, my body, my skin, my gnocchi. This isn’t necessarily a bad habit, but it’s a terribly effective way to block out thought. When you’re in a relationship, you’re supposed to take time to think about how you feel and what you want. I never do that. Instead, I receive signals fro... Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3378436 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:47:11 +0100 3378436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3358960&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZZRUyIWzdhI%2F By Julian SanchezCan I send Time magazine the bill for the new crack in my desk and the splinters in my forehead? Because their latest excretion on the case of Colleen “Jihad Jane” LaRose and its relation to Patriot Act surveillance powers is absolutely maddening: The Justice Department won’t say whether provisions of the Patriot Act were used to investigate and charge Colleen LaRose. But the FBI and U.S. prosecutors who charged the 46-year-old woman from Pennsburg, Pa., on Tuesday with conspiring with terrorists and pledging to commit murder in the name of jihad could well have used the Patriot Act’s fast access to her cell-phone records, hotel bills and rental-car contracts as they tracked her movements and contacts last year. But even if the law’s provision... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3358960 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:38:57 +0100 3358960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3354359&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2FFvEtXI5k5rw%2F When I first saw this photo,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3354359 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:33:04 +0100 3354359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3354272&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2Fmust-sleep-more%2F We women do it all: Pull ourselves together every morning, keep the kids from killing each other before school, talk to the boss on the phone, tell your husband where he left his watch, drive to work – and that’s all before 7:30 a.m. Hopefully we don’t do all these things simultaneously, but sometimes it sure feels like it. According to a recent Fox News.com article, a new study shows that we women (desperately) need an extra 20 minutes of sleep every night, thanks to our incredible multi-tasking skills. Now get some shut-eye! Post from: BlissTree (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3354272 Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:00:57 +0100 3354272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3311889&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F02%2F25%2Fgenentech-announces-positive-results-of-avastin-phase-iii-study-in-women-with-advanced-ovarian-cancer%2F Genentech announces positive results of Avastin Phase III study (GOG 218) in women with advanced ovarian cancer. The study showed that women who continued maintenance use of Avastin alone, after receiving Avastin in combination with chemotherapy, lived longer without the disease worsening compared to those who received chemotherapy alone. This is the first Phase [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3311889 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:40:30 +0100 3311889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3283518&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FD2bJDckIaMo%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonTomorrow night at 8:00pm, Fox Business News will air a John Stossel special on the failures of state-run schooling and the merits of parental choice and competition in education. I make an appearance, as do Jeanne Allen and James Tooley. News of the show is already making the rounds, and over at DemocraticUnderground.com, one poster is very upset about it, writing: When will these TRAITORS stop trying to ruin this country? HOW can AMERICANS be AGAINST public education? Stossel is throwing out every right-wing argument possible in his namby pamby singsong way while he “interviews” a “panel” of people (who I suspect are plants) saying things like preschool is a waste of money and why invest in an already-failing system…. I hate Stossel and I ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3283518 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:15:05 +0100 3283518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3254644&cid=t_106999_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fweight-diet-and-writing-things-down-is-this-what-you-call-health-2-0.html There is a VERY interesting discussion going on over at the e-Patients.net blog about what the heck “Health 2.0″ actually means, and whether it can really help people. I’ve spoken and written a lot on Health 2.0 myself, and when people ask me what the term means, I usually give them this simple two-part explanation: 1) Health [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3254644 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:00:22 +0100 3254644 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3246859&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2010%2F02%2Fby-matthew-holt----the-not-huge-world-of-health-20-participatory-medicine-and---epatients-has-been-fretting-itself-about.html By Matthew Holt The (not huge) world of Health 2.0, participatory medicine and ePatients has been fretting itself about a comment Susannah Fox (all hail) elevated into a post called “What’s the Point of Health 2.0”. Here’s an excerpt from... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3246859 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3246859 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239547&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FTVYWjIqunY0%2F By David BoazAs I hope you know by now, John Stossel is on the Fox Business Network every Thursday night at 8 p.m. Don’t miss it. But if you do, there are rebroadcasts at 10 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Saturday, and 11 p.m. Sunday. But some people complain that their local cable station doesn’t carry the Fox Business Network. Well, contact them and tell them you want Stossel! (I’ll wait while you do that.) And now, since the cable company won’t add the network instantly, you should also know that clips and full shows are also available at Hulu.com. Just go to http://www.hulu.com/stossel for lots of recent shows — on health care, global warming, Ayn Rand, Whole Foods, and more. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239547 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:39:35 +0100 3239547 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3178959&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2010%2F01%2F15%2Ffoxy-lady-sarah-palin-weighs-in%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily. Foxy Lady Sarah Palin Weighs In. Posted in Music - TV - Film, Politics Daily Tagged: bill o'reilly, chaos theory, fox tv, political cartoon, sarah palin (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3178959 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:13:56 +0100 3178959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3137557&cid=t_106999_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F2bHX7kRu2G4%2F Talking about organ donation usually brings to mind donating your heart, kidneys, and other commonly discussed organs, but did you realize that by donating your brain, you could help advance research in many diseases, including Parkinson’s disease? The Parkinson’s Disease Society has put out an appeal for people to donate their brains after death for research purposes. Although all brains are helpful, younger people with Parkinson’s are particularly encouraged to donate, so researchers may learn more about how the disease may come on early, as it did with actor Michael J. Fox. The United Kingdom isn’t the only place that can use an increase in organ donations for research; other countries have the same problem of not having enough material with which to work. Unfort... