September 30th, 2009 by admin
New guidance for Britain’s 150,000 practising doctors could remove the right to confidentiality from patients with inherited diseases.
When a patient is found to have a gentic disease, such as certain forms of cancer, doctors will be obliged to inform relatives about potential risks to their health, the General Medical Council (GMC) say
From: ” Genetic disease patients may lose privacy rights to protect families – Times Online.”
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September 30th, 2009 by admin
According to the General Medical Council, there may be a new guidance for Britian’s 150,000 practicing doctors that might remove the right of confidentiality from patients with inherited diseases. Doctors will become obliged to inform relatives about their potential risks to their own health when their relative (the doctor’s patient) is found to have a genetic disease such as certain cancers such as genetic skin cancer that could have been avoided with certain esthetics equipment. Some are questioning if this will become the next scarlet letter since a patient’s condition will become known if it’s genetic.
September 30th, 2009 by admin
Folks on the lists are running out of discount codes and asking around for others who may have extras. We do have a few left but I plan to hold them for Berry related requests at least until mid-day tomorrow.
It will be very helpful if those of you whom I’ve given discount codes to, who have used them and haven’t told me yet, please let me know.
Anyone who thinks they might be interested – time is running short. I set the clock to countdown to midnight on September 30, Pacific Daylight Time, but I have no assurance that you can still order right up to that time. My only instruction is that the codes must be used by September 30, 2009.
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September 30th, 2009 by admin
Folks on the lists are running out of discount codes and asking around for others who may have extras. We do have a few left but I plan to hold them for Berry related requests at least until mid-day tomorrow.
It will be very helpful if those of you whom I’ve given discount codes to, who have used them and haven’t told me yet, please let me know.
Anyone who thinks they might be interested – time is running short. I set the clock to countdown to midnight on September 30, Pacific Daylight Time, but I have no assurance that you can still order right up to that time. My only instruction is that the codes must be used by September 30, 2009.
A word to the wise. Click here to Email me for your special price and discount code.
September 30th, 2009 by admin
a) Daily Mail breaks embargo (EMBARGO: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 5 P.M. PACIFIC / 8 P.M. EASTERN TIME, USA).
b) “The study is published in the online journal Public Library of Science One.”
September 30th, 2009 by admin
The psychological attributes of intelligence and personality are usually seen as being quite distinct in nature: higher intelligence being regarded a ‘gift’ (bestowed mostly by heredity); while personality or ‘character’ is morally evaluated by others, on the assumption that it is mostly a consequence of choice? So a teacher is more likely to praise a child for their highly Conscientious personality (high ‘C’) – an ability to take the long view, work hard with self-discipline and persevere in the face of difficulty – than for possessing high IQ. Even in science, where high intelligence is greatly valued, it is seen as being more virtuous to be a reliable and steady worker. Yet it is probable that both IQ and personality traits (such as high-C) are about-equally inherited ‘gifts’ (heritability of both likely to be in excess of 0.5). Rankings of both IQ and C are generally stable throughout life (although absolute levels of both will typically increase throughout the lifespan, with IQ peaking in late-teens and C probably peaking in middle age). Furthermore, high IQ is not just an ability to be used only as required; higher IQ also carries various behavioural predispositions – as reflected in the positive correlation with the personality trait of Openness to Experience; and characteristically ‘left-wing’ or ‘enlightened’ socio-political values among high IQ individuals. However, IQ is ‘effortless’ while high-C emerges mainly in tough situations where exceptional effort is required. So we probably tend to regard personality in moral terms because this fits with a social system that provides incentives for virtuous behaviour (including Conscientiousness). In conclusion, high IQ should probably more often be regarded in morally evaluative terms because it is associated with behavioural predispositions; while C should probably be interpreted with more emphasis on its being a gift or natural ability. In particular, people with high levels of C are very lucky in modern societies, since they are usually well-rewarded for this aptitude. This includes science, where it seems that C has been selected-for more rigorously than IQ. Indeed, those ‘gifted’ with high Conscientiousness are in some ways even luckier than the very intelligent – because there are more jobs for reliable and hard-working people (even if they are relatively ‘dumb’) than for smart people with undependable personalities.
Why it is ‘better’ to be reliable but dumb than smart but slapdash: Are intelligence (IQ) and Conscientiousness best regarded as gifts or virtues. Med Hypotheses. Jul 25 2009
September 28th, 2009 by admin
Everyday today when I visit a certain coffee shop, I enter into my iPhone — I click, click, click — and it tells me exactly what my sugar consumption patterns were from that grande vanilla nonfat latte, and it becomes very clear to me what this has done to my nutrition habits,” Chopra continued. “So I don’t know, and nor should the government be in a position to tell the country how and in what manner these applications should come together. If we create the market conditions that would spur market innovation: We hope to create a great deal of innovation anchored to the consumer and anchored around prevention and wellness. That’s the opportunity in healthcare that everybody believes whether conservative or liberal.
From an interview by Matthew Holt, Health 2.0 LLC, (@boltyboy on Twitter) with Health 2.0 keynote speaker Aneesh Chopra.
“Federal CTO tracks eating habits via iPhone | mobihealthnews”
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September 28th, 2009 by admin
Everyday today when I visit a certain coffee shop, I enter into my iPhone — I click, click, click — and it tells me exactly what my sugar consumption patterns were from that grande vanilla nonfat latte, and it becomes very clear to me what this has done to my nutrition habits,” Chopra continued. “So I don’t know, and nor should the government be in a position to tell the country how and in what manner these applications should come together. If we create the market conditions that would spur market innovation: We hope to create a great deal of innovation anchored to the consumer and anchored around prevention and wellness. That’s the opportunity in healthcare that everybody believes whether conservative or liberal.
From an interview by Matthew Holt, Health 2.0 LLC, (@boltyboy on Twitter) with Health 2.0 keynote speaker Aneesh Chopra.
“Federal CTO tracks eating habits via iPhone | mobihealthnews”
Posted via web from Jen’s Posterous
September 28th, 2009 by admin
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September 28th, 2009 by admin
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