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 'identical'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:22:38 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225260&cid=t_158604_88_f&fid=38129&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2Flifeinthefastlane%2FWZHV%2F%7E3%2FJNPmhBuhvkQ%2F On a day of historic destruction we look to provide some more light-hearted medical trivia to ease you into the weekend...with questions on Ayahuasca, Charles Darwin, identical twins and CVS (Source: Life in the Fast Lane) Life in the Fast Lane blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225260 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 06:12:48 +0100 4225260 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3146027&cid=t_158604_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F05%2Fwomens-sexuality-and-g-spot-research%2F I’m not exactly sure what it is about our fascination about women’s sexuality. Perhaps it’s as simple as because women’s sexual reproductive organs are mostly on the inside and men’s are mostly on the outside that researchers seem forever fascinated by female sexuality. I was honestly debating as to whether to comment on the recent media hype about new research which, according to media reports, claims that the “g spot” in female sexuality may be a myth. Why was I not going to write on this topic? Because after reading the “research” that was conducted, I was mystified how this research even got published in a peer-reviewed journal. The researchers didn’t actually study whether pairs of female identical and fraternal twins had th... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3146027 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:10:52 +0100 3146027 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3139012&cid=t_158604_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fidentical-twins-different-birthdays%2F Two baby boys are making the news rounds and people are talking. Not only are they identical twins, and not only were they born on two different days, they were born in two different years. Some people say they were born in two different decades, but technically, the new decade doesn’t begin until the *end* of 2010, but I digress. Identical twin boys, born to Margarita and Juan Velasco of Tampa, Florida, were born on December 31, 2009 and January 1, 2010, just minutes apart. The boys appear to be healthy, but because they were born, by Cesarean section, 10 weeks early, they are in a neonatal intensive care unit until they are big enough and strong enough to cope on their own. Identical twins are monozygotic twins, while fraternal (not identical, can be boy/girl) are dizygotic twins. ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3139012 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:09:23 +0100 3139012 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2842707&cid=t_158604_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2Fla_qzM5FL_A%2F Two middle-age women, Sue and Sheila,  are born as identical twins, but one of them is aging faster by 10 years. Two identical twin brothers are so alike their hair went grey at the same time, but one of them cannot tolerate pain as much as the other. And there is a six-year old girl who was diagnosed with leukemia but her sister is completely healthy. Identical twins are monozygotic – they come from the same single egg that split early in development, and therefore share the same exact DNA, so we expect them to look alike, have the same personality and experience life the same way. But scientists say that each individual is still very much unique from the other. Why? It’s a process called epigenetic  – when non-genetic factors cause the gene to behave or be expresse... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2842707 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:59:24 +0100 2842707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2473707&cid=t_158604_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FibE8_UNvc7g%2F (Editor's Note: interviewing Richard Nisbett, author of the excellent recent book Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count, was in my To Do list. I then found that fellow blogger David DiSalvo was faster than I was and did a great job, so here we bring you David's interview and take). While the debate over intelligence rages on many fronts, the battle over the importance of heredity rages loudest. It’s easy to see why. If the camp that argues intelligence is 75 to 85 percent genetically determined is correct, then we’re faced with some tough questions about the role of education. If intelligence is improved very little by schools, and if the IQ of the majority of the population will remain relatively unchanged no matter how well schools perform, then should school... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2473707 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:27:06 +0100 2473707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2365245&cid=t_158604_117_f&fid=38158&url=http%3A%2F%2Famericanacupuncture.