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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Kitten of Doom [Respectful Insolence] |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:01 pm |
| Tags: Medicine |
| the New England Journal of Medicine. To me this just looks like a load of confirmation bias. Probably what happened is that the cat happened to curl up near a patient who just happened to die within a couple of hours. After that, the staff were on the lookout and now they notice it. It's the same reason that, even though there is no evidence |
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| M.D. vs. quack [Neurophilosophy] |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 10:49 am |
| Tags: Medicine |
| Earlier this week, I posted an email I received about a nutritional supplement called EM Power Plus. The makers of this product, a Canadian company called TrueHope, claim that it can alleviate the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the comments to that post, PalMD, author of the WhiteCoatUnderground blog, is having what appears to be an |
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| 11 hours away |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 4:23 pm |
| Tags: Medicine, Health, Weblogs, Airplane, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Blogher, Chicago, Children, Education, Family, Internet, Mother, Networking, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Travel, Weblogs |
| information about health and medicine, in part because it has been around for a long time. The issue of medication came up not only regarding getting information about different medications (here I emphasized how reading other parents’ experiences online and autistic adults’ experiences online has been invaluable to me in considering |
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| A 3,000-year-old prosthesis [Neurophilosophy] |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 7:17 am |
| Tags: Medicine |
| have pushed back prosthetic medicine by as much as 700 years," said lead researcher Jacky Finch. Related: The $6 million man, for just $18,000 16th Century mechanical artificial hand Read the comments on this |
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| Games for Health Contest |
| Published: July 22, 2007, 1:24 am |
| Tags: Health Medicine Games |
| Ashoka Changemakers and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have announced a new contest searching for games that promote health and health care. Eligibility is broad (existing games, research about games, conceptual game designs that are past the programming stage of development, public or private initiatives for game-based approaches to health |
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| The Prehistory of Wii Fit |
| Published: July 15, 2007, 2:21 pm |
| Tags: Health Medicine Games |
| Among the many stories from last week's E3, one of the most widely covered was Wii Fit, an exercise game controlled via a pressure sensitive balance board. You play by shifting weight on the board. While the final activities to be included in the game are still uncertain, reports suggest that they will include yoga, step aerobics, |
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| Fatworld in Wired |
| Published: June 26, 2007, 10:39 pm |
| Tags: Health Medicine Games |
| It seems like I've been talking about this game everywhere for a long time, but I don't think I've said anything about it here. Persuasive Games has been working on a game about the politics of nutrition, called Fatworld. It's been funded by PBS and the iTVS, and it will be released this fall. The game is much larger than |
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| Dozing off at the wrong times... [Respectful Insolence] |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 10:08 am |
| Tags: Medicine |
| The Board of Registration in Medicine, which is the governing authority issuing licenses to Massachusetts doctors, has reportedly suspended a Boston anesthesiologist from the practice of medicine for dozing off during an operation. However, the headline is misleading. It turns out that this doctor has a bit more of a problem than just dozing off |
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| Confusion due to cancer care choices [Respectful Insolence] |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 9:46 am |
| Tags: Medicine |
| Saturday, I thought that I knew what I'd be writing about for Monday, which, I've learned from my two and a half years of blogging, is a great thing when it happens. A certain Libertarian comic had decided that he wanted to argue some more about secondhand smoke and indoor smoking bans, starting a few days earlier with a rather specious analogy |
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| Resolution of the Tripoli Six story [Respectful Insolence] |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:01 pm |
| Tags: Medicine |
| I've been a bit remiss about reporting an update on the Tripoli Six, six foreign health care workers who were falsely accused of intentionally infecting children at a hospital in Libya with HIV, leading to their being convicted and sentenced to death. The evidence against them was crap, and scientific analyses showed that the strain of HIV in |
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| Acupuncture Face Lift |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 12:30 pm |
| Tags: Acupunucture, Alternative Medicine, Cosmetic Surgery, Face Lift, Facial Rejuvenation |
| Yep, it is alternative medicine meets cosmetic surgery. Popular in the U.S. for the last twenty years, Chinese women have been using acupuncture to keep looking fresh and sensual since 960 AD. One element of the acupuncture philosophy is to restore balance and imbalances in the organs or muscles can create wrinkles on the face. So |
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| Cool 3D medical animation [Neurophilosophy] |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 5:54 pm |
| Tags: Medicine |
| By Nucleus Medical Art, Inc. There are others on YouTube. Read the comments on this post... |
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| Bush on health care [Respectful Insolence] |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 5:20 pm |
| Tags: Medicine |
| If you want to know how clueless our current President is about healthcare and the uninsured, just check out this quote from a speech he gave recently: The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room. Isn't that |
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| Sick on arrival |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:53 pm |
| Tags: Medicine And Health, Life And Style, Health Section, Health And Wellbeing, Travel, Travel News |
| It's no fun being ill on holiday. So why do so many of us succumb every time we finally wind down? Emine Saner finds out how to break the cycle. |
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| The smoke thickens, along with another thing that smells even worse [Respectful Insolence] |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:01 am |
| Tags: Medicine |
| A couple of weeks ago, inspired by a somewhat drunken encounter two weeks prior, against my better judgment, I waded into the evidence supporting the contention that secondhand smoke is harmful to health, increasing the risk of heart disease and lung cancer in workers chronically exposed to it. In response to a list of quotes going around the |
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