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Social Attachment, Motherhood, and Mental IllnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In early 2010, PBS will broadcast a 3-part series on emotions called “The Emotional Life,” exploring ways to improve relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals. Hosted by Harvard psychologist and best-selling author Daniel Gilbert, the documentary weaves together the compelling personal stories of ordinary people and the latest scientific research, along with revealing comments from celebrities like Chevy Chase, Larry David, Elizabeth Gilbert, Alanis Morissette, Katie Couric and Richard Gere. Psychologist Jessica Zucker, Ph.D. is a key contributor in the PSB proj...
Source: World of Psychology - November 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Children and Teens General Mental Health and Wellness On the Couch Parenting Personal Relationships Research Self-Esteem Stress Women's Issues Alanis Morissette Author daniel Chevy Chase Closeness daniel Gilbert Elizabeth G Source Type: blogs

The Power of Mindsight-by Daniel GolemanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Daniel Goleman requires no introduction. Personally, of all his books I have read, the one I found most stimulating was Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue With the Dalai Lama, a superb overview of what emotions are and how we can put them to good use. These days he also offers a series of interviews including a great one with George Lucas on Educating Hearts and Minds: Rethinking Education. We are honored to bring you a guest post by Daniel Goleman, thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine, a UC-Berkeley-based quarterly magazine that highlights ground breaking scientific research into the roots of co...
Source: SharpBrains - March 4, 2008 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Tags: Education Health & Wellness Author Speaks Series altruism compassion Dalai Lama daniel Goleman daniel Siegel destructive emotions emotional intelligence George Lucas Greater Good Magazine interpersonal neurobiology Joseph LeD Source Type: blogs

Unique Celebrations - Fun Activities for Alzheimer’s PatientsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
AlzheimersNotes.com  Unusual celebrations often have appeal for Alzheimer’s patients.  They need not make sense or even be ones they know about.  I discovered that Mother enjoyed parties, even if they were just for the two of us. At the nursing home, the residents also enjoyed gatherings.  They might be confused about the day or the era, but it often brought back reflections of some kind.  This broke the monotony of their day and was fun for the staff, too. Today, June 7, was Daniel Boone Day, I discovered, when I visited Sandra Mitchell’s All Holiday Cafe.  Even though it might be too late to arrange a...
Source: Alzheimer's Notes - June 7, 2008 Category: Dementia Authors: Mary Emma Allen Tags: Alzheimer's/Activities Alzheimer's/Care Alzheimer's/Caregivers Alzheimer's/Personal Caregiving Experiences All Holiday Cafe Alzheimer's Notes celebrations daniel Boone daniel Boone Day family celebrations health holidays Mary Emma Source Type: blogs

Shove Your Gifts Where The Sun Don't ShineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is great rant posted by Dr. Daniel Carlat, that ends with We don't need gifts from drug reps, nor do we need the biased "education" they provide during their visits. Let's stop pretending that gifts are anything other than influence-peddling.Read his rant and, while on his site, check out many other excellent posts. It is no secret that I am a big fan of his work. We need many more psychiatrists who are capable of seeing through the marketing blitzkrieg that has come to dominate modern psychiatry.
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look - October 4, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: stealth marketing daniel Carlat Source Type: blogs

Daniel’s Podcast for Pharma Marketing BlogEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Last week Daniel did a live podcast interview with John Mack for the Pharma Marketing Blog. He talks about how CureTogether got started and what patients are discovering on the site. Here’s the streaming audio below (about 15 minutes long). .
Source: The Collective Well - June 1, 2009 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alexandra Carmichael Tags: Company Presentation curetogether daniel podcast Source Type: blogs

CDC: 50,000 People May Have Swine FluEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
WebMD reports that Daniel Jernigan, MD, PhD, deputy director of the CDC's influenza division says that more than 100,000 Americans probably have the flu and of these at least half probably have swine flu. This means there are probably 50,000 or more people with the H1N1 swine flu virus. Jernigan noted that the 4,700 confirmed or probable cases of swine flu reported to CDC represent a gross underestimate. When asked how many actual cases there were, Jernigan noted that 7% to 10% of the U.S. population -- up to 30 million people -- get the seasonal flu each year. "So with the amount of activity we are seeing now, it is a ...
Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - May 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: health swine-flu daniel-jernigan Source Type: blogs

