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 'hamilton'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:02:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4767993&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fis-national-debt-as-bad-as-paul-ryan-says-it-is-lessons-from-the-past%2F2011.04.30 The last two weeks have made clear that the debate over our national debt will play a major role in the next election cycle. On one side, many Republicans, lead by Representative Ryan, insist that the rate of growth of our national debt – especially the massive projected growth of Medicare and Medicaid – promises to destroy our society within a generation or two; and that the only way to avert that catastrophe is to make substantial structural changes to our entitlement programs. The subtext of their message is: Federal debt is bad, and debt of this magnitude will be fatal. On the other side, most Democrats, led by President Obama, stress that our entitlement programs are promises that simply can’t be changed in any substantial way, insist that such entitlements are “investments in... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4767993 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:00:10 +0100 4767993 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4664153&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fcwm2X5EnaI8%2F By Jim HarperYesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had a hearing entitled: "Ten Years After 9/11: A Report From the 9/11 Commission Chairmen," part of what evidently will be a series commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this September. At the end of his oral statement, former 9/11 Commission co-chairman Tom Keane made a half-hearted pitch for implementation of the REAL ID Act, the national ID law Congress passed attached to a military spending bill in early 2005. His written statement with fellow former co-chair Lee Hamilton dedicates three paragraphs (out of 23 pages) to the appeal for the national ID law. The paltriness of Keane's argument for a national ID parallels the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission report. It dedicated th... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4664153 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:35:17 +0100 4664153 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4636413&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F1dImHb3owjo%2F By Gene HealyRecently, I've been blogging over at the Washington Examiner's lively "Beltway Confidential" site, mostly on the subject of congressional war powers and President Obama's Libyan adventure. Today's post, "Obama Makes 'Kinetic Military Action' on the English Language" has a little fun with the administration's wordgames and the legal rationales behind them. Other posts and a column on the subject are here, here, and here. Today also brings a pair of columns--in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post, respectively--from conservative luminaries defending the notion that Obama has the constitutional power to bomb Libya without congressional authorization. Yoo, the legal architect of George W. Bush's Terror Presidency, chides Tea Party Republicans like Jason Chaffetz of Uta... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4636413 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:31:45 +0100 4636413 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419108&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FCUMhMgUR9zY%2F By Ilya ShapiroToday’s ruling vindicates the constitutional first principle that ours is a government of delegated, enumerated, and thus limited powers. Like Judge Hudson in the Virginia case, Judge Vinson recognized that the individual mandate represents an unprecedented and improper incursion beyond those powers: the federal government, under the guise of regulating commerce, cannot require that people engage in economic activity. And this is as it should be: if the only limit on congressional power were Congress’ own assessment of the wisdom of each assertion of such power, the Constitution would be obsolete — as would any conception of checks and balances. James Madison, the author of the Federalist Paper (51) explaining how man’s non-angelic nature requires ex... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419108 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:17:46 +0100 4419108 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3714186&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Faddicted-to-indoor-tanning%2F2010.06.30 According to the Archives of Dermatology, there are people who are addicted to indoor tanning. That journal reported on a study of 421 university students in the northeastern United States. Using self-reported questionnaires, they screened for alcoholism and substance use as well as anxiety and depression. They also had a questionnaire about addiction to indoor tanning. If you’re scratching your head (as I was), there’s a medically-accepted criteria known as CAGE (cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye-opener) that correlates with addiction, so they used this for “addiction” to indoor tanning also. They found that more of the kids who met the criteria for addiction to indoor tanning also had greater anxiety, greater use of alcohol, marijuana and other substances. (more&#82... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3714186 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:00:00 +0100 3714186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3505095&cid=t_125556_135_f&fid=35274&url=http%3A%2F%2Facidrefluxweb.com%2F%3Fp%3D4428 A friend told me that The Star ran an article yesterday on The Jane Hotel, the place I stayed when I went to NYC to see Kathy Griffin with my friend Barry.  I should find my little video I made with them waving good-bye to us dressed in their old-school hotel uniform. It is a very cool place to stay, and cheap! Only steps away from any number, or should I say letter of twelve-step recovery house for the sober girl on the go. There valuable shopping time at steak, you want every possible retail experience only a stone’s throw away. It’s nice to know that my friend and I were a head of the curve of this establishment, once again showing how I can still pull off my glamorous lifestyle of the moderately poor and infected. Today I’m off to Hamilton where Brenda, Jim (both Positi... acidrefluxweb.com blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3505095 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:53:00 +0100 3505095 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3370391&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FZlkAURSVLlA%2F By David BoazWashington Post columnist Dana Milbank chides Dick Armey today for having said that socialism caused starvation at Jamestown.  “Who knew they had socialists in 1607?” Milbank asks. Actually, lots of people know this. As I wrote three years ago: Four hundred years ago today 105 men and boys disembarked from three ships and established the first permanent English settlement in North America. They built a fort along what they called the James River, in honor of their king. The land was lush and fertile, yet within three years most of the colonists died during what came to be known as “the starving time.” Only the establishment of private property saved the Jamestown colony. What went wrong? There were the usual hardships of pioneers far from home, such as... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3370391 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:08:17 +0100 3370391 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3283495&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2010%2F02%2F18%2Folympians-raise-cancer-awareness%2F Filed under: Cancer SurvivorsWinter Olympic Bobsledder Emily Azevedo was just a child when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. Her doctors gave her a 50 percent change of living five years if she had chemotherapy. Twenty-five years later, Azevedo's mother is still cancer free. Azevedo is just one of many Olympians whose lives have been altered by cancer and who has stepped up to raise awareness about the disease. Azevedo works with the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc. (NBCF), which focuses on saving lives through early detection and providing mammograms for those in need. Legendary United States figure skaters Scott Hamilton and Dorothy Hamill have also battled cancer since becoming Olympic champions. In 1997, Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic gold medalist, was diagnosed with ... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3283495 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0100 3283495 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3220569&cid=t_125556_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F3976290%2F11incp%2Fneuromarketing%7EYou-Are-What-You-Choose.htm Based on the title and cover art, which shows a head stuffed with objects, I anticipated that You Are What You Choose would be chock full of decision-making insights based on neuroscience and behavioral research. Instead, de Marchi and Hamilton mostly talk about their TRAITS system for categorizing individuals and then predicting subsequent behavior. CommentsI wonder if what you choose is not sometimes made by yourself, ... by reactorr (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3220569 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:54:41 +0100 3220569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2260417&cid=t_125556_136_f&fid=37846&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhealthinfoispower.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F03%2F09%2Fgps-should-suspect-ovarian-cancer-in-all-women-with-distended-abdomen-uk-researchers-warn%2F “GPs [General Practioners] should suspect ovarian cancer in all women presenting with abdominal distension, [U.K.] researchers have warned.  The primary care study found it was an important enough symptom on its own to warrant further investigation.  Researchers linked seven symptoms to ovarian cancer with many commonly present as much as six months before diagnosis, and [...] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*) Libby's H*O*P*E* blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2260417 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:23:31 +0100 2260417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2182366&cid=t_125556_113_f&fid=34634&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.emrandhipaa.com%2Femr-and-hipaa%2F2009%2F02%2F12%2Fwireless-microphones-for-dragon-naturally-speaking%2F In a recent comment by Tom Hamilton, he gave a nice review of a wireless microphone that can be used with Dragon Naturally Speaking Medical. I figured I’d been covering enough EMR politics and implementation lately that it was about time to mingle a little bit of technical content in the middle. I’ve been told a number of times that if you want to use Dragon Naturally Speaking medical, then finding a high quality microphone is absolutely essential to a quality voice recognition experience. Check out Tom’s review of the Samson Stage 5 Wireless microphone. Wireless is definitely the future. Samson Stage 5 Wireless Microphone With Dragon NaturallySpeaking Review: We’ve just completed Phase 3 testing of the new Samson Stage 5 wireless microphone [$99 on Amazon] and you... EMR and HIPAA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2182366 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:31:23 +0100 2182366 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2153821&cid=t_125556_113_f&fid=38236&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthcareitnews.com%2Fblog%2Ftransparent-health-record This blog originally appeared at The Health Care Blog -Ed. (Source: Healthcare IT News Blog) Healthcare IT News Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2153821 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:49:30 +0100 2153821 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1688986&cid=t_125556_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F08%2F07%2Fpsychotherapy-meds-for-chronic-depression%2F Although we harp on this at least once every few months, it bears repeating: Psychotherapy with medication is usually the best possible treatment option for depression (acute or chronic) for nearly everyone. If you’re only doing one or the other, you’re likely not going to get well as quickly, it’s that simple. We have decades’ worth of research showing this, but here’s another one to add to the pile. Manber and colleagues (2008) re-examined previous data on 656 patients with chronic depression to see who would get to remission first. Remission in depression research is simply when a person’s depression score on a commonly used depression quiz (the Hamilton) falls below a certain number. People who had scores of less than 26 on the Hamilton fared bes... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1688986 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:50:35 +0100 1688986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1314059&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fpolitical-honesty-saving-nhs.html Bye bye, I am off to SwitzerlandI was delighted today to see that two major newspapers have had to pay substantial damages for defamation to the McCann family. It is a sad fact that, when a child disappears, the first line of investigation should always be the immediate family. But the vitriol that was poured upon Gerry and Kate McCann within days of Madeleine’s disappearance was obscene.A happier result, thank God, in the Shannon Matthew’s case. She was found and, it seems, a member of the extended family may have been involved in her disappearance. We shall see.Street celebrations after the return of Shannon MatthewsShannon’s family were subjected to a different form of criticism. There was much comment upon what was called the extended Matthew’s family. This made me feel as unco... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1314059 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:34:00 +0100 1314059 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1277824&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F03%2Fis-whiskey-middle-class-drink.html Just over a week to go to the Australian Grand Prix and the start of this year’s Formula One season. After all the spats of last year, Mclaren has been relegated to the far flung end of the pit lane, and one of the smallest garages. 22 year old Lewis Hamilton will be partnered by 23 year old Heikki Kovalainen. Is Heikki going to get equal treatment to Lewis? That is what Ron Dennis will say, just as he said that Lewis and Fernando Alonso received equal treatment last year and, for those with longer memories, just as he said that he treated David Coulthard equally to Mika Hakkinen. If you want to discuss that with David Coulthard, I would stand out of arms' reach. This year, the boys will be advertising Johnnie Walker whisky from those nice people at Diageo. Better than cigarettes, I sup... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1277824 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:00:00 +0100 1277824 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1258128&cid=t_125556_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F26%2Fantidepressant-data-showed-not-as-effective-as-thought%2F Meta-analyses are great research tools, because they allow researchers to look at data across large sets of data published by multiple studies, and see if there are more powerful (or less powerful) effects that no single study has found on its own. So it’s always interesting to read something that a meta-analysis finds in the data that individual studies didn’t quite find. Today, British researchers discovered, unsurprisingly, that Antidepressant Data Showed Not as Effective as Thought. I say unsurprisingly, because the researchers made a series of decisions that pretty much guaranteed their end-result. First, they went to the original datasets and included unpublished data too. Unpublished data is usually unpublished for a reason — for instance, the study was either p... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1258128 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:46:42 +0100 1258128 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1212313&cid=t_125556_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F230505202%2F Yesterday, we wrote how an unnamed Pepper Hamilton lawyer accidentally sent an e-mail containing confidential info to a reporter at The New York Times. The document supposedly had details of a settlement the drugmaker is negotiating with federal and state prosecutors over improper marketing of Zyprexa. The alleged leak, as originally reported by Portfolio, occurred because the reporter, Alex Berenson, has the same last name as another lawyer who was to have received the e-mail, Brad Berenson of Sidley Austin. However, it appears that Portfolio got it wrong. The Drug and Device Law blog, which first noticed the item yesterday, wrote us to say they ran a correction after speaking with Berenson - the reporter, not the lawyer. So we rang Berenson and he says: “Yes, I did receive a misdir... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1212313 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:22:42 +0100 1212313 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1208093&cid=t_125556_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F229862997%2F Talk about comical. The news last week that the drugmaker is negotiating with federal and state prosecutors over improper marketing of Zyprexa was the result of an accident, according to Portfolio. But it was a big accident. As it turns out, a lawyer at Pepper Hamilton, one of two high-priced law firms negotiating the deal with the government, mistakenly sent an e-mail containing a comprehensive and confidential document to a reporter at The New York Times. How could that have happened? The reporter, Alex Berenson, has the same last name as another lawyer who was supposed to have received the e-mail, Bradford Berenson, who works at Sidley Austin. Of course, this is embarassing for the law firm, which is being paid who-knows-how-much to get Lilly the best deal possible, and keep quiet about... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1208093 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:51:06 +0100 1208093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1128676&cid=t_125556_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F01%2F03%2Fdepressed-and-anxious-treatment-isnt-as-effective%2F New research was published yesterday that shows that if you’ve got what the researchers call “anxious depression,” your treatment will likely be less effective than if you had just plain depression without anxiety. More than half of the people enrolled in the STAR*D trial (results of which were published in 2006) would qualify as having “anxious depression.” Anxious depression is simply major depression with a co-occurring anxiety disorder. The finding is important because it means that with proper assessment for anxiety at the time of the initial depression diagnosis, a person’s treatment may be better tailored to be more effective. The limitations of the study were that the researchers used the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale to measure anxiety, wh... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1128676 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:30:05 +0100 1128676 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=682438&cid=t_125556_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F06%2Fmotor-racing-safety.html Dr Crippen’s father was involved in motor sport and so I have always been a fan of grand prix motor racing. I can remember, as a small child, Jackie Stewart winning his first world championship. I have vague memories of my father telling me of the catastrophe at Le Mans when a car went into the crowd. I remember Taffy Von Trips, Bandini, and Jim Clark. All tragedies that would not happen today.In the Canadian Grand Prix two weeks ago we witnessed what was without doubt the worst and most terrifying accident I have ever seen, and I have seen a fair few. As it was endlessly repeated, I had to avert my eyes. I knew that I had seen a motor racing driver die and seeing it once was once too much. Then the news came through that Robert Kubica had survived. Not only had he survived, but he was u... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=682438 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:45:00 +0100 682438