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“Surgery may be an option for some people, but for those who don’t want surgery or can’t have it for medical reasons, there is another option. Doctors at Mayo Clinic developed a liquid meal program geared toward people who need to lose a lot of weight.” Posted at Clinical Cases and Images.
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Nonsurgical Weight Loss with a Liquid Meal Program – Mayo Clinic Video
The kids gave me a sweet little red canon digital camera for my last birthday. Now I’ve lost the thingey that recharges the battery. Unable to post any new photos, these are old ones of dyed and painted fabrics in the wind.
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In the Wall Street Journal article today entitled ” Can Technology Cure Health Care? ” by erstwhile WSJ reporter Jacob Goldstein, H. Stephen Lieber, CEO of the health IT trade group HIMSS disputes the idea that “electronic medical records systems focus on billing [and other administrative tasks] at the expense of patient care” and says: [These systems] are “primarily designed for improving clinical outcomes, and a secondary benefit is that they improve administrative efficiencies.” Is Mr.
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Is H. Stephen Lieber, CEO of HIT Industry Trade Group HIMSS, Misinformed or Simply Lying?
Image via Wikipedia On April 26 I am attending a joint meeting of the NSF and EuroHORCS (European Heads of Research Councils) on “Changing the Conduct of Science in the Information Age”. I have been asked to submit a one page white paper in advance of the meeting and have been struggling a bit with this. This is stage one, a draft document relating to researcher identifiers.
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Draft White Paper – Researcher identifiers
A reminder to Bostonites: I’ll be speaking tomorrow at 4 at the Museum of Science as part of an all-day bash put on by the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. The weather outside is going to be frightful, or at least dreadful, so why not enjoy some indoor entertainment? More information and registration here.
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Tomorrow: A Day of Science in Boston | The Loom
I have never before seen a document like the one entitled ” Health Information Technology Basics “, by the Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy, California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee. It is available at this link (PDF). It is long but contains rather interesting views on the issue of health IT, management and clinicians (nurses).
Last night, President Obama issued a memo that will change hospital visitation rights around the country. The administration will draft new rules declaring that any hospital participating in the government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs—which is most of them—will no longer be allowed to bar visitors that patients desire to have access to them. This has been a particular hardship for gay Americans, who have been turned away from visiting sick loved ones because of policies that allow visitin…
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Obama to Hospitals: Grant Visiting Rights to Gay Couples | 80beats
Translating the painted designs into full sized 90 inch cloth pieces is a little daunting but a start was made yesterday at the regular Thursday sewing circle. Three different women over the course of the day worked on the blue dotted eyelet stitches pictured left.
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two new panels
photo credit: HowardLake As reported by the California Association of Realtors (CAR): The $100 million allocated for California’s first-time homebuyer tax credits may be depleted in about 10 to 20 days or sooner, according to C.A.R.’s Economics team. California’s Franchise Tax Board (FTB) plans to begin accepting applications on May 1, 2010 for tax credits up
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California home buyer tax credits. Blink and you may miss them.
Latest round-up of science news, including my Intute physical sciences news column. ETROP Study MNR – Treatment strategy confirmed for childhood eye disease Reviewing peer review – Scientific peer review has many problems and no one seems to know how to address them Bots High – A documentary on high school combat robots The slow rise of The Andes – Chemical analysis suggests that the Andes mountain range rose much more gradually than scientists previously thought.
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Eye disease, combat robots, and a battery boost
A new website that allows people to share scientific data using the principles that underlie hugely successful peer-to-peer systems has been unveiled by University of California, Davis scientists, who present the tool this week in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Using BitTorrent file-sharing technology, BioTorrents transfers files rapidly by sharing bandwidth among many users across multiple institutions.
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BioTorrent aims to open data sharing floodgates
The Washington Post had a story by Lyndsey Layton this past week: FDA says studies on triclosan, used in sanitizers and soaps, raise concerns. The Food and Drug Administration said recent research raises “valid concerns” about the possible health effects of triclosan, an antibacterial chemical found in a growing number of liquid soaps, hand sanitizers, dishwashing liquids, shaving gels and even socks, workout clothes and toys
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FDA Looking at Triclosan
Ladies and Gents, It’s national competition week! Our Columbus-Northwest Team is at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas competing in the 2010 Cross Country Dance Championships! 2010 Cross Country Dance Championships – Now Pro/Am competitions began last night and continue tonight, Friday, and Saturday. The Pro competition is Friday night beginning at 7pm. We know that you are all wishing the best of luck to Sandy Nelson , Nick Rangel , Katie & Daniel , and Katherine & John ! We know they are pumped up and ready to show their best! The Vegas Dance Party – THANK YOU! We give a big thank you to Michael Rose for putting on a great show at the Vegas dance party last Friday, and we thank him for staying all evening! We also thank Katherine for putting together such a great party and all of our students for making it possible.
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The British Chiropractic Association has today ended its libel claim against science writer Simon Singh. The news from Singh’s lawyers comes two weeks after a ruling that went in Singh’s favour, overturning a previous ruling by a different judge that Singh’s piece, in the Guardian, criticising chiropractic, was not comment and therefore Singh could be sued by the BCA. Since the ruling was overturned the BCA has been considering its position and today put out a statement saying: The BCA t…
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BCA backs off Singh
Thousands of onlookers gathered on Sunday to watch and film the planned implosion of the Texas Stadium in Dallas. The 65,000-seat-stadium was home to the Dallas Cowboys for 38 years and was witness to some thrilling football moments–but all good things must come to an end.
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Texas Stadium Implosion: Football’s Loss, Seismologists’ Gain | Discoblog
photo credit: Dazzled Beader Designs Surveys consistently show that the vast majority of home buyers and sellers prefer one-stop shopping for their real estate transactions. The big brokerages promote this heavily as an advantage only they can bring to the customer. Is that true
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Affiliates vs. Affiliations – Advantage Broker or Customer?
I’m still a sucker for stories like this, Only Known Living Population of Rare Dwarf Lemur Discovered: Researchers have discovered the world’s only known living population of Sibree’s Dwarf Lemur, a rare lemur known only in eastern Madagascar. The discovery of approximately a thousand of these lemurs was made by Mitchell Irwin, a Research Associate at McGill University, and colleagues from the German Primate Centre in Göttingen Germany; the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar; and the Un…
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Shadows of menageries past
It’s been a long term issue: a lot of vocal skeptics want nothing to do with atheism. They see it as a difficult issue that could sidetrack campaigns to encourage critical thinking, even though a lot of prominent skeptics are also atheists. I’ve never quite seen the logic: they’re going to oppose the use of magic crystals to enhance your aura, but praying to a magical sky-primate to bring you a new bicycle…eh, it doesn’t hurt.
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Deep Rifts with the skeptics!
Companies may be cutting back on work life benefits but you still can get some help if you turn to the private sector. Today, in my Miami Herald column, I wrote about some of the services out there to help you: Posted on Tue, Apr.
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Great convenience service to help with work life balance
Since Twitter blew up into the mainstream last year, it’s become rife with teenybopper types who join the microblogging service just to follow their favorite airheaded celebrities. Which raises the question: Which airheaded celebrity has the, uh, most unsophisticated teenybopper followers
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Who Has Dumber Fans, Ashton Kutcher or Justin Bieber? Math Reveals the Answer… | Discoblog