When to Say Sorry?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a recent post, Daniel Carlat apologized to Charles Nemeroff for nicknaming him "Bling Bling" in a prior post. So what? Who cares? Well, I think we need to take a look at what behavior requires an apology and what does not. I'm not saying I have the answers, but I think the issue is quite important.Let's look at some documented issues regarding Nemeroff:ARISE-RD 1: Nemeroff was an author on a study (called ARISE-RD) examining the use of risperidone as an antidepressant. The study results did not demonstrate that the drug worked, especially after the authors issued a correction indicating that one of the findings in the p...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look - August 14, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: blogs daniel Carlat Nemeroff Risperdal Source Type: blogs

Daniel BaldwinEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
"I'm an egotistical overachiever with an inferiority complex," Daniel Baldwin said.My husband fell in love with him last night while watching ABC's Family Secrets documentary thing. A reporter interviewed him at various stages throughout his stay at the swanky Malibu Promises treatment center, where celebrities and the ultra rich go to dry out. Something about the excessively blue eyed, charming, and difficult Baldwin made my man feel close to him. It was kind of funny to watch.Baldwin was occasionally recalcitrant or petulant in that oh-so-addicty way, and I'd say, "See how hard he is to talk to! See how he's being!" and ...
Source: Heroin Addiction Codependence - July 18, 2007 Category: Addiction Tags: daniel Baldwin drugs addiction marriage Source Type: blogs

Happy birthday, Itzik! I had fun at Itzik Gottesm...Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Happy birthday, Itzik!I had fun at Itzik Gottesman's 50th birthday party last night, held at the Yiddish Artists and Friends club on East 7th Street. (He's the assistant editor at the Yiddish Forward, also an ethnologist and many other things besides.) The music was great, the dancing -- well, I tried to, a little bit, and then realized it was way too complicated for me. Let me say something else about the klezmorim: you should go buy The Broken Tongue, Daniel Kahn's CD of Yiddish-klezmer-funk (or, as his band's site puts it: "Alienation Klezmer Bund = Radical Yiddish Song + American Gothic Folk + Punk Cabaret + Klezmer Da...
Source: Zackary Sholem Berger - April 22, 2007 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: daniel Kahn Itzik Gottesman Forward Source Type: blogs

Parenting- How important is it?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This report was about how unhappy children are today because of selfish parents.  In the column Daniel makes some simple points which I often think about myself when seeing children.  The key issue is the extent to which parents influence children’s behaviour and personality.  The points he makes are 1- children and parents share the same genes and therefore are likely to be somewhat alike to start with.  2- children who are difficult are going to influence the way their parents react to them.  It is easy to be an authoritative parent with a child who is easy to manage- the traffic is not all one way.  I happ...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - February 4, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Jonathan Tags: behaviour genes parenting daniel Finkelstein the Times Source Type: blogs

Effexor, Marketing, and Dr. Drug RepEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Great job by Dr. Daniel Carlat. Read his piece in the New York Times Magazine regarding his stint as Dr. Drug Rep, when he stumped for Wyeth's antidepressant Effexor for a cool $30k in one year. Not bad work if you can get it. It is a fascinating account of a common industry practice -- train doctors to give speeches to other doctors in which certain treatment is pushed hard. Overplay efficacy and downplay negative effects. Drug companies state, with a straight face, that this is "educating" physicians -- buying them fancy dinners and having one of their colleagues read company-produced marketing slides on their product.C...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look - November 26, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Wyeth stealth marketing daniel Carlat Effexor Source Type: blogs

Daniel James Case: "No One Can Judge Son Over Suicide"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The grieving parents of the late Daniel James, who became suicidal after becoming paralyzed from an injury sustained playing rugby, and who committed assisted suicide in Switzerland after being taken there by his parents for that purpose, have said that no one can judge their son. From the story:"I hope that one day I will get the chance to speak to this lady and ask if she had a son, daughter, father, mother, who could not walk, had no hand function, was incontinent, and relied upon 24-hour care for every basic need and they had asked her for support, what would she have done?!" Mrs James went on to write "nobody but nobo...
Source: Secondhand Smoke - October 20, 2008 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: daniel James Case. Terminal Non Judgmentalism. Assisted Suicide. Source Type: blogs

