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 'herring'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:33 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4438896&cid=t_192283_99_f&fid=35344&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzackarysholemberger.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F02%2Fherring-and-coconuts.html Two translations of mine are featured in the new issue of the journal Eleven Eleven from the California College of the Arts: one of Dvoyre Fogel's Herring Barrels, the other of Moyshe Nadir's My Pedigree. Let me know what you think! (Source: Zackary Sholem Berger) Zackary Sholem Berger blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4438896 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:22:00 +0100 4438896 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3294583&cid=t_192283_87_f&fid=38368&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDisruptiveWomenInHealthCare%2F%7E3%2F_AIB0se8xq0%2F It is my pleasure to once again roll out the welcome mat to our newest Disruptive Women bloggers. And just in time…With President Obama and the Congressional leaders set to roll out their version of reality TV on February 25th. (Look out Jersey Shore, we’ve got Potomac Fever.) Stay tuned for the Health Care Summit Disruptive Women Debrief on the 26th. In the meantime, please read more about these incredible women and join me in extending a warm welcome. Anuradha Acharya, named as one of “25 Tech Titans under 35″ by Red Herring magazine, is the Founder & CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions, a global genomics outsourcing partner for discovery, development and diagnostics. Becca Camp graduated with an anthropology degree from the University of Texas at Austin in December ’... Disruptive Women in Health Care blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3294583 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:32:17 +0100 3294583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1739038&cid=t_192283_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fmerck-scientific-debate-hits-bottom.html I find Merck Scientific Affairs executive Jonathan Edelman's op ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer on the Vioxx "ADVANTAGE seeding trial" controversy to be mediocre spin control at best, if not deliberately misleading through selective omission of critical facts:Taking ExceptionGreat value in clinical studiesPhiladelphia Inquirer, Sept. 26, 2008Your articles "Merck faces more criticism" (Inquirer, Aug. 19) and "Journal vs. the bad seed" (Aug. 20) drew the wrong conclusion.The Advantage study was published by the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2003 after passing the journal's editorial and peer-review process that determined the study to be important new information for physicians. Dr. Harold Sox recently wrote in Annals that the way to identify a good clinical trial is to look at the impo... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1739038 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:01:00 +0100 1739038 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1733831&cid=t_192283_87_f&fid=34765&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhcrenewal.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Fmerck-scientific-debate-hits-bottom.html I find Merck Scientific Affairs executive Jonathan Edelman's op ed in today's Philadelphia Inquirer on the Vioxx "ADVANTAGE seeding trial" controversy to be mediocre spin control at best, if not deliberately misleading through selective omission of critical facts:Taking ExceptionGreat value in clinical studiesPhiladelphia Inquirer, Sept. 26, 2008Your articles "Merck faces more criticism" (Inquirer, Aug. 19) and "Journal vs. the bad seed" (Aug. 20) drew the wrong conclusion.The Advantage study was published by the Annals of Internal Medicine in 2003 after passing the journal's editorial and peer-review process that determined the study to be important new information for physicians. Dr. Harold Sox recently wrote in Annals that the way to identify a good clinical trial is to look at the impo... Health Care Renewal blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1733831 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:01:00 +0100 1733831 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1618035&cid=t_192283_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F13%2Famerican-psychiatric-association-under-scrutiny%2F Last night I watched Good Night, And Good Luck, a compelling drama about Edward R. Murrow’s out-on-a-ledge decision to ask questions about Joe McCarthy. Joe McCarthy, if you remember your U.S. history, was the junior senator from Wisconsin who somehow managed to get himself appointed to lead a Senate committee investigating the spread of Communism in the U.S. It led to the infamous McCarthy hearings, where innuendo and hearsay were all the evidence needed to convict people in the media. It was a chilling reminder that government can sometimes turn a legitimate investigation into corruption or scandal and simply take it one step too far. As we now fight our “war on terrorism,” U.S. citizens are reminded of this every time government imposes another restriction on its peop... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1618035 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:52:32 +0100 1618035