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fare-oprah-winfreys-hormones-for-you.html As a medical physician for over 50 years, I strive to give you the best medical information on controversial medical subjects and let you, the reader, come to your own conclusions. I have no ties to any organization, pharmaceutical, or lobby group. As an practicing medical acupuncturist since 1982, I find western medicine and medical acupuncture are very complimentary that results in astounding healing in pain management, addictions to cigarettes and food, and a host of other maladies. Let me know how we are doing. Find out why we are ranked in the top 40 medical blogs out of 15 million medical blogs, and in the top 50 of the over 54 million acupuncture blogs.Visit http;//www.americanacupuncture.com/ for more detailed information on healing.WHICH ESTROGEN IS FOR YOU? The advantages and ris... Dr. Needles Medical Blogs blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2365245 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:57:00 +0100 2365245 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1251106&cid=t_158604_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fone-snowflake-at-a-time%2F They say no two snowflakes are alike. I’d argue that there are no two people alike either. That while there may be many similarities between two people, no two people on this earth have the exact same similar life experiences, personalities, upbringing, brains, reasoning, thoughts or emotions. Not exactly an earth shattering revelation, now is it? Except that, until this week, we had long thought that identical twins were genetically identical. Not so, according to new research this week, which showed that due to copy number variations, genetically identical twins are not so much. So now that that long held conventional wisdom has been blown away, we have some revisiting to do. Because researchers for decades have designed studies which looked at whether something was more influe... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1251106 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:36:18 +0100 1251106 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1250199&cid=t_158604_131_f&fid=34976&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.dnadirect.com%2F2008%2F02%2F22%2Fwhat-were-talking-about-this-week-10%2F Ethical Issues Surrounding Personal Health Records: Google Health and the Cleveland Clinic’s announced a partnership this week and everyone’s buzzing about privacy, portability, and all things Google. “HIPAA” has officially entered the public vernacular. David Hamilton outlines privacy and other ethical issues at Venture Beat. Steve Lohr adds more at his NYTimes blog, Bits. [...] (Source: DNA Direct Talk) DNA Direct Talk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1250199 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:11:13 +0100 1250199 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1234652&cid=t_158604_131_f&fid=34976&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.dnadirect.com%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fmore-on-twins-identical-twins-have-genetic-differences%2F Right on the tails of my last post comes ground-breaking news about identical twins: they don’t actually have identical genetics! (Darn close, but not 100% identical.) A study by University of Alabama, Birmingham researchers challenges the long-held belief that identical twins have identical genetics. They compared the DNA of sets of twins and discovered significant [...] (Source: DNA Direct Talk) DNA Direct Talk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1234652 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:39:01 +0100 1234652 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1225340&cid=t_158604_131_f&fid=34976&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftalk.dnadirect.com%2F2008%2F02%2F12%2Ffeatured-qa-do-twins-run-in-families%2F I’ve got twins on my mother’s side and twins on my father’s side, too. On my mother’s side, they seem to appear every other generation, so the joke among my cousins is “which one of us will have the twins?” Whether twins really do run in families or whether this is an old wives’ tale is [...] (Source: DNA Direct Talk) DNA Direct Talk blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1225340 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:27:17 +0100 1225340 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1106208&cid=t_158604_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F12%2F19%2Fan-interview-with-patty-duke-bipolar-sufferer%2F Patty Duke is best known for her roles as identical twin cousins in The Patty Duke Show and her portrayal of Helen Keller in the movie The Miracle Worker at age 16, which earned her an Academy Award and made her the youngest winner at the time. She’s earned three Emmys from six nominations, two Golden Globes, and a People’s Choice Award during her career. But behind the scenes, her behavior was erratic, earning her a bad rep with Hollywood insiders, not to mention her own family. It took many years, but in 1982, at the age of 35, Duke was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Since then she’s become the bestselling author of Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness (coauthored with Gloria Hochman). She currently travels around the country to educate others about this o... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1106208 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:19:23 +0100 1106208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1060004&cid=t_158604_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F11%2F29%2Fmaternal-flu-linked-to-schizophrenia%2F You may have missed this if you don’t regularly read The Washington Post, but staff writer Shankar Vedantam wrote an excellent article describing how recent research into schizophrenia is increasingly pointing to maternal infections during the first and second trimester of pregnancy — especially flu infections: That’s because the newest studies suggest the culprit may not be infections such as the flu per se, but pregnant mothers’ immune reactions to such infections. Current guidelines recommend that pregnant women get a flu shot — and the point of the flu vaccine is to set off an immune reaction. If the risk for schizophrenia is increased as a result of maternal antibodies, might protecting mom and baby from the flu raise the risk the child could get schizo... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1060004 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:32:37 +0100 1060004