A Breath of Fresh AirEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am quite happy to introduce my readers to Daniel Carlat’s new blog, The Carlat Psychiatry Report. Dr. Carlat, as I’ve reported earlier, writes about psychiatry in a newsletter that provides continuing education for psychiatrists. He also had a recent piece in the New York Times decrying the influence of industry in continuing medical education. I’m a big fan of his work. There are few blogs that report critically on the sneaky marketing of the drug industry in psychiatry, and I strongly suspect that Carlat’s site is going to be a welcome addition to the blogosphere. I expect his writings will help detail the far...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look - June 19, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: stealth marketing daniel Carlat continuing medical education Source Type: blogs

Trooper Daniel Martin v Maurice WhiteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Patricia Phillips of the Oklahoma Crime Examiner has posted up some great new news about Trooper Douche Bag Daniel Martin. He has been suspended FIVE WHOLE DAYS without pay!!!! Whoooopeee! You've gotta read the letter she has posted.Martin Letter Fox23.com also has news up that Mr. White is suing Trooper Martin. Dumb ass. Read the letter and head over to Patricia's story to leave a comment. Tell her I sent ya! The letter is hard to believe. I will post up a comment or two in the morning!FOX23 has new information in the case of the now infamous confrontation b...
Source: medic(THREE) - July 23, 2009 Category: Ambulance Crew Tags: Moron Trooper daniel Martin Oklahoma Highway Patrol WOW Source Type: blogs

CureTogether Founders Caught on Video!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At long last, we’re releasing recent videos of both of us speaking at the Quantified Self meetups. Daniel gives a quick, early overview of CureTogether from December 2008, and Alexandra talks about who to trust for health information in March 2009. Enjoy! . . Alexandra Carmichael on trust and health information sources from Kevin Kelly on Vimeo.
Source: The Collective Well - May 28, 2009 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alexandra Carmichael Tags: Company Presentation alexandra curetogether daniel health Quantified Self video Source Type: blogs

Pi dishEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Get the code:-Cut and pastefrom this littleboxy thing below Autism awareness month is nearly upon us, so I have a new design, with "Daniel Tammet" in mind, for those of us ordinary folks without savant skills. Criticisms so far:-1. The numbers are too big2. The numbers are too small3. There are not enough numbers, 50 numerals is stingy4. The numbers are anti-clockwise5. It has to end with a zero or serious pain ensues6. The numbers are upside down7. Where are the fish?8. Why can’t we have negative numbers instead?9. Green is betterPlease feel free to add your own criticism and comments so that I can adjust and try to a...
Source: Whitterer on Autism - March 21, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: pi dish Etsy pottery daniel Tammet autism awareness month Source Type: blogs

Dan Kahneman on the Situation of IntuitionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In Part I of his 2007 Hitchcock Lectures (titled “Explorations of the Mind - Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws“), Daniel Kahneman explores the idea of intuition: For a sample of other Situationist posts related to Kahneman’s work, see “Dan Kahneman’s Situation,” “The Situation of Financial Risk-Taking,” “Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part I,” and “Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part II.”       
Source: The Situationist - January 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Video behavioralism daniel Kahneman intuition psychology well-being Source Type: blogs

Was The FDA Too Hasty In Approving Drugs?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Harvard University professor defended research suggesting the FDA was too hasty in approving drug, which the agency has criticized as mistaken, The Wall Street Journal writes. The professor, Daniel Carpenter, acknowledged that the FDA had identified mistakes in his study, which was published by the New England Journal of Medicine in March. But he said that the FDA’s own records also had errors, and that after he made necessary corrections, his original finding still held: Drugs the FDA has approved soon before a regulatory deadline have been more likely to develop severe safety problems later on, the paper continue...
Source: Pharmalot - July 3, 2008 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clark Nardelli daniel Carpenter Drug Approvals FDA Source Type: blogs

FDA DTC Review: The House that Troy BuiltEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At the recent DTC (direct to consumer drug advertising) hearings in Congress, senator Stupak "alleged that Johnson & Johnson kept pushing its anemia drug Procrit as a fatigue-buster, despite the FDA's admonitions," according to this report. "Testimony on the subject came with a bunch of documents, which The Cancer Letter dug through--to find that the FDA's chief counsel may have intervened on J&J's behalf to keep the ads on the air."According to the Cancer Letter:"Internal FDA documents show that the agency made a series of unsuccessful attempts to stop a direct-to-consumer advertising campaign that claimed that Jo...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - May 14, 2008 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: daniel Troy FDA waring letters DTC Advertising Regulation Source Type: blogs