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3137557 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:50:25 +0100 3137557 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3105251&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F12%2F19%2Fits-the-comedy-stupid%2F Jon Stewart My new post on Politics Daily / Woman Up: Newspapers are hanging on for dear life. Comedians, meanwhile, are cleaning up. In fact, one is a now the junior senator from Minnesota. For many Americans, “The Daily Show,” hosted by satirist Jon Stewart, has supplanted the evening news. And this year The Onion, a site that is 100 percent parody, won a Peabody Award for its online send-up of cable-TV news. One-time sportscaster Keith Olbermann brings attitude aplenty to his MSNBC show, “Countdown.” They say things. They’re not afraid. You might call them modern-day court jesters. From wikipedia: Jesters could give bad news to the King that no-one else would dare deliver. The best example of this is in 1340, when the French fleet was destroyed at the Batt... Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3105251 Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:41:08 +0100 3105251 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3071139&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRvnQpJ4quZE%2F By Julian SanchezLike Jim, I watched this morning’s Open Government Initiative launch with an eyebrow reflexively arcing skyward. Like Fox Mulder, I want to believe, but it’s not just the track record that gives me pause; it’s the tension in one of Vivek Kundra & Aneesh Chopra’s answers to a pointed question that came in from the Web: How do you actually implement this? How do you get all the agencies on board, persuade (or compel) them to open up, embrace openness, and free their data?  Because the public pitch is that the great benefit of open government is accountability, which requires information that may reflect badly on an agency and generate bad publicity to be released. But since they’re limited in their ability to enforce this on an alphabet sou... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3071139 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:18:53 +0100 3071139 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3071144&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAfx8oMyYkwQ%2F By David BoazYes, folks, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for: John Stossel launches his new weekly show on the Fox Business Network Thursday evening at 8 p.m. (Even though the vaunted Fox News machine can’t seem to put a notice about it on their website, I have it on good authority that the show will go on!) Rumor is he’ll be talking about Ayn Rand on the first show. It’s a good time for a show about freedom and limited government — as the Baltimore Sun says, “Stossel’s new show should have no trouble finding an audience of viewers eager for a discussion about the pedal-to-the-metal pace of expansion [of government] since Barack Obama took office.” Some people ask, Why give up ABC for the smaller Fox networks? (Presumably, these... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3071144 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:08:45 +0100 3071144 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3067017&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FfCo2ph1mOy0%2F By Roger PilonToday, Politico Arena asks: NPR v. Fox News? My post: Do I sense a bit of chutzpa in Politico’s report today that NPR executives have asked their top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her appearances on Fox News because of what the executives perceive as the network’s political bias?  The request would be impertinent if NPR itself were beyond reproach, ideologically, but “fair and balanced” it is not.  It’s a playpen for the left, subsidized by the American taxpayer, exceeded in its biases only by Pacifica Radio, another tax subsidized playpen straight out of the late ’60s. There’s nothing wrong with a news organization tilting left or right, of course:  let the public then decide, as the Fox News numbers show ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3067017 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:17:42 +0100 3067017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3003795&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2FC9j0SPnzL10%2F I think Megan Fox will morph... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3003795 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:58:07 +0100 3003795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2995724&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FQ6mLE33klFU%2F Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani appeared on Fox News Sunday this weekend to argue against the Obama administration’s plan to try some alleged terrorists in New York courts. He did not acquit himself well. Giuliani argued, for example, that criminal defendants aren’t tried “at the scene of the crime.” Criminal defendants are almost always tried in the jurisdictions where their crimes took place (not at the actual crime scene, of course). Giuliani’s insistence on misstating basic criminal procedure showed that he was twisting to score points against the administration. This is inappropriate political use of terrorism issues. But Chris Wallace roasted Giuliani—with quotes from Rudy Giuliani. Of prosecuting the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2995724 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:37:11 +0100 2995724 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2973905&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FIt5l_9cEIBk%2F Today marks 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Full round-up of commentary on that historic day, here. The heroes who helped bring down the Wall. One size does not fit all: How the federal health care overhaul will disrupt progress in states that are already addressing problems at home. Move over Fox News: The Obama administration takes aim at climate scientists. Podcast: “ObamaCare: A Bad Deal for Young Adults“ (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2973905 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:42:09 +0100 2973905 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2923238&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FoSkodqtmGXU%2F In an effort to achieve “network neutrality” online, the FCC is starting to write new regulations for Internet providers.  Reuters reports: U.S. communications regulators voted unanimously Thursday to support an open Internet rule that would prevent telecom network operators from barring or blocking content based on the revenue it generates. The proposed rule now goes to the public for comment until Jan. 14, after which the Federal Communications Commissions will review the feedback and possibly seek more comment. A final rule is not expected until the spring of next year. Cato Director of Information Policy Studies Jim Harper appeared on Fox News this week to discuss the FCC decision. “This is governmental tinkering with a market place that is working really well and gr... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2923238 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:33:03 +0100 2923238 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2916405&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Fchaos-theory-faux-news-network%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily: Faux News Network. Posted in Politics Daily Tagged: birthers, fox news, media bias, msm, obama (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2916405 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:09:52 +0100 2916405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2908575&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FPfrTVhvf31w%2F Today’s  Arena question over at Politico asks: Is Fox News a “legitimate news organization?” Is the White House smart, or not so smart, to take on Fox? Is Fox News a “legitimate news organization?” As compared to what? The New York Times? NPR? MSNBC? Please. The Obama team, Democrats like my good friend Walter Dellinger, and the so-called Mainstream Media (MSM) howl about Fox News for two main reasons. First, Fox is covering news the MSM ignores because it doesn’t “fit.” And second, in part because of that, the Fox audience continues to grow while the MSM audience is shrinking, raising a serious question about whether the MSM is any longer “mainstream.” Let’s not pretend that the MSM doesn’t “manage” the n... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2908575 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:56:40 +0100 2908575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2871934&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FiVY-x8EReD8%2F The golden spike (or, as Jill says and I wish I’d thought of this, “100 is the new 160″) has unleashed a crop of opinions in the general media on autism’s present and future impact — and, indeed, if the “real” numbers have risen at all. “Autism is on the rise — or is it?’ wonders Newsweek (”The new data has everyone who cares about autism abuzz. But, as with so many issues connected to the disorder, no one can quite agree on what it means … “). The Los Angeles Times seems have interpreted the new numbers chiefly by averaging the affected ages at 8, and an opinion piece in The Boston Globe and on Boston.com maintains that awareness can’t be the sole reason for the seemingly overnight doubling. Even bigger m... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2871934 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:30:48 +0100 2871934 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2865750&cid=t_106999_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2FK6zjAIJRMAw%2F People with Parkinson’s disease usually feel quite healthy in the early stages of their disease. Other than the tremor that leads to the diagnosis, there may not be any other symptoms or difficulties at first. So, they continue to lead their lives as well as they can for as long as they can. This included continuing to drive. Of course, most people who feel physically unable to drive will stop, but sometimes the loss of the ability isn’t as obvious, even to the most careful of people. Actor Michael J. Fox, arguably the most famous person in North America with Parkinson’s has done a lot to raise its profile among the general public. The tremors are the most well known part of Parkinson’s, but the disease affects other parts of the body as well. Other effects may be: ... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2865750 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:16:17 +0100 2865750 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2824169&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F22%2Fhouse-in-a-psychiatric-hospital%2F If you’re a fan of the show, House MD, you probably enjoyed last night’s 2-part season opener with Dr. Gregory House finding himself in a psychiatric hospital. If you haven’t yet seen the episode and intend on watching it, you may want to skip reading any further, as I’m going to discuss plot components that might give away some of it for you. Contrary to the ridiculous depiction of staff and how a psychiatric hospital is run on the Fox show, Mental, this two-part episode of House actually did a fairly even-handed job of showing what life in a psychiatric hospital can be like. While the use of the solitary room was a little over-the-top (and likely a part of the plot and power-play between House and the administrator), everything else was far more realistic than a r... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2824169 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:16:48 +0100 2824169 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2814634&cid=t_106999_134_f&fid=35187&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDiabetesDaily%2F%7E3%2FYtEMvTqxFVg%2Frosemary-ellis-good-housekeeping-has.php I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes as a little girl. There isn't much I remember about life before this wonky auto-immune disease set in, especially since I've had it for twenty years now. Things have changed a lot in the past two decades, and the way we handle carbs and insulin and testing is much better in 2009, though the rigors of handling the ups and downs of the disease will not and have not changed. Believe it or not, the biggest advice I have to anyone newly diagnosed depends on what age they are. For me, I got diabetes as a kid and I handled it like a kid for a long time. It's just different getting type 1 as a little girl vs. as an adult. I'm often surprised how vigilant some recently dx'd adults are with handling their diabetes compared to how I handle it having been diagnosed... Diabetes Daily blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2814634 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:38:08 +0100 2814634 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2814524&cid=t_106999_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Fwhat-providers-should-consider-regarding-phrs On Friday last week, Chilmark Research participated in the session, “PHRs and EHRs, Should They Be Linked?” as part of the Health IT Stimulus Summit that was put on by Health Data Management.  With meaningful use criteria that was approved on July 16th clearly stating that providers are to provide a PHR to their customers by 2013, we thought this question to be nonsensical.  Of course PHRs and EHRs are to be linked, how else might a provider offer a PHR to their customers?  By the way, o (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2814524 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:34:25 +0100 2814524 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2800363&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUUQ4IyLMCw8%2F Page one of today’s Washington Times—above the fold—has a fascinating story indicting the White House for failing to disclose that it will collect and retain material posted by visitors to its pages on social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube. The story is fascinating because so much attention is being paid to it. (It was first reported, as an aside at least, by Major Garrett on Fox News a month ago.) The question here is not over the niceties of the Presidential Records Act, which may or may not require collection and storage of the data. It’s over people’s expectations when they use the Internet. Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet u... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2800363 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:02:00 +0100 2800363 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2770066&cid=t_106999_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.rawvoice.com%2Fpmn_twiv%2Fwww.twiv.tv%2FTWiV048.mp3 Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit On episode 48 of the podcast “This Week in Virology”, Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich revisit a vaccinia virus lab accident and viral vaccines produced in plants, then talk about an iPhone app to track infectious diseases, flying foxes, and an inhaled measles vaccine. Download TWiV #48 (58 MB .mp3, 79 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV in iTunes, by the RSS feed, or by email Links for this episode: Laboratory acquired vaccinia infection Medicago (investor presentation, pdf) and Fraunhofer produce vaccines in plants iPhone app Outbreaks near me No culling of flying foxes in Australia Inhaled powdered measles virus vaccine Herpesvirus latency confers symbiotic protection from bacterial infection (thanks Juliet... