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 'iris'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:20:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3617812&cid=t_117655_87_f&fid=36050&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Flive%2Fjennifer-lopez-at-the-neon-charity-gala-daily-do-gooder%2F Jennifer Lopez lent serious star power to the NEON Charity Gala for the IRIS foundation in Moscow on May 24. Her high fashion was perfectly appropriate for the organization, which promotes the development and understanding of contemporary culture and arts throughout the world. Photo: WENN.com Post from: BlissTree Jennifer Lopez at the NEON Charity Gala: Daily Do-Gooder (Source: Breastfeeding 1-2-3) Breastfeeding 1-2-3 blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3617812 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:30:50 +0100 3617812 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3499029&cid=t_117655_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblisstree.com%2Ffeel%2F175615%2F The Joy of (Green) Sex: A review of Stefanie Iris Weiss’ new book, Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable from Blisstree’s sister site, TheGloss. Post from: BlissTree (Source: Healthbolt) Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3499029 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:18:39 +0100 3499029 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3251154&cid=t_117655_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F02%2Fdowns-syndrome-trisomy-21%2F Pathophysiology congenital mental retardation caused by trisomy 21 (an extra chromosome 21) Signs and Symptoms 1) moderate mental retardation progressing to severe mental retardation (IQ of 30 in adulthood) 2) characteristic mongoloid facies – flat nasal bridge, epicanthic folds, oblique palpebral fissures 3) short stature and obesity 4) spade-like hands with simian creases 5) speckled irises (Brushfield’s spots) 6) hypotonia 7) congenital heart defects – VSD, ASD, tetralogy of Fallot, and patent ductus arteriosus Associated Conditions 1) increased incidence with advanced maternal age (1/30 live births at age 45 years) and previous child with Down syndrome 2) increased incidence of leukemia (especiallly ALL), Alzheimer’s disease (25-50%) by age 35 years), Hirschspru... Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3251154 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:10:19 +0100 3251154 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2989408&cid=t_117655_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FA-XPZsFcYF8%2F Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone? And here is something that may become a regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that Irwin Lerner, a former chief executive officer of Roche’s U.S. pharma biz and most recently interim ceo at Medarex, will be among three inductees into the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame for 2010. ImmunoGen named ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2989408 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:05:14 +0100 2989408 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2464091&cid=t_117655_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FnLsOla36C9Q%2F In the same bill that Congress limited the use of whole-body imaging or “strip-search machines” at airports (text of the amendment here), it required the Transportation Security Administration to study using facial and iris recognition to identify people in line for airport security checkpoints (Sec. 242 of House-passed version here). So glimpses at de-identified bodies are a privacy outrage while massive biometric databases and records of people’s travels are good to go? Not necessarily. Average people (and members of Congress) understand better what a look at the body is, but they don’t understand as well what biometric tracking and databasing of our movements means. So they’re quick to object to the former and lagging on the latter. Those of us who understa... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2464091 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:48:59 +0100 2464091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=601862&cid=t_117655_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F05%2F11%2Fcancer-risk-measured-by-strand-of-hair%2F Filed under: Skin Cancer, Prevention, Research, Daily news, Thought for the DayWe're not even 11 days into Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and already my awareness about the disease has been raised several times. Today, I learned that measuring the amount of melanin in a strand of hair can predict a person's risk for melanoma. It's all detailed in the May 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. And the study leading to this new conclusion -- that the amount of melanin in hair indicates an individual's skin type -- is quite interesting.Think about this:Researchers involved in a large skin cancer trial measured 2,3,5-pyrroletricarboxylic acid (PTCA) levels of 98 subjects with melanoma and 98 subjects without melanoma. They found the subjects with a PTCA concentration below 85ng/mg had... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=601862 Fri, 11 May 2007 04:00:00 +0100 601862