Daniel Dennett on the Situation of our BrainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Daniel Dennett is the co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies, the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, and a University Professor at Tufts University.  Here is a brief Big Think video of Dennett discussing some of the problems of the human brain, including, the “very sharp limit to the depth that we as conscious agents can probe our own activities.” * * * For a sample of related Situationist posts, see “The Interior Situation of Complex Human Feelings,” “Dan Dennett on our Interior Situation,” “The Situation of Reason,” “The Situation of Confabulation...
Source: The Situationist - August 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Illusions Philosophy Social Psychology Video consciousness daniel Dennett unconscious Source Type: blogs

The power of Twitter and why blogging matters.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I am certain there must be a million stories like this out there. Devoted Twitterer attends conference that others cannot, recaps the talks via twitter as physician/new papa/blogger/entrepreneur virtually attends the conference via twitter and can give color commentary...... Or this one: Conference presenters hamstring regular news, while blogger gets strategic advantage by not registering as a journalist. Thus scooping the press...... Well, I have now seen and appreciated both in real time.This weekend while I was recovering and taking care of our newborn I was able to attend a conference the AAAS hosted a conference enti...
Source: Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You - June 4, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: dan vorhaus obamacare barack obama genomeweb foxnews daniel macarthur Source Type: blogs

Part 2 Video: The boy with the incredible brainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Second and Final part of the documentary about Daniel Tamment. Once again click on the title of this blogpost to be forwarded to the video.
Source: The Art of Being Asperger Woman - March 20, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: daniel tamment videoblog rain man autism the boy with the icredible brain Source Type: blogs

Dan Kahneman on the Situation of Well-BeingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In Part II of his 2007 Hitchcock Lectures (titled “Explorations of the Mind - Well-Being: Living and Thinking About It“) , Daniel Kahneman explores meaning and causes of well-being: * * * To view Part I of the lecture series, see “Dan Kahneman on the Situation of Intuition.” For a collection of videos of Dan Kahneman, click here.  For a sample of other Situationist posts related to Kahneman’s work, see “Dan Kahneman’s Situation,” “The Situation of Financial Risk-Taking,” “Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part I,” and “Some (Interior) Situational Sources War – Part I...
Source: The Situationist - January 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Emotions Life Video positive psychology daniel Kahneman well-being Source Type: blogs

Unapproved: Bias In Continuing Medical EducationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Can the pharmaceutical industry be trusted to fund compulsory education without introducing bias? We all know the issue is academics, drugmakers and, of course, docs. And the Senate recently released a critical report. However, Nature reports today that new preliminary data suggests industry-sponsored courses skew training material in favor of commercial interests. Jatinder Takhar, a psychiatrist who heads the CME office at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, grew interested in the issue after attending a CME presentation on antipsychotics that she’d audited and approved for her university. But she noticed a...
Source: Pharmalot - November 20, 2007 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized CME Continuing Medical Education daniel Carlat Jatinder Takhar Source Type: blogs

FDA Fails To Oversee Clinical Trial SafetyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
That’s the finding of a report to be released Friday by Dan Levinson, inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA didn’t know the number of trials being conducted; audited fewer than 1 percent of the testing sites and, on the rare occasions when inspectors did appear, generally showed up long after the tests had been completed, The New York Times reports. The failure affects millions who participate in these trials. The FDA has 200 inspectors, some of whom audit clinical trials part time, to police an estimated 350,000 test sites. Even when those inspectors found serious problems i...
Source: Pharmalot - September 28, 2007 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Clinical Trials daniel Levinson FDA Inspector General HHS Source Type: blogs

PDL BioPharma CEO Resigns… Will KayakEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For those who haven’t followed this soap opera, Mark McDade earlier this year refused to quit under pressure from Dan Loeb, who runs Third Point LLC, a hedge fund and PDL’s biggest shareholder. Their feud made headlines when Loeb questioned McDade’s decision to spend $100 million to move headquarters from Fremont, Calif., to Redwood City, which is closer to his home. A key feature of the digs - a boat slip. In February, Loeb issued a statement accusing McDade of “empire-building philosophy, pathological selfishness and poor business judgment,” and of rejecting a takeover bid from a drugmaker for more ...
Source: Pharmalot - August 20, 2007 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized daniel Loeb Mark McDade PDL BioPharma Third Point LLC Source Type: blogs