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2770066 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:05:00 +0100 2770066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2766004&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8YjqKkzldIM%2F Appearing on Fox News last night, Cato scholar Neal McCluskey weighed in on Obama’s upcoming address to students: (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2766004 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:55:00 +0100 2766004 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2734227&cid=t_106999_136_f&fid=37852&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdonnatrussell.com%2F2009%2F08%2F25%2Fchaos-theory-glenn-beck-finds-new-sponsors%2F New cartoon by Trussell & Trussell on AOL’s Politics Daily: Glenn Beck Finds New Sponsors. Posted in Politcal Cartoons Tagged: fox tv, glenn beck, glenn beck boycott (Source: Donna Trussell) Donna Trussell blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2734227 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:57:48 +0100 2734227 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2719664&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FTm3Ym7xCVk8%2F Last night I saw a sobering statistic, reporting audience numbers for Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. It was instructive. Put in overly simplified terms, if 5 people are watching cable news, three of them are watching Fox News, one is watching MSNBC, and one is watching CNN. It seems to me that there is some embedded information here. Three people are being scared to death, while only two might be getting a somewhat more nuanced picture of the nation’s response to health care reform. I have to admit that I was heartened to see MSNBC edge ahead of CNN. Rachel Madow is doing the closest thing to investigative reporting I can find on cable, though I think her colleagues at MSNBC, with a few exceptions, are not noticing this, even though her rankings keep swelling. She is also the “young” and ... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2719664 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:14:43 +0100 2719664 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2702367&cid=t_106999_111_f&fid=34716&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNurseRatchedsPlace%2F%7E3%2FftevCvwrKGw%2F I got an email from my mother the other day that caught my eye. It was a viral email that is making its way around the Internet. The author of the email is asking supporters of healthcare reform to boycott Apple products because they sponsor Fox News. Now, I’m all for the cause, but I draw the line at my computer. Let me remind you of something. I don’t just have a computer. I have a MacBook Pro. That’s scared, baby, but I digress. I asked myself what kind of person would ask liberal Apple devotees to turn their backs on Steve Jobs and his empire. The request is creepy and weird. It’s like asking a vegan to eat a side of bloody beef. I am a member of Steve’s cult, and I have to have my computer so I can write about the healthcare debate. There are a lot of myths circulating out o... Nurse Ratched's Place blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2702367 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:33:46 +0100 2702367 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2613832&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKch2ATVeM5c%2F Appearing on the “Glenn Beck Program” with ABC’s John Stossel, Cato H.L. Mencken research fellow Penn Jillete discusses his views on health care reform, the nanny state, Canada and more. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2613832 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:06:45 +0100 2613832 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2610887&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHn9Z5ivfmb8%2F I was on the Glenn Beck Show yesterday… …talking about this rendering of the House Democrats’ 1,018-page health care plan: That’s you all the way on the left, and your doctor/hospital all the way on the right. What could be simpler? (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2610887 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:00:42 +0100 2610887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2605946&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FcElIjZRcwC0%2F Appearing on Fox News on Monday, Cato’s Daniel J. Mitchell explained why taxing the rich to pay for big government programs may make for a good sound bite on the campaign trail, but when there aren’t enough wealthy people to tax, the middle class ends up footing the bill. “When politicians are aiming at the rich, it’s the middle class that winds up getting hit in the crossfire,” Mitchell said. “They use ‘tax the rich’ as the rhetoric, but they always go after the ordinary people to get more money to fund their big government schemes.” Watch the whole thing: (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2605946 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:09:55 +0100 2605946 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2601957&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F75_IBe4sEn8%2F Fox News recently reported about how Oregon’s government-run health system gives people advice on how to kill themselves. The statist system in the United Kingdom has a different approach, relying instead on people dying as they languish on waiting lists. But the bureaucrats across the pond are not a bunch of joyless robots. They managed to divert some of their budget to produce leaflets telling kids about the cardiovascular benefits of orgasms. The Telegraph reports on this innovative use of taxpayer funds: NHS guidance is advising school pupils that they have a “right” to an enjoyable sex life and that regular sex can be good for their cardiovascular health. The advice appears in leaflets circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers and is meant to update sex educa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2601957 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:47:35 +0100 2601957 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473260&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2009%2F06%2Fdecoding-the-social-life-of-health-information-.html By SUSANNAH FOX The Pew Internet/California HealthCare Foundation report, The Social Life of Health Information, is packed with new findings from a survey of 2,253 adults, including 502 cell-phone interviews, conducted in either English or Spanish. We spent a bundle... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473260 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 2473260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452393&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F8Uk8DkhBPFI%2F General Petraeus recently gave an interview to Fox News. Petraeus speaks approvingly of the decision to close Guantanamo, limiting interrogation to the techniques in the Army Field Manual, and how adherence to the Geneva Conventions takes propaganda fodder out of the hands of our enemies. Andy McCarthy attacks Petraeus over at National Review Online’s The Corner: With due respect to Gen. Petraeus, this is just vapid. To begin with, he doesn’t identify any provision of the Geneva Conventions that we have actually violated - he just repeats the standard talking-point of his current commander-in-chief that we took “steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions” during those bad old Bush days. What steps is he talking about? How about naming one? McCarthy then uses th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452393 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:52:24 +0100 2452393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2441161&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FvhY-CVHgOTw%2F Obama Picks Sotomayor for Supreme Court President Obama chose federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday as his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Hispanic to serve on the bench. On Cato’s blog, constitutional law scholar Roger Pilon wrote, “President Obama chose the most radical of all the frequently mentioned candidates before him.” Cato Supreme Court Review editor and senior fellow Ilya Shapiro weighed in, saying, “In picking Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama has confirmed that identity politics matter to him more than merit. While Judge Sotomayor exemplifies the American Dream, she would not have even been on the short list if she were not Hispanic.” Shapiro expands his claim that Sotomayor was not chosen based on merit at CNN.com: In over 10 years on the Seco... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2441161 Fri, 29 May 2009 21:07:48 +0100 2441161 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2415654&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fjaneane-garofalo-is-foxbushed-and.html The blogosphere is all a-twitter of the confrontation between Ambush Journalist Ken Pittman and Janeane Garofalo.I shall leave all of the commentary on this aside, to simply observe, trenchantly, that there is a certain basic intent behind ambushing someone.The idea is to use the element of surprise to get the victim to blurt out something embarrassing and awkward for them.Regardless of the journalistic ethics or the intent; the form has been variously practiced for good or ill and can elicit many things.Unfortunately, sometimes it can elicit your own ass, handed you on tape.At times like this, an actual journalist - or at least, a proper news director, would guffaw, observe with some degree of professional commiseration that "that didn't go well" and suggest that the tape might be improve... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2415654 Fri, 15 May 2009 23:27:00 +0100 2415654 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405021&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FjGfFSKikb8U%2F Mexico’s former President, Vicente Fox, joins the growing chorus of Latin American ex-presidents calling for an end on the war on drugs. He’s proposing an open debate on drug legalization. It’s a shame, though, that these leaders wait until they are out of office to voice their opposition to Washington’s prohibitionist drug strategy. While it’s true, as Fox points out, that any step towards legalization in the region must be supported by the United States, Latin American presidents skeptical of the status quo could use the pulpits at the United Nations, Organization of American States, or the Summits of the Americas to denounce the war on drugs and call for different approaches. Still, Fox’s opinion on the matter is welcome. (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405021 Thu, 14 May 2009 20:10:21 +0100 2405021 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2399072&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fif-this-be-treason-make-most-of-it.html This article establishes that Dick Cheney was one of, if not the major force behind the completely indiscriminate roundup of apparently randomly-selected victims, a process he apparently still defends as vital to national security.Fox news - as everyone is well aware, due to the mindless cheerleading of techniques of torture by such leading Republican intellectual leaders as Sean Hannity, apparently concurs that torturing the wrong people is as likely to produce good, actionable intelligence as torturing the right people. That is, of course, a common-sense conclusion - if you understand that torture does not produce high quality intelligence. So, we must presume that the "good results" would be something more along the line of terrifying the crap out of certain target elements - the Iraqi ... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2399072 Thu, 07 May 2009 17:45:00 +0100 2399072 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2390187&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F05%2Fyour-8-day-silence-is-deafening-mr.html Hannity demonstrates a usage of the term "troll" I had previously been unaware of. (Credit to asgardshill on this digg thread)Think Progress » Eight days of silence since Hannity volunteered to be waterboarded: Is he chickening out? (rorr.im|mi.rror)Over a week ago — on Thurs., April 22 — Fox News’ torture enthusiast Sean Hannity agreed to be waterboarded for charity to prove that it is not torture. Though he dismissed waterboarding as simply taking someone’s head and “dunk[ing] it in water,” he has remained notably silent on his promise ever since, perhaps regretting that he volunteered to subject himself to the intensely terrifying suffocation experience. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann offered last week to donate $1,000 to military families for every second Hannity is waterboarde... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2390187 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:11:00 +0100 2390187 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2376552&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2009%2F04%2Ftinfoil-beck-accuses-daily-kos-of.html J.S. Mill on Conservatism by webcarve"Just here to get some pictures for the blog. Could you hold that sign about "faggits" a little higher? Yeah, you, the guy with the noose.""Glenn Beck accuses Daily Kos and Huffington Post of publicly conspiring with ACORN to infiltrate his tea bag parties."read more | digg storyFor what, a voter registration drive? That's not just stupid, it's Glenn Beck Stupid! (Source: Graphictruth) Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2376552 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:59:00 +0100 2376552 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349209&cid=t_106999_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fdeath-knell-to-dtc-genomics.html I was sent this article 6 times in the last 6 hours by friends and colleagues.What's the article? "Genes Show Limited Value in Predicting Diseases" I say deathblow to the DTC Genomics, because this article points out the issues surrounding using this limited information......"This method, called a genomewide association study, has proved technically successful despite many skeptics’ initial doubts. But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases."What are the majority of reports you can get from 23andME or Navigenics or DecodeMe?Reports which rely on "GENOMEWIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES"Not that there aren't any great genome wide associations......I think of Age Related Macular D... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349209 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:39:00 +0100 2349209 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2260231&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Ffox-on-stick-how-to-make-your-own.html Recently on "Victoria’s Stillwell’s" programme, ‘It’s me or the dog,’ on "Animal Planet," they featured an exercise toy for dogs, especially our Labradoodle, Thatcher. This tremendously fun toy is of course completely "unobtainable" and all the stores have sold out. I know you’ll believe me when I tell you that after half an hours viewing, we had to have this toy, and not just for Thatcher the dog. Our dog Thatcher needs two, one and a half hour exercise sessions a day, but with the current rain schedule, this task has fallen solely upon my soggy shoulders. No big surprise there. However, with a little temptation for other members of the family, you too can take a little respite by making your own ‘fox on a stick.’You will need:-A flexible stick [not too long or may break o... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2260231 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:50:00 +0100 2260231 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2239793&cid=t_106999_86_f&fid=34445&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwomenshealthnews.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F05%2Fway-to-completely-misrepresent-the-conscience-issue-fox-news%2F …by making it seem as though the idea that providers might go to jail for refusing to perform abortions if the Bush “conscience” rule is overturned by the Obama administration is legitimate or realistic at all. Because when you repeat and emphasize quotes that people would rather “go to jail” than do abortions, you completely ignore all of the existing rules that already allow providers to choose not to perform abortions. I don’t recall people rounding up Catholic hospital workers and hauling them off to jail prior to Bush’s last minute rule, and it’s not going to happen after it’s rescinded. Gah. Thanks to Media Matters for pointing to this, and reiterating the actuality of the thing: On the March 3 edition of Fox News’ Special ... Women's Health News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2239793 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:57:56 +0100 2239793 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2206726&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F02%2F23%2Fthe-psychology-of-twitter%2F Twitter is a social networking application that does only one thing — allows the mutual sharing of 140 character communications (called “tweets”). Why the 140 character limit? So you can send text updates from your cell phone as well as the net. If you haven’t used or even heard of Twitter, don’t worry, you’re not alone. As of now, only 11 percent of American Internet users have used something like Twitter (that number also includes people who simply update their status in Facebook, so we don’t know the true, lower number of Twitter-only users) (Lenhart & Fox, 2009). Twitter is a service used more widely the younger you are (up to 20 percent of those under 34 have used it or a status update service) (Lenhart & Fox, 2009). The best way to... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2206726 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:22:40 +0100 2206726 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2033258&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F43dWxgLWU5o%2F Earlier this week, mega-autism-organization Autism Speaks announced the appointment of three new board members, Artie Kempner, lead director for the NFL and NASCAR on FOX; Billy Mann, President of International A & R - Labels and President of Global Artist Management, EMI Music; and Jack Schneider, managing director of Allen & Co.. Kempner and Mann are both fathers of autistic children. It’s been noted (by Lisa Jo Rudy at About.com) that the new board members include no one who’s autistic. With the rise of self-advocacy organizations like ASAN, and also GRASP and many others, the absence of an autistic member on Autism Speaks’ board seems more and more puzzling. The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee lists Stephen Shore, a self-advocate, on its roster, and ... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2033258 Sat, 13 Dec 2008 07:51:20 +0100 2033258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1851078&cid=t_106999_140_f&fid=35448&url=http%3A%2F%2Fseemedlikeagoodideathetime.com%2F2008%2F10%2F03%2Fthe-irishman-vs-barney%2F For D…..The Irishman takes on The Toe Tapping Bathroom Stall Dwelling Barney Frank            (Source: bipolar chicks blogging) bipolar chicks blogging blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1851078 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:30:25 +0100 1851078 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1840872&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2F407745553%2F Vivica Fox has seriously... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1840872 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:22:25 +0100 1840872 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811250&cid=t_106999_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2F398587718%2F Megan Fox has some seriously... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811250 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:43:55 +0100 1811250 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1794270&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2008%2F09%2Fadding-layers-t.html By Susannah Fox Jen McCabe Gorman drew a picture at HealthCampDC last that I really liked. Luckily, I found this image of her Medicine 2.0 presentation, so nobody has to decipher my sketch. The one difference is that, on Friday,... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1794270 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1794270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1749964&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2008%2F09%2Fkeep-tabs-on-yo.html By Susannah Fox Is it "disordered" behavior to Google your doctor? An article in JAMA suggests that doctors should be on their guard. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently published an article about how doctors should be aware... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1749964 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1749964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1686045&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2008%2F08%2F75-percent-of-i.html By Susannah Fox The Pew Internet Project released the latest estimate for the e-patient population: 75 percent of internet users. Here are some details from the survey. My colleagues recently updated our top three trend charts: Who's Online, Internet Activities,... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1686045 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1686045 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1630963&cid=t_106999_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F2008%2F07%2F16%2Flaura-ingraham-watch-dont-come-in-my-ear%2F Apparently embedding of the video has now been disabled re-enabled or you can watch it here Outtakes from Laura Ingraham’s short lived Fox News Television Show, Just In Flap has always enjoyed Laura Ingraham’s radio show. Radio is definitely a better venue for her talents than television. Flap’s recommendations to Ingraham: 1. Less caffeine 2. Eat regularly to avoid low blood sugar 3. Lose the condescending attitude toward your staff Technorati Tags: Laura Ingraham, Fox News (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1630963 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:05:44 +0100 1630963 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1605754&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34470&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehealthcareblog.com%2Fthe_health_care_blog%2F2008%2F07%2Fhow-patients-ca.html By Susannah Fox What are the social and psychological factors that affect how people are treated -- or even their health outcomes? This question has popped up in my reading and in my work quite a bit this week, and... (Source: The Health Care Blog) The Health Care Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1605754 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0100 1605754 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1603133&cid=t_106999_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F07%2F09%2Ffoxs-smears-of-the-obamas-are-sooo-transparent%2F   Add your name to the petition. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1603133 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:53:43 +0100 1603133 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1423013&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F05%2Ffox-interview-moved-up-10-minutes.html For anyone up this early and/or who cares, my interview on America's Newsroom on FNC about "plant rights" has been moved up ten minutes. I am mainlining coffee as I prepare--a plant product I might add--that not even the most utilitarian bioethicist would begrudge me. (Source: Secondhand Smoke) Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1423013 Tue, 06 May 2008 12:29:00 +0100 1423013 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1406902&cid=t_106999_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6873 Drudge has it, of course. First, Obama with Chris Wallace and now Hillary with O’Reilly. The LEFT is already pissed at Obama. But, Hillary needs to drive up her poll numbers among working class white voters nationally. Flap wonders if O’Reilly will play Jeremiah Wright clips? (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1406902 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:00:19 +0100 1406902 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1392574&cid=t_106999_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Fgina-will-pass-thanks-gto.html I was eating lunch today at the Lotos Club with a good friend and mentor from SF today. This gentleman sits on corporate boards and is a tremendous advisor. Do you know what he said to me? Mind you, he always seems to have an answer and the experience to back it up. Today he said "I don't know" That's right, he said those 3 words. I was blown away. He and I agreed that the only reason was simply because.....No One Knows. I liken our venture into genomic medicine much like the microsoft and internet ages. No one knew...they were making up the rules as they went along.Today, it is the same. Try to play with fire? You get burned. Try to find money for the perfect model and you get beat by someone rushing to market with something less than perfect....who then ends up buying a competitor. Jeez,... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1392574 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:58:00 +0100 1392574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1307844&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F253045008%2Fdick_cheneys_a_jack_bauer_foll.html  Fanatic followers buy Jack Bauer 24-hour messenger bag … portray his violence through speed painting … and launch  web sites for Jack Bauer addicts.Are you one of the millions of followers on the edge of your seat waiting for Jack Bauer to defend the US from another terrorist scare? Does Jack Bauer add adventure to water cooler circles where you work? Check out the top 100 facts on the popular torture-others-to-save-the-US-man. It reads like a scene from a Spielberg horror show rather than a mere FOX TV show 24. And it's growing as our country declines and fear's on the rise.NPR looked at the Jack Bauer rave recently ... and reported today that top Republicans … and die heart followers like Dick Cheney ... tout Bauer's many merits. List... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1307844 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:39:55 +0100 1307844 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1286428&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F247546019%2Fchange_your_brain_change_your.html  Adrienne Fox senior editor at HR Magazine showed how human resourse specialists are turning knowledge about the brain at work – into practical use that improves an ordinary workday. It changing horizons at work - and worth a look! In Fox’s words … Leaders who understand psychological and neuroscientific discoveries can apply them in management and training. Have you seen it happen?David Rock, shows why change is so difficult ... and why it takes so much effort. Simply put ... he points out that one first has to change the brain … a process Rock calls self-directed neuroplasticity. This process involves problem solving together … to create brain friendly practices that align with the human brain’s best capabilities. Changing your brain may be a s... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1286428 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:44:39 +0100 1286428 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1283499&cid=t_106999_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2F246756730%2F (Image courtesy of CIMA http://www.cima.es/areas1_neuro/areas1_neuro_english.html)  Data from one of the first genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which focused on Parkinson’s diseases and was funded in part by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), is now being made available to researchers through the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), both of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NHGRI hopes to speed up research by making previously unavailable GWAS data sets publicly available to the research community. The study, conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in collaboration with scientists at Perlegen Sciences, Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., was the ... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1283499 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:48:23 +0100 1283499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1175032&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F222319134%2Fhr_magazine_goes_brainy_1.html Interested in a surefire way to navigate improvements where you work? Check out February's  cover story THE BRAIN AT WORK at HR Magazine to see how more workers are drawing from hidden and unused parts of the brain. Adrienne Fox shows brilliant ways the human brain matters ... and pinpoints how brain based business affects workplace behavior. HR Magazine is an internationally recognized voice for The Society for Human Resource Management or SHRM. In the organization’s own words … SHRM is the world’s largest professional association devoted to human resource management. Our mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most current and comprehensive resources, and to advance the profession by promoting HR&rs... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1175032 Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:18:33 +0100 1175032 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1165394&cid=t_106999_131_f&fid=35743&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthegenesherpa.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fsherpa-reaches-20000.html Thank you to all of my readers. I hope we have hit a significant landmark. I know the climbing will be tougher now. I hope you too are prepared for the next phase of this ascent. Remember, getting there is only part of the battle.The 24th edition of the Genie is up. 24 is my lucky number and this edition delivers, so check it out.The news that I will announce has to be delayed until Thursday. Sorry, but the legal dept. just won't budge. As for the news....here's a hint. National exposure.I am dying to deliver my message and have been speaking to the public and the press about this topic. Lee, if you can hear me. Please give a call. Some great things have popped up over the last weekThe prostate cancer risk genes and Family history. Guess what? Family history doubles the risk which the gene... Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1165394 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:11:00 +0100 1165394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1120786&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F207726549%2F 12-year-old Thomas Onions publishes a daily cartoon about “Junior, a mixture of a cat and a fox, and Juliet, a mouse with attitude” on the web. Go here to see his cartoon: Today’s Worcester News notes that Thomas has Aspergers Syndrome and also skeletal dysplasia, which means he grows slowly. He is educated at home and his mother, Sue Onions says that “‘He’s drawn all his life. He’s never stopped drawing from being a toddler. We’re running out of places to display his drawings. ‘”Fortunately lack of space will not be such a big problem on the web! Share This (Source: Autism Vox) Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1120786 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:57 +0100 1120786 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=950964&cid=t_106999_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F170134254%2F5_brain_based_questions_for_fo.html I love to see the start of something new – especially when an older empire cannot meet the growing needs of many leaders out here. That something new will soon be reality, in a promising business channel that speaks to executives like those of us at MITA International Brain Based Renewal Center. Speculation grows daily for Fox News exciting venture … to create a stellar financial news channel ... with real viewers in mind.  