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 'general news'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:16 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5008268&cid=t_99072_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2011%2F07%2F05%2Fafter-the-storm-salvaging-the-collections-at-medical-museion%2F Who would have thought that the torrential rain during the dramatic storms seen in Copenhagen this weekend would have had such devastating consequences? The collection stores here at Medical Museion bore the brunt of it. In some places the water rose to 90 cm.  Dedicated members of the team arrived on Saturday and worked in the evening while the rooms were pumped. On Sunday, many others arrived to plough through the black gooey sludge and salvage more precious boxes. On Monday, we were organized into groups, some carrying heavy boxes filled with flood damaged artefacts that still remained in the basements. Water was still leaking out of the soaking walls and the humidity did not help the situation. Others have been removing bones from sodden boxes, attempting to dry them a little and repa... Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5008268 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 08:05:17 +0100 5008268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2645517&cid=t_99072_136_f&fid=36162&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyelomablog.com%2F2009%2F07%2F27%2Fplanning-for-your-petsanimals-in-a-disaster%2F On Saturday, August 22nd , beginning at 2pm, at the Owens Auditorium at the Sandhills Community College, the County Animal Response Team (CART) will be hosting an invaluable event for those owning or caring for pets and/or domesticated animals in Moore County. A free showing of the award-winning documentary, “Katrina Tails,” will be followed by a presentation and discussion about Moore County’s newly-revised Animal Response Plan to be executed during disasters. Call 910-947-2858 for more details. More information: GROUNDBREAKING DISASTER PLAN FOR MOORE COUNTY’S ANIMALS On August 22nd, the County Animal Response Team (CART) will be hosting an invaluable event for those owning or caring for pets and domesticated animals in Moore County. A free showing of the 2008 Acco... beth's myeloma blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2645517 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:37:21 +0100 2645517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424528&cid=t_99072_155_f&fid=36522&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Fpathtalk%2F%7E3%2F0ucfQp2k3nI%2F1007 The New York Times featured a short piece about autopsies yesterday. The article takes a somewhat skeptical tone in places: We looked at each other, my surviving sister and I, and said no. It wouldn’t bring her back. We had had enough. We wanted to get on with funeral plans. Another reason, I realized later, was a vague, underlying sense of distrust. We weren’t confident that the hospital could provide a thorough and competent autopsy, and even if it could, we didn’t trust the doctors to tell us the whole truth. However, it does goes on to affirm the value of the procedure for alleviating relatives’ fellings of guilt after the death of a loved one, and provides some information about how to request an autopsy. It also points out that many of the real questions people have af... pathtalk.org blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424528 Tue, 19 May 2009 18:11:18 +0100 2424528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1240168&cid=t_99072_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1912 With the U.S. Navy scheduled to shoot down an errant satellite later this week, I thought this would be a good time for a space-related PSA. This Captain America/Young Astronaut Council ad is from the back pages of Captain American #307, an otherwise forgettable issue featuring Nomad and Madcap. The Young Astronaut Council was formed in 1984 to get children interested in space and science. According to their article on Wikipedia, they are “the largest youth aerospace organization in the world” (though I’m not sure that’s a title with a lot of competition). As far as I can know, the Young Astronaut Council is still in operation today, though you couldn’t tell it from their website, which I seem to be unable to access. Click on the image to the right for the ful... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1240168 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:55:36 +0100 1240168 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=947333&cid=t_99072_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F10%2F12%2Fnetwork-for-science-technology-and-medicine-studies-in-aarhus-denmark%2F 45 faculty members and about 20 PhD-students throughout the University of Aarhus (Denmark) has just launched a new interdisciplinary network for science, technology and medicine studies. See their website at www.stm.au.dk for news about conferences, seminars, PhD-courses, etc.; send an e-mail to stm@au.dk if you want to subscribe to their newsletter or if you are interested in learning more about specific events. If you are interested in their visitor’s programme please contact Assoc. Prof. Peter C. Kjaergaard (idepck@hum.au.dk). (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=947333 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:54:02 +0100 947333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=675539&cid=t_99072_107_f&fid=34860&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corporeality.net%2Fmuseion%2F2007%2F06%2F12%2Fan-intervention-into-present-knowledge-production-open-peer-review%2F An unease with the current scientific publishing system was addressed in two open panels at last year’s EASST conference. Now, a new journal has been launched in order to tackle some of the issues discussed at EASST 2006. The Open peer review process of the International Journal of Feminist Technoscience (IJFT) makes use of ”an interactive framework to secure quality, relevance, efficiency and democracy in scientific publishing” and to foster an open dialogue between actors in the field of technoscience. Programmatically, the first issue is entitled Processes of Cooperation. At stake is the distributed knowledge production in the digital age and the challenges as to the current academic publishing system.   (Source: Biomedicine on Display) Biomedicine on Display blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=675539 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:29:56 +0100 675539