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 'informational'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:31:52 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3695572&cid=t_169283_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnew-movie-promotes-energy-medicine%2F2010.06.24 It’s boring to try to ferret out reliable health information from dry medical journals. It’s easier and more fun to watch a movie. A new movie promises to change the way you think about your health. To bring you breakthroughs that will transform your understanding of how to get well and stay well. To share the discoveries of leading researchers and health practitioners about miracle cures that traditional medicine can’t explain. If this makes your baloney detector light up, good for you! The Living Matrix: A Film on the New Science of Healing is an atrociously bad movie that falls squarely in the tradition of What the Bleep Do We Know? In his book Nonsense on Stilts, Massimo Pigliucci characterized the “Bleep” movie as “one of the most spectacular examples of a horribly tangled... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3695572 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:00:37 +0100 3695572 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2095830&cid=t_169283_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F12%2Fnew-year-new-job-farewell-postdoc-treadmill-hello-again-sydney%2F I’ve signed the contract and told the boss. So, for those of you who expressed interest, here are the details of my latest career move. My new job title as of March 1 will be Statistical Bioinformatician. I’ll be based in CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences. This is a division of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Australian National Science agency. I’ll be involved with the Bioinformatics in health and medicine program. To quote from the original job advertisment: We seek someone who can work at the interface of molecular biology and the information sciences to increase the insights obtainable from high-throughput measurement platforms in biology, with particular focus on biomarker discovery and genomics. I’m excited. T... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2095830 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:05:03 +0100 2095830 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1645911&cid=t_169283_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F07%2F22%2Fwhat-about-lithium-for-bipolar-disorder%2F Often overlooked in the conversation about things that work for bipolar disorder is the old stand-by, lithium. Lithium is a naturally occurring salt that was, prior to the past decade or so, the medication treatment of choice for bipolar disorder. It is now seen more as a secondary treatment with doctors instead preferring the pricier atypical antipsychotics. That’s because lithium has some unpleasant side effects (but hey, what medication doesn’t?). Our new blog, Bipolar Beat has a great entry about lithium that’s worth a read: Bipolar Medication Spotlight: Lithium. It’s a great informational piece about this medication and how it’s regaining some renewed interest and prescribing popularity as the downsides to the newer atypical anti-psychotics are becomin... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1645911 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:24:40 +0100 1645911 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1512394&cid=t_169283_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F06%2F12%2Ffour-failures-of-deliberating-groups-abstract%2F Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie have posted their new paper, “Four Failures of Deliberating Groups” on SSRN. Here’s the abstract. * * * Many groups make their decisions through some process of deliberation, usually with the belief that deliberation will improve judgments and predictions. But deliberating groups often fail, in the sense that they make judgments that are false or that fail to take advantage of the information that their members have. There are four such failures. (1) Sometimes the predeliberation errors of group members are amplified, not merely propagated, as a result of deliberation. (2) Groups may fall victim to cascade effects, as the judgments of initial speakers or actors are followed by their successors, who do not disclose what they know. Nondisc... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1512394 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:27:06 +0100 1512394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1416568&cid=t_169283_158_f&fid=36160&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popeinstitute.com%2Fcaregivingminutes%2F%3Fp%3D70 If I had a dime for every time I saw a reverse mortgage commercial, I could fund my own retirement plan. About 4 months ago the reverse mortgage commercials started coming fast and hard. I distinctly remember the morning I was watching television and both my husband and I noticed that almost every other commercial was selling a reverse mortgage. It’s like there is the sacred hour that seniors are watching television and every reverse mortgage lender in the world needs a 60 second spot during that viewing hour. I don’t watch a lot of television but at this point, I can almost narrate the reverse mortgage commercials from memory; like the syndrome your children have with their favorite movies. I believe they call that syndrome “narratum verbatim”-or at least that’s what another f... CaregivingMinutes™ by Pope Institute blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1416568 Fri, 02 May 2008 21:04:53 +0100 1416568 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1223677&cid=t_169283_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F02%2F11%2Fjoin-us-tonight-for-a-chat-on-conflict-resolution%2F Senior member and community guru Sky will again be holding a series of topic-oriented chats, this time on the topic of conflict resolution. Come to learn about what conflict resolution is and tips on how to employ it effectively in your life (even online!). This series will be held every Monday night at 10:00 pm ET (7:00 pm PT) for the next 3 weeks in the Auditorium room, in Psych Central’s Chat Rooms. Week 1: Conflict resolution styles Week 2: Steps to resolving conflicts Week 3: More steps to resolving conflicts Just a reminder — these are not Q&A sessions. These are directed, informational chats led by _Sky. We hope you join us! (Source: World of Psychology) World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1223677 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:43:16 +0100 1223677