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 'hirsch'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:11:07 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3762885&cid=t_133105_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fcolumbia-university-pet-scan-center-fire-fda-unsafe-practices%2F Red is area of high radiotracer uptake The Kreitchman positron emission tomography center at Columbia University has admitted that it engaged in unsafe practices by injecting impure radiotracer drugs into patients suffering from mental illness and other brain disorders. The admission comes from Dr. David I. Hirsch, vice-president for research at the university. The University did not make public these findings but rather only confirmed them after being approached by the press, who were reportedly tipped off by university insiders. The FDA has threatened legal action if patient safety is not improved immediately. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3762885 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:28:27 +0100 3762885 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3743687&cid=t_133105_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FMDfnU3iA2Ts%2F Well, not me, yet. But I like to keep tabs on what’s popular here, at least as far as poetry goes. This past week, it’s been the usual: Jacques Prévert’s Le Cheval Rouge (with handy translation by yours truly) and coming in at a distant second, we have Siegfried Sassoon’s The Death Bed. The latter has declined ever so slightly with time, but remains popular due to its last stanza having been recited by Judd Hirsch’s character on the show NUMB3RS. All such items can be found under the anthology category in the dropdown box over there on the sidebar. Will try to remember to put up a better link to it. So that’s the exciting world of poetry today. Filed under: Poetry, Literature, and Writing Tagged: anthology, Jacques Prévert, Judd Hirsch, Le Cheval Rouge... white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3743687 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:19:48 +0100 3743687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3362382&cid=t_133105_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FApN3cNYwt4w%2F By Neal McCluskeyIf you follow education news at all, over the last week or so — until the national-standards stories took over — you probably saw a lot about education historian Diane Ravitch’s supposedly sudden determination that school choice isn’t good after all. That’s one of the major selling points of her new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System, and just about every major newspaper has devoted a fair amount of ink to it. Now I’ve devoted some ink — okay, pixels — to it, too. You can check out my review of Ravitch’s book on the brand-new School Reform News website. When you’re done with that, you can take a gander at my Cato Journal review of Core Knowledge guru E. D. Hirsch’s new offering, The Makin... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3362382 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:58:26 +0100 3362382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3089550&cid=t_133105_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Ftpw73SxR_xQ%2F The controversy over conflicts of interest is taking a twist as a former Merck executive and a medical journal are teaming up to lash out at doctors who have criticized drugmaker behavior in published studies, and have also served as expert witnesses in product-liability litigation. To wit, Laurence Hirsch, a former vice president of medical communications at Merck, published a lengthy essay in a recent issue of Mayo Clinical Proceedings in which he lambasted the doctors and the journals that published their work for “selective and incomplete” disclosure. He points to Yale University professor of medicine Harlan Krumholz, who has reportedly been paid $200,000 while working for attorneys who are suing Merck, and David Egilman, a clinical associate professor of family medicine at... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3089550 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:32:52 +0100 3089550 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2778652&cid=t_133105_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FqYmmfTAeRmk%2F Image via Wikipedia Time passes. Three whole years. In other news: statistics on my blog show that Le Cheval Rouge, by Jacques Prévert, is the currently most-read anthology piece on my blog, though Siegfried Sassoon’s The Death Bed still holds the all-time lead in the anthology division, due to its having been recited by Judd Hirsch on an episode of Numb3rs. I think I have ignored that anthology section too much lately; I have found several things in there that I had forgotten about. (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2778652 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:36:41 +0100 2778652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2021408&cid=t_133105_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2F08%2Fdaily-strength-sold-to-hsw-international%2F Daily Strength, a health social networking site that likes to boast about the number of communities it hosts (regardless of the number of actual active members it has), has been sold to an international corporation called HSW International. Never heard of them? Nor had I: HSW International, Inc., an online publishing company, develops and operates Internet businesses that are focused on providing consumers with digital content database [sic]. It primarily focuses on the online publishing of localized and translated Chinese and Brazilian editions of the HSW Internet site [specifically, they provide two foreign language versions of the HowStuffWorks.com website]. The company operates a Brazilian Internet Web site, hsw.uol.com.br, which has approximately 3,500 articles, including articles f... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2021408 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:19:59 +0100 2021408 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1794797&cid=t_133105_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F09%2F16%2Fthe-interior-situation-of-complex-human-feelings%2F Michael Craig Miller, M.D. has a helpful article, “Sad Brain, Happy Brain,” in this week’s Newsweek.  Here are some excerpts. * * * The brain is the mind is the brain. One hundred billion nerve cells, give or take, none of which individually has the capacity to feel or to reason, yet together generating consciousness. For about 400 years, following the ideas of French philosopher René Descartes, those who thought about its nature considered the mind related to the body, but separate from it. In this model—often called “dualism” or the mind-body problem—the mind was “immaterial,” not anchored in anything physical. Today neuroscientists are finding abundant evidence . . . that separating mind from brain makes no sense. Nobel Prize-winning psyc... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1794797 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:35:53 +0100 1794797 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1720400&cid=t_133105_134_f&fid=35152&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsstrumello.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F08%2Flow-carb-diets-also-work-for-people.html It's no secret that type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes are very different diseases. The etiology is completely different, and often, the treatment protocols differ as well. Some of this is based on simple realities, but there is also a notion that what applies to one type is not necessarily applicable to the other. However, this is largely unsubstantiated by clinical evidence. In fact, many changes and/or innovations in diabetes care are based on learning from a group with a different type of diabetes.One element I frequently hear pertains to carbohydrate consumption. There is an attitude among many people with type 1 that because they will require insulin regardless of what they eat, so there is no real reason to "avoid" or minimize the consumption of certain food groups (notably, carboh... Scott's Web Log blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1720400 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:00:00 +0100 1720400 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1327636&cid=t_133105_158_f&fid=36024&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.healthtalk.com%2Fcaregiver%2Fjeff%2Fan-easter-reminiscence-about-my-mother%2F On Easter Sunday, I brought Pops over to our house for an Easter brunch. Both of the daughters were home (Amanda from Norwalk, CT, and Molly on spring break from college) so it was a good time for reunions and family reminiscences. I had been thinking of my mother, Dorothy, and while we were eating our French toast I reminded my father that the twentieth anniversary of her passing away is coming up March 29. My father doesn’t talk about my mother very often. It’s not because he has forgotten her, I am sure, but because he doesn’t like to dwell on loss. Of course there are plenty of fond memories to bring to mind, too, so I broke out an old photo album with pictures of Mom, Pops and their friends and family going back to the 1930’s. There was a photo of Mom as a teenage girl, one of... Caregiver Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1327636 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:57:20 +0100 1327636 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=882671&cid=t_133105_134_f&fid=35137&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdiabetesupdate.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fwhy-monitoring-doesnt-reduce-high-a1cs.html This AP news releaseDiabetics Try New Round-The-Clock Sensortouting the success of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems (GGMS) cited this statistic attributing it to Dr. Irl Hirsch of the University of Washington: Diabetics who do the worst job fighting their disease aren't going to put in extra effort to improve just because of a sensor, says Dr. Irl Hirsch of the University of Washington."We learned that lesson the hard way," says Hirsch, who presented research at a recent diabetes meeting suggesting the sensors instead will most benefit patients who can't lower their blood sugar to optimal levels — a score below 7 on a test called the A1C — despite following best-care guidelines.Hirsch finds the sensors help lower A1Cs between 7 and 8.5, but not those who start out higher.[emphasis... 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