Can you imagine money updates that actually speak to those who don’t live on Wall Street or articulate as one economist speaks to another?  It’s frustrating to watch CNN financial news about money manipulated by a few, while many of us have creative questions news' experts could address. Conspiracy has it that if you make... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=950964 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:40:15 +0100 950964 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=774100&cid=t_106999_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5371 Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani speaks at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, Conn., Tuesday, July 31, 2007. The New York Times discusses the friendship between Fox News Executive Roger Ailes and the Mayor. Is the NYT’s implying that the Mayor receives favorable coverage from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. and Fox News? Yeah, but, consider the source. The [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=774100 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:44:27 +0100 774100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=740469&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F07%2Ffaux-outrage-ellison-under-fire-for.html This article really says little against Rep. Keith Ellison, but it speaks volumes about Faux News, and what it doesn't want you to think about. And that, by the by, is the way to read and source Right-Wing propagandists, such as Faux News, "Newsbusters" and Freep. Consider the source and it's intended message along with what any particular message it might have.That and a good fact-checking will keep your credibility intact when opining upon such matters.Edit: I found this article at Right Web just after I hit "publish." "A Great Little Racket": The Neocon Media MachineNot by any accident, the neoconservatives' time of greatest influence on U.S. foreign policy coincided with the explosive growth of mass media outlets from which they could promote their policies. The omnipresent fluttering ... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=740469 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 740469 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=721313&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F07%2F09%2Fthought-for-the-day-we-just-dont-get-it%2F Filed under: Skin Cancer, Daily newsLast Tuesday night, I watched Greta Van Susteren of Fox News' On The Record as she interviewed Brittany Lietz, Miss Maryland 2006. Greta asked Brittany what her Miss Maryland job entails. Brittany told Greta her full-time job is to represent her platform -- skin cancer.Brittany didn't choose just any topic for her platform. She chose one that is entirely personal. Skin cancer has left more than 20 scars on Brittany's body. One, on her back, marks the site where a stage two melanoma was removed when she was just 19 years old. It presented as a mole, a little smaller than a nickel, she says. In all likelihood, the cancer was caused by two years of tanning bed use. Brittany says she probably tanned every day for two years. Her pursuit of bronzed skin began ... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=721313 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 721313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687683&cid=t_106999_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D5157 Journalists dole out cash to politicians (quietly) MSNBC.com identified 144 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 17 gave to Republicans. [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687683 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:45:05 +0100 687683 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=623529&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fomygawd-i-just-figureded-out-whats.html "Omygawd, I just figured out what's wrong with the Republican Party - the country they want to run is fictional!"tag: The Daily Show, Republicans, hilarious, Fox News, Britt Hume, 24, DebateYou can syndicate this site using our atom feed. (Source: Graphictruth) Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=623529 Sun, 20 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 623529 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=559847&cid=t_106999_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F04%2Fattention-bill-orielly-and-melinie.html tag: Media matters, Hot Talk, hate speech, KSFO, Fox News, Melinie Morgan, Bill O'RiellyYou can syndicate this site using our atom feed. (Source: Graphictruth) Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=559847 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 559847 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=536612&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F11%2Ffred-thompson-announces-he-is-in-remission-from-lymphoma%2F Filed under: Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Celebrity cancer diagnosis, PoliticsFred Thompson, actor and former United States Senator from Tennessee, made the announcement today that he was diagnosed with lymphoma a few years ago and now is in remission. Thompson added to that announcement that he was considering running in the 2008 Presidential Election. He stated today on Fox News, "I have had not illness from it, or even any symptoms. I am in remission, and it is very treatable with drugs if treatment is needed in the future -- and with no debilitating side effects". You can find Thompson playing a district attorney Arthur Branch on the NBC drama Law and Order. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments (Source: The Cancer Blog) The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=536612 Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 536612 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=499938&cid=t_106999_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F25%2Fwhite-house-press-secretary-tony-snow-heads-for-surgery%2F Filed under: Colon and Rectal Cancer, Politics, Daily news, Celebrity news, Cancer Survivors, SurgeryWhite House press secretary and colon cancer survivor Tony Snow asks the public to refrain from jumping to conclusions regarding the surgery he will have on Monday to remove a growth from his lower abdomen.Blood tests and a CAT scan of the growth show no presence of cancer, he reports. But still, he and doctors are proceeding cautiously due to his history. Snow, a former Fox News radio and television talk show host, was diagnosed with cancer two years ago, when he was a commentator at Fox. Two months after surgery, he returned to the air and then became White House press secretary in April 2006.Snow's plan is to be back behind the podium a few weeks after surgery, when he has a better ide... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=499938 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 499938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=471003&cid=t_106999_125_f&fid=34819&url=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D4558 Faces of news: Daytime anchor Jane Skinner and Fox News chief Roger Ailes. The Nevada Democrat Party wimps out to the pressure from the NUTROOTS and Moveon.org. So, the Democrats like John Edwards and Bill Richardson are going to pick and choose the coverage of their candidates? And object if the sponsors or venue do not [...] (Source: FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog) FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=471003 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:30:04 +0100 471003