Animal Rights Activist Named to FBI "Most Wanted Terrorist List"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is only one domestic suspected terrorist on the FBI's "most wanted terrorist." His name is Daniel Andreas San Diego, who hails from my neck of the woods in Berkeley, CA. San Diego has been on the run for years after allegedly bombing a local company that refused to promise to never do business with Huntingdon Life Sciences. From the story:For the first time, an accused domestic terrorist is being added to the FBI's list of "Most Wanted" terror suspects. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old computer specialist from Berkeley, Calif., is wanted for the 2003 bombings of two corporate offices in California. Authorities...
Source: Secondhand Smoke - April 21, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Animal Rights. Terrorism. Most Wanted Terrorist List. daniel Andreas San Diego Source Type: blogs

The Situation of Affective Forecasting and the Law - AbstractEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion turns on the appropriateness of various emotions for the substantive law, and on attempts to model the place of the emotions in the law. Implicit in some of these theories, however - and explicit in others - is the assumption that emotions are predictable, manageable, and (for some commentators) under conscious control. This assumption is belied by psychological research on affective forecasting that demonstrates individuals’ inability to accurately predict future emotional states, both their own and others’. Such inaccuracy has surprisingly broad implications for both substantive and procedural aspe...
Source: The Situationist - July 1, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Emotions Law Social Psychology Affective Forecasting daniel Gilbert Jeremy Blumenthal Source Type: blogs

Prexige Patients Were ‘Guinea Pigs’Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Australian families whose relatives died or became seriously ill with liver damage after taking the Novartis Cox-2 painkiller have launched a class action lawsuit against the country’s drug regulator and the drugmaker, claiming they were “treated like guinea pigs.” Peter Archer, whose wife Elaine died in late February, tells The Sydney Morning Herald he wanted to know why the Therapeutic Goods Administration approved the drug at double the dose of what was allowed in countries such as Canada and the UK for the treatment of osteoarthritis. And he accuses Novartis of holding “some sort of secret trial...
Source: Pharmalot - September 18, 2007 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Australia Cox 2 daniel Vasella Novartis Prexige Therapeutic Goods Administration Source Type: blogs

The Science of Successful TeamsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How would you describe the best team you’ve experienced? If team projects are part of your work … you’ll be interested to see factors Scientific American Mind just laid out to show the science of team success.  Results come from research that shows how groups systematically enhance their performance. Steve W. J. Kozlowski and Daniel R. Ilgen show how research affirms why some teams work so well together.The authors considered 50 years of research on teams and highlighted factors that characterize the most effective, as a way to help teams perform better. They found that…1.  Teams need su...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - June 3, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: daniel R. Ilgen science of successful teams Scientific American Mind Steve W. J. Kozlowski Source Type: blogs

Labour can win the next general electionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Elsewhere, Dr Crippen discusses the now real prospect of Labour winning the next general election. And, as always, the NHS is central to the arguments.
Source: NHS Blog Doctor - August 15, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: a fourth Labour victory daniel Hannon Peter Mandelson Alan Duncan loose cannons Source Type: blogs

Novartis CEO Downplays Merger TalkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Novartis ceo was coy with a French newspaper when asked about speculation that the drugmaker was interested in a deal with Bayer, or anyone for that matter. “I have no indication that could confirm any rumours about tie-ups between big players in the sector,” Dan tells La Tribune. “We do not comment on rumours. As an observer one has to ask oneself a question about the logic. Who stands to benefit? Certain investors and hedge funds could gain a lot of money thanks to such rumours.” But he did reiterate last week’s remarks that 2008 will be difficult thanks to numerous setbacks. A large cos...
Source: Pharmalot - September 17, 2007 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bayer daniel Vasella Job Cuts Layoffs Mergers Novartis Sales Reps Source Type: blogs

Why Track Yourself?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
With all the media attention on self-tracking lately (Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, GOOD), you might be wondering whether to give it a try for yourself. But the polarized comments on these articles and the labeling of self-tracking as narcissism might be causing doubt. Here’s a special guest post from CureTogether co-founder Daniel Reda to offer reasons for why tracking yourself is a good idea. And a beautiful image compiled by the Globe and Mail, on the cover of today’s Life section. —— “Whether it’s science, business, politics or your personal life, you can’t effectively u...
Source: The Collective Well - February 19, 2009 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Alexandra Carmichael Tags: Articles Health Tracking daniel Reda Globe and Mail Quantified Self self-measurement Wall Street Journal Source Type: blogs

