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 'health foundation'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:35:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3453909&cid=t_428412_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D2914 Yet another university has stopped its homeopathy course. The particular interest of this course was that it was being run at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, the vice-chancellor which was Michael Pittilo, until his recent premature death. Pittilo is the person who recommended to the government that herbalists and Chinese medicine practitioners should get honours degrees and be regulated like doctors. His report, was, in my opinions, disastrously bad.  It recently emerged that this, very bad, advice would not be accepted by the Department of Health (DH), so the campaign against the Pittilo proposals, on this blog and elsewhere was successful. The alternative DH proposals look pretty silly, but we won’t really know until after the election exactly what will happen. ... DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3453909 Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:04:10 +0100 3453909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2804093&cid=t_428412_125_f&fid=37825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbibbynews.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fseptember-21-is-world-alzheimers-day%2F Every year on September 21, Alzheimer’s Disease associations across the globe recognize World Alzheimer’s Day.  This year’s theme for World Alzheimer’s Day is ‘Diagnosing Dementia: See It Sooner’. Across the globe scientists are aiming to establish a link between oral health and Alzheimers.  For example, the British Dental Health Foundation received a grant to study [...] (Source: Bibby Library News and Tips) Bibby Library News and Tips blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2804093 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:27:44 +0100 2804093 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1997017&cid=t_428412_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D454 Jump to follow-up It’s hard enough to communicate basic ideas about how to assess evidence to adults without having the effort hindered by schools. The teaching of quackery to 16 year-olds has been approved by a maze of quangos, none  of which will take responsibility, or justify their actions, Consider, for example, Edexcel Level 3 [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1997017 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:57:36 +0100 1997017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1783155&cid=t_428412_90_f&fid=36413&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdcscience.net%2F%3Fp%3D254 There have been some really excellent books about quackery this year.  This isn’t one of them. Nice dedication uh? It is about a lot more than quackery  It is about the scientific method in general. and in particular about how often it is misunderstood by journalists.  Abuse of evidence by the pharmaceutical industry is treated just as [...] (Source: DC's goodscience) DC's goodscience blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1783155 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:15:43 +0100 1783155 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=644989&cid=t_428412_87_f&fid=34866&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecardioblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F28%2Fsex-is-good-for-your-heart%2F Filed under: Prevention, Exercise, Stress, Women Heart Health, Men Heart HealthIt doesn't matter how your doing it, what matters is that your doing it at all. I'm talking about exercise, of course. (What did you think I was talking about?) Physical activity is one of the cornerstones of good heart health, and the British Health Foundation wants you to know that sex is one way to get in some of that exercise. Their newest slogan reads, "Get your 30 minutes a day, any way."Not only is sex good for cardiovascular fitness, it can improve overall health as well. It reduces blood pressure, helps you sleep, and can even make you look younger. Not only that, it increases the amount of DHEA in your system, which is important to your immune system. If that's not enough, studies have shown that coupl... The Cardio Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=644989 Mon, 28 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 644989