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 'henderson'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:44:20 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4133675&cid=t_240013_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F5jjDY7jFbOw%2F By Walter OlsonWriting at CNN, my colleague Jeffrey Miron puts his finger on one reason for the disappointing defeat of California’s Prop 19: Prop 19 failed also because it overreached. One feature attempted to protect the “rights” of employees who get fired or disciplined for using marijuana, including a provision that employers could only discipline marijuana use that “actually impairs job performance.” That is a much higher bar than required by current policy. Like so many other developments in employment law in recent years, this would have chipped away at the basic principle of employment at will, which holds that in the absence of a contract specifying otherwise, either party to an employment relation may end that relation at any time for any reason or f... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4133675 Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:39:47 +0100 4133675 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3889028&cid=t_240013_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fjan-henderson-phd-medical-historian-blogger-part-3-3%2F Jan Henderson is a medical historian who blogs at The Health Culture. This the last of a three part interview with her. Do you support the Obama healthcare program? It’s a first step. I think it’s important and historic that Congress was able to pass any legislation at all. Shortly before it passed, I saw an episode of the Charlie Rose show where the guests were Marcia Angell, the former NEJM editor, and Wendell Potter, a former insurance agency executive who’s now very active with the Center for Media and Democracy. Angell took the position that Congress should not pass the bill because it didn’t sufficiently curb the power of the insurance industry. She was not going to settle for anything less — very idealistic, in the best sense of the word. I didn’t agree with her a... Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3889028 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:50:05 +0100 3889028 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3872490&cid=t_240013_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F08%2Fjan-henderson-phd-medical-historian-blogger%2F Discussion Blog. He usually cites an article and then poses a question to his readers. Some of the threads are fascinating, like the one on how readers feel about seeing a male or female physician. That topic gets so many responses that Bernstein has to close the thread and allow a cooling off period before reopening the discussion. The comments were an eye-opener for me. On nutrition, food safety, the FDA, and the food industry, I read Marion Nestle. She blogs for the Atlantic and has her own website, Food Politics. Maryn McKenna wrote an excellent book on community-acquired MRSA, and I rely on her blog Superbug for updates on antibiotic resistance. She’s a medical journalist who understands the technicalities and explains them clearly. On psychiatry, there’s the Carlat Psychiatry Bl... Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3872490 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:43:38 +0100 3872490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2894487&cid=t_240013_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FeQAoROzALrs%2F The New York Times tries to spin the work of Nobel laureates Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson as not anti-regulation: Neither Ms. Ostrom nor Mr. Williamson has argued against regulation. Quite the contrary, their work found that people in business adopt for themselves numerous forms of regulation and rules of behavior — called “governance” in economic jargon — doing so independently of government or without being told to do so by corporate bosses. But none of us “anti-regulation” folks are against “rules of behavior that people in business adopt for themselves independently of government.” The world is full of rules, from wearing clothes in the office to customary trade practices to the rules for managing common-pool resources that Ostrom studied. Anyone ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2894487 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:38:58 +0100 2894487 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2709098&cid=t_240013_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2FHwbwZv4liLk%2F Those who have spent their careers in the trenches of healthcare and are now reading the uncertain headlines in the news each day and fearing for the future of healthcare, fear not! There are fresh crops of enthusiastic students, eager to make a difference and keep the ball rolling in the quest to improve healthcare, sprouting up in graduate programs starting across the nation this summer. Having started the Johns Hopkins Masters of Public Health (JHSPH) program in July, it has been a thrilling month and will no doubt be a fast year with many choices to make for classes, volunteer opportunities, and research projects. The plethora of options was described by one former student as “going to the grocery store when you’re hungry.” Not to mention, each student shopping in the... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2709098 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:44:23 +0100 2709098 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2621753&cid=t_240013_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FsCMpV_2jsXo%2F Cato’s new staff writer, Aaron Powell, told me he had recently seen two people on the Washington Metro reading The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek. That prompted me to check the sales figures for Road to Serfdom at Nielsen’s Bookscan. And whattaya know? Sales have increased this year at an even faster pace than sales of Atlas Shrugged. (Atlas sells 10 times as many copies, but the percentage increase over last year is less.) So far this year the most popular edition of Road to Serfdom has sold 11,366 copies. That compares with 3,131 copies at the same point last year. That’s a 263 percent increase for those of you keeping score at home. Why? Well, no doubt huge new government spending programs and attempts to massively expand the welfare state send people looking for class... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2621753 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:20:56 +0100 2621753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1131187&cid=t_240013_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F211436137%2Fmonavie_a_brains_berry_drink.html Today Robyn and I had a wonderful lunch in Fairport’s Bocaccinni Italian Bistro with Don and Carol Henderson. I’d asked to hear more about MONA-VIE … a drink Don and Carol sell, and Oprah lists as the world’s No 1 super-food. Specific benefits are described at the official MonaVie distributor information page.Over lunch … we shared MITA stories about the human brain’s capabilities and listened to Don and Carol’s amazing tales about MonaVie’s freeze-dried Acai berries. By the way … I’m told that’s pronounced ah-sigh-eee … and it’s a name worth remembering. Life is good with this antioxidant-rich acai berry drink! Toss in 19 fruits and I’m told you’ll have just what your brain craves to fight illnes... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1131187 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:51:06 +0100 1131187