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 'interference'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:11:15 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5139732&cid=t_135707_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fthe-difficulties-of-managing-implanted-medical-devices%2F2011.08.18 With the explosion of medical devices to treat various medical ailments in medicine, we have seen significant improvements in quality and quantity of life. An underappreciated consequence of all of these electronic device therapies, however, has been the manpower and expertise required to manage these implanted electronic medical devices long-term. Problems with electromagnetic interference (EMI) with medical devices are real. Innovations in medicine have come from various portions of the electromagnetic spectrum including analog and digital wireless technology, diagnostic and therapeutic radiation therapy and magnetic resonance imaging. The effects of these technologies on implanted electronic medical devices can vary and specialty physicians, ancillary health care providers, and medical ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5139732 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:17:00 +0100 5139732 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4997307&cid=t_135707_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FVirologyBlog%2F%7E3%2F1hx-iPK-V2M%2F Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Judy Lieberman Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Judy Lieberman review the use of CD4 aptamer-siRNA chimeras to inhibit HIV transmission. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #140 (110 MB .mp3, 92 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Inhibition of HIV transmission using CD4 aptamer-siRNA chimeras (J Clin Inves) Stopping HIV transmission with a molecular barrier? (ScienceDaily) An apt approach (Nat Med) Smallpox immunization photos (Virus talk) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 139 Weekly Science Picks Alan – Inside insides Rich – Rock stars of science Vince... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4997307 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 16:43:00 +0100 4997307 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4960068&cid=t_135707_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-your-diet-might-interfere-with-prescription-medications%2F2011.06.22 When people talk about prescription medications, everyone is familiar with the concept of side effects from medication. But, did you know that there are things in your diet that may interfere with your prescription medication? In addition, your prescription medication may interfere with over the counter medications. In this video, there are two interviews recorded on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 on local TV news. If you find the information above helpful, I invite you to check out other TV interviews on medical/health issues at MikeSevilla.TV *This blog post was originally published at Family Medicine Rocks Blog - Mike Sevilla, MD* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4960068 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:00:54 +0100 4960068 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4951889&cid=t_135707_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FVirologyBlog%2F%7E3%2F7Gen_bjEBM0%2F Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Raul Andino Vincent meets up with Raul Andino in San Francisco to discuss the RNAi-based antiviral defense system of Drosophila, the fruit fly, and how it is antagonized by viruses. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #138 (53 MB .mp3, 73 minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device with the Microbeworld app. Links for this episode: Antiviral immunity in Drosophila requires RNAi spread (Nature) Cricket paralysis virus antagonizes Argonaute 2 in Drosophila (Nature Struct Biol) Dicistroviridae at ViralZone TWiV on Facebook Send your virology questions and comments (email or mp3 file) to twiv@twiv.tv, or call them in to 908-312-0760. You can al... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4951889 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:07:24 +0100 4951889 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4324794&cid=t_135707_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fcan-a-bra-interact-with-a-pacemaker-or-defibrillator%2F2011.01.08 This comment [with a specific photo] was posted on my blog earlier: “I was reading one of your old posts about magnets and I was wondering if a magnetic front closure on a bra would be a problem? There’s a warning on the label but I know part of that is just due to liability. What about this bra that has a magnet clasp on the front? If the magnet hits right in between the breasts would it be close enough to the device that it could interfere? Also does having a magnet that close change the settings or turn off a defibrillator/pacemaker early? I’m sure most doctors would say just wear another bra but this bra in particular is very comfy! I’ve tried it on but not worn it for extended periods of time. Luckily this is one of the only major complaints I’ve had abo... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4324794 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:00:00 +0100 4324794 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3603577&cid=t_135707_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FI1Ibu4PyRp4%2F By Tad DeHavenAnalysts across the ideological spectrum generally agree that the government’s regulatory bodies fail far too frequently. However, analysts seem to learn different lessons from this experience. Washington Post business columnist Steve Pearlstein cites numerous examples of failure and concludes, “It’s time for the business community to give up its jihad against regulation.” He says: It hardly captures the breadth and depth of these regulatory failures to say that during the Bush administration the pendulum swung a bit too far in the direction of deregulation and lax enforcement. What it misses is just how dramatically the regulatory agencies have been shrunken in size, stripped of talent and resources, demoralized by lousy leadership, captured by the industries the... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3603577 Wed, 26 May 2010 19:07:15 +0100 3603577 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3499055&cid=t_135707_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F3GnUg6nJ_qE%2F By David BoazRecently I wrote an article arguing that there never was a golden age of liberty and that in particular libertarians should not hail 19th-century America as a small-government paradise, at least not without grappling with the massive problem of slavery. Jacob Hornberger, author of an article that I criticized, responded in Reason, and I then responded here. Meanwhile, an interesting discussion took place on a email list of libertarian scholars, and I’m pleased to have gotten the permission of several participants to include some of that discussion here: Aeon J. Skoble: The ideals of freedom which led to the tangible improvements [Boaz] mentions – I’m concerned that those ideals are eroding/have eroded.  Example: say you have a robust theory of rights, but your soci... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3499055 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:05:32 +0100 3499055 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3318122&cid=t_135707_139_f&fid=38879&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.rawvoice.com%2Fpmn_twiv%2Fwww.twiv.tv%2FTWiV071.mp3 Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Rich answer listener questions about maternal infection and fetal injury, viral gene therapy, eyeglasses and influenza, filtering prions from blood, eradication of rinderpest, Tamiflu resistance of H1N1 influenza, bacteriophages and the human microbiome, H1N1 vaccine recalls, human tumor viruses, RNA interference, and junk DNA. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code VINCENT to receive $50 off a Drobo or $100 off a Drobo S. Win a free Drobo S! Contest rules here. Download TWiV #71 (63 MB .mp3, 88 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, or by email. Links for this episode: Maternal infection and fetal neurologic... virology blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3318122 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:00:22 +0100 3318122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3283559&cid=t_135707_105_f&fid=38964&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdrwes.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fpacemakers-and-defibrillators-in-dental.html Powerful magnets that can interfere with pacemakers and defibrillators can pop up in the strangest places, like dental chair headrests:A few months ago, Boston Scientific, one of the major manufacturers of pacemakers/ICDs, added a new caution to their contraindications for dental patients. They warn that if a patient has a pacemaker/ICD, and the dental chair has a magnetic headrest with strength over 10 gauss, the patient should NOT sit in the chair. The company states: “Some dental chairs contain magnets located in the headrest. If the pacemaker or defibrillator is programmed not to respond to a magnet, patients may sit in these chairs. If the implanted device is programmed to respond to a magnet and the magnet power is less than 10 gauss, patients may sit in these chairs. If the magnet... Dr. Wes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3283559 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:08:00 +0100 3283559 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851742&cid=t_135707_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FAJydmeUPsGM%2F During a speaking trip to China three years ago, the young tour guide in Beijing kept referring to “the liberation.” I soon realized that she meant the October Revolution of 1949, in which Mao Tse Tung and the communists seized power and began their rule 60 years ago today. Far from liberating China, the reign of Mao represents one of the worst tyrannies in the history of mankind. Opposition parties, free speech and freedom of religion were quickly eliminated. The Great Leap Forward of 1958-61 forced the collectivization of agriculture, resulting in a famine that killed tens of millions. The Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, while not as deadly, unleashed chaos that crippled the economy and scarred a generation. As Gordon Chang writes in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this morning, the cele... