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 journal'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:42:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159273&cid=t_218574_113_f&fid=34625&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FNeilVerselsHealthcareItBlog%2F%7E3%2FZjs4PeBLyJ4%2F You know a topic has arrived in healthcare or medicine when there’s a peer-reviewed journal for it. Now officially here is the field of gaming as a tool for healthcare, legitimized by the presence of a new journal, Games for Health, from well-known publisher Mary Ann Liebert Inc. The bimonthly journal launched in July, and the first issue is due out this fall. According to Liebert’s press release: “Games are rapidly becoming an important tool for improving health behaviors ranging from healthy lifestyle habits and behavior modification to self-management of illnesses and chronic conditions to motivating and supporting physical activity. Commonly used applications include mobile phone-delivered games that track daily exercise and ‘exergames’ that require physic... Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159273 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:21:41 +0100 5159273 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4852941&cid=t_218574_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F05%2F22%2F5-ways-to-silence-your-inner-critic%2F A few years back, Health Journal columnist Melinda Beck penned an amazingly accurate and helpful article in the Wall Street Journal about the self-criticism that so often accompanies depression and anxiety. Not only was I delighted that she approached such a difficult and complicated aspect of our illness with compassion and insight, but I was ecstatic to see myself as one of the “experts” mentioned with suggestions on how to silent the annoying voice that says we are incapable, weak, and worthless. Depression and self-criticism, of course, are great companions. Beck writes: Unrelenting self-criticism often goes hand in hand with depression and anxiety, and it may even predict depression. In a study of 107 patients in the latest issue of Comprehensive Psychiatry, David M. Dunkl... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4852941 Sun, 22 May 2011 10:35:44 +0100 4852941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2055825&cid=t_218574_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.healthbolt.net%2F2008%2F12%2F21%2Froundup-of-this-weeks-giveaways-at-healthbolt%2F                                                          Health Journal Giveaway                                        closes 21st December      My Mottz T-Shirt Giveaway                Aetrex Runners Giveaway closes 22nd December                        closes 23rd December                 Pilates with Acupressure                   10 Steps to Loving Your Body   closes 24th December                        closes 25th December                 The Fit Traveler                           Mambo Mania DVDs       closes 26th December                ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2055825 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:00:00 +0100 2055825 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2027158&cid=t_218574_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FACC0sxeiOps%2F   A highly cited Nature paper that identified a long-sought receptor critical for mediating plant response to stress is being retracted after researchers were unable to reproduce the results. (The Scientist) The paper in question was the first to identify a receptor for abscicic acid (ABA), which regulates plant stress response. It has been cited some 120 times since its publication in 2006. Scientific experiments are not exact nor always produce results that are set in stone. Even the cleanest and best experiments will find changes in the future as methods and technology improve. But that’s the nature of science. We discover something new and report it, and other scientists test our methods and results. Now I suppose citing the retracted Nature paper is not a real problem unle... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2027158 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:02:34 +0100 2027158 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1750253&cid=t_218574_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FYFtEhovRxTw%2F Two images of Charlie from the past two nights. We’re at the Journal Square PATH station in Jersey City with my parents. We get slowed down walking through the turnstiles. My mom and I look towards the up escalator and there’s Charlie’s going up up up, all by himself. “Wait, we’d better hurry and get on”…………… Second image is from Saturday night. Charlie’s showered and lying in bed, and Jim and I are talking about what the mayor of New Orleans and Hurricane Gustav, how the Pittsburgh Pirates had their ninth loss in a row, what was said in a scene from the movie On the Waterfront involving the exchange of a coat. Enter Charlie, stage left. He’s spent the summer wearing floppy outdoors-y shorts. I had heard some rus... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1750253 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:00:01 +0100 1750253 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=837467&cid=t_218574_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F151477846%2F “Hollie puts me into situations where I end up learning something about myself and about her.” Says Trisha Kayden about her 7-year-old autistic daughter in a profile in the September 2nd Midland Daily News (Michigan). Kayden also notes that “‘If I couldn’t find a reason to laugh, I’d probably be crying a lot……You get rewards that other people take for granted.’” Kayden’s story, “McBuns” (about a trip with Hollie to McDonalds) will be included in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs, which is due out today. The Midland Daily News notes that Kayden has been “writing in a journal for as long as she can remember” and that keeping the journal “helped her better understand and subseq... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=837467 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:30:49 +0100 837467 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=583195&cid=t_218574_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F01%2Fthought-for-the-day-bingeing-and-breast-cancer%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Prevention, Research, Daily news, Thought for the DayIt only takes two bottles of wine consumed over the course of one weekend to more than double the risk of breast cancer, according to a Danish study of 17,647 women which breaks down like this: women who drank 22-27 drinks per week had twice the risk for the disease compared to those who drank only one to three drinks.Think about this:More than a quarter of participants, age 44 and older, drank more than the recommended 14 drinks per week. One in 10 were binge drinkers -- they had more than four drinks per day. Thirteen percent were weekend bingers -- they had more than 10 drinks between Friday and Sunday. A drink is considered one bottle of beer, wine, or spirit. In Denmark, each unit translate into 12g of al... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=583195 Tue, 01 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 583195