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 'hire'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:26:54 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2056138&cid=t_158318_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2FJKsbsRRDyLA%2F A 16-year-old starts his own computer consulting and repair business, Hire the Brain—impressive. Today’s Columbia Tribune tells how Collin Driscoll, who has Asperger Syndrome, started his company with his father and, too, how he’s learned to deal with his sound sensitivity. Several months ago, [Driscoll's] mother convinced him to take a trip by himself to his aunt’s home in Kansas and to help her trucking company fix its computer system. It was a big step for Collin, but he enjoyed it, and at his aunt’s encouragement decided he wanted to start the business with his father, Steve, an IT programmer who formerly worked for large companies but was forced into semi-retirement after suffering a stroke. “I’ve gone from being the geek to being his driver,” joked... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2056138 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:34:36 +0100 2056138 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=637802&cid=t_158318_85_f&fid=34692&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitedissent.com%2Farchives%2F1661 SHIELD Scientist: We’re after the Homo habilis. We want the caveman. SHIELD Scientist: The pre-man, regardless of his origin, is an evolutionary time capsule. He is from a time before cancer, before AIDS. Homo habilis lived during the early Pleistocene, roughly 1.8 - 2.5 million years ago. It is entirely likely that they lived before AIDS (though there were probably equally nasty diseases back then). It is untrue to say that Homo habilis lived “before cancer”; they did not. The first documented evidence of cancer dates back to 300-350 million years ago, the time of the vertebrate fishes — long before the first dinosaurs appeared, let alone ancient man. The frequency of cancers seemed to increase as the number of land-dwelling vertebrates rose, and another increase i... Polite Dissent blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=637802 Sun, 27 May 2007 03:02:26 +0100 637802