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851742 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:38:21 +0100 2851742 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2288967&cid=t_135707_113_f&fid=34695&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMedicalConnectivityConsulting%2F%7E3%2F70zXXAprIB4%2F Awareness is growing about the challenges of developing and maintaining safe and effective wireless medical devices. What with IEC80001 moving forward (due to be finalized next year) and the recent series of wireless medical device workshops, people in hospitals and among vendors are asking more of the hard questions about wireless. Amongst the turmoil, participants are jostling for position. This post looks at common problems with Wi-Fi, a report from U.K. alliance ERBI, and some alternatives to Wi-Fi. Problems with Wireless Those of us who are old enough, think back to the golden age of wireless medical devices — channelized analog telemetry. These systems were so basic and limited in scope (a couple dozen transmitters typically covering just a single 30 bed unit) that they had few... Medical Connectivity Consulting blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2288967 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:13:43 +0100 2288967 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1346248&cid=t_135707_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F262845415%2F A new published last week in Nature is raising doubts about one of the hottest biotech fields known as RNAi, or RNA interference, which offers a way to turn specific genes on and off. And, of course, finding a way to turn off a gene that triggers disease is the sort of thing that attracts biotechs and drugmakers, such as Merck, which paid $1 billion to buy Sirna Therapeutics two years ago. But the study suggests that at least some drugs now being tested in clinical trials actually work not by silencing genes but by activating the immune system. And as The New York Times notes, this could mean the drugs are not really precise tools and could have unexpected side effects. “It seems to be working by a completely different mechanism that’s unrelated to the underlying premise,”’ Jayakr... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1346248 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:46:32 +0100 1346248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1331518&cid=t_135707_132_f&fid=35624&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsuicyte.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F28%2Fstrange-paper-ii%2F This is today’s 2nd post on recent papers describing the beneficial effect of things gone wrong. The first one was from the area of bioinformatics, this one is about gene silencing by RNA interference (RNAi). A lot is known about the mechanism and application of RNAi, see e.g. the Wikipedia entry. Basically, you can use RNAi to downregulate a gene of interest by designing a short oligonucleotide (siRNA) complementary to the target mRNA and getting it into the cell to do its magic. Inside the cell, the oligonucleotide pairs with the target mRNA and the resulting duplex RNA is recognized by a specific cleavage machinery, which is present in the cell anyway. Most likely, this RNAi cleavage machinery has not been put into the cell by an intelligent designer to facilitate our lab work, bu... Suicyte Notes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1331518 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:39:21 +0100 1331518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192848&cid=t_135707_113_f&fid=34898&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbillkosloskymd.typepad.com%2Fwirelessdoc%2F2008%2F01%2Fstudy-refutes-c.html This study was done because the patient had fainted which resulted in a fall and head injury and prompted the examination of suspected electromagnetic interference (EMI) by an iPod. To test this, they placed an iPod (model not specified) 2 inches above the pacemaker programming head which was placed adjacent to the patient's implanted pacemaker (supposedly on the skin of the chest wall, but the position was not specified). With this setup, they observed two types of interference in the form of oversensing by the pacemaker. A second clinical study was done by different researchers who found "no interference for any of the eight pacemakers or the ICD (implantable cardiac defibrillator)" [2] What Bassen did was  to first measure the magnitude and spatial distribution of magne... Wireless Doc blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192848 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:10:00 +0100 1192848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=765752&cid=t_135707_133_f&fid=35452&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.graphictruth.com%2F2007%2F07%2Fdont-fire-until-you-see-color-of-their.html Free speech violated, man says :: News :: Post-TribuneApparently the anti-freedom forces are alive and well, while nothing has happened about Mitt Romney’s campaign impersonating police officers, it’s apparently quite a challenge to hand out Ron Paul information. Even after clearing that it’s legal to pass out information in a public park, Joel Ferguson was threatened by police for passing out political information in Hammond recently. The first time, the police claimed the park was private property, and he had no rights, so Joel went and contacted the city attorney, who said that it was public property. Even after that Joel has been threatened by the police (and if you think some thug with a gun threatening you isn’t frightening, good for you), who have reportedly said “She’s ... Graphictruth blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=765752 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:00:00 +0100 765752