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 'humane'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 03:34:41 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4734046&cid=t_358004_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FHARaQeQERsI%2F By Caleb O. BrownThe Institute for Humane Studies Learn Liberty project continues to offer clear-headed analysis in video form. The latest effort features Ben Powell of Suffolk University explaining the concept of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs in the context of ongoing budget fights. Cato recently produced two short videos on complementary aspects of the budget fights. For a more detailed treatment of many aspects of public choice, get your free (cheap!) copy of Cato’s excellent book, Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice. Public Choice and Spending Cuts is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4734046 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:07:15 +0100 4734046 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4544951&cid=t_358004_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FKNMryV4rct0%2F By Caleb O. BrownThe Institute for Humane Studies recently launched LearnLiberty.org, a project aimed at providing videos of varying length that educate on basic economic concepts and philosophy rooted in individual liberty. Cato's Jeffrey A. Miron is among the faculty featured. More videos are coming. Check it out. Learning Liberty is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4544951 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:41:18 +0100 4544951 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2090032&cid=t_358004_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F01%2Fspit-on-your-dog.html Autism comes in many forms and affects everyone differently. One aspect is the volume of speech, if and when "speech" is available. My younger son is loud when he speaks words and loud when he stims. The only time he is not loud is when echolalia takes over, in which case his volume matches what he has heard and repeats. Recently, he has learned the concept of whispering, the concept only, while he practices the practice. The effort involved is quite extraordinary and takes a great deal of heavy breathing and body contortions, but as yet, to very little effect. My older son is generally inaudible, sotto voce. Sometimes he starts off well but the end of his sentence withers, until it peters out. The arrival of our new pet makes for some very interesting developments. Everyone is keen to com... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2090032 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:59:00 +0100 2090032 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2005525&cid=t_358004_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F12%2Fwhat-we-are-becoming-time-to-dehydrate.html A disturbing column in today's LA Times has a woman wanting to "let" her Dad go by removing his feeding tube--which would really be to make him go, since there could only be one outcome from such a decision.Dad isn't unconscious. He is debilitated and disabled by a stroke. He apparently had an advance directive eschewing "extraordinary" care, which the family--rightly in my view--did not see as applying to a feeding tube. And yet, we are told that even so, he should be "let go," e.g., be dehydrated to death, because his life isn't worth living. From the column, byline Diana Wagman:But what kind of life? Since that morning, he has been in a deep sleep, rousing rarely and unpredictably and only enough to say a word or two. He's paralyzed on his right side. His eyes are closed, and the nurses... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2005525 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:33:00 +0100 2005525 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1219424&cid=t_358004_87_f&fid=34825&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wesleyjsmith.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F02%2Ffda-shuts-down-inhumane-meat-packer.html This is good. It is a human obligation--and a proper role of government--to ensure that our food animals are slaughtered humanely. There are rules and regulations in this regard and USDA inspectors at slaughter houses to maintain proper standards.Apparently, the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company has violated its obligations to the law and the animals it processes. The Food Safety and Inspection Service has shut down Hallmark/Westland's operations. From the USDA news release:On Feb. 4, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) suspended inspection at Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company based on the establishment's clear violation of Federal regulations and the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. This Notice of Suspension is a regulatory course of action available when FSIS finds eg... Secondhand Smoke blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1219424 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:44:00 +0100 1219424 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1204689&cid=t_358004_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E3%2F224914341%2Freducing-use-of-animals-in-research.html It's cool when science turns its methods back on itself to improve its own methods. In some ways you could argue that this is what science is about, anyway; but sometimes, there's a more obvious... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Women's Bioethics Blog) Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1204689 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:16:10 +0100 1204689