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 'inventions'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:14:24 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433325&cid=t_195969_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2Fqsu_bBIMy6k%2F A long-negotiated patent overhaul bill was voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today and sent to the full Senate, the third time such legislation traveled this route since 2008. The story began when high-tech companies sought to cut the number of patent infringement lawsuits and the amount of damages paid, while pharma often fought some of the provisions that ensued (look here). For the record, the Patent Reform Act of 2011 would change the US patent system from a first-to-invent to a first-to file system in order to achieve international harmonization. The first-to-file system would award patents to the earliest-filed application and provide a one-year grace period to file an application after public disclosure of a claimed invention by the inventors. Other provisions include lang... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433325 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:22:05 +0100 4433325 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3772207&cid=t_195969_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Feco-friendly-cigarette-machines-promote-literacy-not-smoking%2F Nowadays, it’s tough to find a cigarette machine anywhere — aside from a retro bowling alley or a factory cafeteria. But rather than just let the remaining old clunkers go to waste, a German publishing company is re-purposing them into book vending machines. They’ll carry condensed novels, photo books, graphic novels, and poetry collections from local authors and artists. A green literary vending machine purchase costs $5. We’d love to see these pop up in the U.S, and wonder what other vestiges of yesteryear we could re-purpose into cool new gadgets with an eco-friendly spirit. photo via Inhabitat via Inhabitat Post from: BlissTree Eco-Friendly Cigarette Machines Promote Literacy, Not Smoking (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3772207 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:53:42 +0100 3772207 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2899144&cid=t_195969_134_f&fid=34841&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diabetesmine.com%2F2009%2F10%2Fworlds-best-minor-inventions.html We often forget to be grateful for the little things, I think.  In the Sixties, remembering to do this was called “stop and smell the flowers.”  We rarely do that nowadays.  I’m not talking about praising locomotion or penicillin here — nothing that moves the masses or revolutionizes public health. Rather, the more trivial, ‘minor [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine) Diabetes Mine blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2899144 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:00:49 +0100 2899144 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2727083&cid=t_195969_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FH4kgQqimzAs%2F At last week’s Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Stockholm, Deirdre McCloskey argued that it was important for society to affirm entrepreneurship.  How right she is. The economic benefits of the new technologies and processes constantly created by people with new economic ideas is obvious.  But the social benefits of such inventions also are enormous. Consider James C. Marsters, who helped end the isolation of the deaf around the world.  The Wall Street Journal reported on his death: As an orthodontist, a licensed pilot and a sometime-professional magician, James C. Marsters mastered fields challenging for anyone, even more so for a profoundly deaf person such as himself. His greatest feat was to conjure the text telephone, or TTY, which for the first time gave deaf people independ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2727083 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:26:38 +0100 2727083 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2375971&cid=t_195969_87_f&fid=34595&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnhsblogdoc.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Fheath-robinson-given-50-million-by.html 1st prize for healthcare innovationHold on to your wallets. Another piece of classic NHS taxpayer abuse is about to be foisted upon us by my Lord Darzi.All 10 strategic health authorities in England will be given between £2 and £5 million every year for the next five years to spend on innovations.That’s £50 million. Kerching!All NHS staff will be invited to put forward their ideas and the best ones will be chosen to be developed, possibly with involvement from industry.God help us all. Every eccentric doctor who ever had an idea, every nurse on a mission, will be bringing their inventions to market.Trevor Baylis, who patented his [wind up] radio more than 17 years ago. said that the scheme could help boost the economy during the recession.No it won’t Trevor. It will waste another we... NHS Blog Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2375971 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:57:00 +0100 2375971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2234483&cid=t_195969_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fscientific-locations-mapped.html I’ve made a Google map showing important scientific locations - scientific locations. Recently, a fellow singer in the Cottenham Big Mouth collective was telling me about a Google map he’d created with all his favourite eateries that do live jazz, sounded groovy man…but although I love food and don’t mind a bit of jazz, I thought Sciencebase readers would prefer something a little more…well…science based. So, I’ve created Scientific Locations. Scientific locations is a map that will grow steadily to add pins and notes to sites like the Cambridge U’s Cavendish Laboratory, Darwin’s Down House, Chicago Pile #1 and more. In other words, it’s going to show the sites associated with some of the greatest scientific discoveries including ... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2234483 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:18:42 +0100 2234483 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2018351&cid=t_195969_136_f&fid=36162&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyelomablog.com%2F2008%2F12%2F05%2Falpha-inventions%2F A programmer named Cheru Jackson spent a few months coding his experiment to bring bloggers together.  I can’t explain why this has happened, but I noticed a few days ago that my blog started getting referrals from Alpha Inventions.  I was curious, so I went to look at it.  This young man has created a blog brower, which allows his site visitors to look at post after post from various blogs.  If you see something that interests you, you can click on it to read more.  What I think is happening is that people are becoming somewhat addicted to it.  Within a few minutes, about thirty extra people had visited my blog from there. Jackson’s own blog is here. (Source: beth's myeloma blog) beth's myeloma blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2018351 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:44:40 +0100 2018351 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1679581&cid=t_195969_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F355390527%2Fhotspots_for_growth_in_a_broke.html  If you’ve tried to change any broken parts at your organization lately, you’ll likely recognize the speed bumps and sinks holes that prevent growth. Any barriers where you work? Luckily, I’ve also found amazing windows for fresh air when I wiggle a few handles open, and risk brain based approaches that cool hot spots. Over my own 30 years as a student of the brain and an activist to bring more brainpower to work … I’ve discovered 5 lynchpins for growth that lasts.1. Bureaucracy can be breached with retrofits it can handle … you can live with …  and leaders will prosper by. Find one open bureaucrat where you work and you’ve already begun to make spaces for new approaches that bring visible benefits. Then celeb... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1679581 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:38:19 +0100 1679581