Unfair One-Off Ignorant Assessments, and Short Snippets of Poetry (without line breaks), From Last Night's ReadersEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Kathleen Graber: thoughtful, careful, with an intermittently epic reach, sometimes too grounded. I bought her book because I wanted to get the best impression of her poetry. "The form of stone is the form of attrition. It becomes itself by what is lost."; "[...]delicate rigid body of a bird[...]"Catherine Pierce: concrete, domestic, honest. From her love poem to America: "America teach me how to strut . . . I love how afterward you roll over and snore like a locomotive before I even catch my breath."Shin Yu Pai: I didn't write anything down to quote. I learned from her that the food industry is bad-bad-bad![Christopher Sta...
Source: Zackary Sholem Berger - February 1, 2008 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: Reading Between A and B Ross Gay daniel Nester Kathleen Graber readings John Keene Catherine Pierce Source Type: blogs

Karen Daniel Loses 175 of Her 375 PoundsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
var iamInit = function() {try{initIamServingHandler(420,630,329424,"http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/Resources/Css/css2.css")}catch(ex){}}() I read this story about Karen Daniel, who (as the story quotes) was “wider around than she was tall.” She weighed 375 pounds and has lost 200 of it, and has seemed to do it without surgery. Even though she is not diabetic, I think we all can take her story to heart. I urge you to visit her website and read her story, because it will surely encourage you to take charge of your own health. So many diabetics are feeling bad and overweight and simply don’t know where ...
Source: Diabetes Notes - December 8, 2008 Category: Diabetes Authors: Cherie Burbach Tags: diet exercise being fit body cnn diabetics fat getting in shape healthy karen daniel losing weight obese obesity overweight Source Type: blogs

My CME Article Is A ‘Piece Of Commercial Crap’Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
That’s how C. Lindsay DeVane described his own ACCME-accredited article, which was published last May in the journal CNS Spectrums. DeVane, a psychiatry professor and vice chair of research in the clinical neuroscience division at the Medical University of South Carolina, offered this blunt assessment in an e-mail he wrote to Dan Carlat, an industry gadfly who blogs about CME issues. The reason for their exchange was Carlat’s recent fascination with the story behind the article, which was accredited and produced by i3 CME, a medical education company owned by Ingenix, and which was funded by Bristol-Myers Squib...
Source: Pharmalot - September 4, 2007 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized CME Continuing Medical Education daniel Carlat i3 CME Source Type: blogs

Create an Oasis in Your MindEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is an unvisited oasis inside the brain – that neuroscience has begun to chart for those interested in deeper pools to scoop out new solutions. Daniel Siegel – who helps to direct the Mindful Awareness research Center at UCLA, calls it The Mindful Brain in his latest book … and claims it’s available to those interested in cultivating more well-being. Siegel shows how we transform the brain to promote well being. Science may be still bringing together what we know and what we’ve yet to learn about mindful awareness – yet those who follow the monthly steps into this uncharted territo...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - July 23, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Brain Based Discoveries daniel Siegel oasis within solutions to problems The Mindful Brain UCLA well being Source Type: blogs

Left Brain Skills Giving WayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If you're stengths lie in any of the arts ... you'll be especially interested in the latest business buzz. You've likely heard it too. Growing demands for more right-brain skills – the kind that cannot be sent offshore … has Daniel H. Pink predicting the coming of a surprising new set skills in  A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. In Pink’s words … The last few decades have belonged to a certain kind of person with a certain kind of mind — computer programmers who could crank code, lawyers who could craft contracts, MBAs who could crunch numb...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - January 14, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Smart Skills daniel Pink left brain right brain Source Type: blogs

Is Your Brain on Music?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
 If you’re interested in a good read … without the jargon on the brain … you’ll enjoy Daniel Levitin’s book … This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding the Human Obsession.It shouldn’t surprise readers to see how the brain culls and processes sounds we call music … if you consider his own expertise with words and music, sound engineering, and neuroscience.Levitin builds a good case for the fact that we are all more musically equipped than we think … because our brains are hardwired for music. In fact … he shows how music is even more central ...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - January 11, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Music at Intelligence brainpower daniel Levitin This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding the Human Obsession whistle while you work Source Type: blogs

How Government Really WorksEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a profile of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Creigh Deeds, the Washington Post tells us about the grandfather from whom he got his unusual first name — and his interest in political power: Creigh Tyree mattered. While serving as chairman of the Bath County Democrats, during the Depression, Tyree’s house was the first private home in the county to receive electricity from the federal Rural Electrification Act, proof of the power of government, he told his grandson. Or at least proof of the practice of government. And that is in fact the lesson that young Creigh learned: Watching the elderly man work...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 4, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: David Boaz Tags: Government and Politics corruption creigh deeds daniel Inouye defense budgets Earmarks lobbying New Deal public choice rent-seeking Thad Cochran Source Type: blogs

PHG Foundation and my point.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A long time ago I had a post entitled "Beware Doctors Bearing Genetic Tests" back in April of 2007. It was an interesting post where I point out that this wonderful GI doctor who was IVY league trained completely hashed genetic testing for HNPCC.I went on to explain the shortcomings with Internists in interpreting APC testing for familial adenomatoid polyposis coli. 1 in 3 misinterpret tests.....Wait till you see the DTC interpretation!Everyone who gets all in a huff when I say that these DTC genetic tests should be regulated. But I am here to say there is a good reason for it, and it has nothing to do with the people gett...
Source: Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You - August 24, 2009 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: helix health of CT deCODEme Muin Khoury informed medical decisions 23andme gene tests gene sherpa navigenics daniel macarthur Source Type: blogs

The Situation of Financial Risk-TakingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
[This post was first published in February of 2008.] In 1986, Salomon Brothers, an investment bank, was known as “the King of Wall Street.” The Salomon atmosphere has since been hilariously depicted in Michael Lewis’s now-classic Liar’s Poker, in which he recounts his experiences at the firm. He opens the book with the following anecdote. It was sometime early in 1986, the first year of the decline of my firm, Salomon Brothers. Our chairman, John Gutfreund, left his desk at the head of the trading floor and went for a walk. At any given moment on the trading floor billions of dollars were being risk...
Source: The Situationist - September 24, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Behavioral Economics Neuroeconomics Neuroscience Andrew Lo Brian Knutson daniel Kahneman Dmitry Repin financial risk-taking John Gutfreund Liar's Poker Michael Lewis Source Type: blogs

What Would it Take to Create on Your Job?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
If creativity interests you, check out Dr. Robyn McMaster’s 10 Tactics to Jumpstart Creativity in Your Work. A recent Gallop Poll showed 59% of workers say that their current job brings out creative ideas. Robyn's list intrigues me for these reasons:1. Darren Rowse advises to stimulate your mind differently.2. Drew McLellan collects creativity triggers to "twist “common” into “fresh” 3. Seth Godin looks beyond a creative idea to roll it into action. 4. Frank Roche suggests a child's approach as exemplar5. I ask, "How do people who problem solve creatively … d...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - November 2, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Creativity Bill Parks Braingle daniel Sitter Darren Rowse David Airey Ellen Weber Frank Roche Joanna Young Robyn McMaster Seth Godin Source Type: blogs

Breaking Codes to Explain Decisions We MakeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One worker joins Rotary as a way to give back to the community … but struggles to limit his drinks at company functions. Another worker’s caught stealing from the company coffers … but heads up a college fund for disadvantaged employees. A third worker loses his job because he lashes out at others.How do you make daily decisions and why do some people where you work, act against their own best interests?  Thanks to a recent study, reported today, we now have a vital clue to help decode the complex communication signals between your brain cells. What does it mean to you? Interest...
Source: BrainBasedBusiness - September 13, 2007 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: Brain Breakthroughs brain based research brain's electrical impuses complex systems Dr. daniel Butts neural code Weill Cornell Medical College Source Type: blogs

Mind Teaser: Consider LindaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Consider Linda, a 31-year-old woman, single and bright. As a student, she was deeply concerned with discrimination and social justice and also participated in anti-nuclear protests. Which is more probable? (a) Linda is today a bank teller; (b) Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement. Quick, what's your answer? If you answered (b), you are wrong.  At least you are in good company (that's what I answered the first time I saw this teaser in one of my Stanford Organizational Behavior classes). It is more probable that Linda is a bank teller, which is a whole category, that she is both a bank teller AND ac...
Source: SharpBrains - June 30, 2008 Category: Neurologists Authors: Alvaro Tags: Brain teasers Amos Tversky daniel Kahneman Decision making Linda logic mind teasers Organizational Behavior saliency smart brains smartbrains newtag Source Type: blogs

Diabetes epidemic brings prosthetic industry boomEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Filed under: Daily News, Products, SupportDiabetes-related health complications can cause severe nerve and tissue damage to the lower limbs. In the worst cases (and, unfortunately, this happens all too often), this necessitates amputation. The medical research field is working on ways to prevent or heal such damage before such drastic action is required. But what of those who do lose feet or legs? The next step is learning to use prosthetics. And, as the LA Times reports today, the prosthetic industry is experiencing a boom as diabetes rates soar.Let's look at some numbers to illustrate just how much demand has grown: ther...
Source: The Diabetes Blog - July 5, 2007 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Diane Rixon Tags: Afghanistan amputation amputees daniel Costello danielCostello diabetes Iraq LA Times LaTimes nerve overweight prosthetics tissue damage TissueDamage Type 2 diabetes Type2Diabetes veterans Source Type: blogs

Pharma Lobbies DC For Off-Label RightsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Drugmakers are descending on Washington to protect their freedom to advertise meds directly to consumers and push for looser government restrictions on off-label promotion, The Wall Street Journal writes. Ten drugmakers, including Pfizer, Bayer Corp, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have formed a coalition to push for looser off-label restrictions and will submit their arguments today to the FDA, which has been soliciting comments on its proposed off-label promotion guidelines. They are represented by former FDA Chief Counsel Daniel Troy, who is working with public-relations giant APCO Worldwide. Patient-advocacy org...
Source: Pharmalot - April 18, 2008 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Dan Troy daniel Troy Direct-to-Consumer Advertising DTC Advertising Off Label Promotion Source Type: blogs

Simply not honored? The "hypersensitivities" of Jewish womenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Often the most interesting part of a responsum, especially a traditional responsum redolent with the assumptions of strict construction (one merely has to read the law correctly out of the proper book, and all will be truth), is not so much what is termed the "halachic analysis" (quoting sources, lists of poskim) but the interstices of the argument, in which the strict-construction myth is exploded despite itself: opinions do matter in the interpretation and creation of halachah, and in many a halachic analysis the posek's personal notions are determinative.Consider the newly posted review (at the Seforim blog) by Rabbi Ar...
Source: Zackary Sholem Berger - June 13, 2008 Category: Epidemiologists Tags: women Rabbi daniel Sperber Orthodox Judaism aliyot Torah reading Rabbi Aryeh Frimer kavod-hatzibur kavod ha-briyot Source Type: blogs

Interview with Psychiatrist Daniel Carlat, M.D.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This report on medical education was about two years in the making and they also recommended that continuing medical education no longer be funded by the pharmaceutical industry, basically saying that the marketing aims of drug companies have become overly intertwined with continuing medical education. These physician groups were both saying that have lost control of the content of their accredited medical education, and that we need to take that control back. I’m not talking about promotional talks here—I’m talking about accredited, Category One CME, which is the credit doctors need in order to maintain their medic...
Source: World of Psychology - July 22, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: General On the Couch daniel carlat psychiatry report blog danny psychiatrist cme continuing medical education interview pfizer wyeth medication pharmaceutical spending money influence bias medscape lundberg Source Type: blogs

Am I Depressed or Just Deep?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I spent my adolescence and teenage years obsessing about this question: Am I depressed or just deep? When I was nine, I figured that I was a young Christian mystic because I related much more to the saints who lived centuries ago than to other nine-year-old girls who had crushes on boys. I couldn’t understand how my sisters could waste quarters on a stupid video game when there were starving kids in Cambodia. Hello? Give them to UNICEF! Now I look back with tenderness to the hurting girl I was and wished somebody had been able to recognize that I was very depressed. Not that I would have accepted the help. I believed...
Source: World of Psychology - November 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Depression Mental Health and Wellness Minding the Media On the Couch Personal Personality Policy and Advocacy Psychology Psychotherapy Treatment Women's Issues Adolescence Aloneness Author daniel Barrettes Bestselling Author Source